Category: Thoughts
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MTK Basics Video – 1000+!
It happened over night. My Mikrotik basics slides have officially been downloaded over 1000 times! I know this doesn’t constitute 1000+ views on my video, but it is still pretty cool 🙂 Thanks to all of you that have supported me!
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Bad Typing Makes You A Tree Killer
I type quickly and therefor have to hit the backspace every now and then. The thought occurred to me that every time I type the wrong letter it uses electricity, then when I hit backspace it uses more electricity, then when I type the correct letter it uses more electricity. My poor typing uses more…
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10Gb Routing and NOT From One Of The Biggies
So I got yet another Vyatta email…they send out a lot of updates. This one was touting 10 gig capability in their 3500 series 2U appliance. For the uninitiated, Vyatta is a routing platform built off of open source packages…sounds familiar, eh…hehe. Vyatta configs in files and doesn’t have a GUI and such. They thought…
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1 Year of Blogging
I was looking back at my very first post and yes, it is as lame as your average first post. I say hello and that great things are to come…sound like the lie I used to swindle my wife…hehehehe. I think I’ve at least helped one person, which is what I set out to do…this…
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“This is Africa”
So I was talking with my new friend Ian, who happens to be from Africa. We were chatting about his tower placement. He noted that both of his towers were on mountain sides. I have another friend JJ who has some tower gear on mountains. JJ tells me that if you are above 3K-3.5K feet…
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Guess Who Came To Visit?
They happened to be in the area, so they dropped by to say hello. I really enjoyed their presentation style and the Account Manager, Darian, is a pretty cool cat. I’ve always wanted to learn the Netscreens(Juniper firewall appliance), so it looks like it might be time to do it. From what I’m told, JunOS(the…
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Ring In The New Year With…Jacob Under The Floor
What would it look like if you were to squeeze yourself under 8″ raised flooring…hmmmm. Well, I come back from lunch and find this pictorial evidence of just such an occurrence on my camera. We’ve obviously never heard of a gofer pole 😉