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Affordability ????
I received a few comments on my decision to increase the content fees for the Config Guide and Troubleshooting pages. I’ve not taken this decision lightly as I...
Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) is End-of-Life
So the final nail is in the coffin. Brocade Network Advisor is being put to rest. The juggling of Java code to the ever expanding demand of functions,...
Logs, Logs, Logs and more Logs
Nice title especially if you’re in the lumberjack business. 🙂 All kidding aside. Support engineers rely 100% on these things and if we’re asking for them please don’t...
Release notes and upgrades. Decision time.
Ughh, upgrades, maintenance, risk of downtime, out of hours work and pulling all-nighters or even weekends when your wife and kids start wondering who that strange man is...
Popcorn Time is the Napster of the current age
Opening up the Australian news homepage I stumbled across this article Illegal Netflix-style Popcorn Time could lead to trouble for users Since I like movies and watch them...
The way Formula 1 needs to change (and quick)
Ok, I have to admit, I’ve been criticizing the F1 circus for a while now and for good reason. Ever since my father took me to a race...
The Brocade best practices configuration guide
Introduction For many years I’ve been working with Brocade fibre channel equipment and handled from small to very large storage networks. In these +- 18 years a lot...
You are on sale at the banks
Last week I looked at a Dutch news bulletin headlining that ING, one of the largest banks in The Netherlands, is exploring ways to sell their customers data...
Redundant on a 457
In the storage world the verb “redundant” means that your data is safe, secure, copied multiple times, backed-up and it gives you the feeling that if you make...
OpenDNS with DNS-O-Matic
A while ago I wrote a short article that I found a nice way to “secure” or at least be able to monitor my childrens’ web behavior called...