The Application Delivery Network blog reckons Cisco is the only company right now that's positioned to own the consumer application delivery network market. "It’s more than just the 'triple play' we talk about in the industry: voice, video, data," writes The ADC. "It’s triple play for consumers, with a focus on the consumer, not the producer. Read more
We have spent a number of weeks looking at tools to make “A Better Windows World” (do not get mad at me, I told that was not going away). Well looking at the tools posting I believe we have reached a good number of tools thus far. Read more
I thought now would be a good time to go back and take the opportunity to post some tips. So I will make it a part of the weekly posts to add one or two posts per week that focus on either a some tips or tricks on some of the tools we feature here.
The tips and tricks will vary from features you may or may not know. To tips and tricks that you will find you cannot live without.
Check out the latest Brad Reese on Cisco blog post where he discusses an intriguing program offered by Tech Pros Group which is advertising paid internships for Cisco and Microsoft LAN/WAN engineers. Brad writes: "In my opinion it appears too good to be true, and an immediate red flag was raised in my viewpoint upon discovery that a $95 application fee is required to apply."
Have you heard of Tech Pros Group? Know of anyone who has gone through its paid internship program? Let Brad know. We're also hoping to hear back from Tech Pros Group. Read more
Brad Reese has an interesting blog post about what appears to be an internship scam. A company is advertising jobs for paid internships at Microsoft and Cisco. Reese asks, huh? He writes: "In my opinion it appears too good to be true, and an immediate red flag was raised in my viewpoint upon discovery that a $95 application fee is required to apply." Read more
Samba's Jeremy Allison stars as a very entertaining guest with Don Marti on the Linuxcast podcast show. (Here's a couple of one-liners from Allison to illustrate the point that this podcast is entertaining: "The new Samba 3.2 … It's wonderful! It sings, it dances, it makes toast! We've been working on it for over a year … I think this thing has been gestating longer than an elephant.") Read more
The good news is that this time Verizon did not start the blaze, unlike on so many other occasions that we have chronicled here in excruciating detail.
The bad news, at least for the burned-out-of-house-and-home in-laws of Network World columnist James Gaskin, is that this is a telephone company that continues to have trouble grasping the finer points of smoke and flame. Read more
I just came across the Cisco salary survey report on PayScale.com, which found that the highest paid Cisco workers surveyed were software development managers, whose median salary is $124,805. Following the software development manager are senior software engineers/developers/programmers earning a median salary of $105,267. The lowest paid worker surveyed earning a paltry $82,497 were regular software engineers/developers/programmers, though they make about $5,000 more than the median salary of their peers at Sun, according to PayScale. Read more
I've been reading a MG Siegler post at VentureBeat about how the 140-character Twitter messages (called tweets) began flooding through the Twittersphere within seconds of this week's earthquake, many of them generated by mobile users with cell phones; about how the Associated Press took 9 entire minutes before posting its first story about what had happened; and about how this is yet another "powerful reminder of Twitter's potential."
Potential for what, exactly?
Here is the first tweet on the L.A. earthquake, sent in its entirety, by "Vixy": earthquake Read more
A complaint published by U.S. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas claims that the government of China has ordered Beijing hotels to spy on guests during the Olympics. The complaint mentions the use of software and an appliance but does not mention the specific technology. (Now there is a sale the vendors are going to keep quiet). Read more
It's no secret that a lot of people take their Scrabulous seriously, but this seems a bit extreme ... as well as a lot like cutting off your game to spite Hasbro. (Update: See first comment for correction/clarification.)
If you don't have a Network World Community account (what?!?), when you try to add a reply to a posting (say, this one), you'll be asked to type in a random word. It's part of our efforts to block comment spam, natch.
But our system has nothing on the one in use on this page (scroll down to the "Qualifying question" section).
Is it the network administrator or the Exchange Administrator? Or is it one of the developers or DBA types? Or is it one of the helpdesk people – those poor folks who has to go out and fix a computer or assist a user with a problem for the 12th time – whatever the situation, it is one of the helpdesk people who generally assists with a problem first. Now you might be asking just how this is applicable to the Microsoft Certification world? Well, until 2004, there wasn’t a Microsoft certification that covered the desktop world. Sure, there was the 70-270 XP exam, but that wasn’t really a desktop certification. One was introduced – the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST). Read more
Riverbed Technologies announces and have updated their web site with the next evolution of the Steelhead Appliance the 50 Series. Riverbed has gone to a more upgradable appliance for customers within the offices sizes. These are separated by small, mid and large size offices, these would be the 250, 550, 1050 and 2050 series steelheads. Within each series you can go with a low, medium or high configuration depending on your needs.
The older models are still available and the 3xxx-6xxx models are still used for larger customers.
What do you think of this move by Riverbed? Are they trying to stay ahead of the game with the Cisco\Microsoft Server coming out? Read more
Microsoft has told us that DTS has been deprecated. I talked about this in a previous blog entry. It means we have been warned that it will no longer be supported in a future release. When SQL Server 2008 comes out shortly, Microsoft will only support two previous releases namely SQL Server 2000 and 2005. So any DTS packages running under SQL 2000 will continue to be supported until the next release, presumably slated for 2011, if Microsoft sticks to its stated policy of three-year intervals. In other words, we have until 2011 to migrate our DTS 2000 packages to SSIS. Read more
Once I got the role installed (and fixed the multitude of disk problems), I thought I'd give Hyper-V a try with a Virtual Hard Drive built on the previous top-of-the-line platform, Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. It turns out that was more than I had initially bargained for.
Tip #1: Moving big VHD's around is a chore because of their size. (One thing you learn very quickly doing this sort of thing is that all flash drives are not created equal! Some are WAY faster than others even if they all say "USB 2.0 compatible.") A great tool is WinRAR, which gives you a lot of choices between compression and speed. Read more
A real "human network" has to be more than well advertised video conferencing.
It needs to be secure, highly reliable, adaptable, and capable of transporting massive amounts of real-time information. It has to be open-standards since despite what some vendors think, no one company can offer everything needed for a truly comprehensive advanced technology environment.
It needs to bridge the gap between traditionally carrier and Enterprise systems in order to cover the expanses of an entire country while engaging the entire planet.
There is nothing of higher true human interest than the Olympic games. Read more
In a bid to become a more relevant player in the "telco 2.0" space, BT bought up Silicon Valley phone firm Ribbit for $105 million, ZDNet.co.uk reports.
Ribbit offers an open platform to developers for creating Internet telephony applications and services. Using Ribbit technology, for example, developers can build applications that work across mobile phones and landlines, as well as desktop and Internet applications. The technology is just what BT needs to become a player in the emerging phone app space, the vendor says. As ZDNet reports, a BT rep says the acquisition will help it: Read more
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words--and then sometimes it isn't, as Blogoscoped's Philipp Lenssen points out pretty vividly. Using Cuil to search on some famous people--like Bill Clinton and Boris Becker--can lead to some amusing results.
A search on Cuil for Bill Clinton provides the proper text together with a photo of former New York state governor George Pataki, while a search for Boris Becker results in the right text accompanied by a photo of another notable tennis great, Andre Agassi. While Lenssen cautions that the posted results are not exactly a representative sampling, he also notes that they're not that rare on Cuil either. Read more
Like Google and IBM before them, HP, Intel and Yahoo are joining forces to kick-start cloud-computing research. But unlike IBM/Google, the interesting thing about the new group is that it's decidedly international in flavor, says Google Watch's Clint Boulton. Read more
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