The Redibuster wrap (and a bollocking myth)
By ronaldxbartels on Wed, 10/15/08 - 12:20am.The Redibusters series started as an experiment to show that although IT was technical, it is overwhelmed with subjectivity. We have reached a dozen Redibusters and still going strong...
Please leave comments on the blog if you have an IT myth that needs to be confirmed or busted. (Nothing is sacred!)
Redibuster #1: ACLs on routers are insecure and can be easily bypassed.
- Busted!
- Redibuster #2: Apple MACs are more secure than PCs.
- Confirmed!
- Redibuster #3: JUNOS is more stable than IOS.
- Deadheat!
- Redibuster #4: Robert Madge could have sold Madge Networks to Cisco for $800m.
- Plausible!
- Redibuster #5: HDS disks are faster than EMC disks.
- Busted!
- Redibuster #6: An Exchange server performs better if you reboot it each night.
- Busted!
- Redibuster #7: Cat 4500s are slow and must be replaced with Cat 6500s.
- Busted!
- Redibuster #8: Windows desktops are easier to support than Linux ones.
- Busted!
- Redibuster #9: Don't use VLANs. They are insecure and leak.
- Busted!
- Redibuster #10: Don't allow dynamic routing (or for that matter any network related function) on a firewall.
- Busted!
- Catch 22: Information Technology best practices exist.
- Deadheat!
- Redibuster #27: Post-it Notes are ITIL compliant.
- Plausible!
and to round it off, the forty-fourth myth: The ITSkeptic blog is bollocks. Is David Wheeldon correct in his assessment?
The Meerkats did award the ITSkeptic five pineapples!!!
- About Andabatae
- Ronald is an IT firefighter who enjoys the thrill of solving and analyzing problems. He was painted into a corner to become an IT firefighter because as a network engineer he quickly learned that everyone blamed the network, when there was a problem. He now works in the field of infrastructure architecture and service management.
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