50 greatest networking arguments of all time
Perhaps the only thing more fun than working on and playing with network technologies is arguing about them. Macs vs. PCs. Ethernet vs. Token Ring. Outsourcing vs. keeping it in-house. Here’s our take on the nastiest, most colorful and in some cases, still unresolved network industry arguments. Read up and weigh in.
Dr. Internet: Preventing SSH break-ins, 10/25/07: We are seeing significantly more SSH break-in attempts in our server logs lately. What can we do to protect ourselves better?
Gaskin: Where the leaks are, 10/25/07: The folks at Altiris, acquired earlier this year by Symantec, recently invited me back to their ManageFusion user conference to participate in a panel discussion about security.
Gearhead: Analyzing Deferred Procedure Calls, 10/25/07: Despite SoCal’s high winds and raging fires Gibbs stays on the hunt for the cause of why his processor utilization is being consumed by DPCs.
Cool Tools: Digital photo frames go wireless, 10/25/07: The Momento 100 is a 10-inch digital photo frame that adds wireless LAN connectivity as a way for users to get their photos from a shared PC or the Internet onto the frame.
Tolly: Soft hardware: the joys of virtual appliances, 10/24/07: For all of my 25+ years in IT, the “software vs. hardware” debate has raged on. During that time, their benefits were mutually exclusive. In many …
Antonopoulos: Divided we fall, 10/23/07: I’ve always believed in the importance of maintaining a well-designed emergency response capability. For many years I helped organize security operations centers (SOC), computer emergency response teams (CERT) and incident response teams (IRT). No …
Johnson: Social networks and the wisdom of crowds, 10/25/07: There’s a lot of buzz lately about the concept of social networking. You’ve got to admit the phrase is pretty silly. First off, it’s redundant: Networks, by definition, are already social – they connect humans. Plus, what’s the opposite – “antisocial …
Bradner: Internet on the road: good where cheap, 10/23/07: The fancier the hotel, it seems, the more expensive and the poorer the quality of its Internet service.
Net Buzz: Store pays $500 for losing priceless data, 10/22/07: After a month of back and forth, the computer store that lost my co-worker’s old hard drive instead of transferring its irreplaceable contents to his newly purchased, $1,000 PC has agreed to cough up $500 worth of compensation.
Talking Tech: Options in optimizing, 10/22/07: Ask business executives what tools they are focused on and eight out of 10 times they’ll say server optimization. It is little wonder why. Most servers are grossly underutilized, processing at a fraction of their potential capacity, while …
Nutter’s Help Desk: Letting a remote user use a Novell print server, 10/22/07: Is there any way to map a Novell printer to a Windows Terminal Server?
