The Redibuster wrap (and a bollocking myth)

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!)

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  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!!!