Jimmy Ray Purser
Cool Stuff about Cisco MediaNet
Robb and I were at Interop last week in Vegas taping a couple of episodes for TechWiseTV. (shameless plug: http://www.techwisetv.com) I haven't been to N+I in Vegas for five years. I went to N+I in India a few months back and that...
Windows Event Log Tricks
I was at a customer site the other day to look over some data center design plans. Of course like many things in a day in a life of a networking geek, flexibility is the key to getting to beer time quicker. The IT folks where in hot...
Trip Report: Cisco Data Center, Allen Texas
I love data centers. I always have. From my mainframe days to now, building out a data center is a true test of forethought and collaboration with many groups of folks. The Cisco Data Center folks opened up the doors to the shiny new...
Five Geek Products That Really Piss Me Off !!
I gotta admit it, I love a good engineered product that solves problems that I didn't know I actually had until I use it and now I can't be without it! That's really how a good high tech product should be...almost like magic....
Geek book reviews
I like the month of October. Not only is it my birthday month, it's also when the leaves turn up here behind the cheddar curtain, great fall seasonal beer starts flooding the market, the bass are on bed will normally hit any lure...
IT the truly International Language
I am sitting here in Singapore finishing up the final leg of a two-week journey. I was invited to come to India for 10 days to geek out with engineers, conduct eight workshops and speak at Interop Mumbai. I really had a great time...
Stuff I learned from my 3 biggest network screw ups
My grandmother used to tell me that while painful, mistakes always make the most interesting stories and teach the best lessons. I certainly, do not go out to an account hoping to trash out someones network so I can learn stuff. If...
Who's the HOTTEST video game chick?
I was cruisin' to Best Buy with my son to pick up the video game "Kane and Lynch 2" just the other day. If you haven't heard about it, it's a awesomely violent game with tons of cussin' and head shots galore. Instead of keeping these...
Do we REALLY care about what executives have to say?
We were taping two TechWiseTV episodes at Cisco Live this year. To get ready for a show, it takes a ton of set up and config time for all of us. Because of that we are on the show floor before it opens and stay until long after it...
Cisco LIVE! 2010
Bowling shirts...check, obscure reference T-shirts...check, all 16 episodes of Firefly on Blue Ray...check! All right who is heading out to Cisco Live this year in Vegas? This is Cisco's premier geek event for folks like us. Great...
Five things to pass along to new networkers
I received an interesting e-mail the other day to speak to a group of folks getting ready to graduate from a Cisco Academy in Michigan. (Baker College you are awesome!!!) The instructions were simple; speak about anything you want...