Archive for 2006
October 16th, 2006 | By Brian Chee | No Comments »
Picture from the Honolulu Advertiser used without permission...mea culpa. Sorry folks, but this is just to help out since the Honolulu Advertiser web site is currently being inundated with web requests...I will remove this once the load goes down a bit....the full article is at the link below...many thanks to the dedicated journalists at the Honolulu Advertiser. Hawai'i rattles, ...
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October 16th, 2006 | By admin | No Comments »
This podcast is the second in a two-part conversation I had with Richard Wolf, the General Manager for Office Graphics Services at Microsoft. Wolf oversees Visio and Powerpoint, and in this podcast, he talks about the new features and capabilities of Powerpoint 2007.
(In case you missed it, here is part 1, which focuses on Visio.)
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October 12th, 2006 | By admin | No Comments »
In this podcast, I talk to Richard Wolf, the General Manager for Office Graphics Services at Microsoft. Wolf oversees two major business applications within the Microsoft Office suite: Visio and Powerpoint. In this podcast, which is the first in a two-part series, Wolf talks about the new features and capabilities of Visio 2007, the upcoming version of Microsoft's drawing and ...
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October 5th, 2006 | By Robert Ballecer, SJ | No Comments »
Originally Posted on TheTechStop.net
For most system administrators, network monitoring is like car insurance: we know we should have it -- we know we'll regret doing without it -- we know that it can provide all sorts of interesting and useful purposes -- and yet somehow the muss and fuss involved in getting it right and understanding its utility is overcome ...
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September 26th, 2006 | By Robert Ballecer, SJ | No Comments »
Originally posted on TheTechStop.net
Sometimes, it just needs to work.
High port density serial console servers are nice, as is the ability to dramatically expand the feature set of a particular piece of hardware. I'm all for rack-mounted monsters that can manage umpteen devices with redundant redundancies and network performance to brag about. In fact, my Interop time is mostly spend burried ...
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September 25th, 2006 | By Brian Chee | No Comments »
I had the opportunity to play with Splunk for the first time in the article Splunk makes log-file searches a slam dunk InfoWorld Test Center April 28, 2006 By Brian Chee where I found a superbly crafted piece of software for mining golden nuggets in the mass of syslog info found in just about any modern IT organization. My only ...
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September 23rd, 2006 | By Robert Ballecer, SJ | No Comments »
First Posted on TheTechStop.net
Now that the show is over and the crates have been packed, there's time for the team to catch our collective breath. While we're doing that, I want to look at a revelation that the members of the InteropNet had during the show....
We need PHYSICAL security.
We may have some of the best security engineers in the industry, ...
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September 23rd, 2006 | By Robert Ballecer, SJ | No Comments »
First posted on TheTechStop.net
Part of our efforts to keep the network up and running have been served well by gear that several support solutions vendors have sent to the show to be in our "engineering sandbox." These companies send us various networking solutions from management and monitoring to storage and security, all for the experience of being in a true ...
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September 22nd, 2006 | By Brian Chee | No Comments »
The InteropNET is more than just a production network feeding the show floor, class rooms and meeting rooms at the Interop trade show. Traditionally its also been a big sandbox to test out emerging technologies. One of the InteropNET Team long time members brought in RealOps to show how they can automate just about anything that a sysadmin would want ...
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September 22nd, 2006 | By Brian Chee | No Comments »
The folks at Transition Networks keep adding to their huge line of doodads that convert one thing to another. I've been using their products for a heck of a long time and we've just recently tried out a firewire to single mode fiber optic media converter for an underwater observatory near the fabled Banzai Pipeline.
So while I strongly encourage you ...
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