Survey results

October 20, 2008

I ran a survey a couple of weeks ago asking for feedback on The Tech Teapot. A number of you were kind enough to take the time to fill it in. All of the survey participants are somewhat satisfied & read the blog either frequently or always. The number of readers is currently hovering around [...]

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A few days on the beach

October 14, 2008

I’m going on a few days break so I won’t be posting for the next few days. Normal service will be resumed next week. Whilst I will be at the seaside it most certainly won’t look anything like the picture. The good thing about the hotel is that it is slap in the middle of [...]

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Online Wireshark training

October 13, 2008

Chris Sanders is offering an online Wireshark training opportunity for the rather modest cost of $100. The course will cover analyzer placement on your cabling system, performing a network baseline and troubleshooting network latency.

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Off Topic: Chin up

October 10, 2008

I personally think the doom & gloom is being overplayed at the moment, every bit as much as the euphoria overshot during the boom years. Things certainly are going to be different for a while, but I don’t think we’re all going to go back to depression era levels of unemployment and the social deprevation [...]

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Off Topic: Brian Clough book fest

October 9, 2008

Occasionally, when the mood takes me, I read up on a topic to a reasonable depth. This time it was Brian Clough, the eponymous ex-manager of football clubs Derby County & Nottingham Forest. The two books that stand out are The Damned Utd by David Peace and Provided You Don’t Kiss Me by Duncan Hamilton. [...]

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Network monitoring tools @ SLAC link visualisation

October 8, 2008

I thought it would help you to visualise the increased competition in network management by producing a graph of the links in the Network Monitoring Tools directory @ SLAC.

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Give me your feedback

October 7, 2008

I think it’s about time you had a chance to give me some feedback on The Tech Teapot blog. Please fill out the survey, it’s only four questions long, and should take no longer than a minute or so. You can be assured that your answers will be kept in the strictest of confidence, in [...]

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Gliffy: Visio in the cloud

October 7, 2008

If you think of Gliffy as Visio delivered as a web based app you’d be about right, just like Google Docs. Google, if you’ve got a spare few million bucks (and we all know you do), will you just buy Gliffy? And then integrate it into Google Docs. This stuff is way too good to [...]

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An indication of heightened competition in network management

October 6, 2008

When I was doing the research for the Open source network management in Google 2001 vs Google 2008 I came across the Network Monitoring Tools website run by Stanford. I think the above images illustrates the heightened level of competition in today’s network management market rather well.

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Open Source Management Options paper complete

October 3, 2008

Jane Curry has completed her Open Source Management Options [PDF] white paper.

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