A few times recently i've had to think about the essential applications i use on my desktop. The latest was Anthony Burke's tweet, but the recent churn in the Linux desktop world and my unhappiness with Unity means that i need to be prepared for...
Background I first came across HP's A5500 switches when i started looking at configuring VRRP and distributed trunking to provide routing redundancy for the core of a client's campus network using two ProCurve 5400 switches. I found that i could...
Last week i made some fairly significant changes on a client's production firewall/routing cluster during our maintenance window. The next morning there were reports of file server drives not connecting correctly and inaccessible web sites. ...
One of my clients had some very interesting Internet traffic statistics last week. We came in Thursday morning and found that overnight we had downloaded over 700 GB of data from our ISP (UQ SchoolsNet). When we looked through our proxy server...
CSO Magazine recently released a bunch of really useful security resources. Check them out: 10 essential (and free!) security downloads for Windows Five free penetration testing tools Five steps to successful and cost-effective penetration testing