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BiB082 – LPWANs, Amazon Sidewalk and Apple U1 Wideband
Last week we saw LPWAN announcements from Amazon and Apple, lets consider what that means.
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BiB082 – LPWANs, Amazon Sidewalk and Apple U1 Wideband
Last week we saw LPWAN announcements from Amazon and Apple, lets consider what that means.Both BGP and Power Point are Turing complete.
Its not a sign of superiority or actual usefulness.
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Hey Dropbox, I Don’t Want The Bloat. Or the Constant Ads.
TL-DR: Dropbox is harassing me about new products. Combined with poor performance of their bloated app and enormous waisting of my disk space, I’m getting close to quitting. I want to use Dropbox to synchronise files between my various devices aka desktop, laptop, tablet and smartphone for quite some time. I like it enough to […]
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Network Outages and Idiots With Guns
As told to me:
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Cascadia Code | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers
Another free and open monospaced font for code development this time from Microsoft. A key differentiator is the inclusion of ligatures for programming symbols (see below). Ligature support is rare among text editors and very rare for TTF encoded fonts. Its more common to see OTF ligatures supported. Also, no italics support yet. Creating fonts […]
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Have Lots of Unused or Free Disk Space on your Mac
More memory didn't solve the problem but free disk space did
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Its time for ‘a gogo’ licensing
All the hits is a premium offering
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Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On – danah boyd – Medium
Searing speech from dana boyd. How she keeps on going is amazing to me.
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Why are Upper and Lower Case Glyphs Named ?
Computer keyboard are skeumorphic ?
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Heavy Networking 471: Routing-Centric Transformation With Arrcus’s ArcOS (Sponsored)
Today's Heavy Networking welcomes back sponsor Arrcus to discuss the latest advancements in its ArcOS NOS, including support for Jericho2 ASICs, the new ArcIQ Analytics platform, and the vote of confidence from investors in the form of a $30 million funding round. Our guests are Keyur Patel, CTO and founder; and Murali Gandluru, VP of Product Management.
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Configuring Networks to Disable DNS over HTTPS | Firefox Help
I'm pretty sure that this creates a downgrade attack on DOH enabled browsers.
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Sally Floyd, Who Helped Things Run Smoothly Online, Dies at 69 – The New York Times
best known as one of the inventors of Random Early Detection
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Heavy Networking 467: The Journey To SDN
On today's Heavy Networking we look at one organization's journey to SDN, including pitfalls, triumphs, and lessons learned. Guest Sal Rannazzisi, principal network architect at a global pharmaceuticals company, shares details on dealing with vendors, finding and training engineers, developing internal processes, and more.
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Closing the Shutters on EtherealMind
I've been publishing on Etherealmind for more than ten years and its been quite a journey. I've changed and its time move on.
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Network Break 248: VMware Acquires Veriflow; Xirrus Changes Hands
Ned Bellavance drops in as guest co-host while Drew takes time off to make craft virtual donuts with an artisan baker in a remote mountain village. Ned and Greg analyze VMware's latest acquisition, discuss why Xirrus has changed hands, explore a new low-cost switch, opine on CloudFlare's forthcoming IPO, and more.
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Network Break 248: VMware Acquires Veriflow; Xirrus Changes Hands
Ned Bellavance drops in as guest co-host while Drew takes time off to make craft virtual donuts with an artisan baker in a remote mountain village. Ned and Greg analyze VMware's latest acquisition, discuss why Xirrus has changed hands, explore a new low-cost switch, opine on CloudFlare's forthcoming IPO, and more.Heavy Networking 465: Looking Backward and Forward with Harry Quackenboss
Harry Quackenboss is long time veteran of infrastructure technology. In networking he was a VP of Sales of Crescendo for FDDI networking (to the desktop) which was acquired by Cisco. He later founded Woven Systems as a high speed Ethernet company of the time and more lately CEO of cPlane, a SDN company now relaunched […]
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Network Break 247: Data Centers Are Not Quite Dead, AI is a Feature Not A Product
Not everything is broken this week although some things definitely are looking grim. We consider how really dead data centers are according to Gartner, Cisco gobbles some more AI for Webex while HPE gets more AI-ish for Bluedata. GTT Communications is in trouble while ATT Bribery case highlights that big companies are dumb. Snark and virtual donuts all round this week.
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Using Automation vs Making Automation
First published in Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine 58 – you can subscribe here Another side of the debate around programming, automation and orchestration. Are you a user or a maker ? Platforms are 80/20 For the last 20 or 30 years, network management software has followed an 80/20 approach to customisation. On the first […]
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