Geek-themed Meme of the Week: biometric been there

Continuing what should be but hasn’t been our weekly series highlighting the better tech-related memes … Reddit Having used the thumbprint reader on my iPhone for some time now, it has become a habit of the muscle-memory variety, meaning that I quite regularly have unlocked my phone before I have completed reading an alert that had caught my attention. So, too, a user of Reddit who submitted the above meme.I am guessing that there’s probably an easy solution. But since this certainly must be among the most First World of First World Problems ever encountered, I’ve yet to invest the time to search it out. Meanwhile, it’s oddly comforting to know that I am not alone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The curious case of slow downloads

Some time ago we discovered that certain very slow downloads were getting abruptly terminated and began investigating whether that was a client (i.e. web browser) or server (i.e. us) problem.

Some users were unable to download a binary file a few megabytes in length. The story was simple—the download connection was abruptly terminated even though the file was in the process of being downloaded. After a brief investigation we confirmed the problem: somewhere in our stack there was a bug.

Describing the problem was simple, reproducing the problem was easy with a single curl command, but fixing it took surprising amount of effort.

CC BY 2.0 image by jojo nicdao

In this article I'll describe the symptoms we saw, how we reproduced it and how we fixed it. Hopefully, by sharing our experiences we will save others from the tedious debugging we went through.

Failing downloads

Two things caught our attention in the bug report. First, only users on mobile phones were experiencing the problem. Second, the asset causing issues—a binary file—was pretty large, at around 30MB.

After a fruitful session with tcpdump one of our engineers was able to prepare a test case that reproduced the Continue reading

Support for SQL Server 2005 ends Tuesday – are you ready?

Tuesday marks the end of support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and that means companies relying on it are just about out of time. There will be no more updates from Microsoft, so staying with the software could open you up to a host of risks.Microsoft encourages users to move to SQL Server 2014 or Azure SQL Database, but those aren't the only options. Either way, the transition is going to take some time. If you haven't already been working on it, the most important thing now is to act quickly to minimize the amount of time your company is left exposed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

12 WiFi Vendors To Keep An Eye On

New products of the week 4.11.16

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow. ClearSlide for Gmail Key features: Available to all ClearSlide users, ClearSlide for Gmail is an easy-to-install Google Chrome app that is designed to increase salesperson productivity and improve the quality of CRM data by automatically logging all outbound emails, prospect views, and content engagement directly back to Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics.  More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 4.11.16

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow. ClearSlide for Gmail Key features: Available to all ClearSlide users, ClearSlide for Gmail is an easy-to-install Google Chrome app that is designed to increase salesperson productivity and improve the quality of CRM data by automatically logging all outbound emails, prospect views, and content engagement directly back to Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics.  More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

7 steps to biometric bliss

Every time you access your phone via fingerprint reader, you’re using biometric identification technology. So, while biometrics on the consumer side has become commonplace, a number of barriers have blocked widespread biometric adoption in the enterprise.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

SSD shootout: PCI Express blows away SATA and M.2 in throughput testing

For the better part of a decade now, the traditional interface for hard drives has been Serial ATA (SATA). With the advent of the solid state drive (SSD), new interfaces have come into play designed to speed up throughput, because the SATA interface has rapidly become the bottleneck in drive speed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

SSD shootout: PCI Express blows away SATA and M.2 in throughput testing

For the better part of a decade now, the traditional interface for hard drives has been Serial ATA (SATA). With the advent of the solid state drive (SSD), new interfaces have come into play designed to speed up throughput, because the SATA interface has rapidly become the bottleneck in drive speed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Hybrid IT Requires Monitoring As A Discipline

China’s Alibaba Joins the OpenDaylight Project

China's e-commerce giant joins OpenDaylight to share its SDN experience.

VMware & Brocade Build an Aviation Network for SmartSky

SmartSky wants to avoid hardware as much as possible.

New Experiment: Interactive Online Course

After I told you that I’m not going to Interop, I got numerous emails along the lines of “but I was really looking forward to attending your workshop” so I started looking for a solution that would combine the best of online and classroom worlds.

Here’s my first attempt: an interactive online course combining topics from two of my Interop workshops. I’m still working on the detailed agenda and plan to have it ready around May 1st. In the meantime, I’d really appreciate your feedback – leave a comment or send me an email.

Cisco Live – News About the Customer Appreciation Event (CAE)

Cisco Live takes place in Las Vegas between the 10th and 14th of July this year. Every Live event, Cisco holds a customer appreciation event (CAE) in an arena close by the conference center. Last year we saw an amazing performance from Aerosmith hosted in San Diego. The year before that, Imagine Dragons put on a show in San Francisco.

This years event will be hosted at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas strip. This is a very new arena that opened on April, 6, just days ago. The pictures below show renderings of the arena.

T-Mobile Arena® will be the destination in Las Vegas for live events – from amazing music acts to thrilling sporting events – it will set a new standard for what entertainment means in the city that does it best. The 20,000-seat T-Mobile Arena ® will host exciting, world-class events with something for everyone – from UFC, boxing, hockey, basketball and professional bull riding to high-profile awards shows and top-name concerts.

Cisco is not only holding their CAE there. The arena also uses Cisco technology called Cisco StadiumVision which is an innovative digital content distribution system. The system is used to centrally manage and Continue reading

Cisco Live 2016 Las Vegas

I’m presenting at two sessions this year at Cisco Live: BRKRST-3014, Policy, Complexity, and Modern Control Planes on Thursday afternoon, and TECCCDE-3005, The Cisco Certified Design Expert, on Sunday afternoon. If you’re attending, feel free to look me up—when I’m not speaking, I’m generally hanging out at Cisco Press, at the Certification Lounge, or just walking around the show floor.

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iPhone 7 Rumor Rollup: No more swearing; Plus-size exclusive; new design concept

Now that Apple is officially in its 40s, you might think the company would settle down a bit and douse all those silly rumors about iPhone 7 smartphones and so forth. But no, it looks like the Apple rumor mill isn’t hitting any sort of midlife crisis.Exclusive to 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus? Fretting has already begun, and now has intensified, that the much anticipated dual-lens camera Apple is believed to be working on will only be available in the 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus model. And not everyone wants to lug around such a big iOS device (isn’t that part of the reason so many have ditched their portable digital cameras and just use their smartphones for picture taking now?).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Sonic Pi: Realtime music creation for the Raspberry Pi (and more)

In my last post I discussed a Web-based programming environment for the Raspberry Pi. Today, for your further Raspberry Pi delectation, I have another RPi-compatible programming tool but this it’s rather more specific: It’s called Sonic Pi and it’s for programming music in real time.Created by Sam Aaron at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Sonic Pi is a free, open source, live coding synthesizer released under the MIT License. Better still, it not only runs on the Raspberry Pi as its name suggests, it also runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco Live 2016 – Animals and Oh’s!

Wait, what is the title of this blog post and what does it mean? Well as you are probably aware, Cisco Live 2016 is just a few months away from now – in fact just about 90 days from now!  So around this time when information starts to come out as to who we may […]

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Devil is the details: Dirty little secrets of the Internet of Things

Where is IoT going in the long run?... To cash in on the treasure trove of “everything it knows about you,” data collected over the long term, at least it is according to a post on Medium about the “dirty little secret” of the Internet of Things.A company can only sell so many devices, but still needs to make money, so the article suggests the “sinister” reason why companies “want to internet-connect your entire house” is to collect every little bit of data about you and turn it into profit. Although the post was likely inspired in part by the continued fallout of Nest’s decision to brick Revolv hubs, there could a IoT company eventually looking for a way to monetize on “if you listen to music while having sex.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Devil is the details: Dirty little secrets of the Internet of Things

Where is IoT going in the long run?... To cash in on the treasure trove of “everything it knows about you,” data collected over the long term, at least it is according to a post on Medium about the “dirty little secret” of the Internet of Things.A company can only sell so many devices, but still needs to make money, so the article suggests the “sinister” reason why companies “want to internet-connect your entire house” is to collect every little bit of data about you and turn it into profit. Although the post was likely inspired in part by the continued fallout of Nest’s decision to brick Revolv hubs, there could a IoT company eventually looking for a way to monetize on “if you listen to music while having sex.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here