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You spend all your waking time at a keyboard. This blog post is about keyboards, and can be summarized as: Buy quality, cry once.
I spend a lot of time typing on a keyboard, yet I have never looked into what keyboard would be best for me. There are natural keyboards and kinesis keyboards that people speak well of, but I spend a lot of time typing on laptops and don’t want a completely different setup for laptop and desktop.
I had the same concern before switching to Dvorak back when I was a consultant (thus often using other peoples managed machines), but happily switched after verifying that even on a locked down Windows machine as a non-admin user I could select Dvorak. Also there are adapters from Dvorak to Qwerty that I could use in extremely locked down environments such as the CCIE lab (they required a doctors note though, long story).
So it would have to be a keyboard that looks like a normal one. Preferably with Dvorak on the keycaps. It seems that mechanical keyboards are all the rage, so I thought I’d give that a go.
I ended up buying a 88 key Cherry MX brown-based Continue reading
You spend all your waking time at a keyboard. This blog post is about keyboards, and can be summarized as: Buy quality, cry once.
I spend a lot of time typing on a keyboard, yet I have never looked into what keyboard would be best for me. There are natural keyboards and kinesis keyboards that people speak well of, but I spend a lot of time typing on laptops and don’t want a completely different setup for laptop and desktop.
I had the same concern before switching to Dvorak back when I was a consultant (thus often using other peoples managed machines), but happily switched after verifying that even on a locked down Windows machine as a non-admin user I could select Dvorak. Also there are adapters from Dvorak to Qwerty that I could use in extremely locked down environments such as the CCIE lab (they required a doctors note though, long story).
So it would have to be a keyboard that looks like a normal one. Preferably with Dvorak on the keycaps. It seems that mechanical keyboards are all the rage, so I thought I’d give that a go.
I ended up buying a 88 key Cherry MX brown-based Continue reading
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.
Could Facebook or LinkedIn become the nexus for your voice calls and other communications? Not yet, but thanks to a technology known as WebRTC you can’t rule out the possibility.
WebRTC — the initials stand for Real Time Communications — is an open-source project that aims to transform the ordinary Web browser into a full-featured unified communications portal. With WebRTC, users establish real-time communication sessions from their browser, search, find and point to the servers of people they want to communicate with, and establish connections — all without needing to know the recipient’s phone number or email address.
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Next week, our co-founder, CTO and EVP of products and technology, Dave Husak, will be heading to Arrow’s Internet of Things Immersions Conference to participate in two panels. The event will be held on March 26 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.
The first panel Husak will join will weigh in on the topic “Bringing Data to Life: How to Turn Data Intelligence into Actionable Sales Growth.” Husak will be joined on this panel by other industry thought leaders from Arrow, EMC, Intel, NXP and Oracle. Husak and the other panelists will analyze how to effectively harness massive amounts of sales data and turn it into something actionable and meaningful for their organization. He’ll follow up this panel with a general panel at 6:50 as part of the Innovator’s Showcase.
In case you’re in the area, you can register for the event here. If you aren’t, follow along with us on Twitter here.
Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week. Have a great weekend!
Network Computing: SDN Benefits For The SME
By Tom Hollingsworth
Working in a small or medium enterprise (SME) is a constant juggling Continue reading
HP selling? EMC buying? This week's roundup digs into the rumor mill.
Every time I teach NX-OS the same question often arises, “How good do we need to be at routing in order to pass the lab exam?” My first inkling is always to say ‘learn it all,’ but we all know that isn’t always possible. There is a ton of information to learn within the scope of this lab exam, so in order to fully understand this question, we need to look towards Cisco’s almighty guide, the blueprint!
They have gone pretty easy on us in terms of routing, but in their defense, they do have an entire lab dedicated to routing and switching. If we scan down the blueprint to Section 1.2, we see the category we are looking for:
While that comprises that entire section, I would also err on the side of caution and include Section 1.4a grouped within the L3 category, those being first-hop routing protocols such as HSRP, GLBP, and VRRP.
Look at what they ask us for here, and lets analyze it. They ask for BASIC EIGRP and OSPF, Bi-directional forwarding detection, and equal-cost multi-pathing. ECMP isn’t really its own ‘protocol’, rather something that most L3 protocols support. We will see that Continue reading
Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert client’s who have passed their CCIE lab!
Have you passed your CCIE lab exam and used any of iPexpert’s self-study products, or attended a CCIE Bootcamp? If so, we’d like to add you to our CCIE Wall of Fame!
Corsa goes to production with its programmable data plane.
