WWDC 2015 Rumors: What to expect from Apple

Tomorrow at 10 A.M Pacific Time, Tim Cook and his trusted cadre of lieutenants will take the stage at Moscone West in San Francisco where they will show us what the company has been working on over the last 12 months.When it comes to Apple related announcements, WWDC is undoubtedly one of the most exciting events of the year. Per usual, there's been a steady stream of rumors pointing to what we can expect to see from Apple tomorrow. To help you get acquainted with what some of the announcements may touch on, below is a broad overview of what Apple will likely touch on during tomorrow's highly anticipated presentation.iOS 9To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

BRKSEC-3005 — An IoT Security Model for Securing IT-OT Assets

Presenter: Jeff Schutt - Cybersecurity Solutions Architect (Jeff works in Adv Services in the IoT team)

Full Title: An IoT Security Model & Architecture for Securing Cyber-Physical and IT-OT Converged Assets

Mix of IT/OT folks in the room.

BRKIOT-2109 — Connecting Oil & Gas Pipelines

Presenter: Konrad Reszka, IoT Vertical Solutions Group Engineering Lead

“Given a chance, how many people in this room would volunteer to be a meteorologist in San Diego? You'd never be wrong!”

DEVNET-1001 — Coding 101

How to Call REST APIs from a REST Client and Python

Presenter: Matt (didn't catch last name, sorry)

iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Feeling left out at Apple WWDC, but design concepts cheer us up

The world of Apple prognosticators expect a Beats-infused streaming music service, support for native Apple Watch apps and a first look at iOS 9 at this week’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference. But iPhone 6S or iPhone 7 are expected to gain nary a mention by Apple big shots at the annual San Francisco confab.Sure, iOS advances in Version 9 will be directly applicable to iPhone users, but who knows, Apple might be on to iOS 10 by the time its next iPhone surfaces. Enter the iPhone concept designs Deviant Art iPhone 7 design concept: Home button is nowhere to be seenTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

PQ Show 51 – LightCyber Magna Active Breach Detection – Sponsored

LightCyber Magna Active Breach Detection automatically detects active attackers by identifying the anomalous operational behaviors sourced from compromised hosts in your network. By focusing on actual attack behaviors, and not technical artifacts like signatures, Magna provides accurate breach indicators and eliminates excessive false positives.

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Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Cloonix network simulator updated to version 26

The Cloonix development team released an update to Cloonix version 26 in May 2015. An important addition in version 26 is a greatly expanded and improved Cloonix user guide.

The new version also changes the user interface, adds a new LAN type, and eliminates the t2t device. It also includes updated guest virtual machines.

User interface changes

In Cloonix Version 26, the user interface eliminates the tool bar and makes all graph objects available via a right-click drop-down menu.

Right-click to access the virtual network object menu

Cloonix v26 KVM configuration window

Installing Cloonix v26

The only change to the install procedure is a some new prerequisite software packages that must be installed to support compilation.

You can install pre-compiled binaries or compile Cloonix from source code. I prefer to compile it. The source code and the precompiled binaries are on the Cloonix Software page.

To compile the source code on Xubuntu 14.04, I followed the procedure documented in the Cloonix install documentation.

We will install Cloonix v26 in our Home directory. Download and unpack the source code.

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How to Enable Dot1x – more complex setup for wired network

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This one is long. Do not be afraid though, I made it just to give you the fastest way to deploy functional dot1x to your company HQ without reading even more documentation and searching for those little timer default settings. I the article prior to this I showed you how to setup your environment with simple dot1x and make it as simple as possible. I will not repeat again the part about setting up Radius Clients on server side, everything else is here once again just more complex. Now is time for a more complex example that will make your implementation

How to Enable Dot1x – more complex setup for wired network

Brocade Certified vRouter Engineer

If you’ve visited the Brocade website recently, you’ve probably seen the “Free NFV Certification” banner. I signed up for this several months ago, but had put off completing the course. I had a little downtime recently prior to starting work at Brocade, so I completed this course & exam. Here’s my impressions.

What’s the Course/Exam About?

From the official documentation:

As a Brocade Certified vRouter Engineer, you must be able to demonstrate the ability to install, configure and troubleshoot features of Brocade Vyatta Network OS.

i.e. it’s primarily about the basics of Vyatta.

What’s Included?

Here’s what you get when you sign up:

1. A download link to the Brocade Vyatta 5400 vRouter image.
2. Access to the “Brocade Certified vRouter Engineer Course.”
3. Links to certification materials and communities.
4. Promo code for the BCVRE exam.

Note that you can run the Vyatta image on a local hypervisor, or if you prefer you can select it from the AWS marketplace. Personally I ran it on VMware Fusion on my laptop. It’s light on resource, so you can easily spin up several Continue reading

HTC Fail: Company posts photos of 24-karat gold M9 that were taken with an iPhone

 HTC on Friday took to Twitter to announce a new limited edition 24-karat gold M9 that it's releasing to celebrate Saturday's Champions League final. That's all well and good, but in one of the three photos HTC posted online, it's clear that they were taken with (gasp!) an iPhone.Here's the offending photo.Nothing terribly shocking at first glance, but if we zoom in a little bit on the lower right hand corner on the right-hand device, well, that's an iPhone 6 we see taking the shot.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Citizens of Tech 006 – Saga of Lucimia Special, Part 2

On this week's Citizens of Tech podcast, we conclude our special on how complex games are developed. Regular host Eric Sutphen (@zutfen) and special guest Jeff Pugliese (@tpyowritr) continue their interview with game developers Tim Anderson and Giovanni Martello from Saga of Lucimia. Topics include community, archetypes, and character progression.

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Citizens of Tech 006 – Saga of Lucimia Special, Part 2

On this week's Citizens of Tech podcast, we conclude our special on how complex games are developed. Regular host Eric Sutphen (@zutfen) and special guest Jeff Pugliese (@tpyowritr) continue their interview with game developers Tim Anderson and Giovanni Martello from Saga of Lucimia. Topics include community, archetypes, and character progression.

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Ethan Banks

Co-host at Packet Pushers

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Managed power supplies and how to automate your branch network

One of the worst parts of the day has to be calling AT&T or Comcast to request a dispatch to a branch office or to check up on a problem internet circuit.  Yelling out “Technical Support” to try and get past the prompts.  The first question I get asked every time, “Did you reboot the modem?”. […]

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William Marti

Network Admin for the last 5 years at a large NA based food distributor. Graduated with a Bachelors in Information Systems

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Soviet Mi-24V Hind E, 1/72 scale

For best article visual quality, open Soviet Mi-24V Hind E, 1/72 scale directly at NetworkGeekStuff.

The Mil Mi-24 (Russian: Миль Ми-24; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship and attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers. It is produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and has been operated since 1972 by the Soviet Air Force and its successors, along with more than 30 other nations.

In NATO circles, the export versions, Mi-25 and Mi-35, are denoted with a letter suffix as “Hind D” and “Hind E” respectively. Soviet pilots called the Mi-24 the “flying tank”, or летающий танк (letayushchiy tank). More common unofficial nicknames were “Crocodile” (Крокодил or Krokodil) due to the helicopter’s camouflage scheme and “Drinking Glass” (Стакан or Stakan) because of the flat glass plates which surround the cockpit of the Mi-24.

In my small interpretation, I have used the Revell kid that was released in 2014 targeting the Czech Air Force variant, but it also has the option of doing Soviet markings, so I decided to go with this much more generally known view as I have a certain nostalgia on this thing appearing in the old Operation Flashpoint (2001) by Continue reading

SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — June 5, 2015

$18M for software-defined storage, and good news for SD-WAN and white-box servers.

How to Enable Dot1x authentication for wired clients

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If your LAN is extending to some places where unauthorised people can just plug in and gain access to your protected network, it’s time to implement some security on your access switch. The best thing to do is to implement IEEE 802.1X port-based authentication which will enable users/machine authentication and prevent unauthorized devices from getting access switch port running when connected. IEEE 802.1X port-based authentication is mostly called simply as dot1x. In this article I will show you how to configure some basic dot1x stuff on switch side. I will also include Windows machine side of configuration as this is something most people presume

How to Enable Dot1x authentication for wired clients

For its next feat, Google will try to make you eat your vegetables

If your image of the Google cafeteria is a bunch of portly coders tucking into steak and lobster every night, think again: Silicon Valley’s cream of the crop is going on a diet.To the list of perks you’re missing out on at the famous workers’ paradise, you can now add healthier food. But don’t worry, the planet wins, too. For the last year and a half, Google’s food department has been on a mission to cut down on meat.“A more balanced, plant-centric diet is good for the environment and is good for your health,” said Michiel Bakker, director of the Global Food Program at Google. “So if we can move more people to eat less meat and to enjoy more vegetables, the rest will follow.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

For its next feat, Google will try to make you eat your vegetables

If your image of the Google cafeteria is a bunch of portly coders tucking into steak and lobster every night, think again: Silicon Valley’s cream of the crop is going on a diet.To the list of perks you’re missing out on at the famous workers’ paradise, you can now add healthier food. But don’t worry, the planet wins, too. For the last year and a half, Google’s food department has been on a mission to cut down on meat.“A more balanced, plant-centric diet is good for the environment and is good for your health,” said Michiel Bakker, director of the Global Food Program at Google. “So if we can move more people to eat less meat and to enjoy more vegetables, the rest will follow.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Re-New. Again

Re-New. Again. Greetings. Welcome to my first blog post. I have to say, I feel a little out of my class in the esteemed collection of networking talent I see blogging on this site. I have never been the top tier of networking. I have never been the guy who just seems to know everything. […]

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Doug Sheehan has been an IT/Network Tech for what seems like a long time. Most of his career has been directly or indirectly connecting to routers and switches. His work in Alaska focused on layer2/layer 3 connections over satellites, since there are still no roads to most places. He now works on automation networks on the little island off the big island, where he lives with his beautiful wife and two dogs.
Having overslept the three years to update his CCNA, He now finds himself beginning the certification journey again from the start. He also has unrealized potential in programming and BSD.
His website is at dougsheehan.com

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Apple Watch to launch in seven new countries this month

After a slow initial rollout, it's finally seems that Apple is getting a handle on Apple Watch supply.The Cupertino-based company yesterday announced that the Apple Watch is poised to launch in an additional seven countries come Friday, June 24.The countries being graced with the Apple Watch treatment include Italy, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan. This will soon bring the total number of countries that carry the Apple Watch to 16.“The response to Apple Watch has surpassed our expectations in every way," Apple executive Jeff Williams said in a press release, "and we are thrilled to bring it to more customers around the world."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here