Nick Buraglio - Jan 3, 2013 I have only a bit of experience with their server stuff. Overall I was left wanting, but you’re right, it was back when they were rebranding. I do really think that it’s a different world now and they’re going to have to adapt or fade to a shell of what they once were. From a networking perspective, they gear is good….but it’s operationally and fiscally expensive to run.

After reading Stephen Fosketts post “How Will Cisco Recover From The Consumer Strategy Blunder?”, it got me thinking. It’s a very different world than when Cisco got started all those years ago. I don’t have any brand loyalty to Cisco, I learned on cisco gear 14-15 years ago for the most part, but I try to keep the mentality of “the right tool for the job”, which means constantly surveying th emarket for new and interesting ways to do things.

I am very happy and flattered that this site actually proves to be useful to folks. It was always my intention to use this as a platform to try to give back a bit, to help with any data I may have run across that was interesting, useful, or obscure. I utilize sites like etherialmind.com, packetpushers.net, evilrouters.net, networkstatic.net and ioshints more than I can even measure. I wanted to try to contribute as much as I could to pay it back.

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86\_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm yum -y install apache2 php5 php5-json php-xml php-mbstring php5-zip php5-gd yum -y install php5-sqlite curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl php-pd php5-sqlite isn’t available in the repos I use. I wasn’t able to find it elsewhere either. Per this page, I have to install it by source. cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:community/CentOS\_CentOS-6/isv:ownCloud:community.repo yum install owncloud

I have a love-hate feeling about “predictions” about the upcoming year, especially tech predictions. I don’t like media sensationalism of any kind, and a lot of the tech predctions are just that, sensational, extreme talk to draw in readers or viewers. I’m choosing to go down a more subtle path, these are things I’ve thought about lately but will likely forget in the upcoming year, unless they actually happen, in which case I’d likely do an “ah, I remember thinking that may happen” gesture.

Securing SSH is a form or art. It’s often debated, much like blocking all ICMP packets (which I normally disagree with). If you need good proof, read these posts by Bob Plankers. There is a camp that likes to promote moving to a non-standard port. There is a faction that likes to block it completely except from a handful of hosts. Then there are those that like to leave it open all together.