1:11pm Friday, March 17th, 2006 by Rolande
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
So I am finally going to Las Vegas for the first time this June for the Cisco Networkers conference. I’ve seen and read plenty about Vegas but, having never been there before, I am sure I am in for an interesting time, to say the least. Not to mention it is my first time at the Networkers conference, if you can believe it.
Anyway, I am looking forward to the trip. The only downside is I need to take a CCIE Written Exam while I am there so I can recertify. Read more »
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1:28pm Thursday, March 16th, 2006 by Rolande
So here’s another techie post but you can’t blame me. After all I spend nearly a third of my life working on this stuff.
Anyway, having worked in a bank for the past 6 years, I have gotten used to the omnipotent Big Brother always lurking over my shoulder to track what I am doing. However, having designed or been involved in the implementation of most of those systems in my last job, I knew all of the controls in place and how to quietly get around them for my own convenience and benefit. You know it is annoying when someone in HR decides it is a good idea to block access to certain website categories or even specific websites for one reason or another. I totally agree with policies blocking all the obscene content and things that just don’t belong in the workplace. But blocking my access to certain Multimedia content, Google Desktop, or Distributed Computing sites seems rather Midieval to me.
So, enough with that crap. Read more »
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