Blue Wolf's HowlAdventures in the world as told through the Howl of Blue Wolf. Metaphysics, photography, poetry, comics and art.Lovin' the Shark- April 25, 2008 So my most recent method of procrastination happens to be viewing the Wireshark University course videos. I got lucky enough (read:whined enough) that my supervisor kicked in for the 4 DVD set of Wireshark U course materials. Of course, he figured I'd never look at them, but having them would at least shut me up... I just finished the first DVD. It took hours, but the material was good and was presented in an interesting manner. We all have to admit - this is dry stuff. You're taking captures.http://www.bluewolfspirit.com/blog/2008/04/lovin_the_shark.html Word Shortage- April 4, 2008 Apparently there are not enough words in the English language to describe computers and networking. This became painfully obvious to me today -- since so many words are used over and over to describe very different things. One of the server guys wanted me to change the port settings from 'hard-coded' at 100 Mbps Full Duplex to Auto Detect (both speed and duplex). I asked him for the MAC or IP addresses of the connections so that I could find the ports to change. Since the device he was...http://www.bluewolfspirit.com/blog/2008/04/word_shortage.html |