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Category Archives: efficiency
Easier Cabling Migrations
Switching upgrades are a necessary part of any network over a given period of time. Port speed requirements change. Platforms change. What doesn’t seem to change as often are the cables themselves. This is especially true in wiring closets. While … Continue reading
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Appreciating Complexity
For four years, I played the French Horn in school. I learned a fair amount about music. Mainly, I learned how difficult it was to write music. Not just writing it, but also performing it at a high level. Once … Continue reading
Posted in career, efficiency
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Programming Bad Performance
Last week an interesting problem surfaced at work. An application engineer received reports of slow performance on a particular website and needed some help from my group to track down the source of the problem. This engineer had done some … Continue reading
Dealing With Knowledge Gaps
Inevitably, we are all going to come across things in our jobs that we are deficient in. Maybe we know a little about a certain topic, but we need to know more. Maybe we know absolutely nothing and need a … Continue reading
Posted in career, efficiency, learning, training
Tagged career humor, learning, technology, time management, training
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Busy, Busy, Busy!
It’s not that I don’t have anything to say! People who know me know that I very rarely shut up for more than a few minutes. It’s just that I have been fairly busy lately. A lot of different things … Continue reading
It’s Game Day! Are YOU Ready?
It’s late August here in the United States. That means one thing for a lot of people. Football is starting. No offense rest of the world. Your football is my soccer, although I tend to side with you that my … Continue reading
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Don’t Just Collect. Consume.
I have a bit of a problem when it comes to information. I tend to resemble someone on the TV show Hoarders. I have loads of PDF files on my laptop. Some are on my iPad. Some are on my … Continue reading
Posted in efficiency, learning, vendors
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You’re lying. Well, at least until we see the packet capture.
Maybe you’ve experienced this before. You are minding your own business without a care in the world when all of the sudden the phone rings. You: Hello? Them: There’s a problem and we think the network is the cause. Can … Continue reading
Make Your Job Easier
****Note – While I thought about detailing the technical steps necessary for delegation on different pieces of equipment, I decided to go with the more “architectural” or “philosophical” approach in this post. Besides, there are plenty of others out there … Continue reading
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Tagged delegation, efficiency, learning, security
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