I’ve had my eye on a 3D printer for a few years. I kept saying that I would wait for it to get cheaper and easier to use. At the same time, my wife is constantly telling me that I never buy anything fun for myself. So for my birthday this year, I pooled my […]
If you’ve been paying attention to the Cisco world since Cisco Live US 2019, you have probably heard a lot about the changes to the Cisco Certification program. The changes are now the rule of the land and we’re starting to get a better picture of how things will work going forward. You Get a […]
2019 Another year is coming to a close and it seems to be the in thing to do a review. Twenty-nineteen has been a renewal for me. Branding In January I rebranded my personal brand and started blogging again under the PackIT Forwarding banner. Since then I have written dozens of articles and used the […]
On December 17th, 2019, Cisco released a Field Notice that could ruin a lot of people’s holiday vacations. The Field Notice says that any IOS device prior to 15.6(03)M07, 15.7(03)M05, 15.8(03)M03, or 15.9(03)M; and IOS-XE prior to 16.9.1 has a bug with the self-signed certificate. The bug is that they are set to expire on […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about Ernest Cline’s first novel Ready Player One, this week I’m writing about his second novel Armada. The two novels are stand-alone, but they are definitely in the same vein. Ernest Cline’s ability to weave pop culture references throughout the novel takes the reader on a nostalgia trip along […]
Recently I got brought in on a ticket where the colleague couldn’t connect to our wireless network. Even manually adding the SSID to the computer was met with an error of “Your network administrator has blocked you from connecting to this network.” But why would Windows block an SSID? As I said in a previous […]
My humble little blog has been chosen as a finalist in the 2019 IT Blog Awards. Please consider taking a look at all of the finalists and voting for me under the Certification Journey category. Good luck to all that are in the running. There are a lot of great blogs out there. You can […]
For this book, I went even farther away from my steady diet of Cisco Press books. Ready Player One is a great read. I’m thankful that I took the time to read this book before seeing the movie. TL;DR the book is better. The book is set in a dystopian future where a virtual reality […]
Today I was configuring a new ASA in my lab environment. I had also fired up a brand new Ubuntu VM to be my SCP server. When I tried to copy files from Ubuntu to the ASA, it would give me the error “permission denied”. Of course, this sent me looking to see why my […]
This review of the book The Phoenix Project will be the first in a new series on PackIT Forwarding. Earlier this year I realized that I hadn’t read any books without the Cisco Press imprint in quite a long time. This was one of the books that have so far made it to my reading […]
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