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Bridging Bytes & Spanning Solutions: Adventures in Network Engineering

Some occasional thoughts on IT – primarily networking, virtualization, and security with a sprinkling of projects I may be working on. I may also post some random ideas or thoughts about some of my hobbies and interests from time to time for fun.

Dell VRTX EXPLODES, well not really…

This post is an archive from my old blog that I had to recover from a backup after InMotion Hosting (never make the mistake of hosting with them, by the way) botched a migration and deleted that site. The post below was from events that occurred around 2018 or so - I...

The Network Time Machine

“We are consolidating VLANs to simplify the network.” – So said a CIO in a request for me to come in to consult on a LAN “upgrade” project.  The idea was to take my design below that ran beautifully for years:Into something like this:Like going back in timeNow, for a...

Quotes

Fortune

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

– P.T. Barnum

Education

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

– Mark Twain

Excess

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

– Mark Twain

War

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

– George Washington

Time

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

– John Wooden

Responsibility

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke

Winning

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog

– Mark Twain

Wisdom

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

– Alexander Pope

Forgiveness

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

– Alexander Pope

Learning

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

– Benjamin Franklin

Socialism

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
– Margaret Thatcher

Technology

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
– Arthur C. Clarke