Tuesday, 29 September 2020

A home for a home lab: StarTech 12U desktop open frame 2 post rack

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 My wife (aka "Senior Management") decreed that I needed "a table or something" for the network gear that was starting t...
Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Juniper Configuration Groups

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 Although the use of network automation / Infrastructure as Code is likely to greatly reduce their usefulness, configuration groups can be ...
Monday, 14 September 2020

Juniper Home Lab - virtual lab topology on a single physical device

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One of the things I've wanted for a long time is a few Juniper devices lying around my home to keep my Juniper CLI skills up to scratch ...
Friday, 28 August 2020

Holistic IT education / learning: secure all the things

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In July, I witnessed a very interesting PoC in a talk, sketched out against a particular vendor's routers based on the "best practi...
Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Interview / job application preparation

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I’ve sat on both sides of the interview table several times. I certainly don’t think I’ve mastered either end of that game, but certainly, t...
Thursday, 16 July 2020

Read it, note it, (re)do it, teach IT: How to learn effectively

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It's no secret that IT is a career in which you need to keep learning.  It's also a given that many IT professionals are not given t...
Sunday, 5 July 2020

Dunning-Kruger and Learning

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I can't imagine you've never heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect - it is a popular and well known model of actual expertise vs. perce...