Category: NetStalgia

Feeling like a Puppet

Starting a new job is always a challenge.  It’s one thing to do an internal transfer within a company, like I did when moving from Technical Marketing Engineer to Product Management.  I even stayed in the same team.  But moving to a new company and new role is overwhelming and risky. I experienced this when […]

Frozen Yellow Garden Hose

Ivan’s recent very interesting post on LAN Data Link addressing takes me back.  Specifically, footnote #1, referring to “ThickNet” Ethernet:  “The coaxial cable had to be bright yellow”.  In the US, at least, we also used to call the stuff “Frozen Yellow Garden Hose”, for obvious reasons. The original Ethernet physical medium was rather interesting.  […]

Networking Simplicity

There’s a lot of talk about networking simplicity these days.  There’s been a lot of talk about networking simplicity, in fact, for as long as I can remember.  The drive to simplify networking has certainly been the catalyst for many new products, most (but not all) unsuccessful.  Sometimes we forget that networking has some inherent […]

When it’s time to go

I’ve mentioned my first job as a network engineer several times on this blog.  I worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, the biggest newspaper in Northern California.   I was brought in to manage the network as a Cisco-certified engineer, having just passed a four-day CCNA bootcamp.  Right before the dot-bomb economic crash, network engineers were […]

Apple Certified…what??

I’m thinking of doing some video blogging and kicking it off with a series with my thoughts on technical certifications.  Are they valuable or just a vendor racket?  Should you bother to invest time in them?  Why do the questions sometimes seem plain wrong? Meanwhile, a little Netstalgia about the first technical certification I (almost) […]