One of the questions I get asked several times a week by my clients is as such. While most people never associate latency with the amount of data they can send across a single TCP stream, engineers need to understand this concept. Luckily, someone … [Read more]
Cisco IOS Naming Conventions
As I started building this lab, I realized that I had to find a refresher course on the IOS naming conventions. They have gone through a number of revisions through the years, but here is a guide that should help most of you building CCNA/CCNP … [Read more]
Web Searches via Quicksilver
Everyone does a fair amount of googling these days, but any network engineer can tell you that a quick ARIN whois search can be invalueable. I know I end up there quite often. Anyway, when I got my mac a friend told me to make sure I checked out … [Read more]
Fixing Vista Partition Error Messages when using Bootcamp
So, I had to reinstall Vista on my mac today -- hadn't touched it since I moved onto the Late 08 model... and once again, I started getting the common partition errors while Vista loads the bootloader. Unrecognizable partition table for drive 80. … [Read more]
Cmd + Tab Replacement for Mac

PullTab is no longer maintained or supported. I've removed broken links within this article.... I've never liked the Mac OS X Command Tab application specific switching style... today, I found a few things to help ease the pain. The program in … [Read more]
SSH Wrapper Script
Ok -- this is my first script that I'm posting here. Its a VERY simple ssh wrapper script that you can place in your path, preferably in ~/bin #!/bin/bash SSH="/usr/bin/ssh" case "$*" in *'@'*) $SSH $* ;; *' -l'*) $SSH $* ;; … [Read more]