Happy New Year 2024

Happy New Year - 2024 everyone!! Its a new year, which means a new beginning. For the last couple of years I have been very incognito and focused on some personal areas of my life. This meant that I have not been active in the networking community as much as I would have liked and not attended as many things either.
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Useful links for Observium + Rancid

I recently decided that i would like to utilize Observium as well as rancid for configuration backups on my home network. To that effect, the following links really helped me out getting it all setup correctly: https://docs.observium.org/rancid/ http://packetsandpings.blogspot.com/2013/05/installing-and-configuring-rancid.html https://layer77.net/2016/08/10/upgrading-from-rancid-2-3-8-to-3-4-1/ Let me know if you run into anything i might help out with.
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February – A busy month indeed!

Wow, what a busy month this has been! So I started my new job on February 1st and thus far, everything has been really great. My new coworkers are very friendly and helpful. I’ve spent the better part of february, trying to get to grips with the SP network I will be focusing on from now on.
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Why Cisco?

Why do i keep focusing so much on Cisco, when there are clearly alot of different vendors out there with similar products and technologies? There are several reasons for this. 1) I began the professional part of my networking career with Cisco.
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The case for lifelong learning.

People often ask me why i keep studying and when i will be “done”. To me, this type of question seems odd, because i am committed to lifelong learning. I am of the opinion that going through life without learning something all the time would be a life wasted.
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Change of focus

I have decided to change my focus quite a bit. I was planning on tackling the IOS-XR exam this year and was preparing for it by going through the blueprint. However another track kept pulling me towards it, and ofcourse thats the CCDE track.
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Becomming Zen'ish?

Wow. The other day, someone posted a link to [zenhabits.net]. and I was hooked right away. The entire idea around being “Zen’ish” really appeals to me on a fundamental level. I like the idea behind it, i like what it entails, i like the discipline and i like the calmness.
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Time to put the beans to rest

Yesterday brought with it another Java security breach. It is security breach that doesnt yet have a fix for it (0-day), so short of disabling Java on your computer, you are out of luck. Im continually amazed that we keep running this piece of software, but I guess I shouldnt be, given people’s track record of running insecure software (think older Internet Explorer browsers on windows).
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The saga will continue

Sorry for the lack of contents lately. I am dealing with some personal issues that put a bit of a pause to my studies. As soon as I’m fit for it I will put up some stuff related to the SP space.
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Why setting goals does matter.

Today I came across a blog post from a guy which I respect deeply. However, I disagree wholeheartedly with the content in the post. The title says: “That Setting Yourself Goals is Practising Failure” and the entire post can be found here.
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Cloud enabled task management.

Finally. I have been using Things as my task management program for about 5-6 months. Its been better than not using anything at all, but what has really annoyed me quite heavily is its inability to do “Cloud” synchronization. The only form of synchronization from Things is through your wireless network.
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Last post of 2011

This will be the last post of 2011. It’s been a very interesting year in a lot of different areas. The most important for me personally has been the achievement of my CCIE. I have worked very hard for this and it finally paid off.
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Learning something new each day.

Lately i have been making it a goal of mine to watch a TED video a day. I do this in order to expand my horizon and learn things that i normally wouldnt pay much attention to. Something as foreign to me as a music conductor explaining how to perform a piece of music, what it takes and why he does it, makes me a more informed human being.
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Back from trip.

I am back from our company trip to Dubai. Dubai is a fantastic place. Its my first time in the middle east and it left a great impression. The whole city struck me as a proof-of-concept kind of city. They decided they wanted to do something great and they went ahead and did it.
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Some time has passed.

Some time has passed since i got my CCIE number. I have spent the time reflecting on the time that has passed since starting my CCIE journey. I will write down my journey in more detail later on for those who are interested.
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#29189

Hi everyone, I am happy to announce that this week i passed the R&S CCIE lab exam. CCIE #29189. Its been a long journey for me. Working full time, not taking any dedicated time off work to do so, has been challenging.
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Over selling and underdoing.

Warning: The following is primarily a rant! You might not find it applicable in your situation, or you might simply not care. You have been warned 🙂 Having been a consultant for a while now, i am constantly amazed at how solutions are made up and what is sold simply because it has a buzz-word in its title or description.
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Beginning of March

I have received the rest of my routers (1841s), I have also received the memory and flash upgrades for them all (256meg memory and 64mb flash). The guy who sold them to me was very helpful and it turned out he had the cables that i needed as well (some Smart-serial to Smart-serial, as well as some DB60 ones).
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First shot = Failure.

First shot = Failure. So i had my first lab attempt on tuesday the 2nd of November. Boy was it hard 🙂 Unfortunally i didnt pass this time around. I did very well in the troubleshooting part, but the configuration part, got the best of me.
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