Packet Pushers - Community Show

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Intro

Hello, fellow Citizens. This is Citizens of Tech show #3, recorded on the 12th of May, 2015. Hey, we’ve gotten some good feedback on the show, so now you can tweet @citizensoftech. That will be the best way to talk to us, because our inboxes are already kinda full. So let’s keep it on the Twitterz.

I am Ethan Banks, you can follow me @ecbanks. Joining me, wearing a mitre, and with an air of suffused dignity, Eric Sutphen ministers technology oracles to you and joins me on the microphone.

Request

We’re looking for good book recommendations. Anything you’ve got that you’d like to share with your fellow Citizens, let us know – tweet to @citizensoftech.

Setup

Citizens of Tech runs in 3 segments — present, past and future. We start off with newsy tech things we thought were interesting, take a look back and past tech we think was cool, then peer over the horizon to technology coming soon (ish).

Present

1. Exoprotein

https://www.exoprotein.com/why-crickets

“While the consumption of insects has gained renewed attention recently, it is in fact nothing new. As eclectic omnivores, it’s likely that humans have consumed insects, the most abundant terrestrial life form excluding bacteria, for an exceedingly long time. Today, 80% of the world still eats over 1,600 species of insects, from Jing Leed in Thailand to Escamoles in Mexico to Casu Marzu in Italy. Eating insects simply makes sense.”

* Insects are exceptionally nutritious.

* Insects have marginal environmental impact.

* We need a new source of protein, one that can sustain the world into the future.

2. The Mr. Money Moustache Blog

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com

* Think of this site as finance hacking.

* It’s not about “retirement” really. About financial independence. No assumption that you’ll stop working unless you want to. The point is that you could, not that you will.

* Major ideas.

* Stop spending. Save as much as possible.

* Your dollars are little soldiers that can work for you. Build a mighty army. Grow your “stash.”

* Budgets are dumb. They are freedom to spend, just up to a limit. That’s wrong thinking. Spending of any kind should be a careful, painful decision. Parting with your money means putting off your independence that much longer.

* Stop commuting. Live close to your job. Bike, not ride. “Clown car” trips. Cars are for intracity travel, not trips to the supermarket. If you own a car, should be the least costly, most fuel efficient, reasonable car. A car should not be a status symbol, as they are grossly inefficient energy expenditures in general.

* Frugal doesn’t mean cheap.

* DIY. Stop paying others to do what you could if you took the time to learn. Those skills payoff in the long run.

3. Study Reveals Wikimedia Foundation Is ‘Awash In Money’

http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/05/11/1229222/study-reveals-wikimedia-foundation-is-awash-in-money

* Wikipedia Costs about $2.5 Million to run per year

* $53 Million in Investments – they keep running annual fundraisers anyway…

4. The world’s most dangerous racing simulator

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/consumer-electronics/gaming/cars-that-thinkgadgetsgaming-the-worlds-most-dangerous-driving-simulator

5.

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Citizens of Tech is a show about all things interesting to technology aficionados — not just gadgets. Gaming, science, energy, minimalism, cord cutting, financial independence, etc. We figure that if it’s interesting to us, it will be interesting to you.

This is show #2 in this grand experiment, incubating in the Packet Pushers Community Podcast channel. We’ll run it up to 10 shows or so, and give the show its own channel if we think Citizens has an audience. We saw over 4K downloads of the very first show with some good feedback, so thanks for that! Please keep telling us what’s good, bad, and ugly about the show. We’ll improve. We’re figuring this out as we go.

Citizens of Tech runs in 3 segments. The present (news of the day), the past (our ode to historical awesomeness) and the future (new first world problems on the way).

Please enjoy show #2!

With faces made for podcasting, your hosts…

Eric Sutphen @zutfen http://zutfen.com

Ethan Banks @ecbanks http://ethancbanks.com

Present

Hubble 25th Anniversary – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope

Google Fi – http://www.wired.com/2015/04/google-make-wireless-carrier-irrelevant/

Project 1999 endorsed by Daybreak Games – https://www.everquest.com/news/project-1999-daybreak

Microsoft Universal Bluetooth Folding Keyboard – http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/universal-foldable-keyboard

US Defense Secretary: Snowden Caused Tensions With Techies – http://www.wired.com/2015/04/us-defense-secretary-snowden-caused-tensions-techies/

Deathwatch

* Tidal (We still don’t get it, 770K subscribers notwithstanding) –  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/26/jay-z-s-tidal-is-a-disaster-the-hip-hop-icon-defends-tidal-against-smear-campaign.html

* FM Radio (because Norway’s killing it) – http://phys.org/news/2015-04-norway-blazes-global-path-fm.html

What’s On PRIME Now? – http://whatsonprimenow.blogspot.com/

How to Reduce VR Sickness? Just Add a Virtual Nose – http://www.wired.com/2015/04/reduce-vr-sickness-just-add-virtual-nose/

Past

Trains – Efficient transit for goods and people – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport

Future

Tesla PowerWall – http://www.zutfen.com/powerwall-teslas-power-appliance/

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Citizens of Tech is an experimental podcast about technology and other things interesting to techies. We know there’s other podcasts in this space, but it’s something we really wanted to do, so we thought we’d give it a try.

Who’s “we”? Well, we is me — Ethan Banks — and my good friend Eric Sutphen. We’ve known each other for years, once worked together at the same company, and still happen to live nearby. We’re also unstoppable nerds. So hey — why not give this thing a shot? We figure lots of you that are into networking are probably into tech as well, so what better audience to gather feedback from than the Packet Pushers community?

The format of the show is in three segments: present, past, and future. Also, we’ve already instantiated a Deathwatch we’ll update regularly. Because some tech sucks.

We hope you like show number one. Here’s what we went on about.

Present

Coin, the one credit card.

Disney’s 3D printer that makes huggable things.

DIY Raspberry Pi laptop.

Google’s QUIC protocol.

Why knuckles crack, as revealed by an MRI and a man named Fryer.

We looked at 100K galaxies, but found no sign of alien life.

Deathwatch: Tidal.

Past

Our ode to the sweet, sweet Commodore 64. I think I’m going to cry…tearing up…have to go now.  

Future

Kraftwerk powercell – charge your USB devices with butane.

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In this community podcast, Greg and Ethan perform a bit of an experiment. Here’s the setup. We get briefed by vendors all the time. Ethan has been covering some of his briefings in his News & Analysis series on ethancbanks.com. But we thought it would be fun to review the briefings in an audio format together.

What do you think? Good idea? Bad? Let us know what you thought of the show via the comments below, or send an e-mail to [email protected].

In this show, we discuss recent briefings we received from CloudGenix, Light Cyber, VMware, and Meru. We also go on a little rabbit trail about Brocade, because they came to mind. You know how we are.

CloudGenix

SD WAN solution, where a WAN fabric managed by an SDN controller is overlaid onto your existing WAN, no matter what sort of transports you use. Mix and match private WAN, public WAN, multiple carriers, LTE, etc. — then forget about them. The CloudGenix solution takes care of routing specific applications over specific links, based on application criteria you set in their policy engine.

Light Cyber

These guys are in the security space, finding the systems on your network that have already been breached. An extremely low false positive rate means that you’ll only get a few alerts each day, but when you do get them, they are actionable.

VMware

Big announcements from VMware recently, many around vSphere 6.0. Greg and Ethan park on one announcement regarding long distance vMotion, where you can now move a virtual machine from one side of the country to the other, allowing latency up to 100ms. We can think of lots of reasons this is a terrible idea in practice, even if it’s what customers want. Is there a use case for this?

Meru

The folks from Meru build wireless infrastructure, and have announced the XPress Cloud product, a turnkey wifi infrastructure for SMB users. XPress Cloud competes with Aerohive and Cisco Meraki, and seems a competent offering.

In the future, we’re going to bring these down to ~30 minutes. We went longer than we’d planned on today. Really, we did. We’ll limit to maybe 2 briefing reviews in the future. We’re looking forward to your feedback.

 

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While Packet Pushers were covering the Barcelona HP Discover conference and we got together with some of the folks attending the event on the show floor. The result is non-coherent discussion about whatever topics each person wanted to raise and discuss.

Topics Discussed

* Voice/IP Telephony Upgrades.

* Storage networking and the how we got here. Comparing iSCSI and NFS. Opening eyes of object storage.

* Working with the Sparkle Bat

* NBase-T standard and why we want it. (don’t forget MGBase-T too)

* Why don’t we have power over fibre instead ?

* chattering about Facebook CLOS-architecture

* Comparing Schprokits and Ansible

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Orhan Ergun and Neil Moore are sharing their experiences with the community.

Neil Moore is the first and only 8 x CCIE in the world. Neil shares his CCIE preparation tricks, study methodology and many other important points.

What was the hardest exam for him ?

What was his methodology for attacking exams ?

Which resources he advice ?

Which music did he listen to for each track

[player] Orhan Ergun and Jeff Doyle talks about IPv6 design and deployment considerations in the Enterprise networks. They strongly advice you to consider IPv6 deployment in your network. Why IPv6 in the Enterprise , what are the real business drivers for the IPv6 ? Growth of IPv6 in the Enterprise Networks Jeff Doyle’s advices to... Read more »

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No country for old men !!.

This week in the Orhan Show,  Anthony Sequeira and Orhan Ergun are talking about spanning tree , its drawbacks, spanning tree modes, technologies which can eliminate the spanning tree’s drawbacks or completely do not use it.

Orhan recommends all audience to read  this blog post about spanning tree which has been written by Greg Ferro recently.

 

Did you know that Shortest Path Bridging version of Avaya had been used in the core of a network at the Sochi  2014 Winter Olympics.

 

Below technologies are discussed in the podcast:

Spanning Tree 802.1d, Rapid Spanning Tree 802.1w , Multiple Instance Spanning Tree 802.1s

EtherChannel – Link Aggregation Group

Multichassis EtherChannel

The Virtual Switching System (VSS)

Virtual Port Channel (VPC)

Ethernet Host Virtualizer (EHV)

Shortest Path Bridging (SPB)

TRILL

Fabricpath

 

 

 

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In this first part of CCNA Datacenter sessions , Anthony Sequeira and Orhan Ergun are talking about the topics in the blueprint. They identify all the technologies which you should know for the CCNA Datacenter exam.

Topics include :

DCICN exam which is the first exam.

DCICT exam which is the second exam.

Datacenter Fundamentals, Unified Computing, Unified Fabric, Storage Networking, Virtualization and Datacenter Network Services sections of the exam will be explained.

 

They talk about the strategy for studying and the important technologies for the CCNA Datacenter exam.

This talk should be considered as preparation for the many other Datacenter related session , and obviously Anthony and Orhan are planning many other podcast for the packetpushers. Let us know which topics you would like to learn from them.

 

 

 

We have renamed the show to "The Network Break"