Loving #o365 mailbox space #cloud #benefit

Office 365 thank you!

This is a real big benefit that comes as part of moving Exchange to the cloud, no longer does the enterprise have to worry how they handle these mailbox sizes and to boot we get OneDrive at 1TB so also space to store any backups of documents and God forbid PST files.

The Red phone #hotline to #thepresident ?

Cisco Access Generations #tidyup #refresh #cisco #lan

Beware the network outsourcer that leaves the old kit racked, powered and gathering dust. Always cycle back and keep them in check. E.G.

BBC Kid coding launched - makes me think of the BBC micro and how I got started....

Great initiative is launched by the BBC which will change the way kids as young as five will learn coding.
Do need more logical pro-grammatical kids to grow with coding and an algorithmic sense - I'm going to teach my daughter as soon as I can!
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/02/bbc-bitesize-coding-computing-curriculum/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000618

Nearly a network.. #cisco

Choose a better PIN #security #dontbeasheep

Great article on PIN analysis from DataGenetics, really interesting what people use without much thought, so have a good read then choose a better PIN.

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html

NotTheNetwork but protecting your network!

So as part of my efforts to improve my BT Broadband (Infinity 2) service as have been having quite a few hits showing via my monitoring....

Lots of little hits over a week;

Uptime	Outages	Response time
99.04%	47	94 ms

So now have a BT Home Hub 5 connected in-place of the now quite old HH3. Lets see the report once it's been in a week and compare.

Also this upgrade now supports 802.11AC WiFi so to use this enhancement I sourced a BT Dual-Band ac Wi-Fi USB adapter. It does work fine and connects up at 535mb/s - however what they don't tell you on the web page before you buy it is that it is a USB 2.0 device so is limited by the 480mb/s standard!

Bring on USB 3.0 or a new laptop which comes with 802.11AC as standard.

Cheers,

S.

30 day graph, can you see when the improvement was made ;-)

Cubii - a desk exercise #fitness

So you spend lots of time using your computer at your desk, seems like you need one of these, I know I do.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869110231/cubii-under-desk-elliptical-trainer

Great idea that I'd been looking at my exercise bike wondering if it could be adapted to do this and generate electricity. Oh well these guys got half of the solution. 

Not quite network related.....

Speed up Mobile networks...

This could be a turning point for odd lost packets of data....

http://www.gadgetreview.com/2014/05/better-networks-through-math.html

Cloak

Cloak an IOS app

It's like not networking with your social networking friends ;-)

http://geekologie.com/2014/03/antisocial-network-app-helps-you-avoid-n.php

Real-time internet attack visual

http://map.ipviking.com/ is a fascinating real-time attack map showing the sources and types of attacks being made as you watch.

Cool.

Cisco Serial Number date encoding

Just heard from a colleague that Cisco have a date of manufacture encoded in the Router/Switch serial number...... details below....

The serial number will be in the format: ‘LLLYYWWSSSS’; where ‘YY’ is the year of manufacture and ‘WW’ is the week of manufacture.  The date code can be found in the 4 middle digits of the serial number.  In the case of serial number SAD08300D4W, ‘08’ is the year code and ‘30’ is the week code. You can then decode the date use the following:

Here are the Manufacturing Year Codes:

    01 = 1997                           06 = 2002                           11 = 2007                            16 = 2012

    02 = 1998                           07 = 2003                           12 = 2008                            17 = 2013

    03 = 1999                           08 = 2004                           13 = 2009                            18 = 2014

    04 = 2000                           09 = 2005                           14 = 2010                            19 = 2015

    05 = 2001                           10 = 2006                           15 = 2011                            20 = 2016

And here are the Manufacturing Week Codes:

    1-5 : January                 15-18 : April                      28-31 : July                       41-44 : October

    6-9 : February               19-22 : May                      32-35 : August                   45-48 : November

10-14 : March                   23-27 : June                      36-40 : September             49-52 : December

Also on twittor as....

http://twitter.com/notthenetwrk/ ;-)