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Reviewing Goals from Last Year

January 4, 2012
By Aaron Conaway

At the beginning of the year, I posted my goals for 2011. How did I do? Not too well. I batted .500, so feel free to boo me.

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Bigger and Better Things

November 2, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

I like to take a month or so off from blogging during the summer, but my CCIE R&S written studies pushed that back a bit. I've finally got my lazy self back on track, but it may just be for a few days since I've accepted a new job in another city and...

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A Little OSPF Story

September 12, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Here's a story from last week with little of no teaching value. I got a call from one of our business units looking for some routing help. We don't usually care about their production networks, but they were seeing some funky traceroutes, so I agreed to try and help them out.

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The Four Stages of Expertise (In Your Mind)

April 19, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

If you've worked in any particular area for some significant amount of time, you have probably noticed that how much you think you know about a subject has changed over time. This is nothing earth-shattering, and we've all had this realization over the course of our lives; it's come up a lot lately...

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Stubby Post – I’m Unemployed…Until Monday

March 25, 2011
By Aaron Conaway
Stubby Post – I’m Unemployed…Until Monday

Today was my last day at the office, and I start a new job and adventure on Monday. What does that mean for the blog?

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Stubby Post – I’ve Taken a New Job

March 16, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

After several months of semi-serious job searching, I’ve landed a new position with a local company. I don’t know how much I should reveal about them, but I’m really excited to be joining their team. I’ll pass on more details as I get a feel for what is appropriate, but I’ll say that the...

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I’ve Been Violated…Again

March 2, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

I noticed a few weeks back that my blog article titles were showing up in my RSS feed as ads for cheap prescriptions. Not good. I changed all my passwords, made sure I was at the latest version of WordPress (I was), and disabled all my unneeded plugins. The RSS feed cleared up, but...

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Network Protocol Overhead

January 10, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Here are some packet overhead numbers for a few popular protocols to help with doing bandwidth requirement calculations.

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The Start of Another Year

January 5, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

How did 2010 turn out?  Not as well as I would have liked. Aaron ConawayI like to lean my head to the left, hit it with the palm of my right hand, and document what knowledge falls out.Website - More Posts Download article as PDF

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Another Blow to Dynamips/Dynagen/GNS3

November 30, 2010
By Aaron Conaway

It looks like Cisco is trying to crack down on illegal distribution of their software.  I can't really blame them since it's their property. Aaron ConawayI like to lean my head to the left, hit it with the palm of my right hand, and document what knowledge falls out.Website - More Posts Download article...

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