Category: General Interest

What happened to Cisco IOS v13 and v14?

Not sure if anyone else noticed this but when Cisco announced IOS v15.0 last year I was left wondering what happened to version 13.0 and 14.0. Prior to IOS v15.0, the latest release was 12.4. Well it turns out that cultural taboos and lexicon collisions are the cause: "13" in western cultures is considered an "unlucky number". Triskaidekaphobia is "fear of the number of 13". Given the importance of IOS in the operation of the network, it's no wonder that Cisco wanted to avoid having "unlucky number 13" as the label for production code. "14" means "accident" and/or "will die" in… READ MORE

Get Your Free NetFlow Ninja T-shirt!

Hi all, we just received a whole cube-full (literally; see below) of new NetFlow Ninja t-shirts and need to get rid of a few!  All you have to do is answer a quick NetFlow trivia question and give us some basic info about yourself, your company, and your use of NetFlow technology. Click THIS LINK to register for your own NetFlow Ninjas t-shirt!   READ MORE

Marketing with plastic bags and rocks?

So I head out in the rain to the mailbox Saturday afternoon and I find the item shown below sitting in my driveway. Turns out someone at "Ortega Lawn Service" had gone around to all 300+ houses in my neighborhood dropping these small marketing kits in everyone's driveway. If lots of these start turning up in my yard I'll probably start getting a bit annoyed picking them up but this first one definitely caught my attention. Turns out you really don't have to spend big bucks to get a lot out of your marketing efforts (something we continue to learn… READ MORE

Happy New Year from Lancope!

Just getting back from a very long 2009 vacation and wanted to wish everyone a happy new year and good luck in 2010!We've got a lot of work to do this year including the release of version 6.0. More info soon, suffice it to say that this will be our biggest release ever! Look for it sometime around end of Q2.We'll also be recommencing our NetFlow 101 seminars around the country with additional content and lab work. Look for the city list and dates here in the next few weeks.BTW: What do we call this decade anyway? If we have… READ MORE

A warning re: World of Warcraft account phishing and battle-verify.net

<A little off the topic of NetFlow tech but interesting no matter the audience.> Yesterday afternoon I get an email from "noreply@blizzard.com" that reads... Now this sort of thing I do for a living. And I've been playing World of Warcraft for 2+ years so I know that this is not the kind of email that you would normally receive from Blizzard. They don't threaten to suspend or ban you, they just do it and you get the resulting email letting you know that it was done. When I first started playing and didn't know Blizzard Entertainment's policies and used a third… READ MORE