SDN Is The Mother(******) of Invention
“Why did it take people so long to invent the wheel? How did they not notice that round things roll?” An interesting question from my daughter (who is NOT pictured above!), I thought, and it […]
Articles by John Herbert
USB Connector Standards – Good Or Bad?
Back in 2009, a number of mobile phone manufacturers in Europe, including Apple, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and RIM (Blackberry) agreed voluntarily to move towards a single charging standard for mobile phones, namely the MicroUSB […]
Easter Eggs and Software Design
Happy Easter, if you celebrate such things, and Happy Sunday if you don’t. Filled with the kind of happy optimism that can only be brought about by flashback-triggering visions of an oversized rabbit who excretes […]
iTerm2 Tips for Network Engineers
Now that I’ve joined the hipster gang and have a MacBook Pro, I’ve also had to adjust my habits in terms of terminal program. On Windows I’ve been using PuTTY for years as my default […]
Pointing The Thwack Spotlight At, uh, Me
I’m very flattered to share that I was selected as a subject (victim?) for this month’s Solarwinds Thwack IT Blogger Spotlight article. It was fun answering a few questions about blogging, and thinking about why exactly […]
Discussing NFD7 with the Packet Pushers
Shortly after Networking Field Day 7 (NFD7), the lovely folks at Packet Pushers reached out to the delegates to record a discussion about the issues that were prevalent throughout the event, whether in conversations between […]