For those of you who follow the site, you’ve notice I’ve decided to change the title. Technology is a big part of what I do most of the time but I’ve also left out another aspect of what I am: a musician. If you sift though the archives, you’ll find at least one post (I think) about music. I’ve decided to write more about music especially since I’ll be beginning a new project in the near future. That’s not to say that I’ll be abandoning my ever so insightful opinions about technology, so never fear. Until then…

-Tim

iPhone Website View

While browsing the WordPress plugins at wordpress.org, I came across a pretty cool plugin for those of you who visit the site with your iPhone or iPod Touch.   Basically, the plugin detects the HTTP user-agent and displays a version of the site that is designed for Safari on iPhone and iPod Touch.   In addition, I’ve add a custom home screen icon if you decided you like the site so much you want to add it to your home screen.   To add the site to your home screen, visit the site with your iPhone or iPod Touch and touch the “+” icon at the bottom of the window.   The OS will ask you what you want to name the icon and download the home screen icon.   Once you’ve named the shortcut; save it.   You will then have a shortcut on your home screen for this site.   Pretty slick, eh?

-Tim

P.S.   The plugin also works on Blackberry and Android devices.

Nexus 7010

The first production Nexus 7000s in the city of San Antonio.   I should have posted about this earlier I suppose, but it’s better late than never!   We installed these datacenter switches last Septemeber during a 12 hour maintenance window.   These two Cisco 7010s were replacements for two Cisco 6509 distribution switches.   I’m not going to give a full run down on what these switches can do but I will say a couple things I like about them.   They run NX-OS which has a very Unix CLI feel to it so I immediately felt right at home with the CLI.   These switches also have the ability to virtual port channel (vPC).     What that basically means is that you can set up a single port channel between a pair of Nexus switches and a host or other switch which is great from a redundancy stand point.   For the past several months, I’ve learned a lot about what the Nexus can and can’t do.   They are great pieces of network gear, but NX-OS has some maturing to do still.   Overall, they are pretty sweet.

-Tim

Hope everyone has a happy new year!

-Tim