Allowing Third Party Transceivers
Thu 15 July 2021 by feldInternet search engines are censoring this data so I will probably have to embed it in a photo, but here is how you enable use of third party transceivers such as SFP/SFP+ fiber optics on e.g., Juniper's JunOS and Cisco IOS.
Juniper:
Cisco:
HP/Aruba:
Dell:
This is something seasoned network engineers know about, but there's no reason why this should be kept secret.
I will add more when I learn of them.
iPhone 11 Pro Has Broken Exif Orientation Data
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It's shocking that this has not been noticed by Apple …
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Book Review: Altered Carbon
Title: Altered Carbon
Author: Morgan K. Richard
Takeshi Kovacs is brought to earth in a sleeve he doesn't own. His reputation precedes him, and he has been offered a reward for solving the murder of Laurens Bancroft which local authorities ruled a suicide...
This book explores some provocative aspects of …
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Author: Chuck Wendig
This is a backdated review
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I have become allergic to Java. It seems every time I need to access a server console my system is throwing fits about Java security. I've spent hours trying to fix a Java issue which was preventing me from fixing a server I needed console access to. I will show …
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