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Voice, Video, and Telepresence / Re: Cisco WebEx ecosystem stil...
Last post by deanwebb - August 15, 2024, 03:25:05 PMI see 3 teams mentioned, and sticks are famous for only having 2 ends. They may get zero stick and find themselves spun off to some vulture capital group.
#2
Voice, Video, and Telepresence / Re: Cisco WebEx ecosystem stil...
Last post by Otanx - August 15, 2024, 12:40:17 PMThey also stated they are collapsing their network, security, and collaboration teams into one. I feel the collaboration group will end up with the short end of the stick on that one.
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#3
Voice, Video, and Telepresence / Re: Cisco WebEx ecosystem stil...
Last post by deanwebb - August 15, 2024, 11:28:38 AMAnd I just read today that Cisco laid off a huge part of its workforce so it can focus more on AI and Cybersecurity.
WebEx, being neither of those things, is likely to continue to see things not get fixed.
WebEx, being neither of those things, is likely to continue to see things not get fixed.
#4
Voice, Video, and Telepresence / Cisco WebEx ecosystem still a ...
Last post by Dieselboy - August 15, 2024, 01:02:38 AMBuggy app issues have been ongoing since Cisco Spark days and the same bugs continue today across different organisations and devices. "Different organisations and devices" is meant to describe my job roles moving through different customers and different employers and positions. Meaning there is absolutely no relation between devices, internet connections and so on.
Unable to share screen in a meeting effectively. Visitor to the customer arrived to give a presentation so I went to help get them connected to the meeting from their Mac. Procedure is really really simple:
1. install webex teams app
2. open the app
3. join meeting as guest
4. click share button to share content (choose content then click share)
5. outcome
Unfortunately in all attempts, the outcome is not as expected.
What happens instead is:
share desktop = shares the wallpaper of the screen only, no icons or windows displayed.
share powerpoint = shares a full screen which is all a single white/grey colour.
Messing around, closing the app, resetting the app, retrying consumed around 20 minutes of absolute time wastage. This is more than enough time to use microsoft teams to join a meeting and share content.
And then to top it off, webex teams has a pop up spam form asking to rate the cisco webex experience
"on a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend cisco webex?"
Well I'd never want to put anyone through constant pain and suffering so I'd rate this an honest absolute 0.
I reported these same bugs back in the days of Cisco Spark and they continued to persist to today. ~9 years of the same bugs absolutely shocking.
Unable to share screen in a meeting effectively. Visitor to the customer arrived to give a presentation so I went to help get them connected to the meeting from their Mac. Procedure is really really simple:
1. install webex teams app
2. open the app
3. join meeting as guest
4. click share button to share content (choose content then click share)
5. outcome
Unfortunately in all attempts, the outcome is not as expected.
What happens instead is:
share desktop = shares the wallpaper of the screen only, no icons or windows displayed.
share powerpoint = shares a full screen which is all a single white/grey colour.
Messing around, closing the app, resetting the app, retrying consumed around 20 minutes of absolute time wastage. This is more than enough time to use microsoft teams to join a meeting and share content.
And then to top it off, webex teams has a pop up spam form asking to rate the cisco webex experience
"on a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend cisco webex?"
Well I'd never want to put anyone through constant pain and suffering so I'd rate this an honest absolute 0.
I reported these same bugs back in the days of Cisco Spark and they continued to persist to today. ~9 years of the same bugs
absolutely shocking. #5
Certifications and Careers / Re: The road to recover my cer...
Last post by deanwebb - August 01, 2024, 04:03:09 PMLabbing is definitely a way to go, things have changed, and the labs help you to catch up quick.
#6
Certifications and Careers / Re: The road to recover my cer...
Last post by Otanx - August 01, 2024, 11:21:11 AMI don't know about any practice exams, but what I would do is start labbing stuff up based on the certification blueprint. GNS3 has come a long way in usability, but you do need to get your own copies of the images. CML is the official way, but isn't free. Doing hands on labs is much more interesting than just reading a book. If you find yourself stuck on the lab then you know what to spend time reading about.
-Otanx
-Otanx
#7
Certifications and Careers / The road to recover my certifi...
Last post by matgar - July 31, 2024, 07:49:02 AMGreetings fellow gentlebeings.
Due to many years of mental health issues and not working all my certs expired.
I'm back working again, but a long work absence has made me sorta rusty.
And I find it hard to simply pick up a OCG and read if from start to finish.
Since I still know most of it I quickly get bored and loose motivation/focus.
I have access to INE and their video courses but it's a similar issue there.
Do any of you have any recent experience with practice exams that you would recommend?
For example Boson or Pearson.
That way I could get some indication on where I should focus.
Edit: I might as well mention what certifications I used to have.
CCDA Retired Certifications * Expired 2015-12-10 2018-12-10
CCNA Security CCNA-Security Retired Certifications * Expired 2009-03-24 2018-12-10
CCIP (Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional) Retired Certifications * Expired 2009-01-22 2015-01-05
CCNP Routing and Switching Retired Certifications * Expired 2007-12-12 2017-11-27
CCNA Routing and Switching Retired Certifications * Expired 2006-10-24 2018-12-10
Or for that matter any other tips on where to start on the longish road.
Due to many years of mental health issues and not working all my certs expired.
I'm back working again, but a long work absence has made me sorta rusty.
And I find it hard to simply pick up a OCG and read if from start to finish.
Since I still know most of it I quickly get bored and loose motivation/focus.
I have access to INE and their video courses but it's a similar issue there.
Do any of you have any recent experience with practice exams that you would recommend?
For example Boson or Pearson.
That way I could get some indication on where I should focus.
Edit: I might as well mention what certifications I used to have.
CCDA Retired Certifications * Expired 2015-12-10 2018-12-10
CCNA Security CCNA-Security Retired Certifications * Expired 2009-03-24 2018-12-10
CCIP (Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional) Retired Certifications * Expired 2009-01-22 2015-01-05
CCNP Routing and Switching Retired Certifications * Expired 2007-12-12 2017-11-27
CCNA Routing and Switching Retired Certifications * Expired 2006-10-24 2018-12-10
Or for that matter any other tips on where to start on the longish road.
#8
Security / Re: EXCELLENT Paper on IT Secu...
Last post by deanwebb - July 21, 2024, 10:27:22 AMAnd, as a coda, I just had to put in a ban on the MSFT OpenAI IP range because of odd inputs we were getting from it. Zero trust in action! 
#9
Security / EXCELLENT Paper on IT Security...
Last post by deanwebb - July 21, 2024, 10:19:33 AMhttps://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0758206.pdf
Save it locally and refer to it every now and then. I first read this about 10-11 years ago. It is incredible how the author describes the world of IT that we have today. While technologies for connecting, storing, and processing information have improved over time, security has not. It has *always* been "somebody else's problem." Software guys aren't the only ones - there's some pretty bad security on every piece of hardware we use. Not "almost every". EVERY piece of hardware.
While I don't want to disconnect the PCs, power them off, melt them down, and then bury them under a mountain and then push the mountain to the base of the Marianas Trench, I *do* think that having everything interconnected is, on the whole, a bad idea. When I think about the technology I'd miss if I was living back in 1979, smart anything and Bluetooth are not on my list. All I need my fridge to do is to refrigerate things and have a frost-free freezer. My dishwasher should wash dishes. My lightbulbs should make light. I'm good with all that plain Jane stuff. By interconnecting all that stuff needlessly, we've increased our vulnerability to being trapped by our own technology when it fails us at scale.
The CrowdStrike-Windows mess is just the largest mess *thus far*. Bigger ones await us because no matter what happens here, security will always be someone else's problem.
Save it locally and refer to it every now and then. I first read this about 10-11 years ago. It is incredible how the author describes the world of IT that we have today. While technologies for connecting, storing, and processing information have improved over time, security has not. It has *always* been "somebody else's problem." Software guys aren't the only ones - there's some pretty bad security on every piece of hardware we use. Not "almost every". EVERY piece of hardware.
While I don't want to disconnect the PCs, power them off, melt them down, and then bury them under a mountain and then push the mountain to the base of the Marianas Trench, I *do* think that having everything interconnected is, on the whole, a bad idea. When I think about the technology I'd miss if I was living back in 1979, smart anything and Bluetooth are not on my list. All I need my fridge to do is to refrigerate things and have a frost-free freezer. My dishwasher should wash dishes. My lightbulbs should make light. I'm good with all that plain Jane stuff. By interconnecting all that stuff needlessly, we've increased our vulnerability to being trapped by our own technology when it fails us at scale.
The CrowdStrike-Windows mess is just the largest mess *thus far*. Bigger ones await us because no matter what happens here, security will always be someone else's problem.
#10
Forum Lobby / Re: CrowdStrike Outage 19 July...
Last post by deanwebb - July 20, 2024, 08:00:37 AMAll investment advice presented here is for entertainment purposes only. Do not consider seriously any investment advice from a source that has a smilie like this -->
I'm all for rapid updates and everything, but maybe just maybe somebody slows the roll by 30 mins and checks to see if the PC we have running in the dev lab survives a reboot after the new code is pushed. And this really is a lesson for *every* firm doing super-agile CI/CD pipeline.
Back in the 90s, we called super-agile CI/CD pipeline "updating production directly". It was a great way to get fired if one did stuff like that.
I'm all for rapid updates and everything, but maybe just maybe somebody slows the roll by 30 mins and checks to see if the PC we have running in the dev lab survives a reboot after the new code is pushed. And this really is a lesson for *every* firm doing super-agile CI/CD pipeline.
Back in the 90s, we called super-agile CI/CD pipeline "updating production directly". It was a great way to get fired if one did stuff like that.