http://theareazero.com Everyone's Favourite Area! Thu, 08 May 2008 18:23:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jeremy D. Cioara, CCIE No. 11727 weighs in on what he's discovered regarding how to pass the CCNA, and why employers are going to have to screen their candidates even more thoroughly.read more | digg story http://theareazero.com/2008/05/08/how-to-pass-the-ccnathe-right-way/ The innovative architecture of the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches simplifies data center transformation by helping to enable a standards-based, high-performance unified fabric. Next-generation data centers increasingly have dense, multi-core, virtual-machine-intensive servers. As the network foundation of Cisco Data Center 3.0 and the latest addition to the family of data-center-class ... http://theareazero.com/2008/04/28/pricing-the-new-cisco-nexus-5000/ Ever have to think up a strong password for a critical system, and wonder just how secure the password is? Well the guys over at www.passwordmeter.com have come up with a system that checks your password and scores it based on things like number of characters, number of consecutive upper/lower ... http://theareazero.com/2008/03/23/the-password-meter/ The Cisco CCNA has lost a lot of its value in recent years, mostly due to exam cheating materials such as Testking and Pass4Sure which allow you to download actual copies of the certification exam (complete with solutions) to study from These are quite common in India, and this page demonstrates ... http://theareazero.com/2008/03/12/why-the-ccna-has-lost-its-value/ Pakistan removed from the Internet by ZDNet's Richard Stiennon -- 4:30 PM Eastern (US). The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan’s traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier ... http://theareazero.com/2008/02/24/looks-like-pass4sure-certified-pakistanis-finally-got-what-they-deserved/ Winelibrary TV, hosted by the one and only Gary Vaynerchuk, is running a contest this week, called the "Bring the Thunder" contest (which he has referred to on-camera as the "Spread the Thunder" contest...). I have decided to write a blog post about my experience with wine, which exists solely ... http://theareazero.com/2008/02/05/bring-the-thunder/ Check out the IRC conversation I had today. First the guy argues, and then he proves my point completely. http://theareazero.com/2008/02/05/dont-you-love-when-somebody-proves-your-point-by-arguing/ p { font-size: 11px;font-family: verdana;} td { border: 1px solid #999; } The Cisco Nexus 7000 is the newest switch to the Cisco family. From Cisco.com: The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is a modular data center-class switching system designed for 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. The Cisco Nexus architecture scales beyond 15 ... http://theareazero.com/2008/01/30/cisco-nexus-7000-pricing/ I bought a car last summer. Nothing special, it's a 2003 Volkswagen Jetta 1.8T, but I love it. I don't however, love the bank that loaned me the money, Golden Plains Credit Union Not only did they rape me with a 13.5% rate (which I can understand, I was a ... http://theareazero.com/2008/01/10/so-lets-talk-about-banks-shall-we/ Okay, so everyone and their mothers know about w00t. And I've been watching the site for nearly two years, yet to buy something. But today... I opened up the the wallet and made my first purchase. Worthy of a blog post? Not really... but hey, it's my site and ... http://theareazero.com/2007/12/29/i-w00ted/