Cisco ICOMM v8 Day 4

28 Mar 2014

Today was a long day, but lots got done. I made the most notes so far today, which must be a good sign that some interesting things were being learnt. We started with BAT, the Bulk Administration Tool. It seems to work fairly well, although it isn’t exactly, what’s the word… Professional? It’s just excel files. I was kind of hoping for something... Read more

Cisco ICOMM v8 Day 3

27 Mar 2014

Today we covered lots of things! The day started discussing the lab that we were using and how it is configured. The course is provided by Fast Lane through QA and the lab itself is located in Windsor - all of the Call Manager servers, are run on an ESX host with a router and switch in the classroom running a VPN back to there. There is also a s... Read more

Useful Mutt Commands

26 Mar 2014

As some of you may or may not know I’m a big fan of the Mutt email client. It’s an entirely CLI-based Linux client that is crazy powerful and very, very geeky. One fantastic feature of Mutt is its integration with GPG, which makes using PGP very simple and painless. Anyway… The thing with Mutt is that it takes some getting used to - I’ve been us... Read more

Cisco ICOMM v8 Day 2

26 Mar 2014

Day 2 started with Unity, Cisco’s voice mail product. It surprised me how separate voice mail is from the system, Unity is very much an independent product, and one that can be used entirely separately from everything else if it’s so desired. We moved on to some lab work, only basic things.. Logging in to the Call Manager and enabling services, ... Read more

Brands on a Whim

26 Mar 2014

Wasn’t sure what to do this weekend, @tigziefc was working and I was looking after my little brother… I spent ages looking online and racking my brain for fun things to do - then in a sudden moment of inspiration I realised Brands Hatch is where it’s at. I didn’t really check the website before we headed over on Sunday, other than to make sure i... Read more

Cisco ICOMM v8 Day 1

25 Mar 2014

We’re thinking of moving to Cisco phones at work. Now, I know a bit about phones, but what I know is about 2-3 years out of date and very specific to one company. I thought it would be wise to go and get my CCNA Voice done and then at least I should have an understanding of how it all should be setup in the ideal world. A few weeks back I booked... Read more

A Sunny Weekend!

10 Mar 2014

I could totally take more weekends like this! The weather was amazing this weekend so @tigziefc and I went for a bike ride around Upnor. The first proper time we have been back since we were in our teens! We were planning to go to Bedgebury Pinetum but since it’s a long way away and it’s the first time I’ve had my bike out this year, we thought... Read more

Beginning Diving

24 Feb 2014

I finally got to go diving! What’s more my brother wanted to come along and do it with me too.. At the pool we met with Janine and Tony from Southern Scuba Ltd who were very friendly and got us setup with all of our equipment and explained how it works. When we got in the pool we did our first three skills. 1. clearing our mouth of water and b... Read more