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Scott Morris

December 21, 2009

While searching for CCIE jokes, I found an old forum thread at Cisco Learning network containing jokes about the man, the legend, the hex-translator, the missing E-bit(evil) : Scott Morris.

Here are some of the jokes I think is pretty funny:

Scott Morris once planned a cross-country trip using a Route Map!
Scott Morris plays a rather unique instrument called the ISAKMP!
Every VPN is an EasyVPN for Scott Morris!
When Scott Morris was four years old he was putting together OSI models!
Scott Morris’ home wireless network runs on brain waves!
Scott Morris slayed the Kerberos daemon.
Scott Morris’s driver’s license is a PDF!
If you doubt Scott Morris just sh Scott | s certification
There are no hidden IOS commands. Only those Scott Morris chooses not to look at!
Scott Morris has counted to pi.. twice!
Normal people teach their dogs to fetch. Scott Morris taught his dog to route.
Morpheus was searching for Scott Morris!
Scott Morris doesn’t have a steering wheel in his car. He has a CLI!
Scott Morris found Waldo in an extended access control list!
Scott Morris is actually an undercover SNMP Agent!

My favourite three are :

Scott Morris ran track in high school and always won the 100 meter frame relay!
He taught his dog to ARP! arp, arp, arp, arp.
MD5 : Morris Digests 5 CCIE’s for breakfast!

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Cisco IOS v15.0

October 21, 2009

Cisco finally took the long awaited leap, and released a new Major Release. The latest Cisco IOS version was 12.4 until Cisco released IOS version 15.0.

Version 15.0? Surely that is a typo a mistake?

According to a forum or two, rumors is that Cisco avoided using 13 and 14 because 13 is considered unlucky in the Western Culture and 14 is also considered unlucky in the Asian culture !!

And I thought believing in superstition was bad luck! LOL

Release Notes are here.
New Features are here.

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Reply to all

February 10, 2009

I had a good laugh the other day. I received the following newsletter from IP Expert offering an extension of their End-Year-Special.

–snip–
To: <<<<removed>>>
Subject: Secret special for Proctor Labs rack sessions – HALF OFF this week

SECRET SPECIAL for rack sessions — HALF OFF — this
week only! Did you miss the Year-End Sale?

This month, we have heard many CCIE candidates pleading
for an extension of the Year-End Specials that ran through
November and December. Some had budget cuts, others simply
procrastinated… even though we gave plenty of warning that the end was near!

For this week only — and only for our biggest fans –
we are offering a special deal on rack sessions. This offer
is not advertised on the Proctor Labs or IPexpert websites!

50% OFF Proctor Labs Rack Session Bundles!!!
—snip—

Not a bad deal, getting 50% off the online proctor rack rentals, but what was really funny, was the following REPLY-TO-ALL, I received the following day, sent to every IP Expert newsletter recipient:

Mike McDearmon <mail:–removed—> wrote :
> Why not just use Dynamips!

Really funny considering that Dynamips is free, and maybe IP Expert should not have that alias accepting mail from the outside world! Believe it or not, but people could get fired for the the damages this might cause.

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Best geek comeback

October 15, 2008

I just finished watching the IPv6 Class on Demand Videos from Internetwork Expert, and I could not help but laugh regarding the debate that went down on September 2007 at the Afrinic 7 IPv6 Routing Workshop.

Let me first say that the combined IQ of the 40 delegates and 4 trainers was easily a 6 digit figure (excluding me), and obviously the Geek-Factor was off the charts.

By the second day of intense seminars, one thing about IPv6 became clear, there were still a lot of politics surrounding the finer details about the protocol design, best practises and the way forward. The seminars were mainly done by 2 guys, one from America, lets call him Pinky and the other from Brazil, lets call him Brain. (Unfortunately I can’t mention the names, and no pun intended!)

Anyhow, someone asked a question, directed at Pinky, leading the seminar at the time, something about IPv6 deployment within enterprise networks, that was still new and partially in development at the time. Pinky proceeded to answer the question as to what he felt was correct. Brain responded with somewhat of an opposite answer to what Pinky said. A flaming debate quickly came about between the two trainers; both trying to state their reasons by quoting and referencing various trusted resources. It was like watching ping-pong going on for easily 5 minutes.

It was then that Pinky said the following ” Line so-and-so from RFC 4057 states the following, …” He actually quoted word for word part of a RFC document. I was indeed impressed that there are individuals on this planet that could actually quote lines from an RFC document to their defence. Can’t go wrong with that!

To which Brain responded the following: ” YES, . . . I know, I wrote the RFC, your interpretation is wrong. Let me explain … bla bla bla”. End of debate. Thanks for coming.