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Fortune Favours The Brave

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Nick Moody
Wednesday, 02 March 2016 / Published in Personal
One year ago I resigned from my employer to work for myself as a consultant. Just before doing so I emailed a friend of mine to ask his opinion and the last sentence in his reply was “Fortune Favours The Brave” The decision to go self employed was actually something I planned for some time. I’d
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Weekly Podcast Roll

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Nick Moody
Wednesday, 02 March 2016 / Published in Networking, Security
Keeping relevant in this industry can be challenging. With the DevOps, SDN, public cloud and insert acronym here revolutions, everything is moving so quickly consuming information can feel like drinking from a fire hose. A strategy of mine is to listen to industry related podcast’s both security and data networking. Podcasts are a great way
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Implementing Vyos routers into the home lab

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Nick Moody
Sunday, 21 February 2016 / Published in Lab, Networking, Security
[UPDATE] My home lab now runs Palo Alto VM100 virtual firewalls with a Unifi Security Gateway. I’ll leave this post up for anyone who may be interested in my experiences working with VyOS[/UPDATE] I’ve just completed a project implementing VyOS routers into the home lab. In this post I’ll detail why and how I use VyOS. VyOS
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Technical Debt

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Nick Moody
Sunday, 03 January 2016 / Published in Networking, Security
I’ve spent many years working in operational roles supporting complex architectures. Almost everyone one of them had a high degree of Technical debt.  Network architectures that have been poorly designed, do not scale well or too complicated to support without an armada of highly trained and skilled engineers. This picture I came across on twitter
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The Storage 3-2-1 Backup Strategy

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Nick Moody
Friday, 11 December 2015 / Published in Networking, Personal
Solarwinds posted something on twitter recently, a picture of a T-Shirt which had printed “I find your lack of backups disturbing”.  Being a star wars fan myself this did make me chuckle. I don’t have a great deal of experience with storage other than providing connectivity for storage platforms to the network. Since a recent
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Project Surveillance

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Nick Moody
Monday, 02 November 2015 / Published in Networking, Security
One of the objectives of a recent home network redesign was to incorporate IP Surveillance cameras.  I’ve always had external cameras at home, I like the assurance I get from 24 hour visibility of my property.  It’s reassuring to access the surveillance setup remotely and check up on the house. My old setup was a stand alone
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Packets Don’t Lie

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Nick Moody
Wednesday, 21 October 2015 / Published in Networking
A recent install of a new UPS in my home lab which required a power down all of all my kit.  This always makes me nervous as its not often I shutdown everything and there’s always a possibility It might not all come back online. At least not without a bit of tinkering here and
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Counting The Watts

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Nick Moody
Friday, 02 October 2015 / Published in Networking
One of the many objectives for my new home network design was low power consumption. 90% of the devices need to be running 24 x 7.  Electricity is not only expensive but I also see it as a challenge to be as energy efficient as possible. Pulled from the Vendor data sheets for the equipment
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Kicking the Tyres

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Nick Moody
Tuesday, 29 September 2015 / Published in Networking
I’ve recently re-designed and implemented a new network for home.  A blog post will follow shortly detailing the design and my reasoning behind it all. This afternoon I’ve been kicking the tyres on the new build and making some tweaks here and there to maximize the performance. One of the tests I ran was a
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Blue Yeti Microphone Review

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Nick Moody
Monday, 31 August 2015 / Published in Personal
A friend of mine emailed me recently to ask which microphone I use for Podcasting.  I’ve intended to put up a post about the Blue Yeti  microphone review for while so here you go. I’ve been recording tutorial videos for a while, some you can find on my blog and others I’ll record and leave with my
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