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Ingredients

  • 1 cup light or dark brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 6 tablespoon butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon  salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon cider vinegar
  • 3/4 cup heavy cream divided
  • 1/2 teaspoon rum extract
  • 4 bottles (12 oz. bottles) cream soda

Instructions

  1. In a small saucepan over medium, combine the brown sugar and water. Bring to a gentle boil and cook, stirring often, until the mixture reads 240 F on a candy thermometer.
  2. Stir in the butter, salt, vinegar and 1/4 heavy cream. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
  3. Once the mixture has cooled, stir in the rum extract.
  4. In a medium bowl, combine 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar mixture and the remaining 1/2 cup of heavy cream. Use an electric mixer to beat until just thickened, but not completely whipped, about 2 to 3 minutes.
  5. To serve, divide the brown sugar mixture between 4 tall glasses (about 1/4 cup for each glass). Add 1/4 cup of cream soda to each glass, then stir to combine. Fill each glass nearly to the top with additional cream soda, then spoon the whipped topping over each.

 

 

So Open SSL announced that they are going to release details of a Critical OpenSSL vulnerability that  affects versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.6. There is rumbling that this vulnerability may be a major deal likened to the everyone's favorite CVE of 2014, heartbleed. 

 

Open SSL will be releasing their patch/update Tuesday 1st November 2022 between 1300-1700 UTC


But unlike heartbleed this OpenSSL vulnerability might not have the same impact to security and network infrastructure that heartbleed had. So far most security and network infrastructure companies are looking ok. As you would expect many of these companies don't run the most bleeding edge versions of open source libraries for this very reason. Also many times stability and security take president over new features. 

 

What I wanted to do is put links to OSS (Open Source Software) lists that are used in different vendors platforms. I started out hopeful but for many of the companies it is very difficult to find. I will post hem as i run across them.

 

Cisco - https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/legal/open-source-documentation-responsive.html

Palo Alto Networks - https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/oss-listings/pan-os-oss-listings

Juniper - 

Fortinet -

Aruba - 

Arista - 

Extreme Networks - 

Checkpoint - 

F5 - 

Citrix ADC -

 

 

Are you planning a trip to London? If you're an apple user think about getting/bringing an apple watch before you go. We just got back from London and first off their public transit is bar non the best I have used. Between the underground and the buses in London, we were never more than a 5-minute walk to anything we wanted to see in London.

In addition to public transit, tap-to-pay is everywhere in the UK, even the village pub we ate in had a tap-to-pay terminal. I only had to unsheathe a credit card once the entire trip and, to be honest, it was probably a user error.

So back to setting up Apple Pay and the Watch....

First setting up apple pay is pretty straightforward if you haven't done it. On your phone, if you open the wallet app you will see a little + sign in the upper right corner if you touch on the plus symbol it will walk you through adding your credit card to apple pay. For traveling overseas make sure you add a card with no foreign transaction fees. Once the card is added you should make this card your default card so it will come up automatically when you double-click to bring up tap-to-pay.

Once your card is added you will want to go into your setting app under wallet and go to the express transit settings and select the credit card you just added. What this does is set up express transit to let you tap in and out of the UK underground with no need to download an app or buy an Oyster card.
 
For the apple watch, you will want to add the same card via the wallet app. Usually, the cards that have been configured on the phone will show up in the watch app, but you will need to verify the security code to authorize the watch to use those cards. Once the card is added you can go to the wallet settings in the watch app on your phone and configure a default card, you will also want to add the card you want to use for express transit. This will need to be configured on the watch through the watch application on your phone.

Now that it is configured how do I use my phone or apple watch for London transit?
 
On the Tube/Underground when you tap your phone or watch on the turn stall sensor (the yellow plastic disk) the gates will open and it will register at what station you entered. Once you get to your destination you will need to tap the sensor at the exit gates using the same device you used to enter the underground, each device is unique and will even work if there is no cell service. The TFL will determine where you tapped in and where you tapped out and will bill the card you had configured for express transit directly. It's as simple as that.
 
If you are planning a trip to the UK I would recommend setting up Apple Pay and especially the express transit if you are going to London. It was a major convenience and took my major concern about using public transit and threw it out the window.

 

Cisco Live 2022 is in full effect in Las Vegas, They say there are 16k attendees in person this year but inn the Mandalay Bay Conference center it seems pretty empty. Not that I am complaining... I wanted to post up some of the slide decks of talks that looked interesting.  I assume you can register online and see the same decks but I wanted to post them here so I can go back and have a place to see them later.


Cisco SD-WAN: Start Here - BRKENT-2108
Start your SD-WAN journey here, we will explain the platform architecture, the different components of the solution and how they interact with each other and secured the user to application traffic.

 

Architecting Next Generation Wireless Network with Catalyst Wi-Fi 6E Access Points - BRKEWN-2024
This session deep dives into the newly introduced Wi-Fi6E standard in 6GHz band.  

Designing MPLS based IP VPNs - BRKMPL-2102
This session describes the implementation of IP Virtual Private Networks (IP VPNs) using MPLS.


Cisco IT's Journey to SASE for remote work - BRKCOC-2032
This session will discuss how Cisco IT is using some of Cisco's latest cloud security solutions, alongside SDWAN as a Service from Cisco Plus, to supply high performance and reliable remote worker and branch connectivity.

Cisco SD-WAN - The Usual Suspects - BRKENT-2183
In Cisco SD-WAN, establishing your WAN Edge routers as a part of the overlay is essential to building and operating a successful network.

 

Enabling Cloud Services at the Edge with App Hosting on Catalyst 9000 - BRKENS-1090
Did you know that you can run applications natively on Catalyst 9000 series platforms to enable Cloud services?


How to Securely Build a Product - BRKARC-2021
INTERACTIVE SESSION Security threats are very real today. Product security must be designed in from the start, not added as an afterthought.


Simple Leaf/Spine with a touch of TOR - Network Designs for the Modern Data Center - BRKDCN-2229
There are times when your Leaf/Spine network runs out of ports (even as it never should). No worries, there are ways how to scale further and no, we don't talk about FEX :-) Let us guide you through a Leaf/Spine network and an additional TOR (Top of Rack) layer. 

 

7 Ways to Fail - on Wi-Fi 6(E) - BRKEWN-1742
It is all about how to do Wireless networks ‘wrong’ and if you understand why it’s wrong, it’s easier to do it right the next time.

 

High Density Wi-Fi Design, Deployment, and Optimization - BRKEWN-2087
This session will cover an array of detailed tips, tricks, and tools for configuring and optimizing High Density WiFi networks in today's most challenging environments, including valuable real-world insights on how the latest Cisco Catalyst Access Points, antennas, and Catalyst wireless controllers can be leveraged to deliver an optimized and reliable user experience.


Hierarchical SD-WAN Overview and Principles - BRKENT-2292
Hierarchical SD-WAN is a new foundational capability that underpins the journey to multi-cloud and SDCI. This major evolution of Cisco SD-WAN introduces new capabilities to support a truly scalable 2-level customer overlay, improve Cloud OnRamp for MultiCloud and expand Managed Service Providers solutions. 


Advanced Troubleshooting of cat8k,asr1k, ISR and SD-WAN Edge Made Easy - BRKTRS-3475
In this session, we will explain the architecture of the Catalyst 8000, ASR1000 / ISR / CSR / XE SD-WAN Edge series and demonstrate forensic techniques for control plane and data plane. We will also see how common but complex feature such as SD-WAN Edge, crypto (IPsec), Zone Based Firewall and NAT can be troubleshot easily in practice.