Last month I covered the Allegro 500 network analyser in some detail. For the weeks I had it installed on the core lab network, albeit on one segment covering one building, I found it invaluable. And once it had gone back to Networkology (which kindly loaned me the unit) I found myself firing up a browser to check on some piece of test equipment’s network traffic. And rather like Winnie the Pooh, the more I looked, the more it wasn’t there.
Things reached a peak when I had to set up a mirror port on the switch, feed that into a test computer and then run Wireshark against the traffic flows, just to find out what was happening with a particularly garrulous webcam that was sending out all the right packets, but not necessarily in the right order. It would have been a matter of a few mouse clicks in Allegro 500. This experience was sufficiently frustrating that I have ordered my own Allegro 500 (with the larger storage specification) for the lab. When a piece of kit falls into the “dammit, I wish we still had…”, then it’s time to buy our own.
iPad app zoom
I came across an iPad app on Twitter a few days ago. It’s an infinite zoom drawing application, which may not sound particularly interesting. But the series of screenshots on the right will give you some idea of its cleverness, or take a look at the video on the tweet at pcpro.link/337iPad.
I was quite amazed, and so went to find the application. It’s called Endless Paper and you can find it at . The basic idea
