Packets and Bolts is the podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Your hosts, Muskrat and Mongoose, are network engineers and architects with a combined experience of over 30 years in the industry.
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32nd episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between.
Tonight we discuss the outages of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp; mishap, incompetence, or something nefarious...
Of course we review headlines and toast with a drink.
Grab a beer and let's go down the rabbit hole of Social Media Mayhem...
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31st episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between.
Tonight Muskrat sits with Mike the Admin for a belated Sysadmin Day 2021 episode. We discuss cloud, DevOps, and other random technical thoughts. As always we throw in some headlines for good measure.
Find your nearest computer terminal and sit for a spell as we celebrate Sysadmin Day 2021....
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30th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between.
Tonight's guest had to reschedule so we take the full episode to discuss recent headlines.
Sit down for a spell and let's dig into what is new in the news today....
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29th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between.
Tonight we speak with DubStench about all things fish. Aquariums, seafood, go fish, marine life death matches, not even the band Phish is off limits.
In addition, we have an extra large amount of headlines for this one, so pull up a chair, grab a fish stick, and let's dive into the deep with DubStench...
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Interview with Gary T. McDonald
28th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between.
Tonight we talk to Gary T. McDonald, author of the book The Gospel of Thomas (The Younger): Gospel as Novel, Novel as Gospel.
Interview begins at: 1:11:05
Gary T. McDonald is a fifth generation Texan who now lives in California. While studying at Southern Methodist University, his first play won the John Rosenfield Playwriting Contest which provided a scholarship for his graduate work there. His first film, OM-E, OM-I, was a finalist for the Student Film Oscar Nomination. On the basis of his work, he was selected to participate in a special summer-long intensive Method acting training program conducted by film director and star Dennis Hopper at his ranch in New Mexico.
After graduating, he worked in television news for five years, then directed and produced award-winning documentary programs for PBS in association with the Criminal Justice Institute in Huntsville, Texas.
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Grab a drink and let's dive into the Gnostic Gospels...
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27th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between.
Tonight we chat with Sparrow and Ken Knight regarding conspiracies and reality. What are conspiracies, who believes them, and is reality even objective?
Grab a stiff drink and get ready to dive into the depths of chaos...
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26th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between.
Tonight we chat with Mick Dizzle to discuss the Cisco FirePower firewall platform. We spent so muck time time dissing it we wanted to get someone that could hopefully breath some hope into this product...
Can it be saved? Is 7.0 the rebirth of the platform?
Pull up a chair, grab a drink, and let's find out.
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25th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between.
Tonight we discuss Software Defined Wide-Area-Networking (SD-WAN).
Does your WAN seem tired, worn out, dull? Then SD-WAN might be for you. Love to sink a lot of cash into buzz words? Then SD-WAN is right up your alley...
Set your network monitoring to auto pilot and grab a drink. Let's talk about WANs....
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24th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between.
Tonight we talk with Kevin Gosztola about Julian Assange (Interview begins at 1:25:40):
Kevin Gosztola is an American journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker known for work on whistleblowers, WikiLeaks, national security, secrecy, civil liberties, and digital freedom. Writing The Dissenter beat for the blog Firedoglake (FDL), he covered the court-martial of Chelsea Manning and substantially covered the case of John Kiriakou.
Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure.
We also will give Mongoose's six Totally Certain Predictions for the Next four Years...
Listener emails and a drink are still on the agenda as we kickoff the third season of Packets and Bolts...
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