Category: Blog Posts

These are my personal Blog Entries.

Catalyst IOS-XE Reserved (Static) DHCP Reservation

Catalyst IOS-XE Reserved (Static) DHCP Reservation

So, the documentation on this isn’t exactly a page-turner, and I figured I’d save you some headaches by showing how to configure IOS-XE Catalyst 9K devices for DHCP reservations based on MAC addresses. First pro tip: Enable using the hardware address instead of the client identifier. Why? Well, figuring out the exact client identifier is…

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Review of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Livestream 9/27/2024

Review of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Livestream 9/27/2024

      I recently watched a live stream done by Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.  They left it live stream recording so you do have to skip around some to the actual speakers.  I got some pretty valuable information that I decided to document here. This is the link to the entire session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJrynrsVXjM  …

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Comparing Active and Passive Funds

Comparing Active and Passive Funds

The purpose of this blog is to document what fee’s can look like in a 20 year investment.  This is using a hypothetical Active fund with a 5.5% Front Load. Source for calculations was the following website https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/mutual-fund-calculator The below table is showing a fund that actually beat the S&P 500.  As you can see…

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IMPORTANT! Freeze your credit! Here are the links as of 7/11/2022

IMPORTANT! Freeze your credit! Here are the links as of 7/11/2022

I found out recently a lot of people were unaware of the Equifax hack that breached 147.9 Million peoples credit information. For reference the US population is 329.5 Million as of 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach This is the post from the FTC on the general topic. https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2018/09/free-credit-freezes-are-here This is one that we know of.  I am sure…

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Retirement Links

Retirement Links

Starting a blog to track retirement links to check out. Pod cast https://www.morningstar.com/podcasts/the-long-view/133   Checklist before retirement 20 Steps To Take In The Year Before Retirement