What We're Up To 
Thursday, November 27, 2008, 10:17 PM
Posted by wsanders
Lots of old 100baseFX, which doesn't autonegotiate: switch by switch, port by port, correcting speed/duplex mismatches. Sooner or later we ought to be able to get rid of this stuff. It's rated at 400 yards or 2 kilometers, depending on which manual you're reading. Not very exciting, but you have to sweat the small stuff.

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The syntax of an ACE is relatively vertical-cheeky 
Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 05:14 PM
Posted by wsanders
http://www.techfigure.com/2008/07/09/ho ... firewalls/

Somebody's been translating to babelfish and back again. Or else, the "security experts" have decided that they have to have their own version of broken English to obfuscate their documentation, lest we mortals understand it.

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This is the Network Primeval, the maddening stalls and the lockups .... 
Saturday, October 18, 2008, 05:42 PM
Posted by wsanders

Bearded with cruft, and in blackouts wide, indistinct in the MIBs,
Like outages of old, with I/O sad and pathetic.

I am finding these things at work all over the place in various desk drawers, file cabinets, dark corners of dusty places. If I find one actually operating ... well, I guess we'll just have to upgrade to thin-net.

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What We're Up To 
Friday, October 17, 2008, 12:12 PM
Posted by wsanders
We're well into the new job at the Local University. Doing a lot less: Solaris, CentOS/Redhat, High Availability, "Retail" Storage, stressing out. Doing about the same: Nagios, MRTG, Open Source monitoring of all kinds of stuff. Getting a lot of: exercise, campus network reverse engineering (where does that pipe go?), wireless, layer 3 switching (or is it layer 2 routing? Heh, if you have an opinion on the matter, I don't care, go away), homegrown storage (There is no Hell like Cheap RAID Hell), SuSE (still considering an opinion).

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Captchas Make Me S0O0O0O0O0 Mad! 
Saturday, September 27, 2008, 12:33 PM
Posted by wsanders
This is like road rage, except your head explodes after trying to enter 10 different captchas with no success. Today's offender: cisco.com registration. Plus their password policy, which fails your registration successive times for not enough characters, not enough numbers, not enough punctuation marks, without actually telling you what the criteria are. Wonder how many registrants have their password set to C1sco!123 - ?

My better alternatives:

Recaptcha: Because you're helping the public good, and, like, saving trees and stuff.
Asirra: Because kittens and puppies are CUTE!
tppCaptcha: Because ASCII Art rules! (Although I don't know if it would be that effective if everyone used it.





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