I am the Network Administrator for an ISP (AS4307) in San Martin, CA (between Morgan Hill and Gilroy) that was directly affected by the cuts.
We are multi-homed by two providers. BOTH providers fiber ran through those SONET rings that were cut. We were COMPLETELY isolated (internet, POTS AND cell) from 2:15am to 10:42pm. Luckily, 90% of our customers are in the Morgan Hill/Gilroy/San Martin/San Jose area, so they were fully aware of what happened.
As a side note, the cuts were actually in San Jose. I live 3 blocks from where the cuts occured (Monterey Hwy and Cottle Rd. for those interested). And it did not just affect Morgan Hill. Some parts of South San Jose were affected, along with Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy, Watsonville, Santa Cruz, and parts of Hollister.
What was interesting was when service was restored, customers who lived out of the area who had not heard of the happenings here, called and told us they thought one of two things:
A) We went out of business B) Natural disaster (Earthquake was #1 on the list, considering where we are located)
We lost no customers over this fiasco, and are now looking at getting a provider that feeds from completely separate fiber (i.e. from the SOUTH)
Robert Glover Director of I.S. South Valley Internet (AS4307)
I, for one, enjoy the relative safety and comfort of my fine tree. I am at a sufficient altitude to avoid the dangers that you "land-lubbers" deal with everyday. I'm shaded from... well, some of the harmful UV rays that you terra-firma-loving peeps drive your cars around on that spew out ozone-depleting compounds. I have fresh air to breathe, and best of all, those SEC officials will never find me out here!
Of course there are some downsides
My solar-cell charged batteries die in the middle of the night
Mosquito's in the summer
Chicks don't dig dudes in trees.:( Maybe I need some tree-bling?
No phone, ergo, no DSL. My beloved conifer is 264,000' from the CO. I'm connected via Sprint Carrier-Pigeon.
And you guys complain about the slow 300 baud acoustic-coupled modems back in th.... WHAT THE?!?!
HOLY HELL, there's a goddamn hunter aiming at my carrier pige *BOOM*
Wheres the fun in that?? The fun part is modifying the car. I have a Dodge Neon.. I love modifying this car.. And it'll beat a lot of the "fast" cars out there... That is the satisfying part.. What is satisfying about buying a Dodge Viper, and just blowing away everything out ther.. It's modifying your little 4-cylinder car to beat that viper. THAT'S SATISFYING.
I've worked at at an internet startup for about a year and a half.. At the time, the company was in it's infancy, barely 3 months old. I was hired as a sys-admin/IT. I was 19 at the time. I was the only person with IT experience there... The only other 4 employees were a programmer, a web-designer and our boss. I was sefl taught, never took classes or anything. (hell, I remember taking apart my old XT when I was 7, expanding the RAM from 256k to a whopping 640k). I also never graduated from high school. I had more important things to do, like install Linux and smoke weed. I quit all the drugs, etc. I'm almost 21 now, and I hope to get my GED soon.
I was the only IT person at my company for months.. As we gained more employees, I was the single point of contact for any support. We then hired a CIO, who became my boss... He was in his mid-30's.. He was really bright, just had no good managerial skills.. He was fired about 2 months ago, and the other two IT guys they hired were laid off about 3 months ago. So now I am the only IT person here. I have responsibility you can think of. I manage all our servers, provide desktop support, recommend purchases, I also just got them to hire back one of the IT guys they laid off, and I supervise him.
Everyone else in the company is between 35 and 60. Most of them have full respect for me, (except a couple of the executive assholes, but I would expect that). The CEO treats me to lunch and dinner all the time. I feel very lucky that I have this much respect at such a young age.
Some would say (and I somewhat agree) that it is because they have to respect me, because I was the only point of contact for a while. And they've put me in a leadership position now. I'm happy:)
There is a place for IDE, and a place for SCSI. For Captain Jow-Blow-Win98 at home on his desktop PC, there really is no need for SCSI. IDE is cheap enough for him not to bitch, and it runs just fine.
I work at a company that is doing unified messaging... We need massive amounts of storage here. If I look out the door of my office, I see some disk arrays that hold a total of about 5 Terabytes of space. You think were going to be running IDE on this? OF COURSE NOT. SCSI is, and probably will always be, 100 times more robust than IDE will ever be. Hot-Swap, 15 devices on one interface as opposed to 2, reliability, RAID 5.
I mean, who needs that in their own home PC? Not Captain Jow-Blow-Win98 user.. Or even Joe-Blow-Linux user for that matter.
The P4. The first chip designed by MARKETERS!! Seriously, this chip is only being released to keep Intel in the AMD vs. Intel game. The P4 is not going to be much to be impressed with.
It is sad however to see the Mustang go. In a server environment, a Dual, or even Quad's of these running at the 200MHz FSB would have been awesome. We have a few Quad Xeon boxes here at work, and they are just great. We just got some Athlon 850 boxes in, and they run our code faster than Intel's at the same clock speed. (Our code involves speech rec, database insertion and extraction, etc). Our code is very CPU-intensive, and those Athlon's just keep it pumping.
But oh well, there still is hope. Dual-Athlon's won't be anything to sneeze at. I can hardly wait.
I don't appreciate what you stated at all... First of all, I was a nerd all hrough high school... I was in the System Admin. Club at school, everyone considered me a nerd.. I'm over that. I too now (in college) make more money than 98% of those people in school, but I'm not going to hrow it in their faces like you. That's not right at ALL. Life is NOT all about making more money than your peers. It's about being happy. I'd rather work at a place where I am happy and make less money than work at a place where I am unhappy and make more money. Maybe those guys LIKE working on the farm, OK? They don't need MONEY to make them happy.
It doesn't make matters any better to label those who label us.
-Rob
One has to wonder if thhey are going to be pulling "old" P3's and Itanium's (if they aren't delayed until then!) out of some old storage room, assembling them and seeig if they still work for nostalgia's sake..
(Of course one has to wonder if anyone will still be here in 50 years)
Yeah, just like Al Gore invented the internet! I can see Bush sitting there, getting some Unreachable Host error. "Dang nabit, I done think that Al Gore unplugged that Internet of his, damn fool probably tripped on the cord."
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I am the Network Administrator for an ISP (AS4307) in San Martin, CA (between Morgan Hill and Gilroy) that was directly affected by the cuts.
We are multi-homed by two providers. BOTH providers fiber ran through those SONET rings that were cut. We were COMPLETELY isolated (internet, POTS AND cell) from 2:15am to 10:42pm. Luckily, 90% of our customers are in the Morgan Hill/Gilroy/San Martin/San Jose area, so they were fully aware of what happened.
As a side note, the cuts were actually in San Jose. I live 3 blocks from where the cuts occured (Monterey Hwy and Cottle Rd. for those interested). And it did not just affect Morgan Hill. Some parts of South San Jose were affected, along with Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy, Watsonville, Santa Cruz, and parts of Hollister.
What was interesting was when service was restored, customers who lived out of the area who had not heard of the happenings here, called and told us they thought one of two things:
A) We went out of business
B) Natural disaster (Earthquake was #1 on the list, considering where we are located)
We lost no customers over this fiasco, and are now looking at getting a provider that feeds from completely separate fiber (i.e. from the SOUTH)
Robert Glover
Director of I.S.
South Valley Internet (AS4307)
I, for one, enjoy the relative safety and comfort of my fine tree. I am at a sufficient altitude to avoid the dangers that you "land-lubbers" deal with everyday. I'm shaded from... well, some of the harmful UV rays that you terra-firma-loving peeps drive your cars around on that spew out ozone-depleting compounds. I have fresh air to breathe, and best of all, those SEC officials will never find me out here!
Of course there are some downsides
And you guys complain about the slow 300 baud acoustic-coupled modems back in th.... WHAT THE?!?!
HOLY HELL, there's a goddamn hunter aiming at my carrier pige *BOOM*
NO CARRIER
But wow, how surreal if it's true
Wheres the fun in that?? The fun part is modifying the car. I have a Dodge Neon.. I love modifying this car.. And it'll beat a lot of the "fast" cars out there... That is the satisfying part.. What is satisfying about buying a Dodge Viper, and just blowing away everything out ther.. It's modifying your little 4-cylinder car to beat that viper. THAT'S SATISFYING.
-Robert
I've worked at at an internet startup for about a year and a half.. At the time, the company was in it's infancy, barely 3 months old. I was hired as a sys-admin/IT. I was 19 at the time. I was the only person with IT experience there... The only other 4 employees were a programmer, a web-designer and our boss. I was sefl taught, never took classes or anything. (hell, I remember taking apart my old XT when I was 7, expanding the RAM from 256k to a whopping 640k). I also never graduated from high school. I had more important things to do, like install Linux and smoke weed. I quit all the drugs, etc. I'm almost 21 now, and I hope to get my GED soon.
:)
I was the only IT person at my company for months.. As we gained more employees, I was the single point of contact for any support. We then hired a CIO, who became my boss... He was in his mid-30's.. He was really bright, just had no good managerial skills.. He was fired about 2 months ago, and the other two IT guys they hired were laid off about 3 months ago. So now I am the only IT person here. I have responsibility you can think of. I manage all our servers, provide desktop support, recommend purchases, I also just got them to hire back one of the IT guys they laid off, and I supervise him.
Everyone else in the company is between 35 and 60. Most of them have full respect for me, (except a couple of the executive assholes, but I would expect that). The CEO treats me to lunch and dinner all the time. I feel very lucky that I have this much respect at such a young age.
Some would say (and I somewhat agree) that it is because they have to respect me, because I was the only point of contact for a while. And they've put me in a leadership position now. I'm happy
-Robert
There is a place for IDE, and a place for SCSI. For Captain Jow-Blow-Win98 at home on his desktop PC, there really is no need for SCSI. IDE is cheap enough for him not to bitch, and it runs just fine.
I work at a company that is doing unified messaging... We need massive amounts of storage here. If I look out the door of my office, I see some disk arrays that hold a total of about 5 Terabytes of space. You think were going to be running IDE on this? OF COURSE NOT. SCSI is, and probably will always be, 100 times more robust than IDE will ever be. Hot-Swap, 15 devices on one interface as opposed to 2, reliability, RAID 5.
I mean, who needs that in their own home PC? Not Captain Jow-Blow-Win98 user.. Or even Joe-Blow-Linux user for that matter.
-Rob
Releasing Microsoft BOB!!! what a joke
The P4. The first chip designed by MARKETERS!! Seriously, this chip is only being released to keep Intel in the AMD vs. Intel game. The P4 is not going to be much to be impressed with. It is sad however to see the Mustang go. In a server environment, a Dual, or even Quad's of these running at the 200MHz FSB would have been awesome. We have a few Quad Xeon boxes here at work, and they are just great. We just got some Athlon 850 boxes in, and they run our code faster than Intel's at the same clock speed. (Our code involves speech rec, database insertion and extraction, etc). Our code is very CPU-intensive, and those Athlon's just keep it pumping. But oh well, there still is hope. Dual-Athlon's won't be anything to sneeze at. I can hardly wait.
I don't appreciate what you stated at all... First of all, I was a nerd all hrough high school... I was in the System Admin. Club at school, everyone considered me a nerd.. I'm over that. I too now (in college) make more money than 98% of those people in school, but I'm not going to hrow it in their faces like you. That's not right at ALL. Life is NOT all about making more money than your peers. It's about being happy. I'd rather work at a place where I am happy and make less money than work at a place where I am unhappy and make more money. Maybe those guys LIKE working on the farm, OK? They don't need MONEY to make them happy. It doesn't make matters any better to label those who label us. -Rob
One has to wonder if thhey are going to be pulling "old" P3's and Itanium's (if they aren't delayed until then!) out of some old storage room, assembling them and seeig if they still work for nostalgia's sake..
(Of course one has to wonder if anyone will still be here in 50 years)
Yeah, just like Al Gore invented the internet! I can see Bush sitting there, getting some Unreachable Host error. "Dang nabit, I done think that Al Gore unplugged that Internet of his, damn fool probably tripped on the cord."
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If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?