I carry mine in a laptop backpack everwhere I go. They just cant take the beating of being carryed and tossed around like that. I drool over having a laptop that can take a beating. Anybody know where to get rugged books like this for cheap?
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Acually I worked at a now aquired isp who hosted olympic.net (another ISP on the olympic peninsula). Well I dont see the site up anymore so it looks like they were able to shut them down.
I rember them telling us about this and we all laughed. But which one is around now?
Guess I wont be donating anymone to any olympic teams until they figure out what they should be spending their money on.
The following is a little paper I wrote on the seattle colo market last Apr.
Before we get stated let me just say that I HATE internet colo centers (ie exodus). I really perfer the telco colo areas. But they arent caged (one of the reasons I like them) and normaly use open telco racks. I have been in more than a few of them. I would do anything to get my employers data center out of the noc monkey ran exodus. Shit we lost power a week ago and they didnt even contact us because 'we wernt one of the effected customers'. Well we were and they had our power labeled wrong. Not to mention that the monkeys behind the glass never want to get off thier ass and let me in.
If you want high quality bandwidth and care about colo second find an internap.com pnap near you. Trust me that it is good. I used to build there pnaps. Not to mention 12+ backbone connections at each PNAP. The PNAPS are works of art and probably better cabled and labeled than your stuff (isnt it soposto be that way?) Have the sales guy show you a pnap. The only thing I ever saw that came close was the computers at NORAD (cept norad's computers were from the late 60's [can you say iron-farite core memory]). Hey looks arnt everthing but you when every wire has a pre ordaned path you know someone cares.
--- colo.txt Co-Location space in the Seattle area is currently in high demand. Customers are currently filling it as quick as providers build it. This is not only a Northwest problem. Switch & Data Facilities Co told me that in the last 2-3 month they have gone from virtually no customers to filling out there 11,000 sq. ft within the next 4 weeks (they are approx. 70% full right now).
Neutral Co Co-location sites: SDFC.net Titan Colo.com Nextlink Level3
Internet and co-loaction: InterNAP Exodus Savvis
Switch & Data Facilities Co Bill Barnard of SDFC was one of the more useful reps I talked to. He not only knew his prices (and was willing to do over the phone quotes) but he knew the prices for most of his competitors and was not worried about quoting them to me even though most everybody else was less. SDFC is the only company currently operating with there business model. They offer truly neutral co-location space. Because of the telco space problem around the country right now many of the big us and foreign carriers (including Deutsche Telekom) are putting there equipment at SDFC. SDFC space is on the high price because of the demand. They are charging around $1300 per rack with a 20A AC feed. The are located in the Westin building but have a north end location planed and are looking for a south end (Renton - Auburn) location. The Westin location will be full in 4 weeks (1 May).
Titan Titan is unique in the fact that they use old hardened military sites. They are made to be resistant to earthquake, bomb blast, EMP. They have other interesting features:
Electronic perimeter security systems High security exterior lighting Mandatory escorted accessFire resistant interior walls DoD authorized "top secret" vault
The only problem is that old hardened military sites are not generally in the middle of metroplexes. Titan1 is no exception, it is located at the Moses Lake airport. So I believe this doesn't fit out need for a 30/2 response time. But Titan may be a good choice for off-line tape backup storage where response time is not important but survivability is.
COLO.com Colo.com is building there new space in the USWest/ATT downtown switch (3rd and Spring). There space will be completed in June and than will be building sites in Bothell and Tukwilla. One problem with the downtown switch is that it is a no cell phone zone. When you enter the building you are required to turn off you cellphone (and it wont work even if you don't turn them off). I know when we were at the ATT facility up on the 13th floor we were told that this wasn't a 24x7 facility. I don't know if that has to do with the downstairs security guard of if that was just ATT. Colo.com will be selling both rack and cage space.
Nextlink Both Nextlink and Level3 are at the 1000 Denny building. Nextlink is almost full and will be full shortly. I was told that 2 racks (not cabinets) would not be a problem but cage space or much over 2 racks would be a major issue. Note that Internap seattle PNAP2 is located in this space also. Racks go for $750 each.
Level3 Level3 is basically full. I think mostly they are selling people into Nextlink space. Also level3 is not really neutral because I am sure that they would want to sell us their internet and phone service.
Savvis I used to work for savvis so I know / built their data center. Savvis does not currently do co-location in Seattle but I have heard they are thinking about building out the rest of their data center do to it because of the space shortage. Savvis is located on the 27 floor of the Westin Building. I have had recent problems with Savvis's NOC being unresponsive and unknowledgeable. Last update Tue Apr 11 09:32:20 PDT 2000
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If QA where so important that how the hell is RedHat doing so well?
But I guess there is the other extreme of debian who takes years for version upgrades...
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We have that... It is called Seattle. :)
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The Cato institue is a liberitarian think tank.
I carry mine in a laptop backpack everwhere I go. They just cant take the beating of being carryed and tossed around like that. I drool over having a laptop that can take a beating. Anybody know where to get rugged books like this for cheap?
--Zone Dancer
I bet the space fungus got it.
This one looks kinda cool, they fly you in. But is $11000 usd.
Acually I worked at a now aquired isp who hosted olympic.net (another ISP on the olympic peninsula). Well I dont see the site up anymore so it looks like they were able to shut them down.
I rember them telling us about this and we all laughed. But which one is around now?
Guess I wont be donating anymone to any olympic teams until they figure out what they should be spending their money on.
The following is a little paper I wrote on the seattle colo market last Apr.
Before we get stated let me just say that I HATE internet colo centers (ie exodus). I really perfer the telco colo areas. But they arent caged (one of the reasons I like them) and normaly use open telco racks. I have been in more than a few of them. I would do anything to get my employers data center out of the noc monkey ran exodus. Shit we lost power a week ago and they didnt even contact us because 'we wernt one of the effected customers'. Well we were and they had our power labeled wrong. Not to mention that the monkeys behind the glass never want to get off thier ass and let me in.
If you want high quality bandwidth and care about colo second find an internap.com pnap near you. Trust me that it is good. I used to build there pnaps. Not to mention 12+ backbone connections at each PNAP. The PNAPS are works of art and probably better cabled and labeled than your stuff (isnt it soposto be that way?) Have the sales guy show you a pnap. The only thing I ever saw that came close was the computers at NORAD (cept norad's computers were from the late 60's [can you say iron-farite core memory]). Hey looks arnt everthing but you when every wire has a pre ordaned path you know someone cares.
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colo.txt
Co-Location space in the Seattle area is currently in high demand.
Customers are currently filling it as quick as providers build it. This
is not only a Northwest problem. Switch & Data Facilities Co told me that
in the last 2-3 month they have gone from virtually no customers to
filling out there 11,000 sq. ft within the next 4 weeks (they are approx.
70% full right now).
Neutral Co Co-location sites:
SDFC.net
Titan
Colo.com
Nextlink
Level3
Internet and co-loaction:
InterNAP
Exodus
Savvis
Switch & Data Facilities Co
Bill Barnard of SDFC was one of the more useful reps I talked to.
He not only knew his prices (and was willing to do over the phone quotes)
but he knew the prices for most of his competitors and was not worried
about quoting them to me even though most everybody else was less. SDFC
is the only company currently operating with there business model. They
offer truly neutral co-location space. Because of the telco space problem
around the country right now many of the big us and foreign carriers
(including Deutsche Telekom) are putting there equipment at SDFC. SDFC
space is on the high price because of the demand. They are charging
around $1300 per rack with a 20A AC feed. The are located in the Westin
building but have a north end location planed and are looking for a south
end (Renton - Auburn) location. The Westin location will be full in 4
weeks (1 May).
Titan
Titan is unique in the fact that they use old hardened military
sites. They are made to be resistant to earthquake, bomb blast, EMP.
They have other interesting features:
Electronic perimeter security systems
High security exterior lighting
Mandatory escorted accessFire resistant interior walls
DoD authorized "top secret" vault
The only problem is that old hardened military sites are not generally in
the middle of metroplexes. Titan1 is no exception, it is located at the
Moses Lake airport. So I believe this doesn't fit out need for a 30/2
response time. But Titan may be a good choice for off-line tape backup
storage where response time is not important but survivability is.
COLO.com
Colo.com is building there new space in the USWest/ATT downtown
switch (3rd and Spring). There space will be completed in June and than
will be building sites in Bothell and Tukwilla. One problem with the
downtown switch is that it is a no cell phone zone. When you enter the
building you are required to turn off you cellphone (and it wont work even
if you don't turn them off). I know when we were at the ATT facility up
on the 13th floor we were told that this wasn't a 24x7 facility. I don't
know if that has to do with the downstairs security guard of if that was
just ATT. Colo.com will be selling both rack and cage space.
Nextlink
Both Nextlink and Level3 are at the 1000 Denny building.
Nextlink is almost full and will be full shortly. I was told that 2 racks
(not cabinets) would not be a problem but cage space or much over 2 racks
would be a major issue. Note that Internap seattle PNAP2 is located in
this space also. Racks go for $750 each.
Level3
Level3 is basically full. I think mostly they are selling people
into Nextlink space. Also level3 is not really neutral because I am sure
that they would want to sell us their internet and phone service.
Savvis
I used to work for savvis so I know / built their data center.
Savvis does not currently do co-location in Seattle but I have heard they
are thinking about building out the rest of their data center do to it
because of the space shortage. Savvis is located on the 27 floor of the
Westin Building. I have had recent problems with Savvis's NOC being
unresponsive and unknowledgeable.
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If QA where so important that how the hell is RedHat doing so well?
But I guess there is the other extreme of debian who takes years for version upgrades...
I say we all mirror his site... I have room for it on my servers...
Do they really want to shutdown all of us?
It saddens me also to know it takes a study to find this out....