I live in a distressingly urban area, but am still too far from the Qwest CO/site to get ?DSL* faster than like 5Mb/s down. A technology being available doesn't mean that it will be deployed in any useful fashion.
The video console redirection done by Sun/Oracle ILOM service processors uses Java Webstart. I'm not versed enough wrt Java to predict if this will affect the client-side runtime, but if they break their own product, that will be classic.
In most implementations that I've been subjected to, it's obsessive about talking to a graphical console, and uses idiotic non-ASCII key sequences that need a local keyboard to enter. Some implementations by non-brain-dead engineers avoid the latter (eg. Sun's), but the former is a neverending thorn in my side.
At least, a response that answers the main (though vague) question, rather than the different home-user situation.
First, a niggle: what exactly does "network administrator" mean in this context? I try to avoid the term altogether because to many it means someone who manages MS Active Directory and (gak!) MS Exchange accounts, and rarely anything to do with the actual network. "Network Engineer" might be more on-target, but I digress....
At first read I thought this was a different question than I think it actually is -- the obvious answer seemed to be to have a box/bin for 2' cables, one for 3', etc., but most other responses seem to be regarding management of cross-connect cables in use.
Cable ties are too permanent. I have seen too many times where they get cut off to trouble shoot and never put back for various reasons.
True -- plus they IMO are too skinny and prone to gripping cables too tightly, especially when there are fibers in the mix. Tight trussing with cable / zip ties also confounds the incremental tugging that's an integral part of tracing existing cables to determine their endpoints. Another problem with plastic ties is that when cutting them, it's way too easy to cut into cables or fingers too, and trimmed ends can be rather sharp -- I've drawn blood both ways.
Use Velcro to bundle up the cables because it is easier to take off and put back on when needed. No tools required.
With small numbers of cables, that works
I don't like the Panduit Panduct type stuff (http://www.panduit.com/Products/ProductOverviews/WiringDuct/index.htm) because they require you to cut tabs out for passing more than a few cables in and out at a time. They also tend to tear up your cuticles when working with them. Also, the covers snap on and off and people put the smaller horizontal ones in the weirdest places. -- Hard to find.
$employer uses Panduit in at least some of our facilities, and I haven't had serious issues with it. I don't understand the above re cutting tabs, as even with very full ducts I've never had a problem finding a slot for ingress/egress; I've also never had cuticle issues with them. The covers sometimes can take a bit of care to snap back on, especially if a given trough is *very* full, or if a given slot has a dozen cables run the same direction such that the tabs on either side are displaced by an inch and need to be pinched a bit, though the covers are fairly forgiving re skipping a number of tabs, albeit with a result that isn't as cosmetically neat. I agree that the covers are easy to misplace, and sometimes they blend in and are hard to find -- when I work on them I try to leave them either directly on top of their associated trough, or on the light-colored floor where they contrast nicely. I often leave our MDF's looking better than I find them, eg. by finding stray covers left on a Juniper five racks over, or by flipping panels snapped in place with the lettering upside down.
What confounds me is having the right length cable for a given run. I don't like building my own cables, and won't do it for sure when working in a remote facility that's a pair of airports away from home. One remote facility where we have a bunch of gear stocks 4', 9', and 14' cables. For a run that would take 9.5' for a direct and unstrained cable, that means either dangling a loop in a vertical trough, which substantially increases congestion, or taking the scenic route through the troughs, which also increases congestion.
You can use different cable colors for identifying certain things in your environment (wireless, printers, servers, etc)
In the above environments, almost everything is a "server" or networking equipment, so we don't generally sweat colors, but one thing I do highly endorse is making crossover-pinned cables EXTREMELY obvious, say by sourcing them in purple/violet compared to the usual beige.
I've yet to see a school district that wouldn't be better off without the out-of-touch administrative overhead. $200k given to the teachers so that they could, say, make an appreciable fraction of what garbage collectors do would have a more direct effect on the kids' education.
Basically, Western kids can aspire to being mediocre at everything they do, knowing full well that they will thereby enough income to live comfortably well-off for their entire lives
Clearly you don't live in a county with 68,000 Microsoft millionaires.
I had a Voicestream^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HT-Mobile phone once, a Nokia. PITA to use, coverage sucked massively, and calls were routinely dropped. My perception of them since has been that they pile the minutes on their plans to make up for the fact that one can't actually use them.
Unless you are paid by Apple or a Zombie, can do you really believe and iPhone is any better and a T-Mobile G2 or any high end Android handset?
I'm neither, but my iPhone "just works". Unlike any other phone I've had, my calendar and contacts sync to it perfectly, as do music, videos, and apps for my 2.8 year old son to enjoy.
So, you advise that people making $130k/year remain homeless? Do you have a magic wand to wave to retroactively change bullshit community property laws that give half of everything to abusive and mentally ill ex-wives? Or to undo what Microsoft did to housing prices?
Do any of the above yet handle.rm files that use an image map? I have to keep an old version of the RealPlayer (10?) installed to view them as later versions silently omit the ability to play them.
My Canon MP960 AFAICT does not natively do Postscript (or any page description language AFAICT). When last I had an office to work out of, ~2001, we had an HP LaserJet 4 of some flavor for which Postscript was a pay-extra (this was HP after all) option. All the desktop stuff generated PCL.
Yes, the PPD file. I remember them often in fact being difficult to find, and buggy when I could. I recall one specific PPD file that caused at least one application to core -- I had to hack the thing to fix it.
Everybody uses Postscript? Really? Where? I haven't seen a printer or app use Postscript in at least ten years.
Sounds like HP. Their already-inferior iLO has the ability to do remote virtual media redirection, but one has to pay $250 extra for a license key. Worse yet, their goofy Smart Array HBA's need a $300 license key to enable RAID6 -- and they don't do triple-parity RAID at all.
RAID 1 isn't just about throughput - it's also about surviving drive / HBA failures. While I favor 3-way mirroring (eg. ZFS -- no HBA I've seen handles it), 5-way is serious diminishing returns, so I don't know where you get the 1/5 capacity figure.
Note that it's not uncommon to mirror SSD's, and one can even get systems that mirror *RAM*.
What you may be missing is short-stroking, where one deliberately only uses a fraction of each disk, limiting time lost to head seeking and optimizing on outer cylinders that have the most sectors/track.
most employment contracts let the company OWN YOUR ASS, even outside of work hours and using your own equipment, even doing work not related to the core business of the company.
Nope. What you on your own time with your own equipment is yours, so long as you aren't using any company own/paid resources.
I had to turn away job offers (in this economy!) due to their 'we own your ass' language.
You may have chosen to, but you surely didn't have to. Given the choice between a living and mistaking myself for a god, I'll take the living every time.
during the last year or so, I have been working on my own opensource (both hardware and software; its arduino-based) project. I was also interviewing at various networking companies (my background is network management) and while my DIY audio projects have *nothing* at all to do with netmgt, all the contracts the companies would have me sign allow them to own or take over my projects if there is overlap in employment time and my project time!
So you expect some company to pay you to work on your own stuff, rather than on theirs?? Simple: Do the company's work on their time and their dime, and when you're home on your own, do your own stuff. How is this not clear?
and I did. I still have not found work in quite a long time but at least I do have ownership of my (now shipping) hardware and firmware. I released it, its ftp-able,
Wow, that's impressive! An FTP extension that allows one to transfer hardware!
The issue with high load count on drives without Apple-type firmware could be in play. I've never figured out how one reads the head load/unload cycle count off a disk, but apparently some open-market drives end up cycling at a very elevated rate, which can lead to limited lifetime. It's why I haven't hassled with replacing the 120GB drive in my MBP -- not worth the risk.
It probably didn't contain Java, but ILOM 1.0 was horrid beyond belief. I've actually had multiple Sun CSO types admit to me that it was the worst thing they ever released. I'd put ypbind right up there with it, but I'm like that;)
Lucky you -- I didn't even rate one for getting her an iPhone 4 upgrade and an iPad within two weeks.
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Agreed. I never seem to get mod points any more otherwise you'd get one as your comments are my first thoughts as well.
Hell, consider how many people leave their 16:9 sets in 16:9 mode even when watching 4:3 content? I cringe when I see this, and at times when I've acted to fix it, I get complaints that I'm making the picture not take the whole screen.
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In Washington, UW basically wants kids of Boeing and Microsoft employees. Anyone else is second-class and has a lesser chance of being accepted.
I live in a distressingly urban area, but am still too far from the Qwest CO/site to get ?DSL* faster than like 5Mb/s down. A technology being available doesn't mean that it will be deployed in any useful fashion.
The video console redirection done by Sun/Oracle ILOM service processors uses Java Webstart. I'm not versed enough wrt Java to predict if this will affect the client-side runtime, but if they break their own product, that will be classic.
In most implementations that I've been subjected to, it's obsessive about talking to a graphical console, and uses idiotic non-ASCII key sequences that need a local keyboard to enter. Some implementations by non-brain-dead engineers avoid the latter (eg. Sun's), but the former is a neverending thorn in my side.
Cable ties are too permanent. I have seen too many times where they get cut off to trouble shoot and never put back for various reasons.
True -- plus they IMO are too skinny and prone to gripping cables too tightly, especially when there are fibers in the mix. Tight trussing with cable / zip ties also confounds the incremental tugging that's an integral part of tracing existing cables to determine their endpoints. Another problem with plastic ties is that when cutting them, it's way too easy to cut into cables or fingers too, and trimmed ends can be rather sharp -- I've drawn blood both ways.
Use Velcro to bundle up the cables because it is easier to take off and put back on when needed. No tools required.
With small numbers of cables, that works
I don't like the Panduit Panduct type stuff (http://www.panduit.com/Products/ProductOverviews/WiringDuct/index.htm) because they require you to cut tabs out for passing more than a few cables in and out at a time. They also tend to tear up your cuticles when working with them. Also, the covers snap on and off and people put the smaller horizontal ones in the weirdest places. -- Hard to find.
$employer uses Panduit in at least some of our facilities, and I haven't had serious issues with it. I don't understand the above re cutting tabs, as even with very full ducts I've never had a problem finding a slot for ingress/egress; I've also never had cuticle issues with them. The covers sometimes can take a bit of care to snap back on, especially if a given trough is *very* full, or if a given slot has a dozen cables run the same direction such that the tabs on either side are displaced by an inch and need to be pinched a bit, though the covers are fairly forgiving re skipping a number of tabs, albeit with a result that isn't as cosmetically neat. I agree that the covers are easy to misplace, and sometimes they blend in and are hard to find -- when I work on them I try to leave them either directly on top of their associated trough, or on the light-colored floor where they contrast nicely. I often leave our MDF's looking better than I find them, eg. by finding stray covers left on a Juniper five racks over, or by flipping panels snapped in place with the lettering upside down. What confounds me is having the right length cable for a given run. I don't like building my own cables, and won't do it for sure when working in a remote facility that's a pair of airports away from home. One remote facility where we have a bunch of gear stocks 4', 9', and 14' cables. For a run that would take 9.5' for a direct and unstrained cable, that means either dangling a loop in a vertical trough, which substantially increases congestion, or taking the scenic route through the troughs, which also increases congestion.
You can use different cable colors for identifying certain things in your environment (wireless, printers, servers, etc)
In the above environments, almost everything is a "server" or networking equipment, so we don't generally sweat colors, but one thing I do highly endorse is making crossover-pinned cables EXTREMELY obvious, say by sourcing them in purple/violet compared to the usual beige.
I've yet to see a school district that wouldn't be better off without the out-of-touch administrative overhead. $200k given to the teachers so that they could, say, make an appreciable fraction of what garbage collectors do would have a more direct effect on the kids' education.
Basically, Western kids can aspire to being mediocre at everything they do, knowing full well that they will thereby enough income to live comfortably well-off for their entire lives
Clearly you don't live in a county with 68,000 Microsoft millionaires.
... and yet in those 90 years we've seen a massive increase in cubicles and "open office" layouts.
I had a Voicestream^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HT-Mobile phone once, a Nokia. PITA to use, coverage sucked massively, and calls were routinely dropped. My perception of them since has been that they pile the minutes on their plans to make up for the fact that one can't actually use them.
Unless you are paid by Apple or a Zombie, can do you really believe and iPhone is any better and a T-Mobile G2 or any high end Android handset? I'm neither, but my iPhone "just works". Unlike any other phone I've had, my calendar and contacts sync to it perfectly, as do music, videos, and apps for my 2.8 year old son to enjoy.
So, you advise that people making $130k/year remain homeless? Do you have a magic wand to wave to retroactively change bullshit community property laws that give half of everything to abusive and mentally ill ex-wives? Or to undo what Microsoft did to housing prices?
Do any of the above yet handle .rm files that use an image map? I have to keep an old version of the RealPlayer (10?) installed to view them as later versions silently omit the ability to play them.
... because SSD's are made out of semiconductor devices, which don't themselves use rare earth elements? ummmmm...
He'll run it over with his subwoofer-packed Escalade.
We were forced to buy a DL580G7 recently. It came with no bloatware.
My Canon MP960 AFAICT does not natively do Postscript (or any page description language AFAICT). When last I had an office to work out of, ~2001, we had an HP LaserJet 4 of some flavor for which Postscript was a pay-extra (this was HP after all) option. All the desktop stuff generated PCL.
Yes, the PPD file. I remember them often in fact being difficult to find, and buggy when I could. I recall one specific PPD file that caused at least one application to core -- I had to hack the thing to fix it. Everybody uses Postscript? Really? Where? I haven't seen a printer or app use Postscript in at least ten years.
Sounds like HP. Their already-inferior iLO has the ability to do remote virtual media redirection, but one has to pay $250 extra for a license key. Worse yet, their goofy Smart Array HBA's need a $300 license key to enable RAID6 -- and they don't do triple-parity RAID at all.
RAID 1 isn't just about throughput - it's also about surviving drive / HBA failures. While I favor 3-way mirroring (eg. ZFS -- no HBA I've seen handles it), 5-way is serious diminishing returns, so I don't know where you get the 1/5 capacity figure. Note that it's not uncommon to mirror SSD's, and one can even get systems that mirror *RAM*. What you may be missing is short-stroking, where one deliberately only uses a fraction of each disk, limiting time lost to head seeking and optimizing on outer cylinders that have the most sectors/track.
most employment contracts let the company OWN YOUR ASS, even outside of work hours and using your own equipment, even doing work not related to the core business of the company. Nope. What you on your own time with your own equipment is yours, so long as you aren't using any company own/paid resources. I had to turn away job offers (in this economy!) due to their 'we own your ass' language. You may have chosen to, but you surely didn't have to. Given the choice between a living and mistaking myself for a god, I'll take the living every time. during the last year or so, I have been working on my own opensource (both hardware and software; its arduino-based) project. I was also interviewing at various networking companies (my background is network management) and while my DIY audio projects have *nothing* at all to do with netmgt, all the contracts the companies would have me sign allow them to own or take over my projects if there is overlap in employment time and my project time! So you expect some company to pay you to work on your own stuff, rather than on theirs?? Simple: Do the company's work on their time and their dime, and when you're home on your own, do your own stuff. How is this not clear? and I did. I still have not found work in quite a long time but at least I do have ownership of my (now shipping) hardware and firmware. I released it, its ftp-able, Wow, that's impressive! An FTP extension that allows one to transfer hardware!
The issue with high load count on drives without Apple-type firmware could be in play. I've never figured out how one reads the head load/unload cycle count off a disk, but apparently some open-market drives end up cycling at a very elevated rate, which can lead to limited lifetime. It's why I haven't hassled with replacing the 120GB drive in my MBP -- not worth the risk.
It probably didn't contain Java, but ILOM 1.0 was horrid beyond belief. I've actually had multiple Sun CSO types admit to me that it was the worst thing they ever released. I'd put ypbind right up there with it, but I'm like that ;)
Lucky you -- I didn't even rate one for getting her an iPhone 4 upgrade and an iPad within two weeks.
Agreed. I never seem to get mod points any more otherwise you'd get one as your comments are my first thoughts as well. Hell, consider how many people leave their 16:9 sets in 16:9 mode even when watching 4:3 content? I cringe when I see this, and at times when I've acted to fix it, I get complaints that I'm making the picture not take the whole screen.
Huh? RHEL already does this. I had to install 32-bit libs for HP's utils, eg. hpacucli and hponcfg.