Can it really be this quiet?

2022-01-03 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
Or has NANOG also succumbed to a signed-integer date problem? Waiting to see what I get back.. ..Allen

Re: S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

2021-10-21 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
..Allen > On Oct 20, 2021, at 15:43, Matthew Walster wrote, among > other things: > > Seems pretty disingenuous to now say the called party has to pay as well, in > stark contrast to decades of precedent with their telephone product, just > because their customers are actually using what t

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-25 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
But obviously my experience and age has failed to break me of top-posting .. sorry! ..Allen > On Mar 25, 2021, at 12:51, Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail) > wrote: > > And to push this point further: > > I don’t claim to speak for all graybeards, but now that I am past the

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-25 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
And to push this point further: I don’t claim to speak for all graybeards, but now that I am past the era of enjoying my kids' school activities, and resting on an empty nest, I once again don’t mind being involved in what younger engineers are doing far beyond “work hours”. There are a few rea

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
A company doing what you describe is one I’d really love to work for. May that philosophy of business be richly blessed. ..Allen > On Dec 28, 2020, at 12:03, Aaron Wendel wrote: > > Darin, > > We charge a $300 one time install charge to cover our costs on the 1G service > (which can be paid

Re: The Real AI Threat?

2020-12-11 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
Unobserved, a small capacitor on an insignificant board near the top of a highly secure electronics cabinet in the Group Six radio communications system emits a puff of smoke... (This is a paraphrase from memory, as I couldn’t locate Burdick's book quickly..) ..Allen > On Dec 11, 2020, at 15:

Re: alternative to voip gateways - 66 blocks to Amphenol

2020-05-03 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
On May 3, 2020, at 11:09, Mel Beckman wrote: > >  ... > The most time consuming part is wiring the existing POTS lines into amphenol > connectors to plug into the DSLAM, 25 pairs at a time. ... > > > -mel beckman You may already be familiar with this, but leaving it here in case it helps

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that (now old guy stuff)

2020-01-25 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
On Jan 25, 2020, at 08:52, Paul Nash wrote: > >  >> >> So, I grew up in South Africa, and one of the more fascinating / >> cooler things I saw was a modem which would get you ~50bps (bps, not >> Kbps) over a single strand of barbed wire -- you'd hammer a largish >> nail into the ground, and cli

Re: Barely operational .. hoping to find myspace help

2019-09-24 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
Thanks! Replying to the list as well .. several kind folks replied off-list. As you can imagine, getting a lawyer's letterhead could involve some expense that our shoestring volunteer organization wishes to avoid .. which is why I sought a tech contact in order to pave the way if possible (somet

Any current comments on PacketViper?

2019-05-17 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
Users? Detractors? Off-list responses preferred. Will summarize if there’s an indication of interest. ..Allen allen.mckinley.kitc...@gmail.com Butler, PA

Re: Cleveland/Cincinnati Co-location

2019-01-03 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
+1 for Expedient. Not a current customer but a VERY satisfied former customer. (Decision to leave them was a foul case of penny-pincher mismanagement, above my pay grade and over my objections.) ..Allen > On Jan 3, 2019, at 01:00, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > >> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Mitchell Le

Re: Got a call at 4am - RAID Gurus Please Read

2014-12-09 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
+1 on the most important statement below, from my point of view: RAID 5 and RAID 10 are totally separate animals and while you can set up a separate RAID 10 array and migrate your data to it (as soon as possible!!!) you cannot migrate from 5 to 10 in place absent some utter magic that I am unawa

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-25 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
I beg your indulgence.. On Apr 25, 2014, at 0:29, Larry Sheldon wrote: > ...On 4/24/2014 11:01 PM, Everton Marques wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore >> wrote: >> >>> On Apr 24, 2014, at 23:38 , Larry Sheldon wrote: Regulating monopolies protects monopo

Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty

2013-09-09 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
I'm confident that someone else may point this out, but I feel this is important enough to weigh in on .. Respectfully, I must disagree with any philosophy that perpetuates the archaic concept of political boundaries in the context of information flow. Calling it "stupid" to send traffic on an

Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts

2012-07-30 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
On Jul 30, 2012, at 15:04, joel jaeggli wrote: > On 7/30/12 10:57 AM, Steven Noble wrote: >> The fix for this issue is trivial. Every new signup ... > Most of the subscribers to the mailing list never post. > >> +1 (from an inveterate but VERY appreciative lurker) ..Allen