- Original Message -
> From: "George Bakos"
> Key features required:
>
> Running an OS that can be patched/updated by someone other than the
> machine vendor
I assume you mean the machine proper. Hopefully that will be a stock unit;
I don't really want to get into building vending mach
I would like to make a wiki page with links to useful resources.
This issue cased me problems last week.
I don't know what the conventions are.
I don't know what the best tools are.
I don't know what others are doing.
I don't have good examples.
I am interested specifically in 'very small, e
I still long for the day when someone makes a true 16550 based USB to serial
adapter... Some of the stuff I need to reprogram at the shop at times does
not like the cheapie chips that are most common - I've bricked an APC
network manager card at least once for that specific reason...
says
7 - compressed air can to clean dust
dust?!?!? sounds like time to find a whole new colo and move
everything out of there haha.
i've -never- encountered one with dust in it.
that stuff usually gets sucked out before it gets the idea to land on
anything should it even get in in the first pla
My ideal vending machine would dispense Cat5e by the foot, the more you
pull the more you pay, RJ45 plugs in pairs, and a crimp tool on a long
chain (like the way you buy chain in a hardware store)
Aled
except for that -usually- when you -need- the crimp tool, you only know at
which position
rfid scanner for billing through the datacenter bill with your access
card. (which is linked to your customer id anyway ;)
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, George Bakos wrote:
Key features required:
Running an OS that can be patched/updated by someone other than the
machine vendor
Deployment in a screen
> From: Don Gould
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:18 PM
> To: North American Network Operators' Group
> Subject: Simple Cable Marking Standards
>
> I would like to make a wiki page with links to useful resources.
>
> This issue cased me problems last week.
>
> I don't know what the conventi
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Don Gould wrote:
I would like to make a wiki page with links to useful resources.
This issue cased me problems last week.
I don't know what the conventions are.
The conventions often work back to whatever is appropriate in your
environment. Some people use TIA/EIA 606-A
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
7 - compressed air can to clean dust
dust?!?!? sounds like time to find a whole new colo and move everything out
of there haha.
I also hope that duster can would not be used by someone who is attempting
to clean fiber end-faces. Incredibly b
Hi,
On Feb 18, 2012 5:35 AM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote:
>
> Please post your top 3 favorite components/parts you'd like to see in a
> vending machine at your colo; please be as specific as possible; don't
> let vendor specificity scare you off.
Similar topic with mostly useful ideas here:
http://lis
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> - Original Message -
>> From: "Aled Morris"
>
>> On 17 February 2012 18:43, Eric Tykwinski
>> wrote:
>>
>> > +1 for GBICs, SFPs
>
>> You'll need to be carrying a lot of loose change then :-)
>
> In fact, vending machines with builtin
On Feb 17, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Leigh Porter wrote:
>
> On 17 Feb 2012, at 20:10, "Peter Kristolaitis" wrote:
>
>> On 12-02-17 03:05 PM, Leigh Porter wrote:
>>> Did anybody say beer yet?
>>>
>>
>> Don't forget the 30lb sledgehammer for those times when, ah, "percussive
>> maintenance" is the
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:44 PM, George Carey wrote:
>
>>
>> The vending machine should use a card like an ATM/gift card, not accept
>> cash. You should be able to "charge" the card with some cash via a web
>> portal and keep the card in the facility in your space. If something is
>> needed,
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:00 PM, George Herbert
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:44 PM, George Carey wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The vending machine should use a card like an ATM/gift card, not accept
>>> cash. You should be able to "charge" the card with some cash via a web
>>> portal and keep the ca
On the heals of some of the most productive conversation I've seen on
NANOG in ages, let me try another topic!
I suspect most people on NANOG are in the same boat that I'm in, we
operate some small number of domains for ourselves, friends, family, and
projects we like. I suspect many of us are a
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:02, George Herbert wrote:
>> Will IANA accept netblock transfers as an exchange medium for
>> datacenter goodies vending machine payments? ... ;-)
>
> Joking while busy discouraged. s/IANA/ARIN/d'oh
I suspect ARIN would follow its policy to recognize
any transfer
2012/2/18 Justin M. Streiner
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
>
> 7 - compressed air can to clean dust
>>>
>>
>> dust?!?!? sounds like time to find a whole new colo and move everything
>> out of there haha.
>>
>
> I also hope that duster can would not be used by someone who is a
When I bring up Linux ISOs to the believers of this misconception,
they generally argue that Linux ISOs can be obtained without
BitTorrent as well so blocking BT is okay. But I believe it is up to
the user to decide which protocol to use to obtain the data and if the
user wants to use BT bu
I have, on occasion been away from my laptop and gotten the call to go to the
colo and deal with XYZ hardware problem and the colo was either: A in the
opposite or orthogonal direction from my house and significantly closer or B
the colo was between my present location.
In such cases, I will o
On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:23 PM, david raistrick wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Pierre-Yves Maunier wrote:
>
>> 6 - plastic cable clamps (don't know the exact english term for that but I
>> mean this -->
>> http://www.hellopro.fr/images/produit-2/9/3/8/serre-cables-261839.jpg)
>
> also known as "zip
On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Aled Morris wrote:
> On 17 February 2012 18:43, Eric Tykwinski wrote:
>
>> +1 for GBICs, SFPs
>>
>>
> You'll need to be carrying a lot of loose change then :-)
>
> My ideal vending machine would dispense Cat5e by the foot, the more you
> pull the more you pay, RJ
On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:04 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:49:13 PST, Owen DeLong said:
>> Now, come on... If you're in the 40-50 range, you should have put octal
>> before hex. :p
>
> IBM S/360 definitely preferred hex. And EBCDIC.
>
Strictly an artifact of it's EB
On 2/17/12 5:17 PM, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
I still long for the day when someone makes a true 16550 based USB to
serial adapter... Some of the stuff I need to reprogram at the shop at
times does not like the cheapie chips that are most common - I've
bricked an APC network manager card at leas
I use these guys: http://www.cheapssls.com/
They sell Geotrust and Comodo certs for under $10/yr. The hassle
level is quite low. First you order a cert providing the usual
billing info, then you go to their web site, pick the order you just
paid for, go to a screen where you paste in your signin
Some of it "looks" really nice but can be a pain to work with, too so you
have to consider how it would be to have to pull a blade from that switch
that looks really nice at first until you consider having to actually
replace anything in that network.
This advice is huge, and often only learne
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> ICMP is evil.
To that I would add under...
Security misconceptions
0. Security is just common sense.
a. More draconian/more complicated policies/practices
automatically result in a good
secure, usable environment.
"Ethernet/Token Ring/Cisco Console/whatever uses an RJ45 connector"
RJ45 defines a keyed 8P8C type connector, wired in a specific
manner, for a specific 2 wire telco service. Incompatible with the
above on several levels. "RJxx" == specific connector/wiring pattern
for specific telco applic
range, you should have put octal
> before hex. :p
IBM S/360 definitely preferred hex. And EBCDIC.
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 05:39:34PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> In such cases, I will occasionally stop by the colo without going home to
> retrieve the laptop. 90% of the time it works out OK. 10% of the time I
> end up leaving the colo, going home, retrieving the laptop and returning
> to the co
I have yet to receive one of these, but I rarely post to nanog. Could
you post up the email headers for us to see? I'm curious to see if it
actually originated from a telx mailserver, according to their TXT/SPF
records they use messagelabs.com, mktomail.com, and intermedia.net.
On 02/17/2012
Give me someone who can already think and analyse over someone who
'knows' it all, any day. You can be qualified to the hilt but
absolutely useless in the real world (I've watched CCNP and higher
struggling to figure out why they can't ping a 10.0.0.0/24 address at a
customers remote site, not
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