[geeks] network mania

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:56:56PM -0400, Tim Harrison wrote:
> No, the bad part is when you come home from work, look around your
> living room, and say, "Damn, my home network is in better shape than the
> work network." :/

BTDT!

When I started at a small engineering company here in town a few years
ago, their network 'closet' (a single rack in a storage room) had a
PM2E with six 28.8 Motorola modems and six phone lines, an APC UPS,
a patch panel, and a 8-port 10baseT switch with a 5-port 10baseT HUB
hanging off each port.  Some of these hubs had hubs hanging off of
them, as well.

i replaced the entire setup with a Cisco Cat2800 10baseT switch with
a few 100baseT ports for the "big" machines (we're talking Indigo 2s,
Indys, some C110 / B160 / C220 HP boxes, and the latest whiz-bang
300Mhz P-II machines; this was '98).  They wondered aloud how network
throughput could have improved THAT much. 8-)

(this was the job where I learned the "joys" of inter-platform 
automounter.  *NRRRGGHTG*.  *HEAD EXPLODY*)

My only regret was that I gave them the switch (left it there) when I
left the job.  It was a great place to work after leaving a VERy stressful
ISP job, but I literally got too bored; had nothing to do all day, and
was stagnating BADLY and forgetting things I'd known...  Good bunch of
folks, though.  They gave practically the entire month of December off as
a paid holiday because so many of the employees were non-citizens/residents
who went back home to visit family then.  The only other sucky thing was
getting paid once a month, on the *10th*.

If I ever win the lottery and dont have to worry about bills, etc, I'll
go back to working for a place like that.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX