Let's do this. What with the DramaLlama being out in full force, I think it's time to take a breather and bring the funny back. To wit: I propose the Santification of your gravatars till after the new year. Some of us have already gotten started. You can use the image as your baseline.
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@RobMoir No, they came from Tesco's, so not really knock off. I didn't buy them though, my housemate did, so there's every chance she bought cheapo ones
I'm setting up servers at our new office and I brought a spare managed switch with 2 Gig ports to run all of our phones(VOIP) and workstations. Now for the servers I got a separate gigabit switch.(not managed) Will there be any difference if I connect a second ethernet cable between the switches?...
We've been kicking the CFLs out for LEDs gradually, damn things are expensive... spent $200 on bulbs the other day. Though we actually still haven't killed off all the incandescents that were here when we moved in a year ago.
Interesting scenario actually - if the managed switch does STP, the dumb switch will probably send the BPDU right back to the managed switch out the other link. It'd normally block the non-root port that it gets that BPDU back on, but it won't block because it's the root bridge. Ever so close to avoiding the catastrophic loop - if only the root bridge were elsewhere.
I forgot how fun broadcast storms are. I was at a customer's site on Tuesday and we agreed to look at a problem they were having when they plugged some ethernet over power box in.
Turned out when they plugged it in, a network storm happened and crashed all the crappy networking equipment they had on site. By plugging that in, I managed to crash 2 "Smart" Netgear switches and a Draytek router. Great fun :-)
If someone sold me a switch and said it was managed, but it turned out it wasn't I'd be breaking down their door and cramming said switch up their ass until they gave me a refund or a managed switch like I wanted
@Holocryptic In the uk, we have distance selling regulations which basically mean that if a product is sold online, but unfit for purpose, the seller has to accept a return.
1) Don't deal with vendors who don't know their products.
2) Don't deal with vendors who don't take returns.
@BenPilbrow Yeah. I bought the fanless one for a new office build i did recently.
@BenPilbrow I'm usually pretty pleased with HP kit. We've got some problems at $currentjob where the backplane blocks up, and causes issues that can kernelpanic connected PCs
HP's networking stuff is really good actually, for my needs at least - never had a problem with them. Unlike the Netgear ones I replaced, which were awful and kept crashing. Plus I get brownie points for a decent switch at non-cisco prices :-)
@TomOConnor @BenPilbrow - we're using HP procurve switches for a 10gb network and they've been great. Not had any break down and I can only think of one bug - if the power fails, comes back and then fails again before coming back properly then some of the modules in the switch chassis don't seem to start right, but then the cure for that is plug them into a UPS like god intended.
I think it is spectacular, and I haven't played any of the previous elder scrolls. I tried to play Oblivion (the last one) and didn't like it at all, but Skyrim, ahh, just wonderous
@TylerShads NWN et al and in particular a server in Sweden and another in Oregon was the last time I was gaming - I didn't move to WoW as I wanted an RL
Let's do this. What with the DramaLlama being out in full force, I think it's time to take a breather and bring the funny back. To wit: I propose the Santification of your gravatars till after the new year. Some of us have already gotten started. You can use the image as your baseline.
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kitteh head bonk of approval
