Net Down

| September 5, 2005

The company at which I work provides network management services to a variety of companies here in the US and around the world. Our system here periodically checks the routers and switches that we manage. We can tell that a network interface has flapped, we can spot a T1 problem, we can tell that a […]

Jargon Overload

| August 17, 2005

Today was Day Three at The New Job. It again struck me, as I closely observed my new colleagues dealing with the effects of the Zotob virus that struck yesterday, this truly is Geek Heaven. What I found particularly striking was the sheer number of three- and four-letter acronyms being tossed about with reckless abandon, […]