Alde’s Stuff

It’s the curse of the high level network engineer… To always be on call. Because your job requires you to engineer mission critical and company wide networks, no matter how well you document (or how well you forget to document due to your extreme lack of time) your network, something will always go wrong, and you will get a call/page. So the object is to engineer the network to a point that it’s simple to maintain. I call it the Drunken Master network engineering technique.

Imagine, you’re over at a friends house party, which happens to feature 12 different brands of Vodka and whatever you wish to mix with it. (My friend Matt says if you mix anything more than ice with it, it’s an insult to the Vodka, but I’m all about making my Vodka angry with me; an angry Vodka tends to get one drunker faster). Now, you’ve had quite a few drinks, and at about 1:45am, you get a page… The network is down and it’s impacting customers. What do you do? You know you can’t call on anyone else; they can’t fix anything and will probably make things worse. You can’t call your boss; he’ll just keep asking “Is it fixed yet? How about now?”. This is why you engineered your network to the Drunken Master technique. Your network is so simple, you can fix it and troubleshoot it three sheets to the wind.

You get on the router, fix the Ospf issue (Damn, you forgot to set the DR priority correctly), and go back to having your brain smashed out by a golden brick wrapped by a lemon.

Woe be the network engineer that makes his network unnecessarily complicated; No partying for You!

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My wife and I went out shopping today, mainly because of a 50% off sale at Linen’s and Things (Got some Riter Sport amongst other tastiness). We drove by the nearby Best Buy, and noticed that there were people with tents camping out, for what I thought was the PS3, but when we got to Target, we realized it wasn’t for the PS3, it was for the Wii . Holy crap. Did people not understand that it was Sony who was having the manufacturing problems, not Nintendo? And Tents? I looked at the 13 launch titles. Not one of them was worth wasting my time waiting for the game:

1. Resistance: Fall Of Man - Sony
2. NBA ‘07 - Sony
3. Genji: Days of The Blade - Sony
4. Blazing Angels - Ubisoft
5. Call of Duty 3 - Activision
6. Fight Night Round 3 - Electronic Arts
7. Elder Scro lls IV: Oblivion - Bethesda Softworks
8. F.E.A.R. - Vivendi Universal Games
9. Full Auto 2: Battlelines - Sega
10. Madden NFL 07 - Electronic Arts
11. Marvel Ult imate Alliance - Activision
12. Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire - Namco Bandai Games
13. NBA 2K7 - 2K Sports
14. Need for Speed Carbon - Electronic Arts
15. NHL 2K7- 2K Sports
16. Ridge Racer 7 - NAMCO BANDAI Games
17. Sonic the Hedgehog - Sega
18. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - Electronic Arts
19. Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom - Sony Online Entertainment

Ok, so about the only interesting one is Tony Hawk, but not enough. About the only really cool thing out for the PS3 so far is that it will run Linux. Wonder when someone will hack it for a larger Harddrive, add a USB TV-Tuner, and port MythTV to it?

Ok, so I’ve bit the bullet and decided to actually do something again with this site. I plan to continue the Japanese Snack orientation, but will be looking to talk more about things that interest me in general.

About me:

Name: Pete

Age: 30-somthing (Damn I hate Timothy Busfield…)

Location: New Jersey

Interests: Anime, Pocky, X Japan, Console Gaming, Asian Cinema (Hong Kong and Japanese cinema mainly, but I love a good Bollywood musical), Technology, Internet Networking (my day job), Sports (Rugby, Hockey, Australian Rules Football, American Football and Car Racing of all sorts [F1, Indy, NASCAR, CART, etc], Cycling [Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Espana, etc]).