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U KNOW IT's FRIDAY PART DEUX 1
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silverhairb
IS-IT--Management
Burt,
Thanks for your ongoing support. I am ancient, but look older than my age. I was involved in some of the earlier projects you might have heard of. Like the development of the wheel, managing and securing fire (my first experience with security). We really had a good time when we invented counting. We counted EVERYTHING. In a spirit of good taste and in trying to keep within the bounds of the forum rules, I can't properly describe all of the things we counted.
[the other] Bill
Thanks for your ongoing support. I am ancient, but look older than my age. I was involved in some of the earlier projects you might have heard of. Like the development of the wheel, managing and securing fire (my first experience with security). We really had a good time when we invented counting. We counted EVERYTHING. In a spirit of good taste and in trying to keep within the bounds of the forum rules, I can't properly describe all of the things we counted.
[the other] Bill
silverhairb
IS-IT--Management
I didn't invent music. That was Sid Caesar. Now HE was old!
[the other] Bill
[the other] Bill
silverhairb
IS-IT--Management
Check out the movie "Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". But watch the whole thing.
[the other] Bill
[the other] Bill
Happy B-day Tim aka Burt aka Buirt!
Wow, it's been awhile since I saw Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World. First time was in theaters. There were actually drive-ins back in those days...
Yep, TOB (the other Bill), I too remember the days when fire was invented. I was on the working group that was developing sand and dirt at the time. We had not yet combined the fire with the sand to create silicon chips, though.
We had an ancillary project to create intelligent life, but only had moderate success there. Don't think that project ever got legs.
Of course, the discovery of air...that was something! Ahh, the good old days...
Wow, it's been awhile since I saw Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World. First time was in theaters. There were actually drive-ins back in those days...
Yep, TOB (the other Bill), I too remember the days when fire was invented. I was on the working group that was developing sand and dirt at the time. We had not yet combined the fire with the sand to create silicon chips, though.
We had an ancillary project to create intelligent life, but only had moderate success there. Don't think that project ever got legs.
Of course, the discovery of air...that was something! Ahh, the good old days...
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silverhairb
IS-IT--Management
Well, its Friday again and here we are on another Friday thread. This one was started on Wednesday at silly o'clock in the morning.
So how far have we come? Burt/Tim/Buirt is a year older, we're watching movies, reminiscing about projects we we worked on in our early days and trying to figure out whether any intelligent life survives on earth.
Looks like we pretty much stayed on topic for this thread.
I'm heading out for the weekend. Going to scare up some trout in the hills of Tennessee, at least as long as I can keep the ice out of the guides on my flyrod. Back to the flack Monday afternoon.
Have a great weekend!!
[the other] Bill
So how far have we come? Burt/Tim/Buirt is a year older, we're watching movies, reminiscing about projects we we worked on in our early days and trying to figure out whether any intelligent life survives on earth.
Looks like we pretty much stayed on topic for this thread.
I'm heading out for the weekend. Going to scare up some trout in the hills of Tennessee, at least as long as I can keep the ice out of the guides on my flyrod. Back to the flack Monday afternoon.
Have a great weekend!!
[the other] Bill
CiscoGuy33
Instructor
To all,
Happy Friday!!
To stay on a networking topic AND the old days - when I first started at the college I work at in 1996, the lab I work in had 48 stations - 24 were dumb terminals for the IBM AS 400 and 24 were dumb terminals for the VAX - sign on the door to this day still says "VAX Lab".
We were a Novell network 3.11 (I think) and the infastructure was Cabletron - we had 3 24 port switches with 6-8 24 port hubs hanging off each switch. Each switch had a 100MG copper "uplink" to the rest of the college network. We had 3 IBM 486-66 servers running the Novell network.
About 1998 we went Cisco and replaced the Cabletron stuff with a Cisco CAT 4006 with 2 GIG fiber connections to the "rest of the school" and a Cisco 3548 with 1 fiber uplink, the IBM servers have been replaced with Dell servers. Several years ago I added 3 Cisco 1200 APs connected to a Cisco 3950?? - do not recall, all I know is that it has a GIG fiber uplink and does power over Ethernet for the AP's .
I have seen a lot of change in 13 years!!
Burt,
I have about 13 years on you, I will be 50 in September :-(
E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +
I think I've blocked out most of from when I first started at the hospital 10-11 years ago.
Had 386's still on the desktop, some 486, just got in the pentium 200's when I started. No clue how many servers any more, but was NetWare 4.1x when I started. Still had terminals out there for the as400. I'm guessing just a couple hundred total computers for our department to run. 56k Frame-relay circuits to our remote sites, etc. Bay5000 hubs in the closets with a Fore Switch at the core.
Today...moving slowly from Novell to Windows, more like a couple thousand workstations, and I just had to update my equipment demographics:
90 - 3750 switches
75 - 2950 switches
5 - 6500 switches
49 - routers (2800 and 3800s)
284 - access points.
Lost track of some of the other stuff.
Smallest WAN connection is T1 frame-relay.
Oh yeah...and growing.
And that's the system that I'm mainly responsible for with 1 other tech. Have 3 others that we try to help cross support with.
Of course, my job role here has changed almost as much if not more in all that time.
Had 386's still on the desktop, some 486, just got in the pentium 200's when I started. No clue how many servers any more, but was NetWare 4.1x when I started. Still had terminals out there for the as400. I'm guessing just a couple hundred total computers for our department to run. 56k Frame-relay circuits to our remote sites, etc. Bay5000 hubs in the closets with a Fore Switch at the core.
Today...moving slowly from Novell to Windows, more like a couple thousand workstations, and I just had to update my equipment demographics:
90 - 3750 switches
75 - 2950 switches
5 - 6500 switches
49 - routers (2800 and 3800s)
284 - access points.
Lost track of some of the other stuff.
Smallest WAN connection is T1 frame-relay.
Oh yeah...and growing.
And that's the system that I'm mainly responsible for with 1 other tech. Have 3 others that we try to help cross support with.
Of course, my job role here has changed almost as much if not more in all that time.
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That's a nice setup Dalt! Bet it keeps you busy! We should definitely have a Happy Friday Part Tre!
Gene, When you get ready (CCNA Security) let me know and I will give you a list of the books/tools I found most useful!
So far, other than the CiscoPress Guide I really like 'Practical Cryptography' by Neils Ferguson and Bruce Scheier! The first half of this book follows the CISCO guide to a T! Just more info!
B Haines
CCNA R&S, ETA FOI
Gene, When you get ready (CCNA Security) let me know and I will give you a list of the books/tools I found most useful!
So far, other than the CiscoPress Guide I really like 'Practical Cryptography' by Neils Ferguson and Bruce Scheier! The first half of this book follows the CISCO guide to a T! Just more info!
B Haines
CCNA R&S, ETA FOI
CiscoGuy33
Instructor
Burt,
You said - "My brother Dan turns 40 9/13...we're gonna throw him a nice little bash... " I will turn 50 9/14 .... I am sure it will be cake and coffee at the coffee shop and cake at work ... which is fine with me
Dalt,
I only deal with 1 department (Computer Science) computers - about 450, projectors about 10, printers about 15, servers about 10 and also the Cisco Network Academy - about 30 routers and 25 switches on about 10 racks. All the infastructure - routers, switches and firewalls etc for the college are handled by OIT over 8 different campuses accross the city.
They handle the switch, I handle the wires leading out of the switches to my department equipment. We have a little overlap but get along pretty well!!
It was impossible when the college out-sourced OIT for about 5 years - but the college was paying BIG $$$$$$$ for NOTHING - we got sooooo far behind in technology in those 5 years, NOW the VP for OIT has been digging us out and bringing the college into the 21st Cent. for the past 3 years!
E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +
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Gene---did I mention that we still cover service on some PDP-11's, VAX-11's, and in St. Louis, we have some VAX 6620's and MicroVAX-II? I showed Billy the MicroVAX II, and he said, "Man, that's older than ME!"lol
He also liked the HSC-80 (DEC) that loaded the OS on a 51/4" floppy, like the Commodore VIC-20/Commodore 64. I a-dore...my Commodore-64!"lol
The HSC-80 normally connected to an external storage hard drive, 250MB-1.2GB. The thing sat on the floor, and was about 2 1/2' by 2 1/2', 1 1/2' high, and you would replace the platters (like 2' in diameter). Fun fun fun...gotta love those U.S.Army records centers...
Burt
He also liked the HSC-80 (DEC) that loaded the OS on a 51/4" floppy, like the Commodore VIC-20/Commodore 64. I a-dore...my Commodore-64!"lol
The HSC-80 normally connected to an external storage hard drive, 250MB-1.2GB. The thing sat on the floor, and was about 2 1/2' by 2 1/2', 1 1/2' high, and you would replace the platters (like 2' in diameter). Fun fun fun...gotta love those U.S.Army records centers...
Burt
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