On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:11:46AM -0400, Lord Isildur wrote:
> 
> ah, ok.. 
> heh yeah i got a couple of delnis with a rack full of 3000/400 alphas hooked
> into them.. i likewise think theyre ueber-cool :) hehehe

i've got two 8-port cabletrons.  i love them, having tranceivers everywhere is
a giant PITA, but as long as you can keep your AUI machines close (or have long
drop cables) you can easily keep everything nice and neat.  plus, 1 ethernet
switch + 2 MAUs = more blinkinlights since tranceivers tend to get stuck
behind machines. :)

> > and you live in pittsburg?  will you marry me? *evil grin* [1]
> 
> rotfl! 

glad you took this the right way instead of getting bent all outta shape (which
i was afraid would happen)

> actually, a bit of both. i have one segemtn of thick, salvaged from
> when they were pulling a bunch of the stuff out of wean hall (i work at CMU)
> but most of it is thin. nothing wrong with that.. even a shitty piece of thin
> can carry a microwave signal relatively error-free. good quality thick is

i've had no end of trouble with thin, plus i don't like the fact that one
luser employee can FSCK everything up big time.  i used to use thin at home
and when i switched to UTP, my transmition speeds went way up, maybe i had
bad wire, but still, i've been with UTP ever since, and i love it.  although
Thick rules, i've never used it at home.  maybe it's time though, would make
it easy to hook up some of the machines in the living room. :)

> absolutely awesome though.. it is almost an insult to just run a lousy 
> 5MHz ethernet signal over it when it can handle a 30 GHz signal.. hehehe
> so far the FDDI only connects some turbochannel pmaxen and a 3000/600 alpha,
> i only have 4 DEFZAs.. but it is also way cool.. 

i think FDDI is great.  i like the token passing scheme, and the complete
redundancy that is afforded, bliss. :)  i wish i had DEFZAs so i could hook my
TurboChannel boxen into the ring, but i have none or have not been able to
find any.

> i just wish electricity was cheaper (or i happened to have 20 pounds of 
> Pu and a machine shop.. :), it is too expensive to run all the iron!
> (the rack of 3k400s is sucking the university's electricity, not mine :)

i don't mind the cost of electricity, i just wish i owned this house so i could
rewire it, but i just have to keep telling myself to be patient and wait until
the end of the year when i move, and will buy a house (this is the LAST time
that i rent)

if i turn everything on and repeatedly blow a 15A breaker. :)

-brian