Friday, July 29th 2005

9:15am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 40.9 %
9:15am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 6.2 %

QOTD:

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Thursday, July 28th 2005

12:05pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 25.0 %
12:05pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.0 %

QOTD:
A young man wrote to Mozart and said:

Q: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies. Can you give me any suggestions as to how to get started?"

A: "A symphony is a very complex musical form, perhaps you should begin with some simple lieder and work your way up to a symphony."

Q: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old."

A: "But I never asked anybody how."

Wednesday, July 27th 2005

9:55am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 30.5 %
9:55am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 13.2 %

QOTD:
If in doubt, mumble.

Tuesday, July 26th 2005

10:30am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 55.6 %
10:30am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.2 %

Around 6:50 pm last night, power brownouts hung one of our network routers, causing the Internet to become inaccessible from ResNet. The router is back online and traffic is restored. We have taken precautions to try and prevent the brownouts from affecting the equipment... particularly during the active summer weather. More permanent power solutions will be put in place on Aug 7th when we take the network down for maintenance.

QOTD:
Armor's Axiom:

Virtue is the failure to achieve vice.

Monday, July 25th 2005

10:35am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 38.5 %
10:35am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.9 %

QOTD:
FORTUNE'S FAVORITE RECIPES: #8

Christmas Rum Cake

1 or 2 quarts rum
1 tbsp. baking powder
1 cup butter
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. lemon juice
2 large eggs
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups dried assorted fruit
3 cups chopped English walnuts

Before you start, sample the rum to check for quality. Good, isn't it? Now select a large mixing bowl, measuring cup, etc. Check the rum again. It must be just right. Be sure the rum is of the highest quality. Pour one cup of rum into a glass and drink it as fast as you can. Repeat. With an electric mixer, beat one cup butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 seaspoon of tugar and beat again. Meanwhile, make sure the rum teh absolutely highest quality. Sample another cup. Open second quart as necessary. Add 2 orge laggs, 2 cups of fried druit and beat untill high. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters, just pry it loose with a screwdriver. Sample the rum again, checking for toncisticity. Next sift 3 cups of baking powder, a pinch of rum, a seaspoon of toda and a cup of pepper or salt (it really doesn't matter). Sample some more. Sift 912 pint of lemon juice. Fold in schopped butter and strained chups. Add bablespoon of brown gugar, or whatever color you have. Mix mell. Grease oven and turn cake pan to 350 gredees and rake until poothtick comes out crean.

Friday, July 22nd 2005

9:25am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 38.0 %
9:25am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 6.5 %

QOTD:
Memory fault -- brain fried

Thursday, July 21st 2005

9:30am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 28.0 %
9:30am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 9.8 %

QOTD:

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning."

Wednesday, July 20th 2005

10:20am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 34.0 %
10:20am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 4.8 %

QOTD:

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by "Why do we eat?" and the third by "Where shall we have lunch?".

Tuesday, July 19th 2005

12:20pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 52.1 %
12:20pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 9.9 %

UPDATE: 12:30pm
We are now running on all three T1s. Verizon came out and tested their equipment. There was damage that could have been caused by electrical storms early Sunday morning. The damaged equipment has been replaced.

We have been up and running for two hours and no line failures. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

QOTD:

On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people. There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright, non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works best, write it down and make that the standard.

The OSI view is entirely opposite. You take written contributions from a much larger community, you put the contributions in a room of committee people with, quite honestly, vast political differences and all with their own political axes to grind, and four years later you get something out, usually without it ever having been implemented once.

So the Internet perspective is implement it, make it work well, then write it down, whereas the OSI perspective is to agree on it, write it down, circulate it a lot and now we'll see if anyone can implement it after it's an international standard and every vendor in the world is committed to it. One of those processes is backwards, and I don't think it takes a Lucasian professor of physics at Oxford to figure out which.

Monday, July 18th 2005

10:15am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 39.0 %
10:15am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 6.0 %

UPDATE: 12:08pm:
There were a few minutes of network congestion while Sprint was testing but that should be over now. Sprint has referred the call to Verizon to test the equipment the T1 runs over. More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: 4:30pm:
Verizon has not contacted our department yet. We're still at 66% but that should be enough for the overnight use since we rarely break 40% at night during the Summer. We will continue to try and reach resolution tomorrow.

QOTD:

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Friday, July 15th 2005

10:00am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 28.6 %
10:00am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 9.9 %

QOTD:
College:

The fountains of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink.

Thursday, July 14th 2005

9:35am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 45.3 %
3:35am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 12.9 %

QOTD:
Lost interest? It's so bad I've lost apathy.

Wednesday, July 13th 2005

11:25am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 24.6 %
11:25am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 9.1 %

QOTD:
Paul's Law:

You can't fall off the floor.

Tuesday, July 12th 2005

10:15am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 49.1 %
10:15am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 8.2 %

QOTD:
This place just isn't big enough for all of us. We've got to find a way off this planet.

Monday, July 11th 2005

10:30am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 40.3 %
10:30am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 11.0 %

QOTD:
Amoebit:

Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time.

Friday, July 8th 2005

8:50am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 13.0 %
8:50am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 4.8 %

QOTD:
So... did you ever wonder, do garbagemen take showers before they go to work?

Thursday, July 7th 2005

8:55am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 36.7 %
8:55am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.8 %

QOTD:
Yinkel, n.:

A person who combs his hair over his bald spot, hoping no one will notice.

Wednesday, July 6th 2005

9:05am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 40.7 %
9:05am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 9.6 %

QOTD:
Humor in the Court:

Q. And lastly, Gary, all your responses must be oral. O.K.? What school do you go to?
A. Oral.
Q. How old are you?
A. Oral.

Tuesday, July 5th 2005

9:35am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 47.3 %
9:35am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 8.5 %

One of our T1s went down at 1:35am on July 4th. Sprint repaired the problem and we were back on line by 5:30am. Since we still had two T1s and Summer is not a high traffic time, the impact was minimal.

QOTD:

I have a map of the United States. It's actual size. I spent last summer folding it. People ask me where I live, and I say, "E6".

Friday, July 1st 2005

10:00am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 18.9 %
10:00am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 7.5 %

QOTD:

"Are you sure you're not an encyclopedia salesman?"
"No, Ma'am. Just a burglar, come to ransack the flat."