Wow Ye a Man of Many Talents .. Spoken Word be one of them I would have thought naught !
The Big C M hath spoken... so let this thread be naught ! :) Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net > From: "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2017 7:56:49 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Matt Hoppes and Missouri IX > You got it: > Posts of snark, posts so cussed > full of butt hurt, bitches not just > I scatter these posts, these posts of rage > take thine ignorant friend, make him age > I see thine missives before me now > I trash them, delete them, filter them down > With these keystrokes I now do pwn > Make thine mouse balls turn to stone > With this hex I curse this thread > further thoughts - pain in head > So mote it be! > From: Mitch Koep > Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2017 5:38 PM > To: af@afmug.com ; Faisal Imtiaz > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Matt Hoppes and Missouri IX > Will somebody PLEASE kill this string????? > LOL it will go on and on forever > Mitch > On 8/6/2017 3:32 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: > Are you prepared to give your customers a 'Tour of the Facilities?' > We normally like to have a tour of the facilities before we engage for > service. > We also have 'informal' colo facilities, for which we highly encourage > customers > to visit before deciding to utilize. > How does this 'relate' to a pictures of racks and cables ? which could be > anywhere... > BWT.... in case you all have not seen the large posters from Equinix.... they > are using a beautiful picture of high rises in Dubai... should we be offended > that are they using an awesome picture of high-rises from a foreign country > when they are a US Based company ? > Dude, get over it .. .there is a fine line in advertising.... and everyone > dresses up for the formal presentation .... So What ? > :) > Faisal Imtiaz > Snappy Internet & Telecom > 7266 SW 48 Street > Miami, FL 33155 > Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 > Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net > From: "Matt Hoppes" mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2017 12:03:11 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Matt Hoppes and Missouri IX > So let me throw this out. I advertise a colo facility with generator backup. > Post pictures like this. > Actual facility is a back room in an office with racks from Lowe's and a roll > out generator we plug in with extension cords. > At what point is this a problem? > On Aug 6, 2017, at 11:37 AM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > Pre-patch a bunch of stuff into pre-populated SFPs and when orders are > submitted, the data center's cross connect crew does all the work. No need to > visit the facility regularly. :-) > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > Midwest Internet Exchange > The Brothers WISP > From: "Paul Stewart" <p...@paulstewart.org> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2017 10:35:54 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Matt Hoppes and Missouri IX > I'm not sure IX employees ever really work in the MMR, rarely in the data > center > at all. Once a month? Once every other month? > Depends on the IX (as I get off topic here) … some of them are daily in MMR’s. > As for DC’s themselves, I can speak personally about one IX in particular > where > it’s 2-3 times a week I’d estimate and another one that is manned within the > DC > 24x7. > An MMR not maintained by volunteers, but the paid building management. No > one's > volunteered blood, sweat and tears went into it. Someone paid to do it was. > True … but lots of volunteers from IX’s sometimes have access to the MMR’s to > do > their work. It varies of course… quite a number of IX’s use colo providers > whom > are paid to do that MMR work but that’s not alway the case …. > Anyways - moot points here and I’m dropping from the conversation as probably > not helping here :) > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > Midwest Internet Exchange > The Brothers WISP > From: "Paul Stewart" <p...@paulstewart.org> > To: "Animal Farm" <af@afmug.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2017 6:56:15 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Matt Hoppes and Missouri IX > I believe the issue is that the picture may not represent the actual IX in > question (or MMR of the building where the IX is located might be more > accurate). Basically, and pardon me possibly putting words in some people’s > mouthes here, when a group of people put a lot of work into something and then > a picture of that work is used elsewhere to possibly resemble where a > potential > employee would work then it’s just misleading and could be considered > offensive > to the people who did all the work originally ….. make sense? > You’ll notice my choice of words here because I’m making assumptions about why > the folks involved are upset and try to put myself in their shoes, at which > point, if I have all my facts straight, I would be quite upset as well because > it would look like someone else is taking complete credit for someone else’s > work …. In the world of IX’s (something I do know a lot about) there is often > people who don’t get pay checks as they volunteer however they get the rewards > to contributing towards a great thing for the community … if you haven’t been > involved at that level you may not understand anything I’m suggesting here …. > Paul > On Aug 5, 2017, at 8:42 PM, Mitch Koep <af...@abwisp.com> wrote: > Question?? > Eric > Why are you so upset? > Did you have a bad dealing with someone and this is get back at them time? > I agree with Faisal it's a picture > Mitch > On 8/5/2017 11:29 AM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: > Share with you a related story.... > I was in a Conf. room of one of our Colo Facilities Providers, they had some > pictures on their Conf. Room wall, which all were nice.. but there was one > picture that caught eye and appeared to be very familiar.. it was a picture of > cluster of antennas mounted on the roof of that facility... > Upon a closer look, I recognized that that cluster was our antennas ! ... so > instantly two emotions came to mind... one was .. Hey that is a nice picture ! > I know to whom that stuff belongs to !... and the second... How dare you take > pictures of my equipment and hang it your conf. room (we don't buy roof access > from them) !... > To me personally, the former feeling overcame the latter reaction... and I > actually felt proud of our little Cluster that someone viewed presentable > enough to put in their conf. room. > Having said that.. if you are not the copyright owner of the photo.. then why > does it bother you at all ? Hopefully you should feel proud that picture of an > actual facility you know is being liked by others and being promoted on the > net... > and that is IMHO ! > Of course everyone is entitled to their opinions and your mileage may vary !. > :) > Faisal Imtiaz > Snappy Internet & Telecom > 7266 SW 48 Street > Miami, FL 33155 > Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 > Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net > From: "Eric Kuhnke" mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Friday, August 4, 2017 7:38:33 PM > Subject: [AFMUG] Matt Hoppes and Missouri IX > I am not the copyright owner of the photo in question. This is only a request. > Please stop using the photo of the Westin Building 1901 fiber meet-me room to > advertise the Missouri IX. > Property owners and ISPs in the Pacific Northwest have spent a great deal of > time, money and effort building traffic exchange infrastructure. > In my opinion is not an accurate or factual depiction of whatever facilities > may > currently exist in Missouri to use a photograph from a carrier hotel in > downtown Seattle. > <image.png>
