On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 9:40 AM Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote: > 4: Not too long after I started doing networking (and for the same small ISP > in Yonkers), I'm flying off to install a new customer. I (of course) think > that I'm hot stuff because I'm going to do the install, configure the router, > whee, look at me! Anyway, I don't want to check a bag, and so I stuff the > Cisco 2501 in a carryon bag, along with tools, etc (this was all pre-9/11!). > I'm going through security and the TSA[0] person opens my bag and pulls the > router out. "What's this?!" he asks. I politely tell him that it's a router. > He says it's not. I'm still thinking that I'm the new hotness, and so I tell > him in a somewhat condescending way that it is, and I know what I'm talking > about. He tells me that it's not a router, and is starting to get annoyed. I > explain using my "talking to a 5 year old" voice that it most certainly is a > router. He tells me that lying to airport security is a federal offense, and > starts looming at me. I adjust my attitude and start explaining that it's > like a computer and makes the Internet work. He gruffly hands me back the > router, I put it in my bag and scurry away. As I do so, I hear him telling > his colleague that it wasn't a router, and that he certainly knows what a > router is, because he does woodwork...
OK, Warren, achievement unlocked. You've just made a network engineer to google 'router'.... P.S. I guess I'm obliged to tell a story if I respond to this thread...so... "Servers and the ice cream factory". Late spring/early summer in Moscow. The temperature above 30C (86°F). I worked for a local content provided. Aircons in our server room died, the technician ETA was 2 days ( I guess we were not the only ones with aircon problems). So we drove to the nearby ice cream factory and got *a lot* of dry ice. Then we have a roaster: every few hours one person took a deep breath, grabbed a box of dry ice, ran into the server room and emptied the box on top of the racks. The backup person was watching through the glass door - just in case, you know, ready to start the rescue operation. We (and the servers) survived till the technician arrived. And we had a lot of dry ice to cool the beer.. -- SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry
