Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:34 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote: At my $JOB[-1] they laughed at me when I pulled a Wyse out of the trash bin and stuck it on a spare crash cart. Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial, etc. Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device about the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machines in colos that would give you keyboard, video mouse. i.e. a folding netbook shaped VGA monitor with USB keyboard and touchpad. I know there are folding rackmount versions of this (i.e. from Dell), but I want something far more portable. Twice in the past month, I'd had to drive 100+ miles to a remote colo and took a full size flat panel monitor and keyboard with me. Has anyone actually built this yet? Actually, everything necessary to do that is present in the new Macbook Pros with Thunderbolt. It would just take a dongle with the VGA input and the USB outputs and some minor changes to Target Display Mode Software. Owen
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
+1 for Raritan... I was very happy with their KVM switches at my last job. Owen On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Matthew Black wrote: Take a look at Raritan. We use their product to gain remote access to system consoles. No more driving 100s of miles. Ok, it would be 200 feet for us. matthew black information technology services bh-188 california state university, long beach -Original Message- From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jle...@lewis.org] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:35 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote: At my $JOB[-1] they laughed at me when I pulled a Wyse out of the trash bin and stuck it on a spare crash cart. Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial, etc. Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device about the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machines in colos that would give you keyboard, video mouse. i.e. a folding netbook shaped VGA monitor with USB keyboard and touchpad. I know there are folding rackmount versions of this (i.e. from Dell), but I want something far more portable. Twice in the past month, I'd had to drive 100+ miles to a remote colo and took a full size flat panel monitor and keyboard with me. Has anyone actually built this yet? -- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net| _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_
Re: Common operational misconceptions
On Monday, February 20, 2012 09:07:20 PM Jimmy Hess wrote: RJ45 is really an example of what was originally a misconception became so widespread, so universal, that reality has actually shifted so the misconception became reality. When was the last time you ever heard anyone say 8P8C connector? And then there's the 10C variant used on some serial port interfaces (like those from Equinox). '8 pin modular plug' is reasonable, though, and is what I'll typically say, with the modifier 'for stranded' or 'for solid' conductors, as it does make a difference. I haven't said 'RJ45 plug' in years. Yeah, it's a bummer that the keyed RJ45 plug got genericized to the unkeyed variant; at least the unkeyed plug used for TIA568A/B will work in a true RJ45 jack.
Re: Common operational misconceptions
Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Monday, February 20, 2012 09:07:20 PM Jimmy Hess wrote: RJ45 is really an example of what was originally a misconception became so widespread, so universal, that reality has actually shifted so the misconception became reality. When was the last time you ever heard anyone say 8P8C connector? And then there's the 10C variant used on some serial port interfaces (like those from Equinox). At least RJ45-X is still unambiguus. wry grin
Re: Single-port Network KVM
Not exactly what was asked originally but consider using Dell PowerEdge servers with Enterprise iDRAC component. You get nice IP-KVM + power switch. This adds around $300 to the overall server price. BTW, looks like this iDRAC is implemented on the base of Avocent gear which is one of the best in IP-KVMs. I'm completely satisfied using iDRACs in a number of servers. Just my $0.05. Dmitry Cherkasov 2012/2/20 Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com: - Original Message - From: Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com There are others. This one appears to be web/java based rather than VNC, though that probably isn't a killer for most people. I thought I'd seen a little dongle-y model; I'll look around a bit more. Didn't read far enough; Jussi Peltola posted this downthread: http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/kvm-over-ip/securelinx-spiderduo.html That's the item I wanted, and it's only $200. And Lantronix' support department is arguably the best hardware vendor support organization I have *ever* worked with. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
Can someone give me a link or part number on the Raritan site? I see LCD consoles but they are the generic slide out versions. Looking for the netbook concept referenced below -Hammer- I was a normal American nerd -Jack Herer On 2/21/2012 3:51 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: +1 for Raritan... I was very happy with their KVM switches at my last job. Owen On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Matthew Black wrote: Take a look at Raritan. We use their product to gain remote access to system consoles. No more driving 100s of miles. Ok, it would be 200 feet for us. matthew black information technology services bh-188 california state university, long beach -Original Message- From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jle...@lewis.org] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:35 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote: At my $JOB[-1] they laughed at me when I pulled a Wyse out of the trash bin and stuck it on a spare crash cart. Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial, etc. Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device about the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machines in colos that would give you keyboard, video mouse. i.e. a folding netbook shaped VGA monitor with USB keyboard and touchpad. I know there are folding rackmount versions of this (i.e. from Dell), but I want something far more portable. Twice in the past month, I'd had to drive 100+ miles to a remote colo and took a full size flat panel monitor and keyboard with me. Has anyone actually built this yet? -- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net| _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_
Re: Common operational misconceptions
Op 15-2-2012 21:47, John Kristoff schreef: Hi friends, As some of you may know, I occasionally teach networking to college students and I frequently encounter misconceptions about some aspect of networking that can take a fair amount of effort to correct. For instance, a topic that has come up on this list before is how the inappropriate use of classful terminology is rampant among students, books and often other teachers. Furthermore, the terminology isn't even always used correctly in the original context of classful addressing. I have a handful of common misconceptions that I'd put on a top 10 list, but I'd like to solicit from this community what it considers to be the most annoying and common operational misconceptions future operators often come at you with. I'd prefer replies off-list and can summarize back to the list if there is interest. John Haven't seen this one yet: TCP/IP is based on the osi model. Erik van Westen.
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:16:28PM -0800, Chaim Rieger wrote: Apple stickers I've got half a sheet of NeXT stickers left. Is that a reasonable substitute?
Re: Laptop with reverse VGA
- Original Message - From: Jake Khuon kh...@neebu.net I think the form-factour is already there. I have a Motorola Atrix smartphone. It's available with a laptop-dock unit. This is essentially a USB hub and display. The display is connected by outputting from the phone's HDMI port. The rest of the input/output device (keyboard and trackpad) are seen as USB connected devices and interfaced via the phone's USB port (Atrix supports USB host mode). Essentially, this laptop dock is what people are talking about except for a generic host instead of for a phone. We would want to expose the HDMI input generically and probably with an additional VGA input. Of course there are also VGA-HDMI converters. Anyone wanna ring up Motorola to see if they're interesting in adapting the Atrix laptop-dock technology? As someone who's done video for 20 years, I can tell you, Jake: It ain't that easy. The interface on the Atrix is purpose-built, and it's almost certainly just a DVI/HDMI digital interface to a panel that expects that. What's necessary for a standalone KVM of the sort we're talking about is what the video people call a genlock circuit -- most machines that need this at all have analog VGA out, and you have to have a chip that can lock up to it, and extract the video from that analog signal cleanly. This is, to quote the Jargon file, decidedly non-trivial to do well. That's the reason why a single port unit, not on sale, is generally around $400. If it was DVI/HDMI *only*, it could be substantially cheaper, but I've never seen one that was. Cheers, - jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Re: Common operational misconceptions
- Original Message - From: Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com RJ45 is really an example of what was originally a misconception became so widespread, so universal, that reality has actually shifted so the misconception became reality. When was the last time you ever heard anyone say 8P8C connector? Joe public caught on to RJ45, so now that word means something different in common usage than what it was specified to be. When was the last time you heard someone say 8P8C connector in reference to Ethernet? WADR: horseshit. I, in fact, just wrote a cabling RFQ yesterday for a new building, and *I* write 8P8C male modular connector. So, in short: if you *actually need to be saying it*, you actually need to be saying it correctly, because you're talking to people who know the difference. They won't say anything, mind you, and you'll get what you want; they'll just think you're a clueless dilettante. Cheers, -- jr 'yes, I'm a prescriptivist[1]' a [1] The *point* of language is communication; this is impossible if words mean what people want them to mean, no more, no less. -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
http://www.raritan.com/products/kvm-over-ip/ Owen On Feb 21, 2012, at 5:57 AM, -Hammer- wrote: Can someone give me a link or part number on the Raritan site? I see LCD consoles but they are the generic slide out versions. Looking for the netbook concept referenced below -Hammer- I was a normal American nerd -Jack Herer On 2/21/2012 3:51 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: +1 for Raritan... I was very happy with their KVM switches at my last job. Owen On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Matthew Black wrote: Take a look at Raritan. We use their product to gain remote access to system consoles. No more driving 100s of miles. Ok, it would be 200 feet for us. matthew black information technology services bh-188 california state university, long beach -Original Message- From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jle...@lewis.org] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:35 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote: At my $JOB[-1] they laughed at me when I pulled a Wyse out of the trash bin and stuck it on a spare crash cart. Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial, etc. Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device about the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machines in colos that would give you keyboard, video mouse. i.e. a folding netbook shaped VGA monitor with USB keyboard and touchpad. I know there are folding rackmount versions of this (i.e. from Dell), but I want something far more portable. Twice in the past month, I'd had to drive 100+ miles to a remote colo and took a full size flat panel monitor and keyboard with me. Has anyone actually built this yet? -- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net| _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
The Trendnet TU-S9 (works on 32 and 64bit), it uses the prolific chip and it's pretty cheap, making it fit for a vending machine. Trendnet could actually use the Franks Hot Sauce commercial on TV to advertise, the one that the old lady says I put that s$@t on everything. P.S.: I don't work for trendnet :) -- Michael Gatti main. 949.371.5474 (UTC -8) On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org wrote: In a message written on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:35:15PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: Please post your top 3 favorite components/parts you'd like to see in a vending machine at your colo; please be as specific as possible; don't let vendor specificity scare you off. USB-Serial adapters. Preferably selected so they are driverless on both OSX and Windows. :) The trick is to look for one that works on OpenBSD. If it works there, it will work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. YMMV. :-)
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
The 30lb sledge hammer should be in the parking lot in a enclosure with a front glass that reads Break in case of extreme frustration right next to the dumpster for recycling hardware. You could make a living just with that business, replacing the front glass. -- Michael Gatti main. 949.371.5474 (UTC -8) On Feb 17, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote: On 12-02-17 03:05 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: Did anybody say beer yet? Don't forget the 30lb sledgehammer for those times when, ah, percussive maintenance is the only possible solution. ;) (Might be a bit hard to fit into a vending machine though... maybe the colo staff could just rent one out...) - Pete
IX in France
Hi All, We are currently looking to connect to one of the IX's available in Paris, It seems that there are 2 major players - FranceIX and Equinix FR, can anyone share their opinions about those? Thanks, Ido smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: IX in France
On Feb 21, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Ido Szargel wrote: Hi All, We are currently looking to connect to one of the IX's available in Paris, It seems that there are 2 major players - FranceIX and Equinix FR, can anyone share their opinions about those? At my former employer we connected to PARIX and don't recall any issues there. www.parix.net (seems to be down right now). - Jared
Re: Laptop with reverse VGA
On 21/02/12 14:48, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Jake Khuonkh...@neebu.net I think the form-factour is already there. I have a Motorola Atrix smartphone. It's available with a laptop-dock unit. This is essentially a USB hub and display. The display is connected by outputting from the phone's HDMI port. The rest of the input/output device (keyboard and trackpad) are seen as USB connected devices and interfaced via the phone's USB port (Atrix supports USB host mode). Essentially, this laptop dock is what people are talking about except for a generic host instead of for a phone. We would want to expose the HDMI input generically and probably with an additional VGA input. Of course there are also VGA-HDMI converters. Anyone wanna ring up Motorola to see if they're interesting in adapting the Atrix laptop-dock technology? As someone who's done video for 20 years, I can tell you, Jake: It ain't that easy. The interface on the Atrix is purpose-built, and it's almost certainly just a DVI/HDMI digital interface to a panel that expects that. What's necessary for a standalone KVM of the sort we're talking about is what the video people call a genlock circuit -- most machines that need this at all have analog VGA out, and you have to have a chip that can lock up to it, and extract the video from that analog signal cleanly. This is, to quote the Jargon file, decidedly non-trivial to do well. That's the reason why a single port unit, not on sale, is generally around $400. If it was DVI/HDMI *only*, it could be substantially cheaper, but I've never seen one that was. Cheers, - jra High prices are more likely to do with the small market for such devices, than to do with the cost of the underlying technology. It isn't so much genlock, as accurate pixel clock recovery, that's the hard thing. It is indeed hard to do well, but fortunately the chipmakers have done all that for you. It's a common enough need (think flat panel monitors) that there are inexpensive single-chip solutions for it that not only do the A/D conversion, but handle the pixel clock recovery for you as well: see, for example, the Analog Devices AD9884A or ADV7441A. Data sheets at http://www.analog.com/en/audiovideo-products/analoghdmidvi-interfaces/ad9884a/products/product.html and http://www.analog.com/en/analog-to-digital-converters/video-decoders/adv7441a/products/product.html respectively. -- Neil
Re: Laptop with reverse VGA
- Original Message - From: Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk High prices are more likely to do with the small market for such devices, than to do with the cost of the underlying technology. Sure. Not being on the consumer part of the S-curve will kill you. It isn't so much genlock, as accurate pixel clock recovery, that's the hard thing. That's the fundamental component of genlock, I think, isn't it? It is indeed hard to do well, but fortunately the chipmakers have done all that for you. It's a common enough need (think flat panel monitors) that there are inexpensive single-chip solutions for it that not only do the A/D conversion, but handle the pixel clock recovery for you as well: see, for example, the Analog Devices AD9884A or ADV7441A. Yeah; I knew (or was pretty sure) that it was down to the chip level at this point, but as you say, for driving the price down, there's nothing like the single-chip solution, and this is apparently just far enough off the edge of the popularity curve that it's not in any single-chip solutions (that I know of, and board-level hardware isn't really my game). Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Re: Laptop with reverse VGA
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:45:02PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: Yeah; I knew (or was pretty sure) that it was down to the chip level at this point, but as you say, for driving the price down, there's nothing like the single-chip solution, and this is apparently just far enough off the edge of the popularity curve that it's not in any single-chip solutions (that I know of, and board-level hardware isn't really my game). Practically all desktop LCDs do have a single chip that eats VGA and outputs LVDS. All you would need is a suitable ROM with modelines for it to work with a laptop screen. But these parts run hot and come in gigantic TQFP packages (when compared to the form factor of ICs in laptops.) Making a replacement card that fits in a laptop instead of the motherboard is quite possible. Sadly, I have neither the time nor the motivation since I already have a SpiderDuo :)
Re: IX in France
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 18:46 +0200, Ido Szargel wrote: Hi All, We are currently looking to connect to one of the IX's available in Paris, It seems that there are 2 major players - FranceIX and Equinix FR, can anyone share their opinions about those? Hi, We're connected to both (and to a smaller third one named FR-IX), it's not that expensive and adds redundancy to join many peers. Sincerely, Laurent
Re: DNS Attacks
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: be assigned again, so a static filter policy will return to bite us again like it always does. sure, so you are saying there's a timelimit on how long the supposed ISP can run this infrastructure... and that they have until then to lower their loss rate(s) when customers are cutoff and call their support center because: The Intertubes are down!. sounds accurate to me... of course, they've already been getting notifications of infected folks, so hopefully they have a jump on the problem already? :) it's wishful thinking monday! -chris
Re: DNS Attacks
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Ken Gilmour ken.gilm...@gmail.com wrote: What happens when the client sends a POST from a cached page on the end user's machine? E.g. if they post login credentials. Of course, they'll get the error page, but then you have confidential data in your logs and now you have to protect highly confidential info, at least if you're in europe. Either you don't log the data on the webserver, or you notify the user that the POST form data has now been posted, and display the link to the public web page where their posted data now appears, on the error page. Once your user has shared confidential information unsolicited with an unknown third party, and the general public, the information's confidentiality was spoiled by the act of posting, regardless of the content of the information -- -JH
Customer Notification System.
We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. We are growing quite rapidly (yeah for us). We have a need for a customer notification system. We have simply out grown the ability to send emails to our customers manually. We need to have a better way of notifying our customers of maintenance etc. We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers. Ideally the system would send an attached PDF. It would be great if this system were SQL based etc. Does anyone know of a system that is out there that does this? We have looked at a few applications (windows based) but integration with billing etc seems to be a caveat. I have thought of possibly using a mailing list type approach, but that gets us back to (almost) where we are today. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. -- Jim Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.net
Re: Customer Notification System.
PHPList? On 02/21/2012 02:58 PM, James Wininger wrote: We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. We are growing quite rapidly (yeah for us). We have a need for a customer notification system. We have simply out grown the ability to send emails to our customers manually. We need to have a better way of notifying our customers of maintenance etc. We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers. Ideally the system would send an attached PDF. It would be great if this system were SQL based etc. Does anyone know of a system that is out there that does this? We have looked at a few applications (windows based) but integration with billing etc seems to be a caveat. I have thought of possibly using a mailing list type approach, but that gets us back to (almost) where we are today. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. -- Jim Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.net -- David Follow me @davidandgoliath
Re: Customer Notification System.
http://www.varolii.com/ On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:58 PM, James Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.netwrote: We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. We are growing quite rapidly (yeah for us). We have a need for a customer notification system. We have simply out grown the ability to send emails to our customers manually. We need to have a better way of notifying our customers of maintenance etc. We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers. Ideally the system would send an attached PDF. It would be great if this system were SQL based etc. Does anyone know of a system that is out there that does this? We have looked at a few applications (windows based) but integration with billing etc seems to be a caveat. I have thought of possibly using a mailing list type approach, but that gets us back to (almost) where we are today. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. -- Jim Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.net -- Brian Stengel KINBER Director of Operations bsten...@kinber.org 412.254.3481 Skype: brian_stengel KINBER - Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research - www.kinber.org PennREN - Pennsylvania's Research and Education Network
Re: Customer Notification System.
We use Mailchimp to relay emails to our customers. They have the ability to maintain lists of customer addresses, and I believe they have an API for maintaining the list. On 02/21/12 17:58 -0500, James Wininger wrote: We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. We are growing quite rapidly (yeah for us). We have a need for a customer notification system. We have simply out grown the ability to send emails to our customers manually. We need to have a better way of notifying our customers of maintenance etc. We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers. Ideally the system would send an attached PDF. It would be great if this system were SQL based etc. Does anyone know of a system that is out there that does this? We have looked at a few applications (windows based) but integration with billing etc seems to be a caveat. I have thought of possibly using a mailing list type approach, but that gets us back to (almost) where we are today. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. -- Jim Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.net -- Dan White
Re: Customer Notification System.
Not sure if you have a customer database/spreadsheet and what OS platform you use, but this product has served us well in the past: http://www.massmailsoftware.com/bulkmail/ Tom Pipes tom.pi...@t6mail.com On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, James Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.netwrote: We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. We are growing quite rapidly (yeah for us). We have a need for a customer notification system. We have simply out grown the ability to send emails to our customers manually. We need to have a better way of notifying our customers of maintenance etc. We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers. Ideally the system would send an attached PDF. It would be great if this system were SQL based etc. Does anyone know of a system that is out there that does this? We have looked at a few applications (windows based) but integration with billing etc seems to be a caveat. I have thought of possibly using a mailing list type approach, but that gets us back to (almost) where we are today. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. -- Jim Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.net
Re: DNS Attacks
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:29:04 CST, Jimmy Hess said: Once your user has shared confidential information unsolicited with an unknown third party, and the general public, the information's confidentiality was spoiled by the act of posting, regardless of the content of the information I see lawyers booking their vacations in Tahiti now. pgp2Zv8uoLmYI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Customer Notification System.
Billing software that caters to smaller web hosts and ISPs like WHMCS can send out mass mailings, and you can drill down which customers should receive the email based on the services they have with you. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, James Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.net wrote: We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. We are growing quite rapidly (yeah for us). We have a need for a customer notification system. We have simply out grown the ability to send emails to our customers manually. We need to have a better way of notifying our customers of maintenance etc. We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers. Ideally the system would send an attached PDF. It would be great if this system were SQL based etc. Does anyone know of a system that is out there that does this? We have looked at a few applications (windows based) but integration with billing etc seems to be a caveat. I have thought of possibly using a mailing list type approach, but that gets us back to (almost) where we are today. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. -- Jim Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.net
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
PC LOAD LETTER?!?!?!?!? On 02/21/12 08:39, Mike Gatti wrote: The 30lb sledge hammer should be in the parking lot in a enclosure with a front glass that reads Break in case of extreme frustration right next to the dumpster for recycling hardware. You could make a living just with that business, replacing the front glass. -- Mr. Flibble King of the Potato People
Re: DNS Attacks
Here is a repeat http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/16/ghost_domains_dns_vuln/ -henry From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu valdis.kletni...@vt.edu To: Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:15 PM Subject: Re: DNS Attacks On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:29:04 CST, Jimmy Hess said: Once your user has shared confidential information unsolicited with an unknown third party, and the general public, the information's confidentiality was spoiled by the act of posting, regardless of the content of the information I see lawyers booking their vacations in Tahiti now.
Re: Customer Notification System.
On 22/02/2012 01:00, David wrote: PHPList? We've been using PHPlist for a while but have also been searching for something that can do a 'network noticeboard' type of thing. Haven't really come up with anything useful yet. -- Graham Beneke
Re: Customer Notification System.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:58 PM, James Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.net wrote: We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. We are growing quite rapidly (yeah for us). We have a need for a customer notification system. We have simply out grown the ability to send emails to our customers manually. We need to have a better way of notifying our customers of maintenance etc. Seconding the earlier recommendation, mailchimp is a great tool. Good interface aside, there is strong operational benefit to being able to issue notices completely out of band. We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers. Ideally the system would send an attached PDF [...] If you're going to do this, please be sure to send a copy of the notice inline as plain text too. Your customers on smartphones, using assistive technology, or automatically piping vendor notices into calendaring/ticketing systems will thank you. :-) HTH, -a
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
Back in college we had a fund raiser as a club where we laid out a bunch of computer parts and a sledgehammer. We charged by the swing. It was Office Space style fun. It's profitability far exceeded our expectations. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning lann...@lanning.ccwrote: PC LOAD LETTER?!?!?!?!? On 02/21/12 08:39, Mike Gatti wrote: The 30lb sledge hammer should be in the parking lot in a enclosure with a front glass that reads Break in case of extreme frustration right next to the dumpster for recycling hardware. You could make a living just with that business, replacing the front glass. -- Mr. Flibble King of the Potato People
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
- Original Message - From: Robert Hajime Lanning lann...@lanning.cc On 02/21/12 08:39, Mike Gatti wrote: The 30lb sledge hammer should be in the parking lot in a enclosure with a front glass that reads Break in case of extreme frustration right next to the dumpster for recycling hardware. You could make a living just with that business, replacing the front glass. PC LOAD LETTER?!?!?!?!? I prefer OUT OF CHEESE myself. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Re: Customer Notification System.
- Original Message - From: James Wininger jwinin...@ifncom.net We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. We are growing quite rapidly (yeah for us). We have a need for a customer notification system. We have simply out grown the ability to send emails to our customers manually. We need to have a better way of notifying our customers of maintenance etc. We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers. Ideally the system would send an attached PDF. It would be great if this system were SQL based etc. I will reply much more strongly than the other poster did: *USE ASCII*. If you sent me a scheduled maintenance window notice as a PDF attached to an empty email, I'd drop you for a competitor. But then, I'm a $CUSSWORD about such things. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Robert Hajime Lanning lann...@lanning.cc On 02/21/12 08:39, Mike Gatti wrote: The 30lb sledge hammer should be in the parking lot in a enclosure with a front glass that reads Break in case of extreme frustration right next to the dumpster for recycling hardware. You could make a living just with that business, replacing the front glass. PC LOAD LETTER?!?!?!?!? I prefer OUT OF CHEESE myself. Allright... Which one of you jokers stole my red stapler? Owen
Re: IX in France
Hi For me the best choice is FranceIX. We are connected to Sfinx, FranceIX and Equinix, but 70% of our peering traffic are sent on FranceIX. Panap and Parix is dead Best Regards Olivier Le 21 février 2012 17:46, Ido Szargel i...@oasis-tech.net a écrit : Hi All, We are currently looking to connect to one of the IX's available in Paris, It seems that there are 2 major players - FranceIX and Equinix FR, can anyone share their opinions about those? Thanks, Ido
