But what the hell did you expect to find, Aphrodite on a bar stool by your side?
Not much news for me lately. I have been looking at water fountains online for my work desk. I just bought one for home but...they make such nice desk additions!
I have my eyes on two (and you can bid too if you want, the seller has many):
Bamboo Knocker
etched hanging glass
If you've ever etched glass, it is quite the interesting process, and looks great too.
geek mode....enter at your own risk.
So, my woes of the past week have included mass hires and shitty Internet connections at work. The shitty Internet connection is a nice story though..hehe.
Our previous CTO (a complete moron who should not have had that job) had the brilliant idea that our DSL wasn't cutting it anymore for our company about 2 years ago. He was right, mostly because the sys admin team pounded that into his head. So he got up and searched for an ISP. He found one...the cheapest one he could find that would provide a T1. So we went with them.
Turns out about 8 months later I find (while investigating our Internet downtime as a Technical Support person...) that this new ISP literally resold us our old ISP lines, only slightly upgraded. Yes, we were on ISP A's lines directly out of our router. I guess no one told them why we wanted a new provider nor did anyone do some simple trace routing to find out exactly where we were going.
So the past 2 years we've been lucky and battling to keep things stable. Last week the T1 buckled...hardcore. Consistency was shot at 8am Friday morning. Pings skyrocketed to the internet in general at 2000ms and spiked all over if not flat-out collided. Local traffic up to our gateway was smooth as silk...until that first hop into uncharted territory: ISP A.
Turns out (and we found this out after their wonderful support services got back to our actual ISP after 4 business days) that their router was overloaded and they were in the process of obtaining another one. Makes me wonder how the heck you go from smooth to massively overloaded in a matter 12 hours...but they did it.
The transition into 8am is very dramatic too. The lines are pretty darn nice for quite some time...and then bam, you can just see the obvious change and degradation. Very black and white.
Thankfully we have a failover DSL line (something like 65 bucks a month) that is holding its own, albeit a bit slower.
Not much news for me lately. I have been looking at water fountains online for my work desk. I just bought one for home but...they make such nice desk additions!
I have my eyes on two (and you can bid too if you want, the seller has many):
Bamboo Knocker
etched hanging glass
If you've ever etched glass, it is quite the interesting process, and looks great too.
geek mode....enter at your own risk.
So, my woes of the past week have included mass hires and shitty Internet connections at work. The shitty Internet connection is a nice story though..hehe.
Our previous CTO (a complete moron who should not have had that job) had the brilliant idea that our DSL wasn't cutting it anymore for our company about 2 years ago. He was right, mostly because the sys admin team pounded that into his head. So he got up and searched for an ISP. He found one...the cheapest one he could find that would provide a T1. So we went with them.
Turns out about 8 months later I find (while investigating our Internet downtime as a Technical Support person...) that this new ISP literally resold us our old ISP lines, only slightly upgraded. Yes, we were on ISP A's lines directly out of our router. I guess no one told them why we wanted a new provider nor did anyone do some simple trace routing to find out exactly where we were going.
So the past 2 years we've been lucky and battling to keep things stable. Last week the T1 buckled...hardcore. Consistency was shot at 8am Friday morning. Pings skyrocketed to the internet in general at 2000ms and spiked all over if not flat-out collided. Local traffic up to our gateway was smooth as silk...until that first hop into uncharted territory: ISP A.
Turns out (and we found this out after their wonderful support services got back to our actual ISP after 4 business days) that their router was overloaded and they were in the process of obtaining another one. Makes me wonder how the heck you go from smooth to massively overloaded in a matter 12 hours...but they did it.
The transition into 8am is very dramatic too. The lines are pretty darn nice for quite some time...and then bam, you can just see the obvious change and degradation. Very black and white.
Thankfully we have a failover DSL line (something like 65 bucks a month) that is holding its own, albeit a bit slower.
akl:
Lot's of isps practice pretty dirty techniques man 