Re: cooling systems

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Galbavy
Chris Lewis wrote: More intriguing is what has to be done at high arctic places (like little Ellesmere island, the northernmost mine in the world). Most of the vehicles are Toyota diesel pickups (winter weight fuel, you betcha!). They never shut the engines down. Except when they're

Utility Mapping to be featured at the 2003 DPC in Tampa

2003-11-06 Thread Sean Donelan
Remember how the government got upset a graduate student generated maps of underground utilities, and there were suggestions that his project be classified. Or was the real problem was he had figure out how to do it cheaply, and wasn't planning to sell the information for large sums of money?

Re: cooling systems

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew Kerr
For those who have never visited Fairbanks, there is a phenomena observed at -15C and lower known as square tire. The rubber in tires of parked vehicles will become stiff and freeze into position, making the vehicle impossible to move without destroying the tires. To the best of my

Re: Utility Mapping to be featured at the 2003 DPC in Tampa

2003-11-06 Thread John Palmer
Anyone with half the brains can figure out how to cause trouble just by driving down the street. You don't need any maps. Also public information tells alot about things. The Michigan PUC just finished their study of the August 14th blackout and has issued their report. In it it has a section

Re: Utility Mapping to be featured at the 2003 DPC in Tampa

2003-11-06 Thread John Palmer
Its at http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mpsc_blackout_77423_7.pdf - Original Message - From: daniel lance herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 10:25 Subject: Re: Utility Mapping to be featured at the 2003 DPC in Tampa On Thu,

Announcing RISwhois - RIPE NCC IPv4/IPv6 address to origin mapping

2003-11-06 Thread Rene Wilhelm
[Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear All, RIPE NCC is pleased to announce RISwhois, a new interface to the BGP data collected by the Routing Information Service (RIS). Using a set of ten Remote Route Collectors (RRCs) installed at different locations around the world, the RIS collects BGP

Re: cooling systems

2003-11-06 Thread Chris Lewis
Peter Galbavy wrote: You foreigners are scary. As a UK resident, born in Oz many many years ago, I consider -10C to be very very cold. You know it's cold when you have to deal with diesel fuel in chunk form by shovel. (Well, actually, with a fork. It solidifies into a rather waxy/oozy gunk.

Re: cooling systems

2003-11-06 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:43 AM Subject: Re: cooling systems Peter Galbavy wrote: You foreigners are scary. As a UK resident, born in Oz many many years ago, I consider -10C to be very very cold. You know it's

Re: cooling systems

2003-11-06 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Peter Galbavy wrote: You foreigners are scary. As a UK resident, born in Oz many many years ago, I consider -10C to be very very cold. Uhm, 9/5 * -10 +32 . . . 14 degrees ? Peshaw. As long as it's over 0 I'm OK.

Cisco CSM's in the Cat 6500?!

2003-11-06 Thread jgraun
Is anybody using the Cisco CSM product to due load balancing? My company is looking at is and we have had huge issues with the CSS's. If anybody has any info on how well this product works please let me know. Thank You Jason

Obtaining maps of underground utilities from city governments

2003-11-06 Thread Eric Kuhnke
I am interested in hearing peoples' experiences in obtaining maps of pre-existing underground utilities from city governments (as it relates to deployment of MAN fiber). Thus far the process I am going through can be compared to pulling teeth. Any advice would be greatly appreciated... :-(

24-port Gigabit + two 10Gb uplinks

2003-11-06 Thread Eric Kuhnke
It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreadingdoc_id=43109 http://www.sandburst.com/Releases/AcctonPartners.pdf Sandburst and Accton are offering a white-box/OEM 24 port switch with two 10Gb uplinks... The resulting

T-Mobile

2003-11-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
Just a heads-up for anyone paging via their cell phones. T-Mobile seems to be having a nationwide outage... 1-800-937-8997 plays the status message before giving the menu options. Charles -- Charles Sprickman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Obtaining maps of underground utilities from city governments

2003-11-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Eric Kuhnke wrote: I am interested in hearing peoples' experiences in obtaining maps of pre-existing underground utilities from city governments (as it relates to deployment of MAN fiber). Thus far the process I am going through can be compared to pulling teeth. Any

Re: 24-port Gigabit + two 10Gb uplinks

2003-11-06 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Eric Kuhnke wrote: It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon: Yes, Q1-Q2 2004 you'll see this from quite a lot of vendors I predict. If you don't need a lot of features (L2 and L3 switching only) I bet you'll see them for less than $10k during 2004,

Re: 24-port Gigabit + two 10Gb uplinks

2003-11-06 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Eric Kuhnke wrote: It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreadingdoc_id=43109 http://www.sandburst.com/Releases/AcctonPartners.pdf Sandburst and Accton are offering a white-box/OEM 24 port

Re: 24-port Gigabit + two 10Gb uplinks

2003-11-06 Thread Robert A. Hayden
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Eric Kuhnke wrote: Certainly not as cheap as a 2950 with two Gb ports, but this is the start of an entirely new generation of edge switches. Does anyone want to hazard a guess as how long it will be before 24+10Gb switches are selling for $1,500? 3 years? Certainly

Re: 24-port Gigabit + two 10Gb uplinks

2003-11-06 Thread Jeff Kell
Eric Kuhnke wrote: It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon: Certainly not as cheap as a 2950 with two Gb ports, but this is the start of an entirely new generation of edge switches. Does anyone want to hazard a guess as how long it will be before 24+10Gb switches are