Re: Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread Mike Andrews
less than the EM ungrounded pairs would pick up? Whatever is picked up by ungrounded pairs should be common-mode -- the same on both wires in the pair. Even if it is induced into the "live" pairs in the bundle, it shouldn't affect signalling. In theory, that is. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: job screening question

2012-07-09 Thread Mike Andrews
thought you would hire for, and let him tell you whether > any of it is beneath him. As long as you get all the skills you need > on the team you can juggle the tasking. Unless you have a policy that "Slot A only does Slot A work" stuffed up some orifice. I've been there, and it is both stultifying and limiting. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: Iphone App that Scans IT equipment for Inventory

2012-05-21 Thread Mike Andrews
t the App Store entry for inet Pro tells me -- nothing to do with optical scanning of barcodes at all, AFAICS. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Mike Andrews
ll of their IP space on our borders > to get their attention. By a happy coincidence, I got mail today from Scott Greco of Proofpoint, asking if we could get together to discuss their products. I've replied to that with a summary of this thread, and am Cc:ing him on this mail, as well. Mayb

Re: French Regulator to ask all your information about your Peering

2012-03-30 Thread Mike Andrews
e." (David Richerby) Besides which, you'd be boosting the economy! They'd have to hire people, and cash flow would increase. How can they *not* do it? -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: Iowa outage(s)?

2012-03-16 Thread 'Mike Andrews'
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 04:08:37PM +, Darin Herteen wrote: > FYI > > Darin Herteen CCNA > Lead Network Technician > Packet Networking Group > Iowa Network Services Inc > http://www.iowanetworkservices.com > > > -Original Message- > From: Mike A

Iowa outage(s)?

2012-03-16 Thread Mike Andrews
Anyone else seeing outages/partitions in Iowa? I'm seeing stuff back up in my outbound mailqueues for places that get their DNS from at least one provider (rdi1.com) in Iowa, and their phonetwinkie reports that the outage is "statewide". -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.a

Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-14 Thread Mike Andrews
ment that doesn't > > do HDCP until we fix the sorry state of copyright in the US. > > So it's equivalent to asking if we're going to fix copyright within > > your lifetime... :) > When the revolution comes, all will be fixed. Mhm. Yeah. But until then, i

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Mike Andrews
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:33:04PM -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0800, virendra rode wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA256 > >> >

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-28 Thread Mike Andrews
EXTREMELY_ well marked on charts. I can't see it being anything other than human or mechanical error: not checking if the ship is in a no-anchorage area, or the anchor chain wildcat brake _and_ the anchor chain blocking device fail simultaneously, or watch officer totally mistakes the

Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Andrews
re, stressing the importance of leadership." > http://inventors.about.com/od/hstartinventors/a/Grace_Hopper_2.htm > I was lucky enough to have heard her speak once at an ACM event. I still have my nanosecond. Did she hand them out to the crowd there? -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Andrews
d a dollar for everytime i've heard that from a telco, i'd be a > rich man... That and "I'm getting a good ping response here" while I've got the cable at my end unplugged from the equipment. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-20 Thread Mike Andrews
ntation for Cisco. And write the scripts for various TV shows. "Able to reconstruct an HD image from a single pixel. It's _CSI_!" -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: CoLo Alwaysonline..... offline.....

2012-01-17 Thread Mike Andrews
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:05:41AM -0500, Eugene Stover wrote: > Anyone have any info? Not responding to anything. I don't see anything that I can ID as anomalous. What are you (not) seeing? -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: Internet Edge and Defense in Depth

2012-01-05 Thread Mike Andrews
; the sake of humanity. "Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely." As regards avoidance of SPOFs, I also prefer multiple layers in different technologies &c. A monoculture is horribly vulnerable. I grant that network hardware isn't exactly Ireland just before the potato famine, but the parallels are there and applicable in at least some senses. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US

2011-11-23 Thread Mike Andrews
point of a system. is indicative of the level at which the doc is written, and of the intended audience. Worse yet, the dfn. is _*WRONG*_. I work for a state highway department; we take network security a whole lot more seriously than *that*. 73 DE -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin