Christopher J. Umina

In a recent battle at work I put a Cisco 2960G up against a Dell PowerConnect 5424. The PowerConnects aren’t bad… They’re cheap, gigabit, and Layer-2. Anyway, I quickly found out that unless you use GVRP, the Dell cannot learn what VLANs are out there. You have to specify allowed VLANS [...]

So, I hate hard drives. I think everything about them is like a bad flashback to the 1980’s. They have something that constantly spins (stupid), which means they require lots of power (also stupid) and in turn generate lots of heat (ridiculous). All that aside, they’re by far the slowest part of [...]