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 specifically on both ends [...]
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 any given computer!!!!! [...]
Why don’t they let you download images with anything except picasa?! Isn’t that a feature that the world might like? Why do you have to install picasa to download a friend’s web album? Google, you’re the worst company ever. You’re the queens of doing 85% of something. EDIT: Thanks to Scabdates, I now am able [...]
Alright, I guess it’s impossible to do anything except blog or wiki. I was thinking it might be nice to have some good knowledge base software implemented for myself, but I’ve played with a few of them that I found (via Google) and they’re terrible! Can someone write a not horrible, free KB tool that [...]
The other night, I noticed that popsicle.easymac.org’s mailq was >22,000 message. I figured that was a problem. Turns out one of my users (who’s account I deleted without hesitation) was running a PHP proxy from his ~ directory. Looks like the stupid thing allowed some idiot to download some obnoxious looking perl scripts into the [...]