Linux gets Goooed, I got Tomato and They fixed our EX4200
Those things happened closely at the same time and they are all for good ! First thanks to some good people Linux gets a native game World of Goo. BIG Thanks to two ex - EA employees who BTW. had spent their entire savings to develop the game. I only wish those guys will get their savings back, it might be hard since 90% of Windows users who play that game have STOLEN IT!!! So far i only heard about World of Goo but didint have time to try it personally, but now when a native linux port is available i will give a shot for sure!!!
Second i got rid of DD-WRT, and become a happy Tomato user. One evening i decided to give it a try and i will never come back, and I got good reasons for it. First with Tomato my net is 40 % faster, second QoS really works, third i found that, do some research and its actually true. DD-WRT uses some crippled drivers both for wireless NIC and Ethernet ports. Since i got Tomato my ping to my provider lowered with 0,4 ms !!! My router is always accessible through SSH and WEB, so far it never froze! (dd-wrt used to freeze 2-3 times a week!!!).
And the last one from good things is that they (JTAC), finally admitted and i hope fixed our problem. In November we got 2 Junipers EX4200, and since then we understood that we have just become a part of Juniper beta testers team and that we better get familiar with JTAC and how to manage a support case there. Our problem was that sometimes somehow and somewhere (totaly random times and places), the switch would refuse to learn certain MACs or it would not forward traffic between them. The last secure meeting (one of 1000 we had in the past 2 moths) revealed a problem - The Engineer who was looking at our switch discovered that PFE had two modes of MAC learning enabled - Packet Transfer and Message Mode. They were working concurrently in the ASIC and conflicting each other. After disabling the 1st one the situation seems to be stabilized, and i hope that was causing our troubles. The annoying this is that it took us more than 2 months to dig through their bureaucracy in order to reach an engineer...
ubuntuforums.org down or maintanance?
When i tried to open my fav OS forums today i discovered a strange message, come on canonical, i hope that i maitancace not some problem :P Right after i open Ubuntu forums i usally visit wikipedia to refresh my knowledge and not that long ago i wrote a post about ubuntu going enterprise link. Hope wikipedia dont have the same problems :P
new year ?
For any of you there far away that might hit that blog by mistake while searching something on google, i happy new year! Lots of things happened that year (at least for me)! The major one is that i have changed my workplace (yeah i have quit my previous job!), my current employee is Online Direct. I have so say that i am happy to be there, i got there maybe not because of my professional knowledge about managing enterprise networks, but through a friend whom i know from my university (damn that uni is useful for something after all!). So far so good i have to day i have two pieces of Juniper Ex-4200 under may hand and i have to say its a pleasure to manage those masterpieces - blow me all you Cisco guys ! :P
transformation
And it happened at last, i was thinking of it for a long time and now the money conditions allowed it - I bought a MacBook ;) Right now i am in the phase of what i call transformation from linux, and so far so good. The shiny small notebook works as good as it looks good. The only thing that i miss from linux was the dock. Although Mac had it first - Awn simply works better, and there is muuuuch more you can do with it.
Ubuntu 7.04
As always on time and on schedule new version of Ubuntu is released. Right now i am stuck on that screen. But it all goes fast and smoth so i guess soon i will be using Faisty. I hope, but one can never be sure. So far i went thorough that proccess a couple times beginign from 5.10 Breezy Bagder. Well i guess the next post will be written from upgraded OS. For all of those who are still stuck with Egdy - Inside as always info about upgrading :P (Simple and straight forward).
WAN
WAN stands for Wide Area Networking, and that is the name of the course we stared a week ago at NBU. I must say this is the first course since the beginning of our studies that i really enjoy because the stuff that we discus is exactly related to networking!!! So i wish we continue this way till the end of the semester and hope for a good grade :)
ps. I must really like this course since it pushed me to write that post...
google buys youtube
Google bought youtube for a nice amount of money -> 1.67 mld $$$ !!! WoW ! Thats a lot of money considering that youtube exists only from 19 months!!! Google has to have some serious interests of becomeing monopolist in internet!
boring land
I am in the proccess of earning money for living and overall so its hard to put some update on this borring site. I got two jobs now, fist we pick up some fruits and vegetables on the farm in the morning, then i usually work at Maine Diner 23:00. After such a day all i can think of is going home and lying down in warm bed that Karolina has warmed up for me :)