My kids complained once that my husband and I knew too much about technology; we were the wrong generation.
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@petrillic @paul_ipv6 @wendynather
Recently (last year) found my certificates for Xylan OmniSwitch Engineer. Thinking I should put them back on the CV.
Did you ever do the training at the Dover NH location?
@johntimaeus @paul_ipv6 @wendynather I didn’t. Spent most of my time with engineering in Callabasas? I think.
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@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather the garage era. Then DEC Gigaswitches
@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather
yup. boone garage. good times.
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@johntimaeus @petrillic @wendynather
there are certain things you never put on your resume for fear someone might ask you to do it again.
i once built/programmed a nortel meridian PBX. never again.
@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather we all make mistakes
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@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather
yup. boone garage. good times.
@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather there was a time when you could fit all the backbone engineers in the world in a bus. And sometimes we did.
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@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather there was a time when you could fit all the backbone engineers in the world in a bus. And sometimes we did.
@petrillic @paul_ipv6 @wendynather
Serial or parallel?
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@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather there was a time when you could fit all the backbone engineers in the world in a bus. And sometimes we did.
@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather of course that was also a time when I could call Tony Li at all hours with a problem.
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@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather there was a time when you could fit all the backbone engineers in the world in a bus. And sometimes we did.
@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather
one of the really early NANOGs at merit, folks realized that a bomb at that meeting and the internet might never work again. probably 50 folks at the meeting?
i do remember a day when we got a bug fix from tony li and we loaded it based on "boots in the lab" and rebooted about 70% of all the core backbone routers from a terminal room at a usenix conference. didn't make the papers, no one fired us.
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@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather of course that was also a time when I could call Tony Li at all hours with a problem.
Cisco customer support isn’t that good any more.@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather
if you weren't running a cisco ios load with a cisco engineer's initials in the version string, you weren't a tier 1 isp.
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@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather
if you weren't running a cisco ios load with a cisco engineer's initials in the version string, you weren't a tier 1 isp.
@paul_ipv6 @petrillic @wendynather
Putting in a ticket on a RocketPort terminal card and getting a call from Ted T'so, who had a driver fix in about 30 minutes made me realize how small the world was at that time.
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@paul_ipv6 @petrillic @wendynather
Putting in a ticket on a RocketPort terminal card and getting a call from Ted T'so, who had a driver fix in about 30 minutes made me realize how small the world was at that time.
@johntimaeus @petrillic @wendynather
yeah. we'd find bugs and talk to tony or paul or dino, then they'd have us put in a ticket w tac and email them them ticket number so they could grab it.
when cisco "outlawed" talking directly to engineers, life really started to suck.
had similar relationships with the sun foks.
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@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather we all make mistakes
@petrillic @paul_ipv6 @wendynather
The Dover training space was really nice. Top floor of an old fabric mill, owned by NorthWestern Mutual Insurance.
They stored some of the art collection there.
Renoir ballerina sketches hanging next to the elevators.The cafeteria was good too.
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@johntimaeus @petrillic @wendynather
yeah. we'd find bugs and talk to tony or paul or dino, then they'd have us put in a ticket w tac and email them them ticket number so they could grab it.
when cisco "outlawed" talking directly to engineers, life really started to suck.
had similar relationships with the sun foks.
@paul_ipv6 @petrillic @wendynather
Names I'd forgotten.
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@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather
if you weren't running a cisco ios load with a cisco engineer's initials in the version string, you weren't a tier 1 isp.
@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather I think every router in the fleet ran a slightly custom build. Definitely edge v peer v core. Just fell over a lot.
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@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather I think every router in the fleet ran a slightly custom build. Definitely edge v peer v core. Just fell over a lot.
@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather
the internet is the "dancing bear" of networks.
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@wendynather I once worked for Dave Clark, I think he's like 82 now. I've still got a few decades to go, thankfully.
@wollman @wendynather I’m 82 and I’m the main tech support for my friends and family.
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@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather
the internet is the "dancing bear" of networks.
@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather so much more fun before the MBA and VC got involved.
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@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather we all make mistakes
@johntimaeus @wendynather @paul_ipv6 @petrillic just sounds to me like you all need to try again.
Back to dialup then? Take two? Anyone?
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@johntimaeus @wendynather @paul_ipv6 @petrillic just sounds to me like you all need to try again.
Back to dialup then? Take two? Anyone?
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@paul_ipv6 @mitka @johntimaeus @wendynather bigtex!utexas!petrilli
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@paul_ipv6 @mitka @johntimaeus @wendynather bigtex!utexas!petrilli
@petrillic @mitka @johntimaeus @wendynather
uunet!selidor!pae
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