The Life of a SysAdmin

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Incredibly Intelligible Internet Insights

“The Internet is not something you just dump something on.  It’s not a truck.  It’s a series of tubes.  And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormus amounts of material.”
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), during a debate on Internet neutrality.

BAH HA HA HA HA HA!  You fail Ted Stevens.  You are almost worse than the ISPs who say they have to limit downloads because the Internet backbone can’t handle all the traffic.  That may have been true in the days of 56kbps modem connections but in these days of multi-gigabit speeds, it’s a joke.

I will refrain from bringing Mr. Stevens’ ethics into play here but if you pay attention to politics, I’m sure you have heard and more importantly if you found yourself here you can probably use Google to find information about him.

Seriously, the Internet can handle everything we throw at it.  People are streaming high-def video over the Internet now.  The technology is constantly changing and creating faster and higher quality connections.  There are protocols and standards for handling a large amount of information at once and it may result in a slow down but it won’t bottleneck the whole thing.  If two people connect from two different places to the same site at the same time, they may not come in the same way until they get into the site’s hosting location.  So as long as the host can support the high amount of traffic, there is no issue.

Oh well, I’ll save the rest of this for my research paper.  Until next time, I shall remain…

Matt

PS – I saw a car on the road today with the license plate “BATKAR”.  How awesome is that?

Ok, so I know I said I would have something before now but I’ve been on Spring Break and a lot has happened.

First, business is business.

365 Stupidest Things Said on Yeah, Go Figure

“I could turn on just about any television channel in Europe and see full nudity.  And their crime rate is a lot lower than ours.  Go figure.”  – rapper Nelly

Sounds like we should all just be able to get along.  With or without nudity.  Maybe this country is just a bit too sensitive.  I don’t want to go down that road, it’s long and has lots of windy turns (that is NOT what she said).  No matter what the occasion is, you can always rely on famous people to say funny stuff.

Ok, so this week I recieved two job offers within 30 minutes of each other.  It was cool.  I got to sit down with a list of reasons why to work at each place and my goals and see which one stacked up better.  It wasn’t much of a competition.  May have helped the job I didn’t take if they didn’t rush me through the process.  Oh well.

What else have I done?  I took two cars to get oil changes… it was exciting.  OH! I’m going to see The Watchmen on Sunday.  I’ve played a decent amount of Rock Band 2.  I didn’t go anywhere.  I should have gone to Maine, taken pictures and made a fire.  Maybe next year.  I also avoided doing any work.  Yes, I am proud of that.  Maybe tomorrow I will actually get something done on my research paper.  I’m writing about network security and honeypots.

Honeypots rock.  They are like fake computers/devices that attract attacks and viruses and then allow you to analyze them.  Of course that’s only a part of network security.  Oh no, I’ve started writing my paper on my blog!  Do I have to cite myself?!  Blah.  Technical writing is stupid.

I haven’t slept much over the past three days so I think I will get ice cream, watch August Rush and fall asleep early tonight.

I have a job, I have my sanity, and I feel good about it.  This was a productive break.

Oh and I may just become a nudist to see if people start to treat me better.

……maybe.