ServeTheHome.com --- Forum name change?
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Oh that's depressing, you made me think of the value at any time of the hardware in the room is worth way more than I will earn in a lifetime...
Then again every petabyte of storage I install it every new LAN segment or even every chassis or blade servers costs more than a year salary.
Ok going to stop thinking of this now and enjoy the thoughts that I get to play with some real cool shit !
Then again every petabyte of storage I install it every new LAN segment or even every chassis or blade servers costs more than a year salary.
Ok going to stop thinking of this now and enjoy the thoughts that I get to play with some real cool shit !
Patrick, you have built a strong community and loyal following here, and an identifiable and valuable brand. The STH shorthand is handy. Re-branding will cause some confusion, and make for harder discovery of the site. Maybe you just want to add an additional brand name that directs to the site, or as eva2000 suggested, add an enterprise subdomain? My vote is to retain the existing site name.
People looking to read enterprise stuff probably wouldn't read the inquirer either given the logic you've been receiving. Or whatever the hell is hardocp?
I like STH because of nostalgia and because of the community and the forums and the articles but mostly the forums.
People in the know will come here. Since I'm in France for a while just tell your critics of the name to:"... Eat cake."
I like STH because of nostalgia and because of the community and the forums and the articles but mostly the forums.
People in the know will come here. Since I'm in France for a while just tell your critics of the name to:"... Eat cake."
Funny anecdote: My business partner and I owned an ISP (since acquired by another company, and we launched our "V2" in 2001). He was mentioning off-handedly to someone back in our V1 days that the monthly Verizon bill (for leased lines) was more than his mortgage. The other person asked "how much is your monthly mortgage payment" and my business partner answered "not the monthly payment, the entire mortgage".
For a certain type of circuit, we were Verizon's 2nd-largest customer (the largest was a bank with 1000's of ATMs).
Damn! That's intense. How was Verizon's support? Did they wait on your every whim?
I decommed all my E8A's couple of years ago now removing the last of the E8D's (32 core, 1tb ram) for power8 gear.
Can't wait for power9 to replace the e880's etc !
Kind of got off topic didn't we
It varied. At the service call level, it didn't seem to do a lot. If we needed a feature implemented that Verizon didn't offer, we could usually get it added. We got on great with the Hi-Cap folks - we could get them to install things like an OC-48 mux ring as prep work, without ordering any circuits for it. We had equipment in a bunch of COs, so we had Verizon badges that unlocked just about all of the COs in the region. And of course, having a Verizon badge was pretty much "instant access" in the time before 9/11 - if you needed a bathroom, you could just go "Phone company!" and show the badge at any building front desk to get in.
Funny sub-anecdote - I'd asked the Hi-Cap folks to pass a request on to Outside Plant to replace the drop cables to my house (there were 6 of the original stiff steel-and-rubber 1-pair cables). A date was assigned, I stayed home and nothing happened. A few months later I asked again, got another date, stayed home and nothing happened. A few months after that, we'd ordered another T1 to my house and the guy showed up to install it. I told him he also needed to replace the drop cables with a new 6-pair and a second 6-pair for the new T1 (takes 2 pair). He went up the pole in the backyard and came back to my door soon after. He said "Your neighbors all have nice 6-pair drops - I don't know why they didn't do yours?" It turns out that both of the previous requests had gone to different wrong addresses and upgraded the neighbors on either side of my house instead of me!
