Category: Thoughts
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Settlers of Catan: Why I Can’t Game
Over the weekend I was at a work function with several of my fellow employees. We ended up playing a board game called Settlers of Catan. I was being very resistant to playing it at first. I mean, I like playing Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary, but these long involved strategy games just don’t do it…
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Broadband Communities Summit Day 1
Internet Only Providers This session was how internet only providers can differentiate themselves. MDUs further out via wireless are interesting opportunities. Older MDUs can be serviced via wifi (they aren’t willing to wire the MDU) – One guy says “Ruckus has it figured out.” Seeing a shift of areas with younger “hip” kids that don’t…
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Find Me At The 2011 Vegas MUM
I’ll be the guy wearing (and giving out) these snazzy RBNYAN shirts 😉
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MUM 2011 – Las Vegas
So the US MUM has been announced, and it is in Vegas. It is riding the tails of the WISPApalooza conference. I would have tried to make it to that this year, but due to scheduling conflicts I’ll just be making the MUM. Actually, I’ll be hitting Vegas on Wednesday and staying till Sunday. I’ll…
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Evolution Of An IT Guy
I think everyone gets contemplative at times, do they not? I now tend to get this way around this time of year…for a specific reason. Which I’ll cover later. I may or may not have spoken about my origins in IT, networking…or computers at all. If I have, suck it up, because I’m going to…
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Future Of Online Entertainment
I was thinking while I was on a run yesterday…nothing to do but think hehe. I was thinking about how much bandwidth streaming video consumes. In my apartment complexes, streaming video easily eats 60% of the bandwidth during peak hours. I’ve developed some QoS polocies(which I sell and install for a small fee) that maximize…
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Proper Power Planning And Usage
Working in a datacenter power delivery is a big part of what we do. We get regular questions on the subject, and I had a comment from Andrew recently that pushed me to write this post. Our datacenter provides true A/B power…and what does that mean? What it boils down to is we hand you…