on Mar 31st, 2009Conflick This!
T-minus two hours until 4/1. Are you ready for what is bound to be the biggest disappointment since Y2K? My bet is that midnight rolls around and…nothing.
I was reading Mitchell Ashley’s latest post over at NetworkWorld tonight and was a taken aback by something he wrote in regards to the level of nerdery you keep in your home. I guess in the “real world” its frowned upon if you don’t have a handful of servers at home running different hypervisor flavors tied to a dumpy old switch that sits powered up doing absolutely nothing all day. If its estimated that enterprises utilize somewhere between 5% and 25% of server capacity, what does the “home” network utilize? Somewhere less than 5% I’m guessing which seems like a tremendous waste of resources.
I guess I fall in the “Boo” category. I have a simple, single core, self built PC at home with just an internet connection. I do have a wireless router though. Is that worth something in Nerdville? Guess that wouldn’t get me very far should I be in an interview these days.
Did I mention that at work I have access to a half dozen retired Cisco routers, two big 4500 Catalyst switches, two retired Nokia firewall appliances, a retired fiber switch, iSCSI SANs, a stack of retired & unused servers bigger than a lot of environments have in production (not to mention the 6 foot stack of retired 1U servers), ESX Virtual Infrastructure and enough storage to spin up anything and everything I could ever want to learn without ever affecting a production network?
BOO!