How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by firecall on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:18PM (#39974322)

I was really hoping for some never before known knowledge of how to connect Extension Cables and Power Boards together!

But no, turns out someone didnt even manage the basics! LOL

There's a reason the IT Crowd have the running joke of 'have you tried turning it off and on again...'! :-)

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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by jeramey on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:31PM (#39974407)

In all fairness, the person had obviously been awake for over 24 hours and was on their 1,001st cup of coffee. And since earlier in the summer I had crashed the entire ticket scanner network the night before the opening of the weekend festival we had put on by creating a network loop between a couple of non-spanning-tree-speaking network devices, I didn't feel I was in a place to be snarky about it!

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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by gumby on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:59PM (#39974582)

> was on their 1,001st cup of coffee

9 cups is a lot but shouldn't cause cognitive disorder.

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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by patmorgan23 on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:08PM (#39975696)

There are 10 types of people

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