Exactly. we only have a month of data, but I would hope they already had a plan in place to get some more capacity since it was already a little close for comfort. From the way the traffic increased, its possible that another link is in a failed or unusable state and we're just seeing this one temporarily take the load.

Did anybody notice that the two graphs are taken from different interfaces? Also, it looks like the traffic only recently got that high. Either way, It seems irresponsible to let the traffic get that high without upgrading.

FTA:

What we found was an APL0398 chip, presumably the next-generation processor from the APL0298 that we found in the iPhone 3GS.

If you are just starting up, I'd suggest a couple of Cisco 3550 layer 3 switches with the IP Services image. They don't have all the features of the big routers, but they can handle a huge amount of traffic. I doubt you could build a linux router that would handle as much traffic for the same price as a 3550.

Reload in X is a fine answer. Obviously you wouldn't use it if the biggest issue is locking yourself out.

I'm not familiar with JunOS, but I'm thinking you could likely use cisco's kron to set up a similar action on a timer..

On a cisco, you can just do "reload in 10" and "reload cancel". If you don't know about those commands, you really shouldn't be working on a production network unsupervised.

As for the original question: Either use similar low end equipment, or use your spares. (please say you keep spare parts around)

I guess it's time to buy one of those white trash hands free beer helmets for the morning drive..

Put a meter on it, I bet you find it draws way less than the rated power.

People also tend to forget that waste energy isn't actually gone.

For example, If you have 10x 100 watt incandescent light bulbs in your home, turning them off will save you 1000 watts, right? Wrong. Your heating system will need to work a little bit more to make up the that "waste" heat from the incandescent bulbs. Of course in summer, this is reversed because you have waste heat AND your A/C is working to get rid of it.

I have a Sony PRS 505 and I think it's great. There is no Mac support, so I use a program called Calibre instead of the included software. The next model up (PRS 700) has more features like a light and touchscreen, but the light looks cheap and the touchscreen is not quite as nice to look at.

Apparently the Sony also runs linux.

So what you are saying is that licensing is not that complicated if you have a bunch of cash to throw around?

The best thieves make sure you never realize they were there..

The clock on the oven kinda reminds me of the estimated-time-remaining clock on a windows file copy dialog.

xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/612/

I'm not really a Windows guy, but I seem to remember server 2003 having a Distributed File System (DFS) that might work for this. I think 2k3R2 has an improved version that will only sync the changes to the files as well.

I had a data plan for a wireless broadband card and it also had an extra $10 for a corporate plan. The extra $10 was for a static IP. Another provider had a different price for their corporate package as well. This time, for the extra $10 you would be able to use your device with a blackberry enterprise server.

Palm pre was released a few days ago, iphone os 3.0 will be released in a few days (or now if you want to use the development version). I'm not sure I'd really call that "falling behind"