Don Martin did it better.

/dead gophers tend to smell

jehovahs witness protection: I'll be blunt with this.

That was retarded.

Sysco is a food distributor.

I prefer this one:

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and you screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
then you have to flash your memory, and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom.

For those who care; but can't get to it because it's farked:

It happened quite quickly, as if in a dream:
A supervisor engine just died with a scream.
The standby stepped up and it handled the mess,
but the active supervisor expired from stress.

Vendors were called and replacements were sought,
but none could be found, it all was for naught.
For it seems, you see, this part was EOL,
and for all our best efforts, we were SOL.

But there was a new option, a possible fix:
We could throw a new supervisor into the mix.
But it wasn't that easy, for it lived in slot five,
and slot one was home to the other (when alive).

But there wasn't a choice and upgrade it would be,
so the switch was shut down, the bits were set free.
Four modules just brimming with full copper ports
were wrestled around and thrown all out of sorts.

The new supervisor was placed in slot five,
the switch was then started, and the sup came alive.
The console was humming with messages many
and the reconfig of the switch was quite heavy.

But a line then appeared on the screen o'er my hands:
The new supervisor wouldn't work with these fans.
The fan tray in the chassis was the old one, you see,
and the new supervisor simply couldn't be.

"O woe!" I cried, my efforts were spoiled.
I could not upgrade, the procedure was soiled.
The only thing that I could see to be done
was to reseat the modules, one (sigh) by one.

With very much struggle, they were set anew,
and the good supervisor was shoved in slot two.
But this left a problem -- the original crisis:
What of the backup, the standby devices?

But then, on a shelf, what is that I do see?
Why, it's a spare supervisor, 1A-2GE.
It seems that somewhere in the depths of this scuffle
the original spare had been lost in the shuffle.

With obvious glee I slid the spare in slot one
and it fired right up and started to run.
All was again well, though the upgrade was dashed,
but that didn't matter since the bits they could pass.

Frustrating? Indeed, though a lesson was learned:
Keep track of your parts, else your problems be earned.
For had we known of the spare on the shelf,
this shan't have been a problem -- at least for myself.

routergod is still the best.

Link Farked.

Shouldn't



be



?

shouldn't it be "Rime" ?

I got a kick as I have 6509 just to my right six feet away. Running Sup2-2GE. The new Sup720's do require the high output fan tray. Silly IT guy, he should have known that. He should also be reprimanded for not keeping track of his spares and wasting time on the reconfiguration. I LOL.

Sure, a Cisco 6509 is old, but ancient? What does that make the Cisco 2501 and 3Com Netbuilder-II (with two FDDI, one Token and one FastE cards) routers down in the garage? Prehistoric?

Ah, I am intimately familiar with a Cisco 6509. Too bad the cheap bastards I once worked for were to farking cheap to upgrade the hardware now and again.

So glad I'm a welder now. I never want to hear the word "multitask" again. I'll burn you, I swear

They should make a new one about the Nexus.

/those things suck

tripperday: I prefer this one:



Is it bad that I want to sing that?

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I enjoyed that.

I've had a 6509 go tits up so I'm getting a kick out of these...well...you know.

"O woe!" I cried, my efforts were spoiled.
I could not upgrade, the procedure was soiled.
The only thing that I could see to be done
was to reseat the modules, one (sigh) by one.

I lol'd

Rime of the Ancient what?

I'm memorizing Eskimo Nell right now for a big Rugby alumni reunion. So I'm getting a kick out of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what a well described verse is. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound funny, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad balads gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic.... Don't make yourself sound like you do. Cause some Farkers believe anything they hear is funny.

So pull up a chair, stand me a drink
And a story to you I'll tell
Of Dead Eye Dick and Mexican Pete
And of a harlot named Eskimo Nell...

R.A.Danny: You're kidding (new window), right?

Honestly, never heard it before. Or at least, not that I can remember.

How did we manage to not have a Stargate U article today?

Fark Me with a Chainsaw: Rime of the Ancient what?

Came for this.

snake_beater: Fark Me with a Chainsaw: Rime of the Ancient what?

Came for this.

Are you leaving satisfied?

snake_beater: Fark Me with a Chainsaw: Rime of the Ancient what?

Came for this.

Beat me to it.

King Something: snake_beater: Fark Me with a Chainsaw: Rime of the Ancient what?

Came for this.

Are you leaving satisfied?

Yes. Quite.

Wow. I remember putting 6509s with layer three sups and fiber cards into one of our datacenters when they were teh new hotness. Now they're eol, huh?

I am old.

6509 gear is not entirely useless but super cheap in the secondary market so for folks running it there is no excuse for not having multiple spares.

Network Admin pron:
cisco 4500
giggity



Also the stacked 3750 is pretty sweet.

bravian: Obamas Fark Czar: Network Admin pron:
cisco 4500
giggity



Also the stacked 3750 is pretty sweet.

Is amused.

yeah, Juniper is what Cisco really wants to be like when it grows up.

I hate getting commands messed up when jumping from cisco to juniper and vice-versa.

Obamas Fark Czar: Network Admin pron:
cisco 4500
giggity


Also the stacked 3750 is pretty sweet.

Ack!! Make the hurting stop!!

bravian: Is amused.

thank you for posting something that is suitable for use in important applications. Cisco's history of leaving massive IOS flaws unpatched and not even warning customers about them leaves them, IMO, outside of any consideration for security critical or mission critical applications, so maybe for an ISP broadband network or a school's residential network.

Obamas Fark Czar: yeah, Juniper is what Cisco really wants to be like when it grows up.

It's like a little kid thinking he knows more than his parents. When, in fact, he's still just a dumb little kid with lots left to learn.

ZAZ: I remember the days before Cisco, when the campus net was run by flaky vaxen running hand-crafted standalone router code.

Nothing sux like a Vax!

I have a spare for all of my switches...and I have backups of the configs at each site "just in case".

I'm happy for your poem, gonna let you finish etc etc....


DOS upon a midnight dreary

Once upon a midnight dreary,
Fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor.
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets;
Having reached the bottom line, I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand,
Then invoked the SAVE command
But I got a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore."

Was this some occult illusion?
Some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices Solomon himself had never faced before.
Carefully, I weighed my options.
These three seemed to be the top ones.
Clearly I must now adopt one:
Choose: "Abort, Retry, Ignore."

With my fingers pale and trembling,
Slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee
Finally I pressed a key--
But on the screen what did I see?
Again: "Abort, Retry, Ignore."

I tried to catch the chips off-guard--
I pressed again, but twice as hard.
Luck was just not in the cards.
I saw what I had seen before.
Now I typed in desperation
Trying random combinations
Still there came the incantation:
Choose: "Abort, Retry, Ignore."

There I sat, distraught exhausted,
By my own machine accosted
Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw an awful sight:
A bold and blinding flash of light--
A lightning bolt had cut the night and shook me to my very core.
I saw the screen collapse and die
Oh no--my data base, I cried
I thought I heard a voice reply,
"You'll see your data Nevermore!"

To this day I do not know
The place to which lost data goes
I bet it goes to heaven where the angels have it stored
But as for productivity, well
I fear that it goes straight to hell
And that's the tale I have to tell
Your choice: "Abort, Retry, Ignore."

Just installed a 6509 this weekend at work. Much much better then the old 2500 series routers and 3Com switches we employed previous!