I’ve upgraded the main switch in my server closet to the Cisco 48 port that I had laying around (I’ll finally get some use out of it now). I wanted to use VLANs so that I could have both internet facing and local networks separate if I wanted to, as well as possible VLANs for wireless network traffic. The website was down for about 3 minutes while I made the switch. This is actually one of the smoothest upgrades I’ve had in a long time. I setup all of the settings on the Cisco switch while I was at my desktop, shutdown the switch, carried it to my server closet, powered of the old one, slid it out and then slid the Cisco in. After plugging all of the cables in I was back in business. I’ll post a video of my current network if I get around to it.
Computers, This Site
cisco, networkmlan, vlan
A little behind the curve, I know, I have just finished watching Super Size Me. While it is an extreme an example of bad dieting I do think that there are many lessons that can be learned from it. I will hopefully never eat at another McDonalds again. If you haven’t seen it yet I highly reccomend watching it.
Life
diet, food, mcd, mcdonalds
After my usual rumaging around Digg I somehow came accross a link to Steve Pavilina’s website. More specifically, an article about getting the proper amount of sleep in order to be the most productive. I’ve read some articles on his site about polyphasic sleep and I figured that either this guy knows what he is talking about or is really good at making stuff up. Either way, it can’t hurt to try something as simple as waking up at the same time every day, no matter how much sleep you actually get. His idea is that your body will automatically adjust to how much sleep it is getting and therefore make you tired at the appropriate times. I’m going to give that a try by waking up at 8am even though i don’t need to be awake until 9:30am. I’ll see how this goes.
Life
morning, sleep, steve pavilina, wake