[102937] in North American Network Operators' Group
NANOG laptops (was Re: Customer-facing ACLs)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sun Mar 9 15:22:44 2008
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: William Norton <bill.norton@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E9BFE705-DF66-4253-84DA-75D771D879C5@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:21:19 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hi,
On Mar 8, 2008, at 2:40 PM, William Norton wrote:
>> I was quite surprised to see the large number of Mac laptops at
>> NANOG 42. I didn't do a formal count but it seemed like about 1/4
>> to 1/3 of the laptops in use were Macs.
>
> ...You know, now that you mention it, I was also quite impressed
> with how many macbook pros there were in room as well. That would
> be good to informally track I think :
>
> what tools(laptops) do NANOG folk tend to use?
Macbook Pro (all of IANA (with one recent exception) use Macs of one
form or another).
> as this data might help SW dev types to target their netTools
> distributions to mac platforms more quickly.
That would be nice.
> In the good ole days it seemed like 99% were PCs & maybe a couple
> were reinstalled with some form of unix,
I remember the 'good old days' a bit differently -- folks were indeed
using PCs (Digital HiNote Ultras and hten Sony Vaio 505TXs) but
reinstallation was the norm. Maybe it was just to crowd I hung out
with...
Regards,
-drc
