[150183] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Sat Feb 18 04:34:54 2012
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:35:49 +0000
In-Reply-To: <9C6F373F-FED6-4F3A-B2DF-F29C12E18B62@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 18 Feb 2012, at 01:46, "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> I have, on occasion been away from my laptop and gotten the call to go t=
o the colo and deal with XYZ hardware problem and the colo was either: A i=
n the opposite or orthogonal direction from my house and significantly cl=
oser or B the colo was between my present location.
>=20
> In such cases, I will occasionally stop by the colo without going home t=
o retrieve the laptop. 90% of the time it works out OK. 10% of the time I =
end up leaving the colo, going home, retrieving the laptop and returning t=
o the colo. Obviously, if there was a loaner laptop available for a $15 re=
ntal in the colo as described, it would probably be worth $15 to me and/or=
my organization to avoid the delay and bother of the round-trip between c=
olo and home.
>=20
> Owen
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Yeah done that a few times.. Now all our colo sites have a kit with laptop=
(that boots win 7, XP and Linux) serial USB things, USB ethernet things =
and that has a DVD/cd burner and a stock of blanks and a 3G dongle thing.
I.e. everything I have ever had to go home/office/nearest-shop for..
So now when our guys to go colo, they can usually take anything and have m=
ost things they need there already.
Now we need to nail them down so people DON'T BRING THEM BACK TO THE OFFIC=
E.
--
Leigh
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