[68594] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Sun Mar 14 22:36:25 2004
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: "'Suresh Ramasubramanian'" <suresh@outblaze.com>,
"'Andrew Dorsett'" <zerocool@netpath.net>
Cc: "'North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:32:55 -0500
In-Reply-To: <40551FDB.3050602@outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh@outblaze.com]=20
> Sent: March 14, 2004 10:16 PM
> To: Andrew Dorsett
> Cc: Vivien M.; 'North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes'
> Subject: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
>=20
> And what is wrong with setting up a hub or something in a=20
> dormroom? I=20
> find it quite convenient to leave both my PC and a laptop=20
> running on my=20
> desk, for various reasons (too many open terminals and=20
> windows is one of=20
> them ...)
Nothing wrong with it as far as I'm concerned, but IT departments in
post-secondary institutions seem/seemed to have a problem with it, for =
some
reason. Perhaps they just figure that two machines means increased =
potential
for abuse (since presumably two people could use the port =
simultaneously)?
Vivien
P.S. I do the same thing you do...
--=20
Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
http://www.dyndns.org/=20
