I for one really appreciate the effort of supporting non-AT drives despite the initial skepticism.

“I hereby sentence you to two years on your own VLAN with no gateway”

Seconding the dremmel approach. Worst case scenario: You destroy a nazi sword. Best case: You end up with with a cool denazified sword.

Grind down the swastika, and change to a smaller grit to get a nice and polished finish.

Not sure, but I think the eagle predates the nazis.

EDIT: Nope, the eagle is also a nazi and needs a dremel. There, that’s gotta be a brand new sentence.

EDIT2: Seems to be one of the many symbols that have been hijacked by nazis. Keep at your own risk.

Greetings, fellow traveler. May I ask what is your line of work?

At least the UK one is blunt. I’m trying, without success, to find a picture of the old style telephone (and my modem) connectors we had here in Norway. Imagine the UK power plug, but the pins are pointy. I’ve drawn blood stepping on these. I would run a marathon on Lego to avoid stepping on one of those again. Luckily they were gradually replaced by wallmounted RJ11 (or RJ45 if you had ISDN) during the 90’s.

EDIT: Found it.

FFFFUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuu

Stepping on one feels like getting shanked under your foot by Poseidon and his trident.

UK are safest, EU are both practical and almost as safe (as it supports a variety of plugs, both with and without grounding), and US is complete and utter garbage built for garbage voltage. Plus, the US one looks scared.

No. But I am owed a beer for every project I show up to. Happens around twice per year.

Before a project that involved outfitting a survey ship headed for the Mediterranean, this conversation took place: (paraphrasing)

Me: This storage cluster is based on 10gig/s network. I don’t think the data processors will get the throughput they require.

Chief tech: I tallied up the data transfers, and the time available should suffice with 10g/s.

Me: Did you account for the fact that they duplicate the data and transfer a lot of it twice?

Chief tech: No. But I’ll tell them not to do that.

Some time goes by. Project starts, 1PB of data is collected, and processing is starting up, scheduled to complete everything shortly before they arrive back in the home port. Then my phone rings.

Project manager: Throughput speeds are too slow. Is there anything that can be done, or do we have to eat the daily fine for being too late?

Me: How much is the daily fine?

PM: (number) USD

Me: I’ll make the purchase req now for one tenth of the daily sum. That should increase the throuput.

PM: Hardware install involved?

Me: Yes. I’ll order, configure, and document everything for the chief tech to plug&play during their refuel stop.

PM: I owe you a beer for the next projects.

The extra cost wasn’t that much, considering it was the same upgrade I recommended before project startup anyway. We just had to pay for express freight from the vendor to my home, and from my home down to the ship. Long story short, it worked out. A Mellanox 2100 was shipped down to Malta, and installed by the crew, and it worked out of the box. I was worried about the extensive VLAN and LACP setup in play. But as that setup was my design, I managed to wing it when preparing this switch. I had been using the production cluster for some testing earlier, so it already had the necessary kernel modules for the 100gig cards. The processors had everything wrapped up and written to tape the day before arriving back home. The night of arrival there was a project completion dinner for the crew and us field service personnel. I drank for free that night. I don’t remember it all, except that it was fun, and that the only reason why I called it a night at 0300 was because the hotel bar was closed.

To the chief techs defense, he wasn’t that wrong. He’d made a reasonable estimate based on the numbers he had available. Unfortunately he didn’t have all the numbers, as well as give the processors some head room for fudge factor. This chief tech was mostly experienced in only providing raw dataand thus working without the processing aspect.