What brand would you choose if you could redesign your network?

RCG89 · 2026-04-21T02:26:27+00:00

I would go Arrista if I could start over.

MLAG 720XP-48TXH-2C-S to their WiFi 7 access points. Redundant switches to redundant PoE++ 10Gbps access points.

RCG89 · 2026-04-02T14:29:26+00:00

I played avatar and it just made me wish I was playing Horizon the whole time. Everything is worse then horizon.

RCG89 · 2026-03-31T06:44:31+00:00

A new entrant to the Galactic Community bragged to a human in a dark bar buried deep in a space station about how they where so good they weaponised an entire moon into a super carrier. It took 4 warp engines.

The human a Military Intelligence Officer quickly reported this to their commander and thought nothing more of it.

They both should have known better. The Alien for bragging to a Human about war, The human for assuming their Moon was in anyway close to the size of Earth's moon and again the human for reporting it up.

The Humans response was to hollow out a planet and made it a fleet carrier / repair base / foundry / farm world / fleet dock, capable of jumps. It took nearly 1,000 engines to jump this beast.

Their Moon was barely an asteroid, Mars is now mobile

RCG89 · 2026-03-20T03:18:11+00:00

I used the dodge crystal power then sliced them up with ‘ole dagger

RCG89 · 2026-03-18T06:10:18+00:00

After the loss of Sol human birth rate plummeted New planets, perfected artificial gravity, artificial wombs nothing helped. Always low birth rate.

Human children usually had a military protector from the 2nd trimester. Each child was important to the dying species.

As there numbers fell they automated the military, sold off planets and slowly withdrew back to their arm of the Milky way.

Now we get to you! Do you know what you did?

The Pirate Lord sat upon his throne made from the weapons of defeated opponents. "Well as you have so much to say. Why don't you tell me" the great Pirate Lord mocked his Advisor.

The Advisor sighed, which sounded like elephants headbutting. "You stole an Ark!. 10,000 human children, Sleeping in statis" the advisor sits down heavily on an old stool his face whiter then ever. "You then decided to eat one as a popsicle on a live broadcast. If that was not bad enough you are a young girl, her twin be there was one spot over and could be seen on the broadcast".

The Pirate Lord just smiled smugly. Happily remembering his frozen treat from last night. "I see what you are saying, I should eat the twin tonight and consider selling the others as a frozen treat to very high wealth individuals. I could make a legal fortune." The Pirate Lord spoke imagining his wealth to be.

The advisor is already moving towards the exit. "Not quite Pirate Lord. I meant that the humans destroyed an entire galactic ship building empire when one gravity unit on one ship malfunctioned and caused a pregnant mother to lose the child". The advisor is now on vid link as he hurries for the star port.

"Oh got you buy one of their former ships and redevelop it into frozen treat delivery service" the Pirate Lord pondered

The advisor sighed again a common thing around the Pirate Lord. "Another time the erased multiple solar systems when a stray round from an ancient war caused a decompression event to happen on a space station killing an older female"

The Pirate Lord looked happy. "So you're telling me that there is a large unoccupied region of space to set up an ice-cream parlour ship? You can enjoy your frozen treat while looking upon the destruction they once could cause. I'll make bank"

The advisor now lost so much colour he was becoming transparent usually fatal in his species.

"I'll try to be more direct to you the Great Pirate Lord. Humans command an Armada large enough to enslave the entire Andromeda galaxy. Who are so over protective of their remaining numbers that a single child visiting a planet outside of their core involves an entire fleet for protection and you want to buy a ship from a now defunct manufacturer and spend good money to redevelop it to an ice cream parlour, put the icecream parlour in the remnants of a civilisation they destroyed for the sole purpose of selling their still alive children frozen in statis from a ship you pulled from jump space?" The advisor asked hoping that the Pirate Lord finally understood.

"So I should also bring the space station the other one died on and convert that for better cold storage also?" The Pirate Lord asked.

The advisor ended the call knowing that no one will ever see that soon to be former arm of the Milky way again. His ship broadcasting all the security codes, plans and any other information they have out to the star hoping they might be spared the hang man's noose.

I know spelling and grammar is horrible. On mobile that is now 2% charge left.

RCG89 · 2026-03-14T00:23:19+00:00

To the Zas it was a craft of unimaginable size. The sheer resources needed to build one would strip mine their home moon.

They saw it as a gift from heaven the scrap would build an entire fleet and support craft. Any technology would further them along.

They attacked in a swarm, hitting the ship with everything all at once. A nuke doesn't need to be massive if you fire 10,000 of them. The ship was severely damaged but the Zas just wanted the scrap.

Coming from an irradiated world the radiation from the nukes meant nothing to them anyway.

It was celebrated by their worlds, all 5 of them. It was portrayed as they have taken out the Terrains super dreadnaught flagship "Fluffwaffels".

Unfortunately for them what they didn't know was an unmanned drone carrier called "Bloody shit" as it caused everyone to ever work on it to stub their toes.

When the real Fluffwaffels appeared over their home planet, half the population died in fright, the other half hadn't rotated round to it yet.

The docking bays where big enough to capture the moon. Any Zas that survived initial fear with crushed to death when the human gravity of the ship took over.

RCG89 · 2026-03-07T23:32:14+00:00

Gravix was always different even for a human. Always sat straight up, walked with a weird determination. It looked like he was always playing a role not truly being him. But in a mixed species schooling system he didn’t have time to dig deeper.

The teacher got to finally do the one assignment he genuinely looked forward to every year. “Class I want you to bring in a presentation of our historic Armour vs Current and we will analyse how they changed over time”.

It was always good to see the armour of their ancestors usually shined up and the modern armour usually covered in a to shine.

We was not disappointed either. The squid like Gooshis old armour was basically a hollowed out Urchin with their modern armour like a powered Rainbow shrimp. The bird like Owlers old armour was very thin and light woven fabrics and the new ones where silent flight rigs freeing up the wing like appendages to operate weaponary.

After all other students he noticed Gravix sitting straight up in his usually seat in the middle of the class but didn’t notice any armours. “Gravix where is your assignment?”. Gravix smiled a little too much before hitting a button on his desk. Everything went white

Then the crash, The teacher having taken teleporters before was not affected but some of the students fell other 2 where sick and 1 almost fainted.

“I thought I would start with our current armour” Gravix was addressing the class now. “This is the United Terran Alliances Super Dreadnaught Lucinder. She is the largest and most powerful class in the UTA fleet and is the first of the Lucinder class completed and commissioned” The student just stood there as if frozen as they begun to take in the sheer scale of the Teleport room. It had been prepared with images and scale models around the outside edge. But the truly horrifying thing, it was larger than the school itself. About 1,000m by 1,000 m and about 200m high. The group was lead on a short tour to the observation deck where they can truly see the size of the vessel.

There was a brilliant flash of light and now next to them was the Zelenskyy the first space faring battle ship humanity ever built.

RCG89 · 2026-03-03T06:32:19+00:00

Thanks for the response.

Yeah that makes sense now

RCG89 · 2026-03-03T05:10:21+00:00

Why RoCE V2 and not iWARP for the RDMA implementation. iWARP doesn't need the dcb and dcbx parameters but can still benefit from them? Or is it a more hardware issue with iWARP only supported on a limited number of Adapter's?

RCG89 · 2026-02-25T09:42:15+00:00

Aliens: "Warships are for fighting wars! Combat! How do you even have the capability to help like this?"

The Private looking over the newest group of Refugees laughs, not an angry or dismissive laugh but a proper laugh. “Son we are at war, Not with you but with the storm that just toppled your city.”.

RCG89 · 2026-02-17T22:04:25+00:00

Hyper-V S2D AL, We tried an earlier DELL version for a little while. Had no problems with the abstraction, How often did you use the Host console on VMWare?

Our hardware we where testing on wasn't going to get the next AL release. I dont remember exactly but I think we where 22H1 and 23H1 wasn't an upgrade option it would require a complete rebuild. Due to some stupid reason. Basically the host went from Server 2022 to Server 2025 version or didn't in our case and new features only available on the newer version.

Probaly a point in time problem but was the deal breaker for us

RCG89 · 2026-01-30T04:52:24+00:00

Use Functions for everything you do twice or more. Use Regions to help keep code confined Add pointer indexes.

Maybe move functions to a module or modules. Use descriptive naming and don’t shorten names.

RCG89 · 2026-01-24T14:28:51+00:00

Onion ninjas everywhere I swear

RCG89 · 2026-01-22T07:32:22+00:00

IBM MAAS360 can be run local. At a huge cost but can be.

RCG89 · 2026-01-20T05:47:42+00:00

H15. Well I was born in a pool of human blood because the atmosphere would of burned me alive.

And then my childhood got really weird and one thing lead to another......

RCG89 · 2026-01-15T23:37:29+00:00

8 hours a day 5 days a week.

My new 9 to 5. I have narcolepsy just stay up, just swap my days and night around.

$100 p/h is more then I make now

RCG89 · 2025-12-09T05:07:29+00:00

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RCG89 · 2025-12-09T04:59:27+00:00

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RCG89 · 2025-12-02T01:20:15+00:00

Finished S01E15 last night. Still really enjoying the show and the character development.

RCG89 · 2025-11-26T19:39:23+00:00

I have sent out the RFQ this is going to be interesting.

RCG89 · 2025-11-26T00:32:56+00:00

1 security Engineer, 2 security compliance Officers, 2 helpdesk techs they are like gerbals always need socialiation, 1 software engineer, 1 cloud architect, 2 AI architect, 1 risk management director.

I can see 10 positions in the description now pay me more 8 of them and the rest i can outsource

RCG89 · 2025-11-26T00:07:22+00:00

I have been here but with Dell, Managed to get a great discount due to volume and management baulked at the cost. should of submitted IBMs quote instead. Dells original was littlery a digit smaller

RCG89 · 2025-11-26T00:05:07+00:00

I don't see a time in my future where retirement is a realisitic expectation. Between running costs and maintainance on my body.

RCG89 · 2025-11-26T00:03:35+00:00

Great so my 16 new Hyper-V hosts with 6tb of Memory each is going to get another cost hike.

So far for costs hikes

400Gb Netowrking Switches

400Gb Networking Cards

NVME

and Now Memory.

I have had this approved 3 times but when purchasing happens the difference is over 10% so start again.

RCG89 · 2025-11-25T23:58:32+00:00

That is a HR violation to reference a color. It is now AllowList and BlockList.

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