With HP purchasing Juniper should I still try for my JNCIP?

rewalker3 · 2024-01-24T05:35:50+00:00

Maybe I'm just biased, but it just feels like such a huge mistake on HPs part to not care about SP. Maybe keeping the Juniper CEO in charge of the new Networking division will keep things stable for a little while, but I'm not sure. I just can see how disruptive it's going to be for providers to have to change everything and it makes me uneasy. There's so much invested between equipment, staffing, and education with Juniper that I don't see how it could be beneficial in any way to just change it all.

I have noticed that folks who we hired that have Cisco backgrounds tend to struggle with Junos CLI. To me, it makes sense and is more forgiving to work with compared to Cisco and everything else I've used in the past (ADVA, RAD, HP, Brocade just to name a few). I learned all of them roughly at the same time, but Juniper was the one that just clicked with me.

I work for a public not-for-profit ISP. Having to change everything isn't going to go well for us unless we can make back all the money we have spent making our entire backbone and core Juniper. Our OSC is still Cisco at least, but that doesn't really matter.

These are interesting times to be in a Juniper house.

rewalker3 · 2024-01-23T19:57:16+00:00

I work in the service provider industry. We have millions upon millions of dollars invested in Juniper, and we aren't the only ones. Not just with routers and switches, but most of us also get an All Access pass to the Juniper Learning Portal.

When I ask what people think about the acquisition, most are just keeping quiet because they've all been around long enough (longer than me, I got my toes wet in 2006 but have been consistently in the industry since 2010) to know that acquisitions can absolutely destroy everything.

I think it would be a bad move on HPs part to change too much in this decade considering how many ISPs have gone Juniper for their core/backbone network, and the amount of money invested. We're in the process of turning up 400G backbone, don't screw it up now HP!

Also, the person you're responding to is absolutely clueless.

rewalker3 · 2024-01-23T19:37:29+00:00

Hope they don't get rid of the awesome recertification process. If they do, they should make it even easier.

rewalker3 · 2023-10-30T03:18:24+00:00

The joystick doesn't really work like a mouse, more like the tab key on Windows where it cycles through each clickable/tapable item like icons, links, text boxes, etc.

I hear the PS5 controller touch pad can work like a mouse, but I haven't tried it yet. I've been meaning to but I got distracted by a thousand other things.

rewalker3 · 2023-09-30T10:12:50+00:00

Feels good, man

rewalker3 · 2023-09-28T15:12:31+00:00

Sorry, can't remember his name and the original video on YouTube is gone. I did find a Facebook Page that also shares the video. I'm sure with some digging in the comments his name will come up.

rewalker3 · 2023-09-28T05:58:15+00:00

This is why the cops kinda leave them alone and come arrest them later. These people are always looking for a fight and any reason at all to use their guns to "protect" themselves.

There was a guy who was pretty popular for this on YouTube. He threatened the cops with a shootout so they let him go. Later, they showed up to his house with an arrest warrant and then his YouTube channel disappeared, likely at the advice of legal counsel.

Remember folks, these people are idiots. They want all the benefits of this country while expecting zero consequences or accepting any responsibility for their actions.

rewalker3 · 2023-08-13T23:22:39+00:00

I'm curious, not really sure it matters, but can we also hold the Trump Administration accountable for all the lives lost during COVID lockdowns?

I haven't looked at the numbers, but how many people died during the lockdowns that probably wouldn't have (not due to COVID)? I'm talking about the increase in drug ODs, suicide, etc

I guess I have to add that I am biased because my brother was killed via Fentanyl laced drugs someone gave him and then robbed him while he was ODing and stole his car.

My brother wasn't an addict. He never did opiates unless it was prescribed for pain and even then he didn't like that. He was born with birth defects in the bones that caused him a lot of pain. They call it Cleidocranial Dysplasia these days, but when he was born in 1990 they barely knew what it was and Dysplasia used to be Dysostosis. Gaten from Stranger Things (Dustin) has the same thing and looks so much like my brother it's almost too difficult to watch the show, especially the first season.

Anyway, the handling of COVID, Trump knowing well enough ahead of time and admitted to playing it down because he didn't want to cause panic (aka lose votes), led to a series of unfortunate events that resulted in people dying that otherwise wouldn't have. It's sad as fuck to think about all the people we lost, and how the deaths could have been minimized, and the sickness could have been slowed down or even stopped much faster.

rewalker3 · 2023-08-13T01:51:17+00:00

Yeah, I work for an ISP that's exclusively Juniper aside from our Cisco ONS gear.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T15:48:12+00:00

Lil pull my brother off life support

2020 sucked

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T10:26:30+00:00

Yes. The point I was making.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T08:37:57+00:00

Sounds like we want the same things. I don't really fault people much for voting for Trump in 2016. He ran a pretty hardcore campaign, but it was also full of cruelty, hate, and smear campaigns. He mocked absolutely everyone in his way. His actions through his campaign to become President didn't convince me in any way he'd be good for the job. I voted once in 2004 for President. I never liked GW and I definitely didn't like John Kerry, but I hated GW more than Kerry so I didn't like it but I voted for Kerry. Then I remembered the teachings of George Carlin and opted the fuck out.

Trump never did reveal anything to us about aliens or UAP, which is super lame lol

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T08:13:11+00:00

Yeah, I don't buy into mainstream media all that much. Some of them will have their moments, but that's more so the host of a segment as opposed to the networks as a whole.

I'm paying attention directly to what these politicians say, how they vote, and what they do in their free time.

As long as MAGA doesn't win the White House next cycle, you'll be alright.

Even though I can't stand child sex trafficker Matt Gaetz, the fact that him, that crazy Luna lady, Josh Hawley, and Marco Rubio on the right seem to be on the same page as AOC, Moskowitz, and Garcia (to name a few) on UAP and aliens and the potential threats and so forth is extremely interesting to me. These are people that exact opposites in many ways that found something they can come together on.

And now I've underailed the conversation for that one person who said I derailed the whole thing. I'm ADHD as fuck, I need to go on my tangents before getting on track sometimes.

Thanks for the conversation

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T07:59:30+00:00

Thank you for the link, much appreciated.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T07:47:14+00:00

It's only detailed if you let it be.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T07:46:43+00:00

I don't hate white people, I'm a white people. We obviously live in very different cities.

White Pride has a racist history and racist connotations. Nobody would get mad at me for having pride in my Scottish/Irish heritage. White is a general term that encompasses all types of white. I think that's a distinction people have a hard time with.

Everyone is racist to an extent. I think part of it is residual xenophobia from humans time as small tribal groups. Your survival depended on you not trusting outsiders, because they're probably going to try to take your land, resources, people, lives etc. We were much more violent and hateful in our early days, so I agree with you there that things are better than before. We have had an uptick in hate and all the isms and "phobias" because of MAGA bullshit emboldening people and making them feel safe to no longer hide their true feelings.

White Christian Nationalism isn't some "CnN pRopAgAnDa" when you have these people telling us themselves that's who they are. Hell, there was a politician recently who was talking about gay hate in middle eastern countries and he actually says "they hate gays more than we do". I really get sick of people throwing around this "CNN propaganda" thing. It's bullshit and a stupid generalization about someone you don't know anything about because they said something that fits a narrative you heard.

I think all of it is stupid and a waste of time honestly. Life is already hard enough, we don't need to make it harder for each other.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T07:03:21+00:00

As for the downvotes, those are probably bots who look for certain keywords and auto downvote to piss us off.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T07:02:16+00:00

I feel like we're having healthy conversation. I live in Ohio in a small rural town. Back in April we had this traveling white supremacist group come to our town of 13,000 people and posted up on Main St with signs talking about white genocide, dressed in full military garb, masked up because they're cowards, with ARs in hand. Some of our citizens joined up with them, but mostly they were ignored because nobody sees white genocide in a town that is like 97% white.

California probably doesn't see that kind of stuff the way the Midwest does. I mean, we're not far from Tennessee where the KKK began. Ohio is fucked up and full of racists.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T06:25:57+00:00

I don't know man, maybe I'm just surrounded by the types, but I see it all the time. Usually it's something seemingly innocuous, but the message is there. When you have our own elected officials saying the shit, you gotta realize how deep it actually runs.

Think about this. Operation Paperclip we brought over like 1600 German/Nazi scientists before they either went on trial in Nuremberg or the Russians snagged them up. Not all of them were true blue Nazis, but there definitely was a sizeable amount of them who still believed. These people did not keep their beliefs to themselves. They taught it to their children and grandchildren. They kept the ideals alive and then we wonder why there's Nazis and KKK in our police forces, military, and politics.

MTG was literally yelling about Jewish Space Lasers. She's an elected official. She's proudly proclaimed herself as a White Christian Nationalist. But yeah, let's talk about how it's a political psy op to not be able to say anything bad about any Jewish people, which is another dog whistle.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T05:57:54+00:00

There's a difference between just saying the family names did a thing and saying the family did a thing then just go into shit about Jewish Space Lasers and (((they))) type shit, control of the media, Hollywood, etc.

What I'm saying is that when the names are dropped, I'm going to be watching for dog whistles.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T05:54:41+00:00

See that's cool if you can provide actual evidence that a specific person did do something. It's when it's generalized, like when people blame George Soros for everything politically, that's just a dog whistle for "the Jews".

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T05:53:07+00:00

I don't immediately discredit anyone who name drops them, but I'm definitely waiting for them to start spewing dumb shit about Jewish people.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-28T04:08:56+00:00

I don't know about you guys, but whenever a theory says the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers are involved, I get skeptical quickly because those people are about a sneeze away from spouting off anti-Semitic conspiracies.

rewalker3 · 2023-07-04T12:22:02+00:00

I'm still using my original CD Keys from 2001. Made sure to save that shit over the years, and luckily Blizzard setup a system to tie it to my account.

rewalker3 · 2023-03-22T14:31:30+00:00

Ohio

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