Network Engineer finds 'long lost' change control binder her company misplaced 17 years ago.

ACCIDENT, MARYLAND 31-Jan-2022 Mary C. Lagge made a startling discovery last week in an IT storage room while looking for spare T1/E1 WIC cards. “I was rummaging around for parts and underneath an entire shelf of new Nortel equipment, I came across the coveted red change binder that’s been missing for 17 years. Nobody thought it really existed it’s been lost for so long” she explained. The documents Lagge refers to are titled “!...

January 31, 2022 · 2 min · MAC Twain

Engineer comes under fire for not requiring masks on his prefixes.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NEW MEXICO 29-Jan-2022 Billy Ray Johnson has become the center of a developing controversy over mask usage in the network he manages. Johnson works for well-known food processing company Mystery, Inc. Mystery requires mask usage on all company prefixes. Johnson has a different perspective, however. “Look, I’ve tried every mask possible on these things, /8, /24, /29, hell I even tried a /31 and they just don’t work - everything still pings....

January 29, 2022 · 3 min · MAC Twain

Datacenter facility adopting containers no longer has available parking for staff.

SACRAMENTO, CA 26-Jan-2022 System Engineer Barry Atrik at Nofault Hosting Services says that he “was excited by the possibilities when asked by management to move their services into containers”. Barry, a perennial go-getter known for not just his indomitable work ethic and willingness to “jump in with both feet, immediately”, but also his ever-present waist pack which as been described as “not unlike the Tardis, bigger on the inside” and “holds seemingly everything under the sun” immediately arranged for two dozen shipping containers to be delivered to the facility in order to containerize their systems....

January 26, 2022 · 1 min · Dsap Bisync

World's 5th largest telecommunications provider rebrands as “Komuniki”.

LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY 19-Jan-2022 In a not-totally-unexpected move, the telecommunications and data powerhouse TeleCommuniData has chosen to rebrand their global services offering as “Komuniki”, spokesperson Veru Klammath told JumboFrameInternet. “We’re really looking to simplify our marketing strategy, so we’ve chosen what we think is a much more descriptive name.”, Veru said. “The name is far easier to understand, being based on the universal language Esperanto, the world’s most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language, which most people should know, being that there is at least one movie done entirely in the language, and that it is meant to be totally universal....

January 26, 2022 · 2 min · M. P. Labelspace

Self proclaimed network architect provides valuable input on how cloudflare should run their network.

GAINSVILLE, FL 24-Jan-2022 Self proclaimed network architect and amateur DJ Byron Galantowitz AKA bgzzzDJ101 provides valuable input on how cloudflare should run their network after a brief 302 redirected cloudflare.com to popular site clickfunnels.com, which to many looking for actual funnels, did not deliver the goods via a convenient large to small opening for efficiently moving liquid. Taking to networking expertise juggernaut Reddit, Byron delivered valuable if unconventional advice on how to run a global, highly redundant, and exceptionally well engineered content provider....

January 24, 2022 · 2 min · M. P. Labelspace