Big Hair Books

Network problems again last week. Cheap switches will be the death of me, I swear, unless cable management gets me first. (Actually, it was both this time...cable looped back on itself + cheap switch == lots of embarassing explanations.)

But there are bright spots in this morass -- 48 of them, to be precise, in the form of 2 x HP 2626 Procurve Managed Switches. SSH login, VLANs up the wazoo, and much muchness. The only thing I'm not sure about is whether or not it does port mirroring (which I can live without, but it'd be nice). (UPDATE: Yes it does. Weeoo!) If these work out, then I think it'll be 2 x 2650s to replace the DLink unmanaged ones that keep crashing. The Ciscos seem nice and all, but the cost...oh my. And the respondents to the recent Ask Slashdot seemed to like HP a lot. Plus, we used to use 'em at my old job, and everyone was pretty happy. We'll see how it goes.

Just bought Neal Stephenson's The System Of The World at Big Hair Bookstore. Twenty-two pages and I love it already. God, the man can write.