@scottalanmiller said:

We just heard yesterday that the Philippines are taking more US troops soon.

Have you heard my routine about when I worked at AT&T with the agents from Cebu? Now I have more material for the bit.

The question to present to any new person has to be a vulgar response.

Much like the standard pickup line I use "Nice shoes, wanna [f***]?"

@Joyfano said:

Whohoo Welcome to the Party.. Do you like beer? hehe

That's a stupid question to ask.

The real question is "How do you feel about full frontal nudity?"

@scottalanmiller said:

If you were in Europe, light beers are served warm too.

http://www.heineken.com/global/our-beer/products-extra-cold.aspx

Don't be the dipshit who came into my store and tried to tell me that Europeans drink their beer warm and promptly let a keg of beer warm up to room temperature and was trying to figure out why it was nothing but foam. No one drinks warm beer. It's not 23F, but it's certainly not anywhere near 50F. 36F to 40F is your standard to chase after, slightly warmer for darker stuff. But if you let it rise up in temperature, your kegs won't have nearly the yield they require to break even.

Paging @addie to the thread, paging @Addie to the thread.

@ajstringham said:

@PSX_Defector So what would be my reason for contacting him?

Just in case you need some advisement. Or if you happen to see him around campus.

@ajstringham said:

Am I just supposed to contact him to ask him to get me into the program? Just kind of confused...

Probably not the best idea. Wait until after enrollment. It's a pretty open campus, odds are you will be accepted.

@ajstringham said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Hey, you met J.D. I seem to have too much insight into the education world.

Ok, so how exactly am I supposed to get an audience? You don't typically just walk into the Dean's office...

Why not? I walked into the president's office at CVC and didn't even know who it was.

Or would you like to hear the story about how I stood up in a new hire meeting with the DCCCD board and one of the founders Bill J. Priest and said "Hi, I'm PSX, and I'm an alcoholic. Woops, wrong room!"

Hey, you met J.D. I seem to have too much insight into the education world.

Well, I knew Mr. Kim was a dean at UTD, didn't know this was his program.

Talk with Tom Kim, tell him I sent ya. My real name, not PSX.

@scottalanmiller said:

Kansas City isn't exactly a major market.

In telecom, it's one of the major hubs of the country.

Sprint is headquartered in Overland Park. Google Fiber fired up there first. AT&T before remerger had a major operation there. Tons of telecoms peer within KCI because of that.

It is not a major television market, nor a populous place. But it has lots of braintrust and serious players in the market around there. Birch is one of the bigger players who have done well since their last Chapter 11.

@scottalanmiller said:

Wow. Acquired by someone that no one has heard of.

You really need to get out into the world.

Birch has been around since TA1996, one of the first CLECs to fire up. They built up around Kansas City and spread out upon MOKAT.

Yeah, straight up "web" hosting, there's no margin in that. We haven't done that since the DataReturn days, simply because it's not worth the effort.

We can spin you up a server to host a site, you can do whatever you want with that.

Managed or cloud, storage and servers, we got it all.

What you need?

Well, what constitutes a "quality" graphics card? Are we talking AMD R290 or ATI 4350?

Vmware does 3d acceleration, swiping memory from the pool for basic stuff. Unless you require an OpenGL accelerated card, odds are it probably will work.

I plan on getting drunk and dying in a ditch on Friday, then resurrecting on Sunday for brunch.

You know we are better than that.

@Seth-Cooper said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@Seth-Cooper said:

How powerful of a box would a proxy need to be? Could I create such a thing efficiently from old server or workstation? I imagine that depends on the traffic.

I used to run a proxy and sniffer for ~100 users over a P4 512MB machine.

Don't need much.

Good deal, because that is about the exact specs of the spare hardware I have to use!

Need a better machine? I have that box sitting on my shelf, a Compaq with three NICs, 2GB of RAM, and decent sized hard drive. Get it for ya cheap, even load ntop for ya.

If things are working, something is probably connected.

Do the ifconfig and ethtool output. That will tell you if you can safely ignore or if there is a problem. Totally possible it's eth2 or something equally stupid, where it bound up an ethernet interface and it really doesn't do anything.

@Seth-Cooper said:

How powerful of a box would a proxy need to be? Could I create such a thing efficiently from old server or workstation? I imagine that depends on the traffic.

I used to run a proxy and sniffer for ~100 users over a P4 512MB machine.

Don't need much.