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Re: The Rich Can Teach Us A Thing Or Two

AWfki — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:54:39 -0000

This is meaningless.

1. They give away more. --- So, they've got more to give away. Bill Gates could probably give away %50 of his gross income every year without impacting his lifestyle. It doesn't make him a better person, though he might be, it just means that giving doesn't cost him anything.

2. They are much more likely to own businesses. --- That's probably how they got to $500k a year in the first place.

3. They borrow strategically. --- They can afford to pay off the credit card balance every month. They can also afford to buy multiple houses.

4. They don't blow a lot of money on cars. The average value of cars owned by millionares is higher, but this value as a percentage of total net worth is significantly lower for the rich than for the average. --- Duh. They're rich so of course the "value as a percentage of total net worth is significantly lower".

5. They're almost always homeowners --- Really! If I was rich I wouldn't own a house I'd rent a one-bedroom apartment. That was sarcasm, BTW.

You take any person and hand them a bunch of money and odds are good that within a short period of time they'll match all those points. If you want to tell me about what I can learn from the rich tell me about how they got rich in the first place. I bet most of them didn't match many of those points until after they made their money.

PS. This wasn't meant as a personal attack. I just chanced across this and had to comment.

Re: Netflix Settlement

AWfki — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:41:20 -0000

The supposedly injured consumers get basically nothing while the plaintiffs law firms get's $2.5 million. Somehow that just seems wrong to me. I'll be following the instructions at http://www.netflixsettlementsucks.com/ to opt-out. If enough people choose to opt-out the settlement gets thrown out.

BTW, I said "supposedly" injured because while Netflix advertising may have used a poor choice of words I think any reasonable person would understand that time and the US Post Office will limit the number of DVDs you can get each month. This suit was about the plaintiffs law firm getting rich.

Re: How to Determine Which Switch and Port You are Connected To | Cisco switch | Tech-Recipes

AWfki — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:15:20 -0000

"show mac-address-table 0000.0000.0000" is too much typing for me, especially as I'm frequently called on to find which interface a server or user is connected to. Because I'm lazy in an efficient kind of way I add the "shmac" alias to all my switches.

In config mode enter alias exec shmac SH MAC-address-table | include

Now when you want to find a server that's got a mac address of 0102.0304.0506 you can just type shmac 0506
and nine times out of ten you'll get the entry you're looking for. You may get multiple entries if you've got two devices with MACs ending in 0506 so you could type the whole MAC address, but I did mention that I'm "efficient" so I rarely do.

I'd also like to note that while the author's network may always use gig interface for switch connections it's perfectly possible for a user to be connected to one so that's not actually a guarantee that's it's an interswitch link. Figuring that out requires that you know your network; which means that I can't think of a simple to explain way to figure out where the port shown leads to another switch.

Re: How to disable Cisco router domain name lookup | Cisco router | Tech-Recipes

AWfki — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:17:06 -0000

Alternately you could configure a DNS server with the command: ip name-server <ip address>

Now if you type "confligure" you'll get something like

Translating "confligure"...domain server (1.1.1.1)
% Unknown command or computer name, or unable to find computer address

within a few seconds as the domain server reports that the name doesn't look up.

Re: The dark secrets of loopback addresses | Cisco networking | Tech-Recipes

AWfki — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:04:05 -0000

I don't know quite where to start with this but if you're looking for info I'd suggest looking elsewhere.

First, loopbacks don't have much to do with troubleshooting. You can ping one or use it as the source for pings but you can do that with any interface with an IP.

Loopbacks are often used for router management but can also be used to provide virtual interfaces for things like GRE tunnels. The reason you use a loopback is that a physical interface can go down but the loopback, being virtual, is up as long as the router is up.

Regarding OSPF, the term "feasible successor" is from EIGRP, it's not used in OSPF. I think the author was looking for is Router ID. This the IP the router uses to identify itself to other routers running OSPF. The router is determined thusly:

1 Use the address configured by the ospf router-id command
2 Use the address of the loopback 0 interface
3 Use the highest IP address of any interface
4 If no interface exists, set the router-ID to 0.0.0.0

Re: How to (more) safely run debugs on Cisco routers | Cisco router | Tech-Recipes

AWfki — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:12:48 -0000

The last command in this example is incorrect as it doesn't use the access-list that's been defined. The last example should be:


access-list 100 permit ip any host 1.1.1.1
access-list 100 permit ip host 1.1.1.1 any

debug ip packet detail 100

Note the 100 at the end of the debug line. That applies ACL 100 to the debug. Without that you risk choking the router if it's at all busy.

Re: OS X: Show hidden files and folders in Mac OS X Finder | Apple Mac | Tech-Recipes

AWfki — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:00:03 -0000

Since you're already in the terminal just add "killall finder" after the show or hide commands. Finder will go away and then restart.