I'm also a firefighter in my town. You'd be pretty amazed how many calls for service get started by someone uttering the phrase "hold my beer and watch this s***" or some derivative thereof...
In Texas? No, that seems to fit right in with my impression of Texas. ;-) ;-)
Went to a conference once in Dallas where we had dinner and then a social event. Seem to recall they brought in a bull and were letting people get on and take a picture with them on it.
In Texas? No, that seems to fit right in with my impression of Texas. ;-) ;-)
Went to a conference once in Dallas where we had dinner and then a social event. Seem to recall they brought in a bull and were letting people get on and take a picture with them on it.
Someone who works at poison control once commented to me that a surprisingly large amount of calls are preceded by "hold my beer". Especially calls involving snake bites. Apparently, one dude got bit in the face after trying to take a selfie with a rattlesnake.
In Texas? No, that seems to fit right in with my impression of Texas. ;-) ;-)
Went to a conference once in Dallas where we had dinner and then a social event. Seem to recall they brought in a bull and were letting people get on and take a picture with them on it.
No need for crossover cables. Gigabit ethernet and beyond include auto-MDI/MDIX as part of the standard.
The cheap solution is probably the SFP+ route. See the 10G Primer for some guidance to get up to speed on the technology. You need network cards, SFP+ optics, and some fiber, all of which can be acquired on eBay for maybe $200-$300.
EDIT: Yeah, that was too good to be true. New ones are expensive, but clearly even slightly used ones are being offloaded by many people at a tiny fraction of initial cost = lemon.
Yes. The card may be old stock. The 10G world is moving towards copper, and that kind of card would more likely have been aimed towards end-user workstation or entry-level server use. The problem you're going to have with that card is that it doesn't come with the optic. If your PC and your NAS are sufficiently close, you can do a twinax direct attach type setup and that should work, otherwise you've got to deal with acquiring the optic and some fiber for it.
EDIT: Yeah, that was too good to be true. New ones are expensive, but clearly even slightly used ones are being offloaded by many people at a tiny fraction of initial cost = lemon.
That's *possible*, but it is also possible that someone's just blowing those out because they've been sitting on a shelf for five years. I don't see any real cause for concern. Seller has quantity of them, in Florida, card has a 30 day seller warranty, seller's been on eBay nearly 10 years, 100% feedback with over 800 feedback entries. If I needed a single port DA card I'd buy one without any hesitation, I'd just make sure I was able to test it within the 30 day timeframe.
Oh yay they finally did more than a press release with these. I had stopped looking every few days, haha. These have the potential to be totally awesome.
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