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Old 01-28-2012, 07:31 PM   #91
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Neat hobby Dave - one I've never tried.
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Old 01-28-2012, 09:40 PM   #92
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rman, I saw your picture in your sweet server room looking like you're about to punch a CAT-5. The worst server room I ever saw was one in the janitor closet, where the servers weren't rackmounted, but were desktops sitting on the floor 12" from the big yellow mop bucket full of dirty water, and the four servers and one of the UPS' were sitting in about an inch of water. Guess why I got called out? Here's a bit more boomerang porn:
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Boomerang==What did we ever do without the Internet?

A rotating wing. Modern ones are CAD designed airfoils.

The return type might have been used to flush game mostly birds from the grass or trees.

Also non return throwing sticks & clubs. Interesting.

Thanks for the information on what to buy. This would be a good thing to practice with the grandchildren. Get out of the house.
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I think I'll get one and try it. If it don't work,. maybe I can train my dog to get it and bring it back.
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Old 01-29-2012, 03:51 PM   #95
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Listen to ye olde boomerang thrower when I say get a Yanaki as your first 'rang.

If you're a righty, angle off the incoming wind is 45 degrees plus (to the right) for the Yanaki.
Angle up is to aim at the tips of the distant trees.
Spin, not power is king. Throw half power at first.
Layover is more vertical if it's windy, so it powers against the wind, more layover in less wind.

It has to be calm or almost calm; if flags are flying straight out it is too windy, the dang thing will end up a mile behind you. It is almost necessary to own a windicator. It is a ribbon on a 3-piece aluminum rod, so you can see the wind. First link is for the Yanaki at $19, second is for the windicator at $12. This site says it will include the Colorado Boomerangs booklet with your 'rang. It will tell you what you're doing wrong (if it dies like this, you need more power, if it flies in this s-shape, less power, etc). It would be delightful to get some chuckers on this site, and at first, all the walking is good exercise! (mark where it lands or you'll never see it again, they are shy)

http://www.boomerangs.com/yanaki.html
http://www.boomerangs.com/windicator.html
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rman, I saw your picture in your sweet server room looking like you're about to punch a CAT-5. The worst server room I ever saw was one in the janitor closet, where the servers weren't rackmounted, but were desktops sitting on the floor 12" from the big yellow mop bucket full of dirty water, and the four servers and one of the UPS' were sitting in about an inch of water. Guess why I got called out? Here's a bit more boomerang porn:
I just retired Dave, but I wish I had a recent picture of the server room. That picture was taken right after we moved into the new building in 2001. Now there are about 90 rack mounted regular servers and 5 big host servers running about 80 virtual servers. Times have sure changed in this business!
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*drool*

The top thing I ever got to do was to go to the data center, where we managed the network for about 40,000 people. Our cage was actually one of the smaller ones, but to get to work with the big boys with no users downloading kitty videos was heaven.

What I'd really like to see would be your cable management though! Ours was done by the people before us, and one time we wanted to know what devices were plugged into which ports on the routers. Took two of us two full days to trace all those lines. They'd actually bundled ethernet cables in those tidying tube thingies, so there was no way to feel down the line, but we had to cut the tube thingies off and, as you know, your hands don't fit between rackmounted equipment. We invented some words.

They owned car dealerships across the country (22 in Dallas alone), and it was cool to drive by ones we owned thinking, 'you guys don't know this, but in about 15 minutes, dude in the little green car's gonna be bringin' you down!

We improved their lives, though they'll never know it Glad you're retired and now fantastically wealthy!
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I was very picky about my cable routing; network, power and KVM. Some of my co-workers complained because everything was neatly routed and like cables were velcroed together. If they had to move a server out of the rack they had do undo the velcro ties and then rebundle the cables when they were done. Guess that was too much work! Every rack had a 24 port patch panel at the top and patch cables ran from the servers to a port on the rack patch panels. Each rack had a letter designation; i.e. A, B, etc. These terminated at 24 port patch panels in a communcations rack with the Cisco switches. The were labeled like the rack patch panels. Each panel was located directory below a switch. A 12" patch cord then ran from that patch panel to the switch; for example, A1 to Switch 1, port 1. It was pretty easy to trace the cable route from server to switch.
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*drool*

The top thing I ever got to do was to go to the data center, where we managed the network for about 40,000 people. Our cage was actually one of the smaller ones, but to get to work with the big boys with no users downloading kitty videos was heaven.

What I'd really like to see would be your cable management though! Ours was done by the people before us, and one time we wanted to know what devices were plugged into which ports on the routers. Took two of us two full days to trace all those lines. They'd actually bundled ethernet cables in those tidying tube thingies, so there was no way to feel down the line, but we had to cut the tube thingies off and, as you know, your hands don't fit between rackmounted equipment. We invented some words.

They owned car dealerships across the country (22 in Dallas alone), and it was cool to drive by ones we owned thinking, 'you guys don't know this, but in about 15 minutes, dude in the little green car's gonna be bringin' you down!

We improved their lives, though they'll never know it Glad you're retired and now fantastically wealthy!
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I was very picky about my cable routing; network, power and KVM. Some of my co-workers complained because everything was neatly routed and like cables were velcroed together. If they had to move a server out of the rack they had do undo the velcro ties and then rebundle the cables when they were done. Guess that was too much work! Every rack had a 24 port patch panel at the top and patch cables ran from the servers to a port on the rack patch panels. Each rack had a letter designation; i.e. A, B, etc. These terminated at 24 port patch panels in a communcations rack with the Cisco switches. The were labeled like the rack patch panels. Each panel was located directory below a switch. A 12" patch cord then ran from that patch panel to the switch; for example, A1 to Switch 1, port 1. It was pretty easy to trace the cable route from server to switch.
Or just call "Bob" over in Mumbai India, he'll tell you what to do.
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rman, you and I would get along. Velcro and LABELING! How hard is that?
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