And another two weeks have passed *sigh*. So many things to post, yet I barely ever get to actually posting it… Anyway, right now I have material to post about one thing and it’s even the most recent thing… Why not post the older stuff first? The answer to that question is simple, I don’t have all the material I need for the other things.
So today’s topic is a switch. A pretty big one too. A Nortel Networks Baystack 310-24T. Nortel Networks isn’t very well known in this part of the world which is probably also the reason why I had never heard of it before I visited my girlfriend over at her parent’s house for the first time. Her brother has quite a few Nortel switches and two of them were simply in the way and he no longer wanted to use them because they were too old. Both of these switches were Baystack 310-24T models and he simply gave them away together with his dad and I was the lucky one to receive both of them.
The Baystack 310-24T switch:
The Baystack 310-24T switch has 24 10base-T RJ45 ethernet ports. This means that it has a maximum transfer speed of 10 megabits per second on each port at half duplex. Half duplex means that it can only send or receive at a port at one given time. It is not possible to send and receive on one port at the same time. Besides that it has one 100Base-TX uplink port which means that it has one port with a maximum transfer speed of 100 megabits per second at full duplex. So it can send and receive at the same time. And uplink means that it’s supposed to be used to connect it to another switch. The pins in an uplink port are arranger differently, crossed over so you can use a standard straight through UTP cable to connect it to another switch, in most cases the other switch would be a faster backbone switch to which it will be connected to one of it’s normal network ports.
Whenever I get the time I’m going to figure out all of it’s specifications and dedicate a page to it and maybe I’m going to try to get some more Nortel Networks equipment as well, because there is always more than just Cisco Systems.
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Posted by Zhooibaal
Feb
11
2007
My second pc, Tiger, and my third pc, Stoomketel, have been relocated to new locations to serve new purposes.
Tiger is now my main workstation at my appartment about which I allready told a little bit in my previous post and I must say that it’s an excellent workstation. It boots fast and it also loads my programs pretty quickly. It’s only major drawback is that it sucks at gaming. Most graphics cards suffer from a bug in it’s mainboard which prevents graphics card from functioning properly, so now it has a GeForce FX 5200 which is by far not enough to run even a remotely recent game. But that’s not what Tiger is for anyway, it’s supposed to run my office applications decently and it does that very well, so I’m happy with it, for the games I have my Saturn and my NES there.
Previously Tiger was only being used for test purposes for any stuff I didn’t want to do on my main PC Slashdev.
And stoomketel has been relocated to a friend’s house, Dennis’ house to be more precise. There it will be functioning as the sound recording station for our band Knepper and all of it’s side projects.
In it’s current form, Stoomketel is in no way capable of fullfilling the task of recording station as it doesn’t even have a sound card installed and it’s harddrive is sounding like it’s going to blow any minute. So there is still some work to be done to get it working properly and I haven’t yet even mentioned that I allready replaced it’s CPU because that thing died and now it’s suffering from severe overheating even when idle, so I have to find a decent cooling solution and it’s in a need for a complete operating system reinstall.
When Stoomketel is finished there is only 1 part missing from our new recording "studio": a compressor/limiter
A compressor/limiter is used to keep any sound signals that go through it at the same volume level with a configurable margin to reduce the amount of required editing to keep the volume at a constant rate througout a song.
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PDA |
Posted by Zhooibaal
Feb
06
2007
…on a blog far far away, there was someone who would post on a regular basis, but eventually he didn’t keep the promise… Guess who?
Anyway, I’ve been pretty damn busy for the past few weeks and due to all the stuff that had been going on I didn’t feel like posting. Besides that I didn’t have any inspiration, but now it’s all over and I’m back amoungst the living and there are quite a few subjects I can post about, so I’ll be posting them as I find the inspiration in the next few days, maybe even weeks.
First off, I’m going to tell you that I moved into my own single room apartment in the first week of Januari (seems like a long time already). The college I’m attending to was simply too far away to travel back and forth every day and also the delays in the public transport system were almost annoying me to death, so I decided to move to get rid of that inconvenience.
Now I live on the 8th floor of an old appartment building and during the night I have quite a nice view, here’s a picture.
Soon I’ll take more pictures of how it looks over there inside my apartment… Well, I allready have some pics, but they’re allready outdated… I moved stuff around, added new stuff and some new stuff has yet even to arrive. For instance my DJ mixer panel isn’t yet in any picture as are my two old 3Com 10base-T hubs that I use to raise my screen a little higher. And soon I will have a Compaq KVM switch and an Igel Thin Client that will need a good spot to stand/lie around.
But I do have another picture for you, but that’s not related to my new apartment, but to my good old Palm Tungsten E. Well, it’s old, not so sure if it’s still that good. I crashed on me while playing Minefield, which is a freeware minesweeper clone.
More soon.
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