Joshsaunders.Net Technology blog and other random rubbish by Josh

HP Routers – MSR 30-20 and 20-20

So I've had the wonderful job the past 3 months of building a new Australia wide network.

Due to budget restrictions and a general love for HP (not me) I have ended up with a giant pile of HP routers on my desk.
The routers are mostly the HP A-MSR 20-20 and the A-MSR 30-20, after mucking around with them for a few days I learnt some things:

1. these are actually 3coms
2. before they were 3coms they were actually  h3c routers (http://www.h3c.com)
3. There is bugger all information out there on these devices.

So we are  talking about a product that has been passed through 3 companies ownership! I can imagine the scattered information and lack of actual deep technical understanding in the now disjointed h3c/3com/hp merger which of course makes my third point make sense doesn't it.

So lucky me I've had to really scrape together all the information I can find and learn everything I can which has been fun

I'll make sure to post a few articles on how to do the basics in case someone else out there gets stuck in my situation one day.... unlikely

Bellingen Reunion Class of 1999 & 2001

Bellingen High School 2011 Reunion 

Thanks Max for this great Image

Class of 1999 & 2001 is on in like 3 or 4 weeks.
19th of November to be exact.

I have done up a flier for the page here http://www.joshsaunders.net/belloreunion/

hopefully the word gets around.

Booking for this event is now available and essential online here: http://www.trybooking.com/17024  

If you do not have a credit card or don't want to use one please make a bank transfer to: 

NAME: Josh Saunders

description: your name

Then email me letting me know - josh@joshsaunders.net

Bridge to brisbane complete

It was a big day!

went well though, 45,000+ people or something.. It was very difficult to maintain my full race speed though with SOOO many people around, having to dodge and weave through the sea of runners..

as you can see by this picture it was a serious crowd.

sunrise at Bridge to Brisbane run.

I believe my end time was 51 minutes, which considering the crowd I am pleased with.

now on to the next thing

10k’s 47 minutes

That's right ... I am a LOT fitter then I realised...

Bridge to Brisbane

I was in Sydney all last week doing my course in sharepoint, which was fantastic and I plan to write some info about it over the coming weeks.

However I didnt realise the city to surf fun run was on while I was down there, a little bummed that I missed the oppertunity I have decided to go in the
Brisbane equivelant the Bridge to Brisbane: http://www.bridgetobrisbane.com.au/
10k's under 60 minutes (the green rank) I believe I can do it.

I run every night and have done for the last few months, however I don't run 10 k's probably only about 2 to 3k's though it is all mostly up hill, which makes me think
10k's on the flat should not be too hard.
I have exactly 4 weeks till its on so I better start cracking!

Training plan:

Week 1
4 k run every night. Round the providor and up to the cemetery.

Week 2
6 k run every night. in to town then scotchman then back.

week 3
6 k run every second night same scotchman run  then every other night 8 k flat run, nobels lane then back home.

week 4
8 k run with hills every second night, every other 10k run out to boggy creek and back. with rest nights of just garage workouts.

pretty intense I hope I can pull this off!

Josh

Google Plus + a first impression

Google Plus main page

Yay I finally got an invite to google plus or is it google + ?

I've only been hassling every social network stream this side of the googleable internet galaxy...
Finally someone I can't really say I completely even know.. sent me an invite, thank you strange sir, may your mysterious invites bring you infinite stat points well in to the god like levels..

So sign up was a breeze, obviously I already had a gmail account ( come on who doesn't)
it wanted the regular basic data... who are you what's your name, what did you have for breakfast last Saturday at your great grandma Betty's house...The standard ring roll...
Soon as that was all done I upped a couple of photos.. which was AWESOME because it simply allowed me to drag and drop photos from my desktop in to the browser
and the google magic code did all the techno cloud wizardry stuff that you only dream about in nerd filled wet dreams.. usually along side certain alien female life forms....anyway.

The next part was a fun game of drag people you might know in to circles.. wow fun!
the first thing I realised while doing this was that.... Google plus doesnt need any kind of "friendship request" no.. confirmation that we know each other..
so basically it was I add who I want, you add who you want and we all go along our merry way...
google plus is exactly what you would get if you threw twitter and facebook in to a blender.. added some fancy web 2.0 stuff.. took advantage of things only chrome can do..
and obviously whipped some highly paid google engineering monkeys till their backs bled out golden web code.. that would bestow riches upon all those in its prescence..
OK maybe I went a little to far there... but you get the point.

The rest of the process was very facebook-ish... check out some streams.. oops I mean Sparks..
Stalk some early adopting friends, go through the new product viral distributed marketing process of constantly clicking yes to a million friend suggestions.

This could be a winning formula though.. twitter is great in its sense you can follow people and there is little a person can do about it.. but then its fine for them as they have the controls..
Same goes here, a million people could have me in their Circle but they just need to make that circle something like "idiots I dont like but enjoy laughing at their unfortunate bad looks"and then never broadcast anything they dont want to that particular circle...
not hard at all as by default everything you write or add is not broadcasting to Any circles at all.. so even and idiot cant mess that up right? you have to add who you want to be able to see stuff... makes perfect sense, just like I have to Choose to wear no pants to work and let my junk scare everyone in to deliberatly pulling the fire alarm to get out of there... yes that..no that didnt happen.
Is this the end of Monday morning hung over idiots coming in to work to find there boss's finger tapping a  lovely photo of you in your maccas uniform at the local swingers "free for all fridays" party?
I doubt it very much, idiots have always been idiots technology just gives them an excuse, but all in all this is at least a step in the right direction.... my 2 cents is that facebook will steal this method of microblogging/self publishing call it something like facebox's .. "put your friends in their box.." with their... face.. or Whatever..
for now.. see you on the other side.

Josh

Turn Signals

I just read this strip on xkcd and laughed... I do exactly that everytime I am waiting at a turning lane... I've never found anyone in sync though, they always go out of sync after a good 20 seconds... ahhh xkcd.. you get me.

Turn Signals in Sync

Lunch with ash