mark@bendlinux:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
115   ls
63   sudo
63   cd
34   ping
22   httperf
20   vim
17   lynx
17   clear
11   ps
8   autobench

Enjoy!

The internet is used more every day by people that are discovering the tools and sites out there. How can they expect to drive internet adoption by turning it into a pay-per-byte action. They say that a majority of their users use less than 10Gb/Month. When I think of someone that uses less than 10Gb I assume that its very easy for that person to go over 10Gb, what if they start a netflix subscription, or their kids get an xbox 360 or ps3. BBB is pushing away a core set of customers, including me, that have been rather happy and willing to suggest their service to clients, friends and family. But I cant do that now, knowing that each of those people will risks having wildly varying bills each month just for using the internet more.

There is a pretty good conversation about this over at UtterlyBoring.com check is out: http://utterlyboring.com/archives/2008/03/21/bendbroadband_i.php

As of today I am scheduled for another local ISP to be out here on the 14th, to hook me up. At which point I will no longer be a BBB internet subscriber.

The book is very Cisco centric (But what network guy isnt), still the topics usually apply to other vendors quite well. I especially loved part 8 of the book, titled “Designing Networks”. He does a GREAT job of walking through the network design process… including selling it to management. I also felt that part 6, “Server Load Balancing” is a must read for anyone with services that need to scale, once again the discussion is Cisco focused.. but there are some gems in there that work no matter what techniques you choose are.

This book is one of the few that should always be near so its there to grab when you need it. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone that manages a network.

Anyone else going? Did you sign up for the tutorial days?

Thanks to xkcd for the GREAT venn diagram.

I wonder who else may be on their plate soon???

I plan on writing about some new services(IM) that businesses are starting to rely on, as well as the old classics(Email). It will be a discussion of the various pieces of technology that I have used and how they work well within a company, so if I don’t talk about something it probably because I have not used it. But please do comment if you have ideas. I will also talk about the Operating Systems that I prefer to run

I plan on hitting the following topics:

• Communication
  • Corporate IM
  • Email/Groupware
  • Wiki’s
  • Document Management/Collaboration
  • Telephony
  • Issue/Request/Ticket Tracking
• Business Intelligence
  • Reporting
  • Analysis
• Network Management
  • Security
  • Monitoring
  • VPNs/Firewalls

Stay tuned… they are coming soon.