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Subject: Re: tablebase availability update LOL@HYATT

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:52:55 04/27/00

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On April 27, 2000 at 09:18:07, Tom Likens wrote:

>
>>>>(3) we have a campus traffic monitor, and it consistently has
>>>>juniper.cis.uab.edu at the very top of the list traffic-wise, this in a
>>>
>>>Sounds like you guys need to upgrade to an Avici TSR (Terabit Switch Router)
>>>and get rid of that Juniper box!!
>>>
>>>DISCLAIMER: And yep, I do work for Avici, as an ASIC analog designer :)
>>>
>>
>>Juniper is our ftp server, our usenet news server, and is a pentium pro 200mhz
>>box running linux.  70 mbits/second is not bad for a 100mbit/second ethernet
>>card that is old (ie half duplex).
>>
>>it is being replaced by a dual PIII box hopefully next week...
>
>I figured as much, but the name coincidence was too much to resist.
>In the future I suppose I should try harder. ;)
>
>--Tom

My system guy goes ape naming machines.  We used famous conductors, planets
in the solar system, moons of planets in the solar system, names of cities
around birmingham, you name it.  And oh yes.  Plants.  We have a juniper, a
rose, and several other plants around. :)



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