telnet with nix..

telnet is a lot more flexible with nix... it's native, and you can do a lot... i can do this from the desktop also, but i chose to represent this from the vm...

i telnetted to all the switches and turned on debug ip icmp on the dls's so i could witness real time debugging from one machine to the other... problem is i do a lot of experiments that may cause a connection drop with telnet, and that is where some kind of access server would come in handy... still researching the most cost effective way to accomplish that, and without too many headaches, and console cables..

have i mentioned yet today that i hate windows...

the flexibility here is quite nice...

unix...

in the early 90's, the age of windows 3.1, my entree into the unix world began with system V, berkeley and SCO... that was just prior to dos5.0...  i learned then that i was an operating system kind of guy and that i was very comfortable at the command line... but gui was fashionable, windows was dominating, and although os2 was a better product, it couldn't muster the market share or the application support...

of course torvalds came along and began to change everything... unix on the desktop for the masses and free... he took the minix kernel and made it into linux and gave it away.. brilliant...

so along with the windows progression from 3.1 to 95,98,2000,xp, vista, 7, i also grew with redhat, suse,
fedora, and now my new best friend ubuntu...

last night i really had to dust off the old commands and permissions, and what i know is:  microsoft's greatest product was xp, and when they retired it, they forever ruined windows...

if only corporate america would come to grips with open source on the desktop across the board... it's time to finally slay the dragon...