Each time i look at these innocent devices over whose shoulders we run huge businesses i feel an immense pleasure. The mere sense of touch increases the adrenalin flow. Be it a firewall, silent humming machines inside the data centers, hubs in small offices or those Proliant servers. Its crazy but true, for me these seem so sexy and their complexity so beautiful.
For those reading this, might have used an Microsoft IE browser or probably Firefox, keying in http://www.amforked.blogspot.com and then comes all content right in front as you read them!
Images, text, thoughts, opinions probably i would have never been able to share with anyone; is what you are reading ... is the philosophical part. Even more interesting is the journey of the thousands of data packets which make up this content .. coming to you from those Sprintlink/Sify/BSNL/Reliance whatever, networks crossing seas ... miles! They call it servers, routers, switches, data centers which make it possible. What if google stops for an hour?????
HAVOC .. true .. Man its then you understand the criticality of those systems and the need for them to stay online days and nights without resting .. even if they become so tired serving millions of requests. You cant afford experimenting on them! but each time you see these sexy machines working silently with tiny blinking lights your fingers cant possibly resist touching the keyboards!
This ones placed in an extreme isolated corner of the building located in Bikaji Cama Place, Delhi. It is responsible to fetch mails from a remote server and distribute it to all the internal clients. Runs the open source! So exciting .. now if i pull out the wire, there would be chaos .. mail flow will stop and everyone would start complaining! Its black and white console with the login screen keeps staring at me to logon! hee heee For some moments i stand back a meter away and stare ... man its the real server! .. i have the control to screw it or revive it ... Its not different ... but she (is the machine she or he ?? i wonder) doesn't allow me to leave her .. nor do i want to logout ... Yet the problem is solved .. mails flow ... i got to log out and move for the next one at Dehradun .... dear will miss ur touch ..
Black boxes all stacked up on the rack .. one on top of the other .. designed by Cisco, with consoles to manage them .. Long lengthy cables running in and across forming roads on which data travels. Packets don't stop even if you jump on them ... so resilient ..
Dehradun factory people start screaming .. network is jammed .. its a nice job you govern it but with that responsibility you got to be on ur a** standing right up. Cant just afford to stare at systems with the network down! .. Tarun, Rajiv and me stare at each other for moments before this lone server accepts its mistake ... Its not the vpn link .. or the internal network nor the sexy HP proliant Bann server but the age old linux box blocking things ... haa haaa .. just plug it out and all systems just humm nicely ... might be for a long time before i come here again ...
Had always wanted to touch a real server sometime ... a real one may be at one of the google's or microsoft's data centers ... probably they may not take me ... they are tied to those beautiful resumes ... or may be extreme skillsets i might not have at this moment! ...
Its so nice to fiddle with her cuz she doesnt complain! otherwise ...
For those reading this, might have used an Microsoft IE browser or probably Firefox, keying in http://www.amforked.blogspot.com and then comes all content right in front as you read them!
Images, text, thoughts, opinions probably i would have never been able to share with anyone; is what you are reading ... is the philosophical part. Even more interesting is the journey of the thousands of data packets which make up this content .. coming to you from those Sprintlink/Sify/BSNL/Reliance whatever, networks crossing seas ... miles! They call it servers, routers, switches, data centers which make it possible. What if google stops for an hour?????
HAVOC .. true .. Man its then you understand the criticality of those systems and the need for them to stay online days and nights without resting .. even if they become so tired serving millions of requests. You cant afford experimenting on them! but each time you see these sexy machines working silently with tiny blinking lights your fingers cant possibly resist touching the keyboards!
This ones placed in an extreme isolated corner of the building located in Bikaji Cama Place, Delhi. It is responsible to fetch mails from a remote server and distribute it to all the internal clients. Runs the open source! So exciting .. now if i pull out the wire, there would be chaos .. mail flow will stop and everyone would start complaining! Its black and white console with the login screen keeps staring at me to logon! hee heee For some moments i stand back a meter away and stare ... man its the real server! .. i have the control to screw it or revive it ... Its not different ... but she (is the machine she or he ?? i wonder) doesn't allow me to leave her .. nor do i want to logout ... Yet the problem is solved .. mails flow ... i got to log out and move for the next one at Dehradun .... dear will miss ur touch ..
Black boxes all stacked up on the rack .. one on top of the other .. designed by Cisco, with consoles to manage them .. Long lengthy cables running in and across forming roads on which data travels. Packets don't stop even if you jump on them ... so resilient ..
Dehradun factory people start screaming .. network is jammed .. its a nice job you govern it but with that responsibility you got to be on ur a** standing right up. Cant just afford to stare at systems with the network down! .. Tarun, Rajiv and me stare at each other for moments before this lone server accepts its mistake ... Its not the vpn link .. or the internal network nor the sexy HP proliant Bann server but the age old linux box blocking things ... haa haaa .. just plug it out and all systems just humm nicely ... might be for a long time before i come here again ...
Had always wanted to touch a real server sometime ... a real one may be at one of the google's or microsoft's data centers ... probably they may not take me ... they are tied to those beautiful resumes ... or may be extreme skillsets i might not have at this moment! ...
Its so nice to fiddle with her cuz she doesnt complain! otherwise ...
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