Today was the first day of class for my Buckhannon, WV class. Since this is a private class, we conducted it in the clients office, an old farm home build just prior to the turn of the century.
The customer, MPL Corporation was formed in 1985 with a mission to provide information processing and programming support to small and medium-sized public and private organizations—entities large enough to require computer support, but not large enough to require full-time internal support staff or easily absorb the cost of "buying a computer of their own". The original partners in MPL bought out the assets of an existing business, which included a mini-computer and a roster of public and private clients, and proceeded to add to the customer base.
Obviously all of their clients today have their own computers, but their service model seems to work and they clearly have a loyal customer following. One interesting note, they still operate a VAX for on customer. For you "youngins" a VAX is a 1970's era computer build by Digital Equipment Corporation. It likely has far less computing power than the MacBook I am typing this on.
Today we covered all the basics including addressing, an intro to queues and firewalls and we will dive into PCQ queues tomorrow.
West Virginia is a beautiful state, but currently they are in their rainy season so it is a little bit messy. I suspect in another month it will be beautiful here.
RouterOS Tip - Ever needed to communicate with someone at a remote location without cell service? Obviously a chat client like GoogleChat is an option but there's a geekier way, the admin chat function inside RouterOS. Both admins log into the same router and both open a terminal window. Then to chat, type a # sign on the command line followed by whatever you want to say. That will then be echoed on the other admin's terminal.
Window 1
# Hi, how are you?
Window 2
# Good, thanks for asking...
Window 1
# See ya later...
Window 2
# Bye!
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