Thu May 05 2022 11:54:01 MST from Wangiss <wangiss@wallofhate.com>

Screw those guys. I would LOVE to be able to have native network governance software on my computer where I can see all the devices on my computer and what they're doing. Did my kid fire up the tablet at 10:30pm? Tablet gulag. Is my kid diligently studying geology? Brownie points. I used to have two WiFi routers right next to each other until the lady at Radio Shack--I'm so blessed to have two within a short drive!--told me they interfere with each other. Some networking software on my computer should have given me a tip about that five years ago.

The freaking state of things. Barf.

Some improvements are fast, others slower than glaciers.

In much the same way that it is easy to tear a house down and rebuild a new one, connecting it to the old foundational infrastructure as far as wiring, pipes and other utilities - but it is hard to update those utilities - the network layer is kind of the fundamental layer of the 7 layer model - and small changes to that affect everything that is built on top of it. 

I was thinking about that in Lucca, actually. The house we were in was built sometime in the 1500s. Inside, it was very modern feeling - except for exposed wooden beams on the roof and the fact that the walls were actually stone. But it had electric, and plumbing - and running water... thinking of the logistics of how they brought these things into a house with stone walls a foot thick, and did it unobtrusively so that there weren't exposed pipes and conduits everywhere, and did it for the entire CITY - was overwhelming. But I also realized that, somewhere, that modern toilet that connected to relatively modern pipes, eventually dumped into a medieval sewer - that probably rerouted eventually to a modern water treatment plant. By necessity. There was probably always some kind of sewer beneath the city - and you can't really tear up the streets and under the buildings to get to that to update it. So you make use of it. At some point, my modern toilet and bidet were hooked up to a 500 year old sewage system beneath me. 

I was also struck by the idea that the house probably remained largely the same until maybe the early 1900s. Chamber pots and a fire burning stove in the kitchen and lit by kerosene and other sources of flame, heated by stoves and the like (no fireplace - but Italy is pretty temperate)... a two bedroom house with two bathrooms a kitchen and a living room - the layout, you can't really remodel it - they're all stone, load bearing walls - and they weren't framed over and plastered - so the layout is unmodified... but the use and application of rooms may have changed over time. But since the 1900s until today, I bet it has been remodeled inside more times than in the hundreds of years before. I bet it looks radically different today than it did in 1940, and that is radically different from 1910. I bet it has remained fairly consistent since the 1950s, though. 

Sun May 15 2022 23:44:47 MST from TheDave

 

Thu May 05 2022 11:54:01 MST from Wangiss <wangiss@wallofhate.com>

Screw those guys. I would LOVE to be able to have native network governance software on my computer where I can see all the devices on my computer and what they're doing. Did my kid fire up the tablet at 10:30pm? Tablet gulag. Is my kid diligently studying geology? Brownie points. I used to have two WiFi routers right next to each other until the lady at Radio Shack--I'm so blessed to have two within a short drive!--told me they interfere with each other. Some networking software on my computer should have given me a tip about that five years ago.

The freaking state of things. Barf.

Some improvements are fast, others slower than glaciers.