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A few pics from the 2006 LOSURS Installfest, held at the Book & Briar Patch bookstore:

Gord and I put together a Cisco lab. Quagga is great for the routing stuff, but it doesn't emulate switching at all.

We immediately ran into a problem when trying to connect the Cisco console ports to my Digi Portserver II/16: While both ends are RJ45, neither uses anything that could be described as a standard pin-out.

After a bit a of research, I discovered that a Cat5 cable wired as follows works for Cisco consoles. Note that the cable is directly -- the end labelled "Cisco" in the table must go to the Cisco unit, or the cable won't work. I recommend labelling the ends somehow.

Note that I use "w/" as an abbreviation for "White", "Bl" for "Blue", "Gr" for "Green", "Br" for "Brown", and "Or" for "Orange".

Brad and I went to the Novia for lunch. It was Wednesday, after all. On the way back to our respective offices, I wandered through Victoria Park to see the snow sculptures. Being pressed for time (I had to get back to work), I only took pictures of four of them though there was many more.

First up was The Giant Skull:

... And a submarine ...

... And a cube with frogs on each face ...

... And a can of sardines.