I just got my first switch, and I noticed it was manufactured on my first birthday.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-24TT-L

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my first birthday
MAR 14 2007
Anyone else's back hurt while reading this?
- Sorry.
  
  I didn't even realize people born in 2007 had consciousness yet wtf. Good on you man, enjoy your switch
  
  Get off my lawn
- I was a Sophomore in high school when OP was born. How is OP on the Internet?
  
  Because OP is 17 lmao
  
  OP is 17
  whyareyoubooingmeimright.jpg
  
  lol, there's a pretty big chance OP is probably a Sophomore in high school too
  edit: probably a junior or senior actually but still pretty close
  
  I was probably a Sophomore when you were born, then.
- I was already working my first job in IT in 2007. God damn
- Just this week I realized that my driver's license is so old, it's a millennial.
This post made me crumble into dust
I legitimately have bottles of wine older than you lmao
you were born on pi day!
- Einstein was too.
Get off my lawn!
What do you mean by your "first" birthday?
- When I was exactly 1 year old.
  
  I'm so fuckin old dude
  
  I'm stupid :)
  I was wondering if you were like born again christian or something and that you considered another importabt date as being your second birth day.
  
  I understood it wrong, too 😅
2007, excellent year! Also, I swear Cisco those older switches are will run forever (as long as you don't reboot it too often 😂)
- (as long as you don’t reboot it too often 😂)
  Could you enlighten me on that? This sounds scary.
  
  It's an old joke, when a switch (or any electronics really) has 365+ day uptime rebooting could kill the power supply during its POST power supply test.
  Realistically you shouldn't have to worry about it, those are solid switches. I have a 3524 from 2001 that's still running, it gets bounced about once a year when I bump the power cable while recabling. I also have a 2960G that's on a UPS, and without logging in I couldn't tell you the uptime
- don't update the firmware!!!!! these have a bug with their security module which essentially bricks them if you update past a certain point
  
  Hmm. I planned to upgrade it to newest available IOS for this device, 15.0.2-SE11.
  What kind of bricking are we talking about here? (Permanent or fixable)
  I only found this:
  A Catalyst 2960 with 64Mb of DRAM might display Low memory on the console after upgrading to 12.2(58)SE or later
  Which should be fixed, and if not, I could just downgrade it back. Worst case scenario: I'll have to use xmodem instead of TFTP.
Thank for the PII jk jk, but you should be more careful if that's your actual birth date
Your goofy ass better ansluta apparaten till jordat nätuttag or else
- Meanwhile my power cable:
On your what?!
- Network switch
  
  Ah, you never know on this place. Weird way to share your BFs birthday with the World
wait yours is exactly one month off from mine

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