Here’s a list of carefully thought-out pairings of songs for specific types of network activities like cutovers, refresh projects, and typical pain-in-the-butt network tasks.
Click on the network-y activity to listen, and make sure to have your sound at a decent volume. Most of these tasks take longer than the length of one typical song, so usually I’m listening to the entire album.
Keep in mind that these links open a YouTube window. Feel free to refute, agree, or suggest alternatives in the comments.
1. Hacking out ACLs for an ASA cutover
2. Racking a pair of massive data center core switches
3. Mission Critical Site-to-Site VPN Troubleshooting
5. Rebuiling a Call Manager after hours from an old backup
6. Mounting a couple hundred access points
7. Bouncing data center core switches back and forth during a code upgrade
8. Configuring routing and seeing adjacencies coming up perfectly on every router
9. Spending the afternoon placing hundreds of access points in Prime
10. Troubleshooting some gear while suffering from the flu and sitting in the cold part of a data center
12. Putting the finishing touches on an AMAZING IDF re-cable
14. Driving home in the middle of the night tired and hungry after only a meh cutover
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1 – Powerman 5000 – Invade, Destroy, Repeat
2 – Collective Soul – Heavy
3 – Trivium – Brave This Storm
4 – Hoobastank – Out of Control
5 – Cake – No Phone
6 – Rocket from the Crypt – On A Rope
7 – Prong – Ultimate Authority
8 – zebrahead – Headrush
9 – Raconteurs – Salute Your Solution
10 – XTC – Snowman
11 – Unwritten Law – The Celebration Song
12 – Tremonti – Radical Change
13 – Weezer – Hash Pipe
14 – Soil – Breaking Me Down
15 – Drowning Pool – Bodies
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