My boss and I are in Des Moines, IA on a reasonably big job. It's big in that if this project goes well, we'll be booked with work for the next couple of years -- on top of our already hectic schedule.
During some downtime earlier this evening we were trying to get a handle on the real-world performance of the new Cisco 1250-series access point. I'm not often swayed by the latest widget or the claims bandied about by the spinsters. But I'll say this: it truly is an amazing piece of technology. It far exceeds anything else I've worked with -- and not just in throughput. It actually takes advantage of a particular kind of interference that we have always dreaded, multipathing, and enables the access point to perform better as a result of it. It's hard to believe without seeing it firsthand.
To try to get a handle on realistic throughput, we decided to move a large file between the testing laptop and a laptop set up as an FTP server. That file happened to be a .avi of the move: The Commitments. After we were done with the test, I thought I'd watch just a little bit of the movie.
I had forgotten what a fantastic movie it is. It's surely one of the best music movies of all time, with a strong commentary on the state of things in industrial, working-class Dublin. The movie came out in 1991, but I doubt that much has changed there.
If you haven't, see it.
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The 1250 router is amazing and not much has changed in working class Dublin in the last 17 years. See this movie.
I don't think I've seen that since 1992.
rruss: You have to stay on your toes around here; try to keep up.
I don't have to work too hard to keep up. I get weeks to absorb your post before you put up a new one!
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