Opaque Lucidity

I Am IT, Hear Me Roar

My trip to Nashville went from an 8 hour deal to a 30 hour one. I spent Friday night in a hotel down the street from the office, didn't really sleep at all and crawled back to our house at 4PM. Some oberservations:

-You can not push several gigs worth of data over a 10meg switch from a 200Mhz, 64MB RAM server (running Netware 4.11, no less) to a laptop and expect to be home in time for dinner.

-The Netware client is the coolest thing since sliced bread (other than OS X and Suse 9.2). It will connect to a stone tablet as long as it's running some version of Netware. Try mixing it up with NT 3.51 (comparable in age to Netware 4.11) some time and tell me how fun it is to get everyone talking.

-You should never, ever trust an office manager who tells you that ABSOLUTELY everything is saved to one directory. Nope, no straggling files in the root directory or anything. This reminds me of the tale of the old man and the shark (courtesy of Rebecca Reisert): an old man and a young boy are in a fishing boat. The young boy is worried about sharks. The old man says, "No sharks in these waters, boy. Never have been, never will be." The old man is then promptly eaten by a shark.

-When it's all said and done, I like my job. I replaced a 9-year old server, an even older switch, set up some backup software I had never seen before, learned a lot about Netware on the fly and the office won't skip a beat on Monday morning.

And I get to go to Atlanta next Thursday. I'm quickly becoming the traveling man.