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Re: Saturday, January 12, 2002
In thirty minutes Neil Bauman of Geek Cruises is hosting the PERL Whirl Coctail Party. We've been out to sea for 2 hours. This is what our business plan calls a "working vacation." I boarded early around 9:30 am to set up the 802.11b CISCO Aironet 350 wireless Internet acccess for about 30 Perl developers. Things are finally stabalized at 7 pm. While the Holland America Veendam was in port, we had 11 mbps on two decks covering all of the seminar rooms and most of the public areas in between. I'm in the Java Cafe, outside of the Wajang Theater, (there's not an XML Bagel Shop yet) testing the limits of the signal from the last access point in the chain. We set up three access points with repeating signals on one channel, and after getting the access points relocated after going to sea, the WLAN is cruisin'. The geeks have 24 hour 11 mbps Internet access without restrictions. Everyone has been configuring their laptops in little alpha geek tribal circles in the cushy lounge areas. There is a sense of participating in a collaborative problem set, getting all of the operating systems with the numerous wireless adapters to first ping the gateway router, and then read email. It's not rocket science but it's more fun than being Manager of Information Systems at a gas grill manufacturer back home in Tennessee. Sunday I think I'll go snorkeling on Holland America's private island Half Moon Cay. I wonder if the access points can be hit from the beach?
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