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Sunday, September 14, 2003
You want slow? I'll show you slow. 
| | I thought burning some midnight oil might get me a bit more bandwidth here on the boat. Fewer users = More bandwidth, no? But here are the latest up/download speeds: |
| | Earlier we were running at 108kbps and 80kbps. Not great, but usable. |
| | We're also getting half second latency in pings off various servers, which is what you'd expect from a path that runs up and down from a bird 25,000 miles up in the sky. But what's throttling us (me and this one other guy) is packet loss, which is running a steady 16%. |
| | Maybe that's because the satellite system here on the boat can't hold a tight beam on the bird, while the boat slowly rocks back and forth, up and down. Which is what boats do when they're well away from the coast, somewhere west of British Columbia. |
Waterworld
| | We're underway. I took the shot above from the deck of our stateroom as we sailed out of town — all 1300 of us, including 100+ Geek Cruisers. It's gonna be a fun trip (in spite of the fact the lounge singer upstairs is singing "Yesterday" so out-of-key, and so far off the drummer's beat, that the mess sounds like very bad karaoke). |
| | I give a keynote on Tuesday night. It'll about uncredited successes on the customer side of Linux in the Enterprise. I'm looking for exemplary stories here, about smart technologists using Linux in resourceful (but uncredited) ways — with or without help from big vendors like IBM, Dell and HP. The kind of stuff no PR agency would ever talk about, but which the world is full of. If you have any, | |
Quotes of the day:
| | Microsoft has paid for a series of studies, the latest of which appeared this week, which invariably find that, in specific applications, Windows costs less than Linux. |
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