Violent Rant
Oct. 7th, 2004 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljpliceaseQuestion:
Given: two computers one is a PII 500Mhz, the other a P4 notebook sitting not more than five feet away. The PII is on a 10MegaBit Ethernet, the notebook is on a 100MB Fast Ethernet network. First of all... why the hell can.t my stupid company shell out a few bucks and give for a 100MB hub which I can plug into the wall so that both computers can run on the fast Ethernet. No... that might violate arbitrary security policies... that might be too efficient... I might actually be able to get something done. Secondly, why is it that it is faster to copy a file from my notebook to my computer at home, and then from my home computer to the PII, than it is to copy the file DIRECTLY from the notebook to the PII. Just to give you an idea, my home computer is twenty minutes away (by car)... BUT in order to get there electronically, you have to go through my server in Austin Texas to get into the virtual private network in order to get there. So, send a file to Texas, then back to here in New York, do it twice... and somehow that is FASTER than just copying the thing directly. What the fuck. I guess The Company hasn.t figured out how to do computer networks. The STUPIDITY of it all is that people pay us to set up their networks.
Idiots.
Given: two computers one is a PII 500Mhz, the other a P4 notebook sitting not more than five feet away. The PII is on a 10MegaBit Ethernet, the notebook is on a 100MB Fast Ethernet network. First of all... why the hell can.t my stupid company shell out a few bucks and give for a 100MB hub which I can plug into the wall so that both computers can run on the fast Ethernet. No... that might violate arbitrary security policies... that might be too efficient... I might actually be able to get something done. Secondly, why is it that it is faster to copy a file from my notebook to my computer at home, and then from my home computer to the PII, than it is to copy the file DIRECTLY from the notebook to the PII. Just to give you an idea, my home computer is twenty minutes away (by car)... BUT in order to get there electronically, you have to go through my server in Austin Texas to get into the virtual private network in order to get there. So, send a file to Texas, then back to here in New York, do it twice... and somehow that is FASTER than just copying the thing directly. What the fuck. I guess The Company hasn.t figured out how to do computer networks. The STUPIDITY of it all is that people pay us to set up their networks.
Idiots.
