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Oct. 3rd, 2009 09:32 pmMy wireless decided it was going to crash, which meant I had to reboot things so that the modem and computer would talk to one another.
This does not bode well for the conference. See, every time I have stayed in a conference hotel, it has intermittent wireless outages, especially during the weekend. It's like hotel staff do not realize what having hundreds of scientists in one place will do to data networks, since 90% of them probably have laptops, and at least a quarter of them will be doing last minute talk touch-ups, which may well mean working with ginormous data files stored in Arizona.
Here, since we're staying during the week (presumably with fewer other people, and IT staff on call), maybe it won't be so bad. If I drop out of contact more than normal, that's why.
This does not bode well for the conference. See, every time I have stayed in a conference hotel, it has intermittent wireless outages, especially during the weekend. It's like hotel staff do not realize what having hundreds of scientists in one place will do to data networks, since 90% of them probably have laptops, and at least a quarter of them will be doing last minute talk touch-ups, which may well mean working with ginormous data files stored in Arizona.
Here, since we're staying during the week (presumably with fewer other people, and IT staff on call), maybe it won't be so bad. If I drop out of contact more than normal, that's why.
