I find it unimaginable that in this day and age, when a meeting is called in a conference room of a large technology company, there are still grown men and women in business suits crawling around on the floor under tables plugging in network cables and laptop power supplies. Hasn’t this problem been solved many times over?
by smallerdemon » Apr 9, 2005 12:56 PM
You'd think so, but if you've ever worked at a university then you are well aware of the major acts of god involved in getting something like a wireless network installed, or a new conference table with ports. Simple things, but they often take a tremendous amount of political, financial, and sometimes technical gerrymandering to get done. One such project where I work was in process for two years pretty much and the end result was no new conference table, same crappy port setup, and after the two years, finally, a wireless access point (which had to go through an approval process to get on the network, and then had to be routed over to the part of the organization that adds those devices to the authentication server).