Sometimes I have D’Oh moments… Case in point. Just before I went out for dinner for a farewell I started copying about a GByte of files from my laptop to my server. Like, how much time can that take. 100 mBit/sec is 10 MBytes/Second. Assume that we get only 1/10th of that makes about 1 MByte/second. 1000 MBytes = 1000 Seconds or a bit under 20 minutes. So why was it still going when I got home after being out for about three hours? Well some dome person (me) is using wireless and ethernet. And it decided to default to the wireless for the copy. So things were taking extra long. Since the is 54 mBit (yeah, sure) wireless things took a little longer than the three hours. In fact it has 14 minutes left. Not so bad I guess, compared to the old 11 MBit WiFi.

The stuff I am backing up is most of my programming work. I try to back this up often, but my IT department (me) is sometimes slack about this. Given the size of the data that I deal with at times, not only is it important to back up, but to do it regularly.

I think I mentioned ealier that I need to do some work on a presentation… I have done some more thinking about that, starting to write down my ideas. This will be a really important presentation for me, so I need to put some effort into it. I still have not worked out what I want to say which is the real worry. Well, that is a lie. I have worked out what I want to say, but not the fine detail, and not how I want to get there… I guess this is just a process that I need to work though…