Knock Knock

I'm at my office. Duz that count?

Jeff Liebermann wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Happy to c you are still around, :-)

Thanks. Rumors of my premature demise have been greatly exaggerated. Before I drop dead from overwork, I'll prepare a bot, that will answer wireless questions with canned responses in this newsgroup. That way, I won't be missed.

Jeff, I'll often proxy canned responses from you, to (I assume) great effect. Particularly this one:

This never gets old!

Haha. It's new to me. :D

Feel free to recycle my old rants. The statue of limitations has expired long ago.

Yeah, but I'm getting old. I didn't recall writing that. So, I searched for the culprit and found that it really was me in

I could have used that quote for a talk I gave on the evils of MESH networks to a local Linux user group.

Can you guess what's wrong with this drawing?

Technical trivia: This is what 802.11g/n looks like going from a client computah via wi-fi, to a Linksys EA2700 router, and to a fast laptop running Jperf as a server via gigabit ethernet: About 40Mbits/sec average. This is what the same setup looks like when I added a Linksys RE-2000 Range Extender, which simulates the store and forward system found in a MESH network: About 25Kbits/sec average and really erratic going the other direction. See a problem perhaps?

We're all getting old. :(

Worse yet, I'm feeling old, knees are starting to ache, shoulders hurt if moved wrong, elbows, and two fingers on my right hand. Arrgh!

On the other hand, I read this morning about the problems people that don't sense pain have. In this article somewhere if you care,

I also find reason to feel blessed, ahh, not that I got one, but, that I have one.

Video of his first time. OK, no video. Mikek