Cat 5 vs. Cat 3

So I'm running another copy of that TestDirector project so I can get a screen shot of that error message. Mercury Interactive wants a screen shot of it. Despite the fact that I typed the message, verbatim, into the original email I sent. I guess a picture is worth a thousand words. Although, I wonder why the original five wouldn't suffice. I guess a 30K screenshot is more descriptive than a few bytes of text.

Anyway, in the middle of the copy one of the managers comes over and says we have to move to different cubes today. Not a big deal. The most annoying part is the dealing with other people's annoyance. I just do work. Move computer, repatch lan cable, move cube stuff, done. Easy.

OF course, other people's jobs aren't as simple. (Here it comes, folks.) Our manager talks with the phone guy, and asks how long it will take to get all the phones lines moved. The phone guy tells him, 'Half the day. I gotta do this, and that, and...' Whatever. Then he turns to me, and asks how long it will take to move all the LAN connections. '20 minutes, maybe 30.', I say. He looks at me like I'm crazy. I reply to the look with, 'One to two minutes per connection. If that.'

Now, of course, moving the phones won't take any longer, realistically, than moving the LAN ports. For the LAN, It's simple repatching of the Cat5 cables in the LAN closet. No big deal. For the phones, you can do it in software. No manual Cat3 moving involved. He could do the whole thing at his desk. Apparently half the work for the phone guy is walking around and checking who has what floor ports. So our manager did it for him. I had to smile at that.

Score a point for Cat 5. :-)

Anyway. The move is done, and I've got more database testing to do. More later as I get this TestDirector issue fixed.