DISQUS

Oracle AppsLab: My Interwebs is Wireless

  • Tyler Muth · 1 year ago
    Jake,

    They use an Optical Time Domain Reflectometer to find the breaks. Seriously, how could you not know that?

    Tyler
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    @Tyler: Wow, color me embarrassed. In my head, I picture this device to be like the one they use in "Ice Road Truckers" to calculate ice thickness, fancy name, lots of colors and a flashy display.
  • Tyler Muth · 1 year ago
    I read about it on Gizmodo this morning and had the name of that stupid thing stuck in my head all day. When I saw your post, I couldn't resist ;)

    Tyler
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    Sweet, I'm glad karma allowed you to drop some knowledge. I'll file that nugget away for future use.
  • Floyd · 1 year ago
    Okay, I guess it's time for me to fess up to the world (and give Jake the scoop). Last time I chartered a boat and went deep sea fishin', I guess I wound up draggin' my bait a little too deep. Thought I might have hooked the Mother of All Marlins, but wound up with a tangled mess of wire... Gotta say,though, that the cable put up one heck of a fight!
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    @Floyd: I think you owe the Interwebs users of the Middle East, India, Pakistan and a whole bunch of other places a sincere apology.
  • Margaret Rouse · 1 year ago
    Hmmm...maybe the severed undersea telecomm cables, last Fall's Storm worm, today's art theft in Zurich and tonight's BlackBerry outage are all caused by an evil-doer
    who's quietly testing his plan to cripple the entire planet. I love conspiracy theories. And James Bond.
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    @Margaret: Everything must be related, and it's our job to connect the dots. Floyd has culpability for the cable-cutting, so now, we need to lean on him to uncover his co-conspirators. Although, he's a pretty connected guy and could be at fault for all of the above.

    That's easier. Blame Floyd and meet for cocktails.
  • Floyd · 1 year ago
    I'm actually responsible for all those things Margaret mentioned - a result of my over-exuberance in a hunt for a particular trout that has the map to a long-lost Conquistador treasure stamped on his dorsal fin...or was it a snook? Anyway, apologies to all for everything.

    Now that we have that out of the way and bygones are bygones, about that meeting for cocktails thing...