RE: ot - laptop for dba

Oh, so right-  especially for us folks in the Rocky Mountains-  The campground 
I was at this weekend was *maybe* 20 miles west of Denver, CO and as soon as I 
hit the first windy road in the mountains, I lost cellphone coverage.  Alerts 
to my cellphone from scripts and such became stable once I hit 
Blackhawk/Central City area, (casino's-  bookies would NOT allow bad coverage 
there ya' know! :))  
 
Up and down the front range of Colorado, cell phone coverage is pretty stable 
for 3G, but once you go west into the mountains, you need a bit of a boost to 
get much of anything... 
:(
 
Kellyn Pedersen
Sr. Database Administrator
I-Behavior Inc.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kellynpedersen
www.dbakevlar.blogspot.com
 
"Go away before I replace you with a very small and efficient shell script..."

--- On Tue, 6/1/10, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: ot - laptop for dba
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Cc: kjped1313@xxxxxxxxx, andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx, cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx, 
girlgeek@xxxxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 7:41 AM


3G???  There are places in the US where it's still impossible to get a
simple cell phone signal, never mind 3G. 


Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead
PAREXEL International

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Subject: Re: ot - laptop for dba

My understanding is that 3G adoption here in North America has lagged  
Europe a bit, but I've seen that feature in some laptops/netbooks over  
here, as well as external 3G modems that plug into a USB port. The  
major challenge is getting a reliable signal in rural and small-town  
areas.  That's why Kellyn's "wifi campground" use case is such a  
bonus. :)

Regards,

John P.

(Strange spelling? iPhone's fault. Strange content? Alas, that's all me)


On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:18 AM, Martin Bach <development@the- 
playground.de> wrote:

> Oh, well, couldn't resist... Before posting, a quick question: over in
> the US does 3G aka "UMTS" play role at all? I doubt it since the first
> iPhone didn't come with it... Some high end netbooks over here in  
> Europe
> are equipped with a UMTS modem which at 3.6MB/s is more then fast  
> enough
> for putty/ssh connections to servers.
>
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