How to transfer data FAST?

Vintage Computer Festival vcf at siconic.com
Mon Jun 27 20:05:46 CDT 2005


On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Tony Duell wrote:

> > Why the emphasis on FAST? I thought this was a one-time project?
> > The whole job could have been completed using a serial link at
> > 1200 baud in less time than it took to search for a faster
> > solution.
>
> SOmewhat relaated...
>
> 'A hacker is a person who will spend 2 hours to find an automated way of
> sdoing something, when it would take 5 minutes to do it by hand, and when
> he only has to do it a dozen times' :-)

That sounds like me, unfortunately.  Sometimes I just have to smack myself
to get out of that mindset and get the fricken job done.

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