I regularly deal with the prime-time queues of 300-400. I just get home from work, log on, and go make and eat dinner.
I'm much more frustrated with the lag issues--we've gone into Blackwing Lair many times, only to fight the first boss in Matrix-like "Bullet time."
It's simply not that fun to play a game when you can't actually do what the game intends you to be able to do.
Another interesting note--we opened the AQ gates this weekend, at 3am on Sunday. The server crashed 8 times during the opening and twice when the 10-hour event ended. Clearly getting back on wasn't a problem at 3am, but having a server go down like that just speaks poorly to some design choices.
I too worked for the government. The National Park Service, to be exact, and we were not nearly so lucky. We had our internet access cut off for a few months by that federal judge for security breaches. We had the blaster worm take down the entire park (one of the top-5 most visited). In the summer of 2004. And we were down for three weeks. Requests to install software were still not fulfilled after 6 months, when my job ended. (just trying to upgrade one computer to the standard version of Office)
I ended up doing what a few other people suggested above--I just built a network to do what I needed to do, and we had to dial in to access the main network. What an ugly mess.
At one previous job, we were required to have weekly staff meetings. So we did.
At 4:30 on Fridays, at the nearest bar. I recommend it. There's nothing like a few beers to make a meeting go by a little easier.
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I regularly deal with the prime-time queues of 300-400. I just get home from work, log on, and go make and eat dinner. I'm much more frustrated with the lag issues--we've gone into Blackwing Lair many times, only to fight the first boss in Matrix-like "Bullet time." It's simply not that fun to play a game when you can't actually do what the game intends you to be able to do. Another interesting note--we opened the AQ gates this weekend, at 3am on Sunday. The server crashed 8 times during the opening and twice when the 10-hour event ended. Clearly getting back on wasn't a problem at 3am, but having a server go down like that just speaks poorly to some design choices.
I too worked for the government. The National Park Service, to be exact, and we were not nearly so lucky. We had our internet access cut off for a few months by that federal judge for security breaches. We had the blaster worm take down the entire park (one of the top-5 most visited). In the summer of 2004. And we were down for three weeks. Requests to install software were still not fulfilled after 6 months, when my job ended. (just trying to upgrade one computer to the standard version of Office) I ended up doing what a few other people suggested above--I just built a network to do what I needed to do, and we had to dial in to access the main network. What an ugly mess.
I would assume that you mean the iMac Core Duo, as opposed to the Dore Duo?
At one previous job, we were required to have weekly staff meetings. So we did. At 4:30 on Fridays, at the nearest bar. I recommend it. There's nothing like a few beers to make a meeting go by a little easier.