SA's Largest Telecomms Provider vs. a Pigeon 149
dagwud writes "Just a few days after this Slashdot article, South Africa's largest telecoms provider, Telkom (which has been taking flak for years for its shoddy and overpriced service), is being pitted against a homing pigeon to see which can deliver 4GB of call centre data logs quickest over a distance of around 80km (50 miles). According to the official website, the race is set to take place September 10."
Homers rule! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Homers rule! (Score:3, Insightful)
From TFA:
So in all probabilities, yes, it's an RFC1149 compliant pigeon.
Real time of sneaker net (Score:3, Insightful)
RTFA? ME? Do you know what site you're reading?
Re:Real time of sneaker net (Score:3, Insightful)
Well the "get the data to the pigeon" is probably a moot point since you can release the pigeon from right next to the laptop where you will be sending the data from. Also you can start the send the moment you start uploading the data to a memory drive. 4gb should not take that long to load onto a newish flash disk...
And then the pigeon will probably land next to the laptop receiving the data.
And, come to think of it, who says the data via pigeon needs to be computer to computer? If a sysadmin receives it, it is received no?
Whatever, I root for the pigeon.
Re:The question is... (Score:4, Insightful)
I would assume African, given the locale.
The Pigeon Cannot Win... (Score:2, Insightful)
Reminds me of the quote... (Score:3, Insightful)