Our consultant has found that a lot of his problems were being caused by oddities in our site security.  One was that the time-out for remote desktop was set to something obscenely low like 5 seconds.  Since FTPing requires using remote desktop to access another computer from which one can FTP to the new server in Tulsa.

The consultant’s trying to download a 80 gig file which keeps timing out as the FTP connection is cut when the remote desktop connection is cut.  We were originally going to draw straws to find the lucky skunk that’d sit there for a few hours and jiggle the mouse.  Then, inspiration struck a coworker.  He dashed out, and returned with an optical mouse, a sheet of Teflon and this:

An orbital shaker.  It is these leaps in ingenuity that make me confident that we can out-innovate the BRIC nations in the 21st century.