Come to think of it, does anyone understand any of this? That is, outside of the Illuminati or elite shadow governments in the game Deus Ex.
On 4/12/2013 12:51 PM, Andrew Thornton wrote: > > Um. Ok. 2 days into my new ISP on a business plan. > And I log into my account. Um. > > What???????????????????????? This is like looking at > the deck of the USS Enterprise. For instance I have a table of the > following: > > > Intra-Australian Network Performance : City-to-City hourly metrics > > > The tables below show the network latency and packet delivery ratio > metrics for the links between the eight metropolitan city POPs in the > Telstra domestic backbone network. > > */ > /* > > The table below represents the network latency between each of the > eight metropolitan city POPs in the Telstra domestic backbone network, > averaged hourly. > > ***************** > > Now as a Gen X person the only packet that I was brought up with was a > chip packet. The one that went 'pop' when you opened it. I've no idea > how I can understand anything that is going on here. But I am in > charge. I am the "technical" person for this business. And if you > conclude that Sgt Schultz should have also run Stalag 13 then you are > correct. I am about as technical as I am a mountain climber. > > Ask someone down the hall? Um. No. He thinks that the Profumo affair > is still going. He also thinks that if you minimise the document on > his PC that it's vanished. So I have to "bring it back" each time as > he panics. > > So I am for some unknown reason that would generate a funny Mark Twain > one liner the computer person..gulp...for this business. > > Welcome to the madness of baby boomer plus Gen X run a business. Stay > tuned for the next episode of total incompetence. > > Um. Am I honestly expected to understand any of this? > > I so how? A bit late to do some networking degree. Again, in my > opinion this is where the IT world falls down. There seems to be > expert world - Mark newton etc - and the computer illiterate like me > is just somehow expected to know stuff that you would learn in a > network engineering qualification. > > > > > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
