Al salaam a'alaykum Charles

22 Aug 03 04:39, Charles Angelich wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> It is not a necessary qualification to set up a small home
 DD>> network. I have no CNA rating, and even I can do it. 

 CA> I believe that you have done it. I also suspect that if you
 CA> were confronted with unfamiliar software and unfamiliar
 CA> hardware the results would be much less predictable. 

I recently setup a two station network for my brother with his desktop, and
his laptop. Both machines use WinXP. I have never configured a network on
WinXp before (in fact his machines are the only XP machines I've been
near).

Even the cards used were not brands/models I'd used before (I scrounged
them). It wasn't that big a deal.

 CA> In the shops where I come from there are many who say they
 CA> don't need the schooling to be a journeyman. Given enough time
 CA> and opportunity they hit the wall over and over again because
 CA> they lack the basic understanding required to accomodate all of
 CA> the possible variables. :-) 

And then there are those university trained IT people who, upon finishing
their degree are as useless as tits on a bull. They have all this wonderful
theory - but no practical no-how.

 CA> In the Linux echo there is one person who has lost a machine
 CA> from his intranet who has no idea why or how to get it back.

Who? - I must have missed it...

 CA> The 'master of Windows' lost his network connections a month or
 CA> so ago and finally re-installed the OS and let _it_
 CA> resestablish his network for him. 

Some master......

 CA> Here in the tech echo, same story. If you pay attention you will see that 
 CA> the networks that work work by random chance. The ones that don't work are 
 CA> often abandoned and never do get setup. 

I haven't had any such issues on the network here at home. The network
works because it's configured correctly. The docs are clear enough....

At work my biggest problem network-wise is smart-arses unplugging the network cables.

Regards,
David

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