[LINK] Any crash courses for a Gen X?

[Andrew Thornton]

                   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.

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The table below represents the network latency between each of the eight 
metropolitan city POPs in the Telstra domestic backbone network, 
averaged hourly.

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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.







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