[LINK] Any crash courses for a Gen X?

Andrew Thornton secretelf77 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 4 13:07:41 AEDT 2013


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.
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