to diverge from the cynical nature of my last post...
it has come to my attention that the internet and its origination is becoming more and more of a mystery. when the cable lines were cut recently and there was no signal coming from our host server, there were cries of "we have no internet." Unfortunately, the cries also were of "we have no network." To some, there are one in the same; to those who know, they are not. Short explanation: the network in controlled "internally" at your house/work. The internet and its bizillion servers are controlled "externally" or outside of your house/work (unless you're cool are your own service provider). To access the internet through a network, both must be working properly. Hence, if the network goes down, so does your internet. Which is probably where the confusion has come in as most network servers used to suck or were easily hacked.
Today, a person came into the office explaining that when they tried plugging in the cable to the internet in the conference room, it didn't go in. I walk to the room knowing in the back of my mind that there's no way they would have had to plug anything in, especially not a network cable. Get to the table and here lies a wireless keyboard. K E Y B O A R D. Now, obviously they didn't know it was wireless and proceeded to explain that when they picked up an unhooked S-video cable coming from the back of the CPU, there was no place to plug it into the keyboard. I said, "Oh" and tried my darndest to make the best poker face I possibly could. I turned on the projector, brought out the wireless mouse and explained that everything was hooked up and ready to go.
note: technology is confusing, especially for those who choose not to learn about it.
it has come to my attention that the internet and its origination is becoming more and more of a mystery. when the cable lines were cut recently and there was no signal coming from our host server, there were cries of "we have no internet." Unfortunately, the cries also were of "we have no network." To some, there are one in the same; to those who know, they are not. Short explanation: the network in controlled "internally" at your house/work. The internet and its bizillion servers are controlled "externally" or outside of your house/work (unless you're cool are your own service provider). To access the internet through a network, both must be working properly. Hence, if the network goes down, so does your internet. Which is probably where the confusion has come in as most network servers used to suck or were easily hacked.
Today, a person came into the office explaining that when they tried plugging in the cable to the internet in the conference room, it didn't go in. I walk to the room knowing in the back of my mind that there's no way they would have had to plug anything in, especially not a network cable. Get to the table and here lies a wireless keyboard. K E Y B O A R D. Now, obviously they didn't know it was wireless and proceeded to explain that when they picked up an unhooked S-video cable coming from the back of the CPU, there was no place to plug it into the keyboard. I said, "Oh" and tried my darndest to make the best poker face I possibly could. I turned on the projector, brought out the wireless mouse and explained that everything was hooked up and ready to go.
note: technology is confusing, especially for those who choose not to learn about it.
posted by Bruhaha at 1:41 PM
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Ahh, good times at the simon's center. You dont even know what it was like back before we had centralized copiers. Every fucking nurse had their own printer. I remember thinking every day: These people have PHds?
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