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From: Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk>
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Joey Garcia wrote:

JG> I bring up this subject because one of my coworkers never bothers to read
JG> manuals or look up information via the Internet.

*sigh* - I spent most of Tuesday evening trying to help someone with
windows networking.  I declared my limited knowledge of windows networking
(which amounts to getting win98 boxes to share FreeBSD served files and
modem) beforehand but still the questions kept coming ('I've done that and
it still doesn't work' 'does TCP/IP need to be binded to something?'
'what's DNS?' 'what's DHCP?')

Eventually I signed off with 'try this and if it still doesn't work,
search on the internet. there are a billion websites out there which know
more about windows networking than I do' and went to the pub.  I got back
to a message saying 'that didn't work - what do I do now?

At which point I kinda exploded.  But we're talking again now :)

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Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk>


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