I'm currently working through Cisco certification (because I want to be a well rounded computer geek), and part of their learning service includes some games that help teach and re-enforce networking principles. Some of them are really useful. Like Subnet and the Binary conversion game...others are...uhh... this.
Just thought I'd share with everyone. Cause you know. I love you guys Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Gah! Marketing materials disguised as training materials! My eyes!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
It's always sad when the dobie gets more replies than the original.
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
Whisky tango foxtrot.
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: It's always sad when the dobie gets more replies than the original.
I thought the dobie was my own thread for about 2 minutes...darn.
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
After working in a big box retailer for a couple of years, I thought I'd be able to take whatever you threw at me.
Boy was I wrong. I turned that thing off 10 seconds in.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
Things I learned from that:
1. Servers are GIANT computers!!!
2. Packets go into Internet PIPES!
3. If you don't have encryption shields, you have to jump over hackers.
4. Apparently, seven year olds with disposable funds they might decide to donate to charity need to learn about TCP/IP.
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
Wow...I learned that I could only take about 2 minutes of it before had to quit. Didn't even make it to the actual game.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:2. Packets go into Internet PIPES!
It really is a series of tubes.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:Originally posted by Boris: Wow...I learned that I could only take about 2 minutes of it before had to quit. Didn't even make it to the actual game.
"Skip" is your friend.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson:
quote:2. Packets go into Internet PIPES!
It really is a series of tubes.
As opposed to a series of wires and optical fiber interconnected by a lot of switching circuitry?
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
The majority of people lost you at "series of wires"...
That's why the meme about a series of tubes has endured for this long, I think. There's a kernel of truth to it, in many people's eyes.
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tstorm: The majority of people lost you at "series of wires"...
That's why the meme about a series of tubes has endured for this long, I think. There's a kernel of truth to it, in many people's eyes.
I've always figured that it was what his office IT guy told him when asked why his email hadn't gotten where it was supposed to. The whole situation is made ironic by the fact that 1. Stevens was speaking out against net neutrality, and 2. The reason his email took so long to get there was that the major internet companies in Alaska actually *have* the type of monopolistic control that the ISPs in the lower 48 *dream* of. And their network suffers because of it. (I lost count of the number of lost email situations that got traced back to the ISPs' crappy service while I was doing support up there)
edit: I commonly refer to this phenomenon as AIS...Alaska Internet Syndrome.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
Oh, was Tom referring to that description of the Internet? "enormous amounts of material."
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