I've tried 1,000 times to get a computer and Internet access for my mom, but she flatly rejects it. She actively doesn't want a computer. It's not because she doesn't know how to use them, but that she put in her years running a mainframe and is utterly burnt out on the subject.
Me: So at work, we have one computer with lots of hard drives and set the other computers to store their users' information on it instead of their own hard drives.
Mom: So your home directories are on NFS?
Me: Are you sure you don't want a computer, maybe a nice Mac?
Mom: No, and quit asking!
...or...
Me: I got a DSL connection.
Mom: Is that fast?
Me: In network terms, it's around 8 megabits.
Mom: So, about 5 T1s?
Me: Not even a little laptop?
Mom: No, and quit asking!
She's not skipping the "Internet revolution" because it's above her head. She's skipping it because she was there when they were building it, she did her time, and now wants to do other stuff.
If your Mom is asking about T1 connections and NFS partitions, it doesn't seem like this is over her head, sounds like she's just not that interested. I was working on this stuff then. Our corp high speed was a 56k link. The internet now is great, but it wouldn't kill me if it went away. Actually it was a lot more fun before everyone started to use it. Just a bunch of geeks and nerds using it and once businesses started using the internet everything changed. People had to have it. Good for your mom.
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I've tried 1,000 times to get a computer and Internet access for my mom, but she flatly rejects it. She actively doesn't want a computer. It's not because she doesn't know how to use them, but that she put in her years running a mainframe and is utterly burnt out on the subject.
Me: So at work, we have one computer with lots of hard drives and set the other computers to store their users' information on it instead of their own hard drives. Mom: So your home directories are on NFS? Me: Are you sure you don't want a computer, maybe a nice Mac? Mom: No, and quit asking!
...or...
Me: I got a DSL connection. Mom: Is that fast? Me: In network terms, it's around 8 megabits. Mom: So, about 5 T1s? Me: Not even a little laptop? Mom: No, and quit asking!
She's not skipping the "Internet revolution" because it's above her head. She's skipping it because she was there when they were building it, she did her time, and now wants to do other stuff.
If your Mom is asking about T1 connections and NFS partitions, it doesn't seem like this is over her head, sounds like she's just not that interested. I was working on this stuff then. Our corp high speed was a 56k link. The internet now is great, but it wouldn't kill me if it went away. Actually it was a lot more fun before everyone started to use it. Just a bunch of geeks and nerds using it and once businesses started using the internet everything changed. People had to have it. Good for your mom.