My ResNet Consulting Experience
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I worked with ResNet as a consultant last year too... Here's the major problems I came across in troubleshooting PC connections to the network... I wasn't involved with switch problems or anything like that...
1) Students using phone cords in place of ethernet cords.
2) Students not having Windows set up correctly.
3) Students not registering their NIC with us (we only let registered NICs on the network)...
4) Students who registered their NIC but have a RealTech card that decides to send out different serial numbers every few minutes...
5) Faulty hardware (usually the cord or the ethernet card)..
6) Interrupt conflicts...
7) USB ethernet cards on laptops... Didn't see one that worked correctly...
8) Students installing AOL 6.x that changes all their network settings for them...
Those RealTech cards were a big problem last year... Didn't run into any wireless cards last year --- but we'll see what the freshmen start bringing up in a week or two...
I'm not sure how many calls we got from people running Linux, but I know that every housecall I went on was for Windows or Mac...
>Has any mass media (NBC or CNN) hit Microsoft >about their crappy design? I would also like to >know if Microsoft would ever consider writing a >fixing worm.
I saw a few segments on TV about the virus and they were frustrating to watch... They didn't mention that it only attacked machines running the vurnernable Microsoft ISS software... In fact, I don't recall hearing Microsoft mentioned at all during the segment...
>The last console I bought was a SNES, and since >my computer can do everything the new consoles >can do and a whole freakin lot more
Exactly! I find game consoles are nice because you only use them to play games! You use your computer to do all kinds of things related to work, whereas a game console is simply used for games... Don't get me wrong, I certainly like computer games, but with consoles you don't need to worry about having the most up to date hardware or enough hard drive space or worrying about it crash - it's just fun...
-Super
I think the Japanese are more open to the idea of watching subtitled films with foriegn spoken language than we are. I believed that the English version of Princess Mononoke was actually re-released in Japan with Japanese subtitles... Apparently more than a few people were interested to see how it translated or something like that... Either way, with the abudance of English words they use in their everyday language, I think it's safe to say that an Engilsh version of the movie with Japanese subtitles would be well received...
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I worked with ResNet as a consultant last year too... Here's the major problems I came across in troubleshooting PC connections to the network... I wasn't involved with switch problems or anything like that...
1) Students using phone cords in place of ethernet cords.
2) Students not having Windows set up correctly.
3) Students not registering their NIC with us (we only let registered NICs on the network)...
4) Students who registered their NIC but have a RealTech card that decides to send out different serial numbers every few minutes...
5) Faulty hardware (usually the cord or the ethernet card)..
6) Interrupt conflicts...
7) USB ethernet cards on laptops... Didn't see one that worked correctly...
8) Students installing AOL 6.x that changes all their network settings for them...
Those RealTech cards were a big problem last year... Didn't run into any wireless cards last year --- but we'll see what the freshmen start bringing up in a week or two...
I'm not sure how many calls we got from people running Linux, but I know that every housecall I went on was for Windows or Mac...
-Super
>Has any mass media (NBC or CNN) hit Microsoft >about their crappy design? I would also like to >know if Microsoft would ever consider writing a >fixing worm.
I saw a few segments on TV about the virus and they were frustrating to watch... They didn't mention that it only attacked machines running the vurnernable Microsoft ISS software... In fact, I don't recall hearing Microsoft mentioned at all during the segment...
-Super
>The last console I bought was a SNES, and since >my computer can do everything the new consoles >can do and a whole freakin lot more Exactly! I find game consoles are nice because you only use them to play games! You use your computer to do all kinds of things related to work, whereas a game console is simply used for games... Don't get me wrong, I certainly like computer games, but with consoles you don't need to worry about having the most up to date hardware or enough hard drive space or worrying about it crash - it's just fun... -Super
I think the Japanese are more open to the idea of watching subtitled films with foriegn spoken language than we are. I believed that the English version of Princess Mononoke was actually re-released in Japan with Japanese subtitles... Apparently more than a few people were interested to see how it translated or something like that... Either way, with the abudance of English words they use in their everyday language, I think it's safe to say that an Engilsh version of the movie with Japanese subtitles would be well received...