Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Tue Aug 28 15:03:27 2001

Even better than that - how about accidentally moving an RJ45 from an ehter
hub/switch to the newer type token ring RJ45 port - oops- no workie GI.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jeffrey S. Sharp
-> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 12:11 PM
-> To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
-> Subject: RE: Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?
->
->
-> > > connected the BNC on the back of a VT220 to a thinwire ethernet
-> > > network.
-> >
-> > We had a secretary do that once on an early Novel network, didn't
-> > bring it down, just made it VERY SLOW. (The only thing we could
-> > figure was that it allowed data during the re-trace(?).
->
-> When I got my first real job, being an IT monkey at Saxon Publishers, I
-> didn't know a thing about computer networks. I was expected to learn on
-> the job. One morning, I decided to change my cube's ethernet
-> port from 10
-> Mbps to 100 Mbps. I located the corresponding cable in The Closet,
-> unplugged it from a 10 Mbps hub, plugged it into a 100 Mbps hub, and left
-> for class.
->
-> The problem was that I had plugged into port 16, which was
-> shared with the
-> hub's uplink port. The hub dutifully provided service to my computer at
-> port 16 and forgot about the uplink, thus separating itself (and all the
-> Very Important Things connected to it) from the rest of the company
-> network. Business stopped, for 2.5 hours, until I returned gave my
-> frantic co-wokers the clue they needed.
->
-> I was not fired.
->
-> --
-> Jeffrey S. Sharp
-> jss_at_subatomix.com
->
->
Received on Tue Aug 28 2001 - 15:03:27 BST