[ale] A little gripe

[chrisf at computone.com]

I have a little grip concerning old technology.  It seems that everyone of my customers that
I deal with expect to go purchase DCE or DTE cables from stores like Radio
Shack and make it work between our Terminal Server and there equipment.
This is compounded by ports that at RJ45 and not DBs.  It seems to me that
no one understand TxD, Rxd, DTR, DSR, DCD, etc anymore and do not
know how to make a serial cable.  They even whine "I can't get my cable to
work" or "Nothing is coming up in HyperTerminal"  and my favorite, "All I see
is hieroglyphics".  Has the flood of so called talent and Microsoft products made people
dumber?  Even today,  I get customers who ask:

Why do I have to "telnet termserver 9001" to gain access to port 1?  Can
I just put the 9001 in /etc/hosts and then telnet to hostname and automagically
be connected to 9001?

or

Will you make my cable for me

How many more stupid people do I have to deal with?   Those people who ask me to
make cables do not even have the sense to know how to get the pinouts
for their product.  We have to find it for them.  Ironically,  These same people
have Suns, HPs, and even Linux boxes.  But, when it comes to networking,  The most
stupid by far, are those who rely on MS products for all networking services.

Sorry to scream but please reply and give me therapy.
Chris



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