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Authored by: PJ on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 12:26 PM EDT |
Me too. The guy is heavy. Very,
very interesting.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 02:38 PM EDT |
The trick is to see exactly the parts you need to at the moment. Otherwise, you
just get lost in too much information land.
When something goes wrong, you look for the little hints that tell you which
parts are important. For example, most browsers have hints that let you know
that name resolution is a problem. If that's the case, I usually try to ping or
traceroute the name server. Just to see.
One time in Borneo, I was able to use a non-working internet connection to
download my mail. Turned out, the reason the internet wasn't working was
because there were no name servers configured. I happen to have the ip address
of a public name server stored somewhere on my computer. I used that and
everything started working. I was able to download my mail for free.
Another time in Galapagos, the hotel manager was complaining that everyone's
dial-up internet stopped working when the phone company upgraded their switching
equipment. I immediately thought about dial-up bandwidth issues and realized
what the problem had to be. The phone company had simply dialed down the
bandwidth of every connection when they installed the new equipment. I got my
bar tab comped that time and likely made a lot of people on the island happy.
It's all about seeing the trees through the forest as well as the forest through
the trees. The real trick is identifying which trees might be important and
then focusing on them until you figure something out.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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