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Originally Posted by timwilky

You done too much cisco

It's my job to know these things.

Binary maths - aaaarggghhh

Time we all went down the pub

[timwilky]

Ed.

As a small business owner. How do you manage your IT support.

I assume you have somebody local you trust. But how did you come by them. word of mouth? go looking in desperation?.

Originally Posted by timwilky

as in 30 bits to the subnet or 11111111.11111111. 11111111.11111100.
expressed as 255.255.255.252. which means the last 2 bits are for, device addresses, 2 bits with give you 4 addresses, but you need 1 for the network, one for the broadcast address leaving 2 addresses for devices. Ideal for point to point links.

Ed Zacahary.

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Originally Posted by timwilky

Firstly think long and hard about the type of company you want to work within. I have worked for small SME's where I was on call 25 hours a day (yes I know 25) 8 days a week. Was responsible for everything and authorised to do nothing.

Great for learning as you get to do everything.

Too true, thats me 24x7 call as there is always one office in the world with people working.

Originally Posted by timwilky

Ed.

As a small business owner. How do you manage your IT support.

I assume you have somebody local you trust. But how did you come by them. word of mouth? go looking in desperation?.

It's a very small and simple set up. 1 server, 6 PCs. We don't even use MS Server, we use bog standard XP Pro and usual Office applications, with Proclaim case management - it's made by Eclipse Legal Software in Bradford. They provide the support for that. Other support is from a bloke in Newtown (Powys) - we needed some help on our home PC some years ago, and a friend recommended him. So when we set up, it was natural to use him.

He has no formal qualifications, I don't even think he has an O level, but he is very good at what he does, cheap, and reliable. And that's what matters to me.

Originally Posted by DanAbnormal

At the moment I am learning binary mathematics and I want to cry. It's so damn boring. Also doing sone SQL refresher course as well.

I'm teaching my eldest how to count in binary, and the relevant ASCII mapping for those binary numbers. So far, he's pretty much got down most of the capital alphabet!!

But then, his interest is kept because we're doing it with lasers we ripped out of an old DVD player.

[timwilky]

confuse the poor sod by teaching him multiplication/division by bit shifting

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I have to close my eyes when I go in some days. Oh, and the patching was done by a company of innumerate monkeys, so A4C1 probably matches C1A4.

Thankfully its got absolutely nothing to do with me, I keep telling myself. Funnily enough, so does everyone else....hence:

Originally Posted by ooger

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I have to close my eyes when I go in some days. Oh, and the patching was done by a company of innumerate monkeys, so A4C1 probably matches C1A4.

Thankfully its got absolutely nothing to do with me, I keep telling myself. Funnily enough, so does everyone else....hence:

Nice attempt, you should see the DC's i use to work in. Your patching is tidy compared to them.

Telehouse is good for looking at how not to run patching over a long period of time. You can spend many, many, many hours tracing cables in there.

Dan