8 Apr
2004
8 Apr
'04
12:53 a.m.
Heh. You're talking to the kid who got belted for taking apart all the
radios, televisions, and other eletrical goods in the house when I was five.
Many of the SCSI select cables are keyed. Some of them are not. I meet
both kinds of service people, those who got into it because they love
computers and are interested in how they work, and everybody else.
I think I fall in to the first category, or at least I hope I do.
CALL -151
mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz(a)neo.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: IBM Engineers
Its the same for every tech profession, nobody wants
to get their hands
dirty learning the basics. Everything it taught by computer simulations
where the user has no clue what is really going on at the basic level
anymore. The techs you are referring to probably know everything about how
a
raid is supposed to work inside and out, they just
don't know plugging a
cable in backwards causes problems because they don't do it enough or
usually get it correct on the first guess. I would imagine that its more
cost effective to have inexpensive techs who can just swap parts when
there
is a problem then to have 100's of better paid
knowledgeable engineers who
actually know what they are doing go out and take time troubleshooting a
problem.
"I guess that every form of refuge has its price." --The Eagles
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