On 6/24/2011 4:39 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/06/24 16:29 (GMT-0400) Brian K. White composed:
On 6/24/2011 4:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Gee. Number bigger than I can write, much less remember. Exactly how does that make the job of a LAN admin who knows how it works now easier or more reliable?
Unambiguous identification is always better.
More reliable I can understand. Easier I have a big problem wrapping my head around.
I know how rs232 works and had basically no problem with making it work whether it was a new install and I get to choose everything or working on something someone else set up and I never saw it before walking in the door. In many ways ethernet is a lot more complex than serial lines. And yet, my life as a person who has to install, maintain, repair, admin and in fact spec out and design networks and the stuff connected to them, is vastly simpler now that everything is mostly ethernet. Even though a lot of good simple dumb terminals and printers and bar code readers and scales etc... got more complicated by being replaced with more complicated thin clients or fully functional pc's. The extra complexity in one area provided previously impossible flexibility and allowed unprecedented straightforwardness in other, more difficult and more important areas. Lots of things get more complex at the microscopic level in trade for so much more simplicity at the macroscopic level that you no longer actually have to think about the microscopic level since that parts now automatic. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org