Unclear on the concept
Technology, Work July 14th, 2005
It always scares me a little when I have to give grad students under networking professors special assistance getting on our networks. You’d think this is something they could figure out. The most recent case involved a student who couldn’t get online because s/he had given me their wireless MAC address for me to setup their wired connection. (They should have given me the address for their wired interface.) That’s pretty understandable mistake. With laptops having modems and bluetooth and firewire and everything else, all spitting out addresses when you run “ipconfig /all” it can be confusing. But if you’re here to work in a networking group, you should be respectful of those things.
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I think the term you are looking for here is called common sense. I would expect almost _any_ grad student these days to be able to come up with this information.
If you’re in grad school now, chances are you’ve spent the last 4-6 years around a computer.
Do I expect too much?
BTW – We need to talk employee supervision.