<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br>MCSE technical guru != Genius<br>
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So now her MCSE dude is telling her that she really wants to put her<br>
DHCP modem in pass-through mode and do PPPOE through her wireless<br>
router. <br></blockquote><div><br>Strike MCSE dude with a large, blunt object. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. This will accomplish nothing except to complicate the connection process onto her system. There's _no_good_ reason to provide the windows laptop with a direct to the Internet IP address. There are _many_very_good_ reasons to hide all windows machines behind layers and layers of obfuscation and security and IPv6 blocks.<br>
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I wrote an email to the other guy, but I'm assured that he won't<br>
answer and probably won't even read it, seein' as how he's a<br>
$100-an-hour system administrator and everything.<br>
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Did I do the Right Thing?<br></blockquote><div><br>Send him a bill for $180/hr. <br></div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br>
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