Originally posted by grider:
ERA, I do like your spirit. Like you have said the customer that owns the CICS understands the circumstances so everything seems to be OK.
Thank you. You have grasped the concept firmly, sir.
You will have some success but that will not make you a phone guy just a luckier than average computer geek. See, we can joke around too.
Hee hee hee! The "average" computer geek is really no geek at all for s/he cut teeth on Micro$oft products and thus was stunted from birth. There are millions of these. A
true computer geek
groks hardware as well as operating system internals and can write Unix shell code from scratch without referring to documentation. There are many fewer of the latter.
Remember this at all times. All of us techs in here have walked into a room before that was full of CG's like cockroaches in an Arkansas kithchen and took care of a problem that was confusing the whole crowd. Then we rode off into the sunset like John Wayne just to be disrespected by a jealous CG. We expect that out in the world but in here tread lightly with the "just phones" type comments.
Heh, refer to my information regarding so-called "computer geeks" above. Most of them are what true geeks call
paper tigers. Meaning they have a degree and a certification or two but know squat about practical application and getting dirty with a system. These are likely the ones that bad mouth you. I would never bad mouth someone that made his/her bones in the field. If my comment came across that way it was purely unintentional.
(Obviously you have also been in an Arkansas kitchen or two ... dang ... am I now offending someone else?
)
We gotta break you in and initiate you first. Apparently that has already begun.
Thank you sir! May I have another?
Carry on young Jedi. May the force be with you!
John
Yes, Yoda.
Gene
. If you know Linux well and want to get into telecom you should check out the Asterisk system (its a computer that runs phones 
