[nflug] Help- At a Loss - language skills

[Daniel V]

As for troubleshooting with "guys who's native language is not english," I have pondered a lot as to how valuable this is for those of us who are employed in North America. I specifically ponder how long it will be before my job is out-sourced to India or South America because I speak with these people and sure, they may have an accent, but that is not in any way an indicator of your ability to communicate in that language... case in point Arnold Schwarzenegger, he will never lose that Austrian accent. I am not commenting upon whether or not he is good at being governer of California, but he does seem to communicate well, orally at least, I've never read his writing/emails.

I am increasingly working with people all over the world and I see how they value education and the ability to speak and write in English. Just as I have spent a lot of money to educate myself to speak and write Spanish in a business environment, people in foreign countries, from what I can perceive, see the importance of being able to write well. I could bring up the topic of public education and what not, but that's not my point. I see a lot of smugness. I guess it comes down to people thinking they're better than everyone else. I know a lot of people think they're better than me because I speak Spanish with a gringo accent, but hey, I find that work goes a lot smoother for me when I'm nice to people.

I can't help but wonder at what point we start seeing people from non-English speaking countries start to become a powerhouse in things we traditionally excel in. Say, in India, what if the next generation teaches their children to listen to American and Spanish music, German news ? 

pondering the future,
Daniel V.

--- On Mon, 8/11/08, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> Subject: Re: [nflug] Help- At a Loss
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 11:19 PM
> lol, freakin sales guys, what a maroon (bugs bunny)...
> 
> justin.bennett at dynabrade.com wrote:
> >
> > Thanks guys, after hours of troubleshooting with guys
> who's native 
> > language is not english, I had them pull every network
> connection from 
> > the switch except the servers, and plug them back in
> one at a time, 
> >  It wound up being a drop that ran to a Dlink switch
> in an area where 
> > salesguys plug in their laptops, as it turns out one
> of them 
> > apparently plugged both ends of a patch cable into the
> DLink switch...
> >
> > Thanks again for the replies.. :)
> >
> > Justin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com>*
> > Sent by: nflug-bounces at nflug.org
> >
> > 08/11/2008 02:18 PM
> > Please respond to
> > nflug at nflug.org
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> > To
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> > cc
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> > Subject
> > 	Re: [nflug] Help- At a Loss
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Another possibility is that you have a mix of half
> duplex and full 
> > duplex links in your environment.  This causes FCS
> errors that cause 
> > lots of retransmissions.  This is especially bad
> between switches.  If 
> > your switches are talking to each other in full duplex
> but the 
> > machines are half, bad things happen.  It's the
> same problem if you 
> > have full duplex machines and half duplex switches... 
> Give that a check
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
> >  
> > --
> > "When once you have tasted flight, you will
> forever walk the earth 
> > with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have
> been, and there you 
> > will always long to return."
> > --Leonardo da Vinci
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 2:02:30 PM
> > Subject: Re: [nflug] Help- At a Loss
> >
> > The first thing that comes to mind are these;
> > 1. Duplicate MAC address on the network ?
> > 2. Bad termination of an RJ45?
> > 3. Some windows box gone hay wire?
> > _
> > __justin.bennett at dynabrade.com_
> <mailto:justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > >        This is a little off topic, but I need
> some help. I'm
> > > experiencing some packet loss on an internal
> network at one of our
> > > remote locations. I don't understand why,
> It's network wide, if I try
> > > to ping a windows server from a local desktop,
> I'll loose between
> > > 6-19% of the packets, If I ping one server from
> another, or desktop to
> > > desktop, I get packet loss, so bad it's
> affecting the performance of
> > > the network to the point where DNS lookups fail
> and sites can't be
> > > reached. I thought it was the network switch
> there, but I had him
> > > replace it with a new one, (different brand) same
> problem. Is there
> > > anything that may be causing this? I'm
> looking for thoughts at the
> > > moment. Basically it's windows XP clients
> doing DHCP to a Linux box
> > > running samba as a file server, and the a Windows
> 2003 server as their
> > > application system.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Justin
> > >
> > >
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