With thanks to a someone at CECOM who has a friend at greatcircle.com
By now you may have decided that the world of the Internet is a dark and technical world
indeed, full of dangerous people, strange ideas and dark occult secrets. Well you're right.
However it can make sense, all you need is a little help, and a nice clear
explanation.....
Which we're not going to give you, but we will hand you over to a whim
of fancy and ask you "What If Dr. Seuss Did Technical Training Manuals?"
Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say:
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very
last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the
socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts
your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!
You can't say this?
What a shame sir!
We'll find you
Another game sir.
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to
the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss
So your icons in the
window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode
instructions cause unnecessary risc,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to
RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!
There, everything much clearer? Good.
You should now have a much clearer idea of how
everything works, and be able to continue with your great exploration of the Internet secure in
thew knowledge that it all makes sense, if you just Think logically.