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You must be doing it wrong.
You've probably never worked on a large enterprise network -- where the number of servers, switches, routers, load balancers, etc. approaches a half million spread across a dozen data centers world-wide. The size and complexity of which is the culmination of mergers among several large enterprise networks with differing standards. My job for the last two years has involved using the available tools to gather, correlate, and aggregate whatever data we can get (and there's not nearly enough) to detect and predict potential problems. Fortunately I never have to enter a data center and actually trace cables. :shudder:
Software is easy, but all the applications are at the mercy of the hardware.
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I'm just going to point out that, as I find it highly unlikely that you're configuring the network devices using bits, you are relying on soundly developed software to configure the network. Solarwinds, server OS, firewalls, VPNs, ASAs, crypto, switch OS, router OS; whatever you're touching is basically a chunk of silicon without effective software.
That being said, my apples are better than your oranges. Mainly because they're mine.
I would like to point out, though, that if you find software design and development to be easy, most likely you _are_ doing it wrong.
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The software tools are good, the hardware tools are good, it's the wetware tools that are a mite problematic.
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Have you considered a career flipping burgers. It could be every bit as challenging and interesting for you.
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Depends on what you're trying to program:
o Your dog to roll over
o A universal remote control
o DVR to record your favorite program
o Your wife how to cook - NOT for the faint of heart
o Your neighbor to not have his dog poop in your yard
While Networking;
o On your favorite social site is easy
o CodeProject - depends a lot on you attitude
o Face to face - no one does that anymore do they?
Well the permutations are endless but this should give you a place to start
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Most things in life are hard to master, it depends on your ability and your motivation. If you find programming hard and boring then it is probably not a good career choice. And if you know nothing about networking there is no way you can decide that that is a good career choice. Find something that you are interested in.
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If you find programming boring, it's a fair bet you will find networking boring too
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If you want to go for something easy I would avoid IT altogether - networking gets incredibly complex.
Some of the brightest people I know, work in the area of computer networks.
Member 10744531 wrote: basically i just wanna know which field is harder to get on with and master ?
The only way to answer that question, grasshopper, is to say that mastering anything will, at times, require sitting and staying with what is difficult and what may seem to be extremely boring.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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This is oddly similar to a question I answered on Quora.
Marc
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This is a question that you should answer for yourself after obtaining a bit of background in both areas.
I encourage you to get involved in both areas. After a while, you will get to understand which of the two is a good fit for you.
The answer that you come up with will be specific to you and to no one else.
Different people have different backgrounds and consider different things to be interesting or boring, difficult or hard.
So go ahead and get involved in the areas that you think might interest you and might be a good fit for you.
After a while you will know if an area is a good match for you or not.
But be careful. The answers you find may be useful only to you. Other people may come up with completely different answers for themselves.
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It sounds like you want a good-paying job that is easy to do and fun all the time. Don't we all.
Networking requires less expertise in the academic sense, but that doesn't mean that it's easy. Networking changes very fast and requires you to constantly work to keep up with new technologies and products, even more so than with programming. There's also a lot of responsibility that comes with networking, because you are on the front lines of security.
But you can forget about any sort of professional career until you learn how to write. I don't mean that as an insult, but serious advice. A resume written that way will get you nowhere, and writing an email like that on the job in a professional setting would make you look incompetent. So really, forget about programming and networking for now, work on writing.
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...To advise of my 23rd Wedding Anniversary, also the 23rd Anniversary of the Strathfield Massacre.
Didn't even get an elephanting root.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Which one of those should have resulted in the rooting?
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Happy Anniversary, Michael! Have you considered raising sheep?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: Have you considered raising sheep?
Well, they don't wander about armed with big knives and automatic weapons.
Except in some parts of Wales and New Zealand.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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OriginalGriff wrote: they don't wander about armed with big knives and automatic weapons.
I can understand how that would make them less attractive, but Mick's in a bit of a jam and might not be so picky.
Will Rogers never met me.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Except in some parts of Wales and New Zealand
That is called self protection!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Ah, my 22nd was on Friday. Same result -- or maybe I didn't understand you. Here is Phoenix there's plenty of sunshine but few elephants.
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Congratulations, and deepest sympathies, Michael ! Only two more years until you receive extended combat-readiness in war-zone compensation ?
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“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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Clara Oswald actress to quit at Christmas. It's only in the Mirror[^], so taking with a pinch of salt.
OT: The Daily Mirror has the title "The Intelligent Tabloid" on the homepage, the current articles show that that is a lie:
- Hot Rita Ora flips her blonde weave back and forth
- Hunky David Beckham sprays on the sun lotion in Miami
- Danniella Westbrook* snorted coke, admitted sex with her DEALER
- Danniella Westbrook 'back on cocaine' after love split
- Why is Justin Bieber taking Miley Cyrus' advice on parties?
- Golden girl Pixie Lott shows off her super pins at V
- Ex-Brookside star Paul Usher ''in bits'' after his son mysteriously dies on a ship
- Oprah Winfrey's hilarious Ice Bucket Challenge reaction might just be the funniest yet
- Do loom bands cause cancer? Tests link accessories with potentially deadly chemicals
Looks like the left finally has it's answer to the Daily Fail - just fewer articles of troublingly underage daughters of famous people wearing bikinis and being described as "blossoming" . Followed by an article about the need to string up a famous suspected paedophile, with all irony seemingly totally lost.
* Daniella Westbrook is a British Actress, principally famous having acted in a British Soap opera where everyone is somehow red and angry all the time, about a decade ago. I say act, I mean was on TV. I also say principally famous for this, actually she is principally famous for having stuck so much ceremonial chemical up her nose, the septum rotted out, forming a uninostril.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
modified 17-Aug-14 7:57am.
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Also mentioned in the Radio Times, but without any real information:
A BBC spokeswoman refused to comment: "It's speculation at this time. People will have to watch the series to see if she’s coming back or not."
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Fiat Punto presents season 1 through 23 of The Simpsons.
I do not think I am going away from TV.
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Why? Puntos aren't all that great...
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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You say that now, but wait until you hit season 12
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Sharon Standifird, was livid the day she called and texted her teenagers and they didn’t respond.
Once she knew they were safe but ignoring her calls, she got an idea, Gainer reported.
"We need to develop an app that just shuts their phone completely down and they can’t even use it," Standifird said. "And I started — literally just started researching how to develop an app."
So after months of design and working with developers, "Ignore No more" was born. [^]
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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