This section contains general information, tips and tricks, light reading, entertainment and other general fodder. Enjoy!
Stories of Air Traffic Control… Hope these put a smile on your face. These are (allegedly) actual air traffic control exchanges from various sources: Tower: “Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o’clock, 6 miles.” Delta 351: “Give us another hint! We have digital watches!” ========================= “TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 degrees.” […]
Air Traffic Ground Control to Major Tom… Read More »
If you are new, or if you are experienced in Linux, it is always helpful to have a cheat sheet with all the various commands to help you control networking, process files, and much more. Sometimes a cheat sheet can even show you better ways to do something, or even introduce you to new things
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Because of the way that search engines crawl sites, many of you have no idea that CellStream has been compiling a bunch of what we call “Cisco Router How To’s”, and these are easily available to any network administrator. What you do is go to this link , you may need to create an account at the
Cisco Router Tech Tips and “How To’s” Read More »
This is a story of Thomas Edison. It is a story I often refer to when teaching both new and experienced Engineers in the US and abroad. When I mention his name, What do you think of? Most people immediately think of the light bulb. The incandescent light bulb to be precise. Taken from his
Would You Still Keep Trying after Thousands of Failures? Read More »
This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn’t. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. 1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. 2. What
A Quiz for those who know EVERYTHING! Read More »
The following letter of complaint was apparently sent to NTL ( a UK based telecoms company) and contains some useful phraseology, which you may wish to plagiarize in some future correspondence of your own, to a service provider who perhaps does not reach the writer’s expectations of service. It has a reasonable balance of anger,
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If you have been in my classes, you know I often share my story of the Milky Way Galaxy picture in 8th grade science class and how I got in a lot of trouble doubting that the picture of the Milky Way could not possibly be the actual Milky Way in which our solar system
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If you provide any type of technical support, or have ever called technical support before, this will make you smile: The tech support problem dates back to long before the industrial revolution, when primitive tribesmen beat out a rhythm on drums to communicate: “This fire help. Me Groog” “Me Lorto. Help. Fire not work.” “You
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A friend recently showed me a cool ASCII Flow Diagram site that allows you to create ASCII text diagrams for documents. I was really impressed. It is a lot of fun. Here is a sample of something I did: Pretty cool. But I have something EVEN BETTER! I dug around in my
ASCII Art and ASCII Fonts Read More »
On a recent trip to Bismarck, North Dakota, one of our friends and colleagues at Telephone Training and Safety shared a wonderfull peice of history with me: The Edinburg and Gardar Telephone Company Telephone Directory. The year is not shown, but it must be from around turn of the century (early 1900’s). It has some fascinating
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**None of the content below is the opinion of CellStream, nor its employees. You should always use best judgement when setting up your email responders. I am currently out of the office at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Please be prepared for my mood. You
The ten best “out of office” email responses Read More »
Epiphany number 3,812!! After years and years of wondering what on earth is going on at Microsoft that they have done no feature changes of significance to PowerPoint, and frustration whenever I change the Notes Master, that I must go to every slide, one by one, and right click on the notes page, click on
Apply Master to ALL Notes Pages in MS PowerPoint Read More »
Great Quotations can have deep and meaningful impact to anyone. From time to time we receive a great quote from our visitors/clients/friends/acquaintances. We thought this page would be a great place to keep them. First, here are some links to great quote sources: http://www.allgreatquotes.com/ http://www.brainyquote.com/ http://www.great-inspirational-quotes.com/ http://www.wisdomquotes.com/ Ok. Here are some of the ones
The following is the famous “Five Monkey Rule” of business. Some people have challenged me over the years on the validity of this rule. Well, it is based on a real study you can read about here. Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place
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The following were sent to me by a friend many years ago. Enjoy! 1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. 2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. 3. I totally take back all those
Life Observations sent by a friend – too funny Read More »
