RE: .NET with System i5 - where to draw the line was->RE: NogivinguponSystem i (was: I'm about to give up)

Aaron,

I've long ago gotten used to the "team concept". Even before we abandoned
twinax I no longer wired my cables, coworkers did. Honestly, there are
technicians here that are more knowledgeable on how to attach printers
than I am. Could they write a line of CL? No.
A closer analogy is when a new customer is attempting to do FTP with us.
Is it our firewall that is blocking them? Is it the ftp exit point
program I wrote? I can give an educated guess, and could pinpoint it down
better with a comm trace, but still I have to work with our network
specialist. And that is an outside consultant who works four long days,
Tuesday through Friday. And doesn't start until 10 or 10:30 so he can do
stuff late at night when network stuff is minimal.
(Recent incident: We couldn't get to our corporate web site and I was
told to just email him by my boss. So, when he does his late at night
tricks and is not there the next morning, it's a hoot. But he's no kid
who hasn't been weaned yet, and collects .50 caliber weapons, so I don't
say much.)

Rob Berendt