Is stating that “you were a member that might or might have contributed anything significant to VMEbus” innuendo/FUD/garbage? Well, seeing your reluctance to show me what you have actually done in that committee, I am pretty sure that is a legitimate doubt rather than mere insinuation. Besides, innuendo/FUD/garbage are more your favorite spiels than mine anyway (as immediately observable in this blog).

Garbage: Insinuating that your opposition is try to discredit the committe you participated in rather than your person despite clear clarification.

Not garbage: Pointing out the fact that you have never shown you actual possess any genuine knowledge in any relevant subject matter, be it ethernet, VMEbus, AD, or anything having been mentioned or discussed.

a member of the committee -> a member”

And what are you “clarifying”?

Or is it just more innuendo/FUD/garbage?

see IEEE.org
“IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.”

“WHO CAN PARTICPATE?

Working Groups meet and make technical decisions in the process of developing standards. Those participating in working groups have strong technical knowledge and expertise in the subject matter of the standard project, and understand and respect diverse points of view. Individuals and corporations in working groups work collaboratively to reach consensus in order to move the project to sponsor ballot and ultimately IEEE Standards Board approval.”
see http://standards.ieee.org/develop/participate.html

“WHAT IS A WORKING GROUP?

In the spirit of openness, agendas for Working Group meetings are distributed beforehand and the results of the group’s deliberations are publicly available, usually through meeting minutes. Working Groups have a chairperson who facilitates the group discussions and offers leadership and guidance to the Working Group. He/she also serves as the contact person for technical questions about the standard.”

see http://standards.ieee.org/develop/wg.html

I am not sure whether or not the process has evolved since the 1980s but I was a member of the IEEE and you had to be competent to join. I had to be sponsored by two or more members of the IEEE who knew my work. My sponsors were two from the Department of Physics where I worked and one from the Department of Engineering with whom I had consulted on Finite Element Analysis which was hot in those days. Believe it or not particle accelerator physics and nuclear physics are challenging technical areas of human endeavour and I thrived in that environment.

a member of the committee -> a member

So you were a member of the committee that might or might have contributed anything significant to VMEbus.

There were (and still are) a lot of things going on in TCMM, you know?

I wrote peer-reviewed articles about data-collection and analysis, patent applications

So you have proven yourself worthy to use one of these boxes i.e. an equivalent of a science undergraduate. That’s cute.

I designed complete IT systems for schools

You are beginning to repeat yourself like a broken record, don’t you think?

You are stumped by a multiplexed communication protocol (ethernet). Your solutions are duct-tape-and-spit hobbyist monstrosities. Not a single sentence from the recounts of your stories shows even a shred of knowledge in things you claim to understand. What else anyone here need to know?

I was a member of the IEEE committee that standardized VMEbus in the 1980s. I wrote peer-reviewed articles about data-collection and analysis, patent applications, and I designed complete IT systems for schools. I was not just a user of IT but a creator.

Exactly what hardware are you more up to date on Hamster that I don’t have. Solid state drives? Got em. multicore ARM chips – useless on a personal level to someone whose management is more concerned with getting creds to do electrical work. Large memory. In short sir, there is NOTHING that you have shown that justifys an update cycle so short that you have to work with spare parts, especially if the majority of what you are doing is physical construction jobbing.

My desktop can be expanded to 192Gb of RAM My portable Has 32Gb of RAM. so that I can do multi segmented routed network simulations involving a dozen virtual machines including virtual DNS/DHCP server.

Of course none of this will impress the great Hamster with his 12 year old custom rig, yet it still remains what I do and what I am paid well for.

“You have worked in education for far too long Oldman you need to get out in commercial and experience some of the other operating models.”

I’ve been out there and I’ve seen and work with people who are in commercial companies, many multinational.

I and I have no problem telling you Mr. hameless nym, that you are full of sh-t for the word go!

So how does a hundred core tilera chip help you in fixing those fences?

For someone who can’t tell the difference between hardware (wiring) issues and software (OS) issues, he sure makes more noise than his fair share, doesn’t he?

Many office clerks have been using IT since 80/90s (and would have covered mainframe, mini-, micro- and networked computers for the 80s folks). should I regard them as “educated” on the subject matter as well?

Delusions of grandeur are a common symptom among backyard handymen, I am afraid.