Sean,
My vote goes for...
How to build an Internet Service Company
From A to Z...
All you need to know to plan, build and market an Internet service company.
Tips and tricks from the inside.
Charles H. Burke
July '96
ISBN: 0-935563-02-4
And I quote...
Coffee Maker - Coffee is an necessary as HTML to the aspiring ISP.
...
I highly recommend the Bunn-Omatic corporation for excellent high
performance coffee makers.
...
It's a classic!
As for driving in the UK and US... I have explained the value of roundabouts to many, many Americans and they still don't get it. Being British, but living in the US... I just don't get why they are not used here.
You will have to put up with the face that Bell-heads and Net-heads just doing things differently and not understanding why the other side prefers an opposite method!
Martin
... But there doesn't seem to
>be anything that helps Bell heads understand what switching, routing
>or signaling means on the Internet. There are a lot of words which are
>spelled alike, but mean very different things in the Bell world and the
>Internet world.
>
>I've been thinking of it like driving in England or the USA. We drive
>on different sides of the road. Its safe until you get someone who
>doesn't know the rules of the road driving on the other side of the
>Atlantic. So how do you explain the rules of the Internet road to someone
>used to driving on the telephone system?
Padlipsky's Elements of Networking Style may be the funiest technical
book ever written. It is a really vicious critique of the whole OSI
approach, written mid-80s. Some chapters are also available as RFCs,
I think 871-875.
"If you know what you're doing, three layers are enough. If not, even
17 won't save you."
yes, 871 is a personal favorite of mine; i've photocopied it and
passed it out in classes i've taught.
richard