Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Seven Days in the Life of Maurice

Maurice never doubted that he would find a job. As a baby, he had reprogrammed his Candy Kinetic Sing-and-Stomp dance mat to play Dvorák’s New World Symphony, and ever since then, he had evidenced a singular capacity for achieving the improbable in cyberspace. But he didn’t really think he would find a job so soon after graduating. He certainly didn’t expect to be presented with an interview at the random corporate office where he had stopped to use the restroom. He was young enough and brash enough to accept the job of network administrator for Hypothetical, Inc., although in hindsight he should have realized that this was not a job for the upwardly mobile. He told the interviewers that he had no experience ...