Re: 60-806 help

[brihyn <brihyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

just to make a few things clear:
1) I have never been on a high horse. I came here with my tail between
my legs asking for help.
2)I've noted numerous times that I do agree that randomly pushing
buttons wasn't necessarily a smart thing to do. At the same time, I
had nothing to lose, as the alarm was just as useless before as it is
now.
3) I never mentioned the network engineer side until Crash told me
that what I was just dumb as "trying to fix your pc on a friday
night". I merely mentioned that I have no problems fixing my pc on a
friday night myself.
4) as for my experience with alarms...Just mentioning that I am not a
run of a mill home owner. I *do* have experience on some level with
alarms. In fact, I would rightly argue that I have more knowledge of
how an alarm board works than 99% of installers because of this
experience having to fix and repair them. Does that help me in this
case? Unfortunately, not a bit. But it *is* a fact that I've worked on
a level on these circuit boards that few here have. (if only it DID
help resolve my mistake!)
5) Can you argue that a lot of installers really do know what they're
doing and more importantly, why? An installer that truly understands
the "why" of security beyond just the "how" of installing is worth his
weight in gold. No argument.. But I found in hiring installers on the
corporate side that frankly, my sales guy knew a lot more of how to
actually keep a building safe then the installers. They knew how to
run the wiring, etc, but failed the most critical piece...looking at
the buiilding from the point of view of a thief, and alter their work
accordingly. They were just doing what they were trained, and nothing
beyond. Are all installers that way? thankfully no. Maybe "trained
monkey" came off wrong, but it's the case in any career path. a
trained monkey can do what they were trained, and can't look beyond.
Installers can be that way, network engineers can be that way. And
unfortunately, i've run into too many of both. (note, i refuse to use
the annoying phrase here of "looking outside of the box". Maybe that
wouldn't have ruffled the feathers quite so badly, but I just hate
that phrase)
6)Do I respect someone to crawl into crawlspaces? more than I can
express here. I had a stint of doing side-contracting of running
network cabling. Great pay, and I'd do it again, but words can not
express how much I hated the work.
Again, thanks for the constructive answers. And I realize my original
reply created the stir. It was meant directly at Crash. Re-read the
thread again from the top. I simply asked how to fix my screw up,
Frank gave me a great reply that what I did was worse than I had
thought, and than Crash responded with the most snarky reply of all.