It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter.

Please guide me into enlightenment.

  • Joe Bidet@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    “porte” in French means a door.

    Imagine each port is a door, all neatly aligned… some of them can be opened and lead to something… (a service)

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      9 months ago

      And when you go through the door, you must know the language to speak (the protocol) or you may be told to leave or ignored.

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        9 months ago

        yeah you need to know the password or secret handshake (like a protocol handshake) to be let in! :)