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| 10:24.36 | mindbender | morsing! |
| 10:29.08 | w1bble | exclamation! |
| 10:46.32 | morsing | mindbender! |
| 10:46.34 | morsing | w1bble! |
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| 12:40.48 | ChoHag | What are the standard questions interviewers ask to 'prove' you know tcp/ip? |
| 12:40.56 | ChoHag | Describe the handshake, obviously. |
| 12:41.26 | dick_turpin | What does tcp and ip stand for? :-P |
| 12:41.46 | ChoHag | I think if they ask that I might just hang up. |
| 12:43.29 | ChoHag | I find most questions they ask these days are a variation on "of the facts which can be found through a quick internet search, does the subset which you happen to remember include <this>?" |
| 12:44.46 | ChoHag | Or the utterly benign "describe how you would fix a fault with the web page" |
| 12:45.53 | morsing | Armand! |
| 12:45.54 | morsing | dick_turpin! |
| 12:46.02 | Armand | morsing! |
| 12:46.32 | morsing | ChoHag: I used to be asked "How do you stop TCP/IP" and the "Correct" answer apparently was "You stop inetd" |
| 12:47.03 | ChoHag | God I hate those. |
| 12:47.39 | ChoHag | "How do you do <thing which doesn't even sound coherent unless you misunderstand technology exactly like I do>?" |
| 12:48.20 | dick_turpin | morsing: bd |
| 12:50.14 | dick_turpin | I know someone who went for an interview and the question was "Which is more important, the CEO's desktop wallpaper. Or, a network outage?" |
| 12:50.45 | Armand | ChoHag, at my interview they asked if I knew what CIDR was.. not to explain it. :) |
| 12:51.49 | Armand | I gave a very brief explanation, as I haven't used it as yet. |
| 12:52.29 | dick_turpin | The answer, if you can believe it, was the desktop wallpaper! |
| 12:52.35 | morsing | dick_turpin: I would have said "From the board's point of view, or the CEO's?" |
| 12:52.35 | dick_turpin | Apparently |
| 12:53.08 | yaMatt | Google's questions for me were surprisingly mundane |
| 12:53.31 | morsing | yaMatt: Maybe they went by your reputation? |
| 12:53.51 | ChoHag | Keeping the CEO happy may be persuant to keeping the job which as sysadmin is likely to be best for the company in the long run than a run-of-the-mill network outage. |
| 12:53.58 | yaMatt | things along the line of: describe the 3 messages of a tcp handshake |
| 12:54.01 | ChoHag | s/best/better/ |
| 12:55.54 | ChoHag | That is an awful use of the word persuant. |
| 12:56.20 | yaMatt | its ok, I don't even know what it means |
| 12:56.34 | yaMatt | mentally I just replaced it with the word "badger" |
| 13:04.58 | dick_turpin | yaMatt: Bwahahaha |
| 13:05.23 | dick_turpin | yaMatt: Bastard! You made me laugh out loud |
| 13:06.08 | mindbender | ChoHag: what port ping/traceroute uses, I got asked that |
| 13:06.19 | ChoHag | Depends. |
| 13:06.19 | mindbender | ChoHag: difference between tcp/udp |
| 13:06.27 | ChoHag | There are many ways those traces can be run. |
| 13:06.41 | mindbender | ChoHag: DNS using udp vs tcp another one I had |
| 13:07.02 | jpds | mindbender: Now, what do TCP and UDP have in common? |
| 13:07.31 | mindbender | jpds: in general ? |
| 13:07.43 | jpds | That's a more interesting interview question. |
| 13:07.49 | mindbender | jpds: they deliver packets? |
| 13:07.59 | mindbender | jpds: surely, you can't deny that when I was it this way. |
| 13:08.06 | mindbender | *I answer it this way |
| 13:08.40 | morsing | What port ping uses... |
| 13:09.48 | mindbender | been asked a fork bomb as well, but It was supposed to be funy. |
| 13:09.49 | mindbender | funny |
| 13:13.07 | ChoHag | Being able to detect a fork bomb is useful. |
| 13:13.12 | ChoHag | Prior to running it I mean. |
| 13:13.15 | ChoHag | And other such things. |
| 13:15.59 | mindbender | I rather be on holiday. |
| 13:16.29 | mindbender | which I will be soon enough to be fair. |
| 13:21.03 | mindbender | morsing: yeah, it's port 25, isn't it ? |
| 13:28.35 | morsing | mindbender: ...? Seriously? |
| 13:37.59 | mindbender | morsing: maybe you're getting dumber afterall |
| 13:46.50 | dick_turpin | Bwahahahaha |
| 13:58.08 | morsing | dick_turpin: How's Sharon? |
| 14:02.54 | dick_turpin | I suspect kidnapped by well hung Himalayas |
| 14:06.03 | ChoHag | The only question I got asked was how to make the load balancer redundant. |
| 14:06.20 | ChoHag | Which nobody else got. |
| 14:10.08 | morsing | Himalayas? |
| 14:12.09 | mindbender | huh |
| 14:17.31 | morsing | Well hung Himalayas... The Himalayas point up, more than hanging down... |
| 14:46.50 | dick_turpin | Not if you live in Australia |
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| 17:27.36 | morsing | Armand! |
| 17:27.55 | Armand | morsing! |
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