I've had quite a few interviews lately, and as a Senior Admin, I'm used to giving the interviews as well. The least useful yet most common question is "What's the difference between a router, switch, and hub?". I've been asked that at almost every interview. Questions and techniques that I think might be useful are:
Be Specific, don't say "what is DNS, what is SMTP. Ask specifically how they work, it makes you sound like a better interviewer. Ask for examples of associated software packages.
When asking "hypothetical" questions that are based on a real problem, don't go looking for the solution that you came up with. I've been grilled on this to no end, and almost always they sit there waiting for me to tell them how THEY fixed it. I had one guy ask "If you have an NT server that reboots every 30 minutes or hour, how would you tackle it?". I told him, but it didn't look like it was the same way they did it, and he looked confused/pissed.
In the same vein, don't expect prospects to be able to solve your real problem for you with a hypothetical situation question.
Logic questions are bad, but might give you insight. Same problem as above though. If you go into it looking for a specific answer, you're going to be frustrated. I was just asked a logic question and spent 20 minutes giving perfectly acceptible answers before I came up with "The Answer". I got the job, so I guess it was ok, but I personally don't do well being on the spot.
Put your candidates at ease. I SUCK at interviews, a lot of really really good geeks SUCK at interviews. Know that the person you're talking to at interview is likely not the person you will be working with. My last job I got because I was totally stone deaf, and just smiled and nodded my way through the interview. I looked more comfortable I guess.
Ask about the relative merits of various OS', ask where and why you'd use NT, Linux, Solaris, OBSD and 2000. Ask for examples (NT is 'cheap' in that most web programmers know ASP + MSSQL, and in a load balanced farm, if you have to reboot weekly, fine. Linux is far more stable and easily configured for a billion different uses. Solaris == Available, OBSD == Security fetish, etc.)
Hope this helps some, I am so sick of interviewing, and I'd like to go back to being the interviewer. I am also however tired of being asked the same, bad, questions again and again. I guess your prospects need to remember that they're socially retarded geeks being interviewed by a socially retarded geek, and that nothing good can come of that:-)
Yeah, I sure would. If I had 1/10 the smarts to write that program, I'd be more than happy to take his place. I believe that the Big Win will be worth it.
If mr Sklyarov is simply released, and the case dropped, this will not help the cause of Anti-DMCA supporters. If he is put on trial as planned, and found innocent (or in any case, that he was grossly mistreated and that PRISON time is not an option), then the ANTI-DMCA case will be strengthened and we'll be that much closer to having DMCA abolished.
I agree that the treatment of Sklyarov has been horrible and unjust, but we need the caselaw to support his cause and ours.
Unreal. 1433 is open? This had better be PortSentry or some "yeah, everything is open, thanks for scanning me, now you're blackholed" type product, or else it could be really bad. Wish I had a machine with Windows on it so I could fire up enterprise manager and look around.
You'll notice of course, that this is NOT an OSDN server, it's hosted by someone else, probably someone who does outsourced jobs.whatever.com for a living.
I've actually heard, from an Adaptec technical rep, who would by definition have an interest in seeing you buy SCSI, so take it how you will, that the only major difference with IDE and SCSI is that the SCSI drives did better in QA and had a higher MTBF, so they got SCSI connectors and boards, and the not-as-good drives got IDE connectors and boards. Again, Adaptec rep.
I do however remember similar stories about Western Digital when their drives REALLY sucked (I've still never ever used one in my machines), back when 540MB was good and 2GB was HUGE, that the drives that went through QA were "Caviar"s and the drives that just got dumped off the line into boxes were their regular model.
Be careful when choosing a managed monitoring service. A customer of ours used NetWhistle to keep tabs on the site. It was paging him 300+ times per day saying his site was down. I tracerouted to them and they were 29 hops away, and we weren't more than 4 hops from any of 3 major backbones. It took him a month to cancel his service, during which time he happily filled our inboxes with forwarded emails saying his site was dead.
My advice would be to set up a machine at another ISP and use that to monitor with Big Brother or What'sUP Gold or something instead.
As much as I hate Compaq desktop machines...I have had really good luck with Compaq Armada laptops. I have an Armada 7400 (PII 300Mhz) for the last year running RH 6.2. A friend of mine has a newer Armada (PIII 500-ish) with DVD and his worked great right out of the box also. He is running Solaris X86 on it now in fact.
Stephen Kings online books are done by Simon & Schuster, with DigitalGoods.com encrypting and publishing them for the web. There is interest in web-publishing via pdf, so it might work in this case.
I recall this from a show on Discovery (I think, or PBS), well before AT&T bought them. They would wear little badges around and the building could tell where they were. Yes, even in the bathroom.
It's a pretty swell idea, you never miss phone calls. But then you can never AVOID phone calls either, which I guess would suck.
At my former employer (web-site dev. company), I had to sign an NDA and Non-Compete agreement. I basically signed a paper to the effect that I would never work for any of our clients in any capacity.
This doesn't hold a LOT of water though. This would mean that I can't work for quite a few large computer corps (HP for one), at all, ever. Here in the Live Free or Die state, non-competes don't hold much weight, and if I went to work for a former client now, about a year later, there would be plenty of room for arguement.
Most of the time, these aren't THAT legally binding, and you can get around them. If it's worth it for the former client to pay your legal fees when/if your employer sues you, then I'd say go for it. It sounds like your employer doesn't treat these clients right anyway, and they need the help, someone should provide it.
...Or, you could do what this guy did. Take all the graphing stuff you want, release a seperate graphing program, call that program from your program, done. As long as you release a seperate, usable program or library, you are in the clear, and the FAI won't hunt you down and kill you.
Spamcop is not accurate anything near 100% of the time. I got something like 10 spamcops one morning regarding a customer whose website we hosted, but who did their own mail through some other upstream provider somewhere. OUR upstream provider got a bunch also which he forwarded to me. Even still, I looked at the mail, looked at the site, and it wasn't even a matter of "opt out/opt in", the customer had to physically push buttons to "Please add me to your mailing list".
Spam? Nope, they signed right up for it, took several STEPS in signing up for it. At any rate, point is, spamcop misses, that was one example, but I had this happen to me quite a few times.
I've never been one to complain about the articles themselves. Sometimes they're spurious, sometimes they're wrong. But this is a boneheaded article. Should a site be in MAPS or ORBS if it doesn't act as a relay, or actively send spam? NO. But, the article clearly states that Peacefire is inaccessible due to its being RBL'd. Not true, at all. None of these sites are inaccessible. If www.myisp.com uses MAPS, I am more than free to browse to any site I want. It's possible that I couldn't receive EMAIL from them, fine. But the article tries to make MAPS out to be censoring web-content, which it can't.
Lame article. MAPS did a REALLY bad thing, and there should be AN article in YRO, just not THIS article. MAPS is so much of a PITA anyway, they almost deserve their own subset of YRO, alongside DMCA and UCITA. Hmmm, sub-slashboxes. Good idea.
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If it's slower than KDE 1.x isn't too much of a concern, to me, at any rate, but is it faster than Gnome + Enlightenment? I run a 300Mhz laptop with 128MB RAM, and I run Gnome + Enlightenment (I like Aqua). But at 64 MB I only ever used KDE because GNOME was such a pig. At 128MB, it's 6 to one 1/2 dozen to the other, and I still really do like KDE. I haven't bothered to download the new version, as long as it's faster than GNOME, I'd get it.
I used to work at a small hosting company, and one of our customers used NetWhistle to try and keep track of his stuff. NetWhistle sent 400 emails a DAY to him saying it was down. We were 28 hops from netwhistle and no one else was very much closer in the northeast at the time (harvard.net, exodus...). Then he couldn't get OFF of NetWhistle. Toward the end, he was just filtering and forwarding all the mails to his account manager at our company to spread the love. He hit my pager account for about 30 minutes before it got un-funny.
In the past year I bought 4 refurb Motorola Memo-Express pagers from a local vendor (not nationwide). Each cost $25, $25/month for unlimited alpha, with an 800 number for voice paging and an email gateway.
I recently had to get one for myself, there were no more refurbs and there were only two models I could find locally for Alpha (Verizon won't even do alpha). I ended up with a Motorola Flex, it's tiny, WAY loud, and has the same options for email, voice paging etc...but it cost $100. The only other alpha pager I could find was $175 for the device. I think the days of paging are numbered, since 2 years ago it was a lot easier to find cheaper devices and everyone had service. But now I had to go to 10 different pager outlets just to find someone who handled alpha and then the thing cost big bucks (for a PAGER...)
I have a signed copy of this book, found for $9 at a used book store. I believe Mr Levy committed suicide rather than spend time in Jail. It's a sad end, but this is a classic book. It shows pretty well the differences between the different classic castes of 'hacker'.
I like the Internet Connector License introduced in SQL 7.0. Actually, that release had several "innovations". Per CPU Licensing AND Internet Connection Licensing (which I believe was $3700, for a piece of paper that resided ultimately on our office fridge).
I've saved 1.5 MS Natural keyboards from Sam Adams damage just by throwing them in the tub overnight, and letting dry for a few days. When the first one didn't make it, I kept it around, and indeed, it made a very good anchor to keep the next one I spilled beer on underwater, twice.
Of course, they came out dirtier-looking than when they went in, but a quick rinse and they looked brand new. I guess remember to clean the tub beforehand.
I always found that staroffice ran like kind of a pig. With a 1/4GB Ram and a 333 it ran like a pig. I don't want to know what it would be like on my 300 laptop with 64MB. I did like the interface a bunch, like the individual apps were fine, but as a whole it was just real sluggish for me.
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Hope this helps some, I am so sick of interviewing, and I'd like to go back to being the interviewer. I am also however tired of being asked the same, bad, questions again and again. I guess your prospects need to remember that they're socially retarded geeks being interviewed by a socially retarded geek, and that nothing good can come of that
Yeah, I sure would. If I had 1/10 the smarts to write that program, I'd be more than happy to take his place. I believe that the Big Win will be worth it.
If mr Sklyarov is simply released, and the case dropped, this will not help the cause of Anti-DMCA supporters. If he is put on trial as planned, and found innocent (or in any case, that he was grossly mistreated and that PRISON time is not an option), then the ANTI-DMCA case will be strengthened and we'll be that much closer to having DMCA abolished.
I agree that the treatment of Sklyarov has been horrible and unjust, but we need the caselaw to support his cause and ours.
They didn't really have any activism sites pertaining to the internet itself. Why no censorware? Oh, yeah, I guess I get it.
Unreal. 1433 is open? This had better be PortSentry or some "yeah, everything is open, thanks for scanning me, now you're blackholed" type product, or else it could be really bad. Wish I had a machine with Windows on it so I could fire up enterprise manager and look around.
You'll notice of course, that this is NOT an OSDN server, it's hosted by someone else, probably someone who does outsourced jobs.whatever.com for a living.
I've actually heard, from an Adaptec technical rep, who would by definition have an interest in seeing you buy SCSI, so take it how you will, that the only major difference with IDE and SCSI is that the SCSI drives did better in QA and had a higher MTBF, so they got SCSI connectors and boards, and the not-as-good drives got IDE connectors and boards. Again, Adaptec rep.
I do however remember similar stories about Western Digital when their drives REALLY sucked (I've still never ever used one in my machines), back when 540MB was good and 2GB was HUGE, that the drives that went through QA were "Caviar"s and the drives that just got dumped off the line into boxes were their regular model.
Be careful when choosing a managed monitoring service. A customer of ours used NetWhistle to keep tabs on the site. It was paging him 300+ times per day saying his site was down. I tracerouted to them and they were 29 hops away, and we weren't more than 4 hops from any of 3 major backbones. It took him a month to cancel his service, during which time he happily filled our inboxes with forwarded emails saying his site was dead.
My advice would be to set up a machine at another ISP and use that to monitor with Big Brother or What'sUP Gold or something instead.
As much as I hate Compaq desktop machines...I have had really good luck with Compaq Armada laptops. I have an Armada 7400 (PII 300Mhz) for the last year running RH 6.2. A friend of mine has a newer Armada (PIII 500-ish) with DVD and his worked great right out of the box also. He is running Solaris X86 on it now in fact.
Stephen Kings online books are done by Simon & Schuster, with DigitalGoods.com encrypting and publishing them for the web. There is interest in web-publishing via pdf, so it might work in this case.
I recall this from a show on Discovery (I think, or PBS), well before AT&T bought them. They would wear little badges around and the building could tell where they were. Yes, even in the bathroom.
It's a pretty swell idea, you never miss phone calls. But then you can never AVOID phone calls either, which I guess would suck.
At my former employer (web-site dev. company), I had to sign an NDA and Non-Compete agreement. I basically signed a paper to the effect that I would never work for any of our clients in any capacity.
This doesn't hold a LOT of water though. This would mean that I can't work for quite a few large computer corps (HP for one), at all, ever. Here in the Live Free or Die state, non-competes don't hold much weight, and if I went to work for a former client now, about a year later, there would be plenty of room for arguement.
Most of the time, these aren't THAT legally binding, and you can get around them. If it's worth it for the former client to pay your legal fees when/if your employer sues you, then I'd say go for it. It sounds like your employer doesn't treat these clients right anyway, and they need the help, someone should provide it.
...Or, you could do what this guy did. Take all the graphing stuff you want, release a seperate graphing program, call that program from your program, done. As long as you release a seperate, usable program or library, you are in the clear, and the FAI won't hunt you down and kill you.
Spam? Nope, they signed right up for it, took several STEPS in signing up for it. At any rate, point is, spamcop misses, that was one example, but I had this happen to me quite a few times.
Don't touch...THE HISTORY ERASER BUTTON.
You EEEEEEDIOT
Did you mean to say "spending too much time rooting for Linux", or "spending too much time ROOTING LINUX"?
I've never been one to complain about the articles themselves. Sometimes they're spurious, sometimes they're wrong. But this is a boneheaded article. Should a site be in MAPS or ORBS if it doesn't act as a relay, or actively send spam? NO. But, the article clearly states that Peacefire is inaccessible due to its being RBL'd. Not true, at all. None of these sites are inaccessible. If www.myisp.com uses MAPS, I am more than free to browse to any site I want. It's possible that I couldn't receive EMAIL from them, fine. But the article tries to make MAPS out to be censoring web-content, which it can't.
Lame article. MAPS did a REALLY bad thing, and there should be AN article in YRO, just not THIS article. MAPS is so much of a PITA anyway, they almost deserve their own subset of YRO, alongside DMCA and UCITA. Hmmm, sub-slashboxes. Good idea.
If it's slower than KDE 1.x isn't too much of a concern, to me, at any rate, but is it faster than Gnome + Enlightenment? I run a 300Mhz laptop with 128MB RAM, and I run Gnome + Enlightenment (I like Aqua). But at 64 MB I only ever used KDE because GNOME was such a pig. At 128MB, it's 6 to one 1/2 dozen to the other, and I still really do like KDE. I haven't bothered to download the new version, as long as it's faster than GNOME, I'd get it.
I used to work at a small hosting company, and one of our customers used NetWhistle to try and keep track of his stuff. NetWhistle sent 400 emails a DAY to him saying it was down. We were 28 hops from netwhistle and no one else was very much closer in the northeast at the time (harvard.net, exodus...). Then he couldn't get OFF of NetWhistle. Toward the end, he was just filtering and forwarding all the mails to his account manager at our company to spread the love. He hit my pager account for about 30 minutes before it got un-funny.
In the past year I bought 4 refurb Motorola Memo-Express pagers from a local vendor (not nationwide). Each cost $25, $25/month for unlimited alpha, with an 800 number for voice paging and an email gateway.
I recently had to get one for myself, there were no more refurbs and there were only two models I could find locally for Alpha (Verizon won't even do alpha). I ended up with a Motorola Flex, it's tiny, WAY loud, and has the same options for email, voice paging etc...but it cost $100. The only other alpha pager I could find was $175 for the device. I think the days of paging are numbered, since 2 years ago it was a lot easier to find cheaper devices and everyone had service. But now I had to go to 10 different pager outlets just to find someone who handled alpha and then the thing cost big bucks (for a PAGER...)
Ok, I'm retarded. I was thinking of some other hacker suicide.
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Mea Culpa
I have a signed copy of this book, found for $9 at a used book store. I believe Mr Levy committed suicide rather than spend time in Jail. It's a sad end, but this is a classic book. It shows pretty well the differences between the different classic castes of 'hacker'.
I like the Internet Connector License introduced in SQL 7.0. Actually, that release had several "innovations". Per CPU Licensing AND Internet Connection Licensing (which I believe was $3700, for a piece of paper that resided ultimately on our office fridge).
Mmmmm, exploiterific.
Actually, GCC should be highly discouraged on a firewall/bastion host. Never give the kiddies any breaks.
I've saved 1.5 MS Natural keyboards from Sam Adams damage just by throwing them in the tub overnight, and letting dry for a few days. When the first one didn't make it, I kept it around, and indeed, it made a very good anchor to keep the next one I spilled beer on underwater, twice.
Of course, they came out dirtier-looking than when they went in, but a quick rinse and they looked brand new. I guess remember to clean the tub beforehand.
I always found that staroffice ran like kind of a pig. With a 1/4GB Ram and a 333 it ran like a pig. I don't want to know what it would be like on my 300 laptop with 64MB. I did like the interface a bunch, like the individual apps were fine, but as a whole it was just real sluggish for me.