Working IT in Aerospace the very last thing I want is my engineers thinking they know something about networking or IT. Just about every IT issue we have is some engineer thinking they know more than IT about our network. Many hands have been slapped, many a GPO crafted.
Pre-Web2 era? Hell as far as banking goes, we're still on a dial-up line talking to a terminal server so we can telnet in to the mail machine to use elm to read our mail!
I lost my wife this January. My company said to take all the time I wanted off, ended up being about a month. I don't know what I would have done without their support (and wonderful insurance package.)
I hear ya. I can remember the phone number of my daughter just because it's only a few numbers off of my cell phone. The rest of them, no way, I never have to dial them. There were some numbers that I couldn't actually tell you without dialing them on a TouchTone pad, they actually became muscle memory.
You just described a Sales Engineer. But I see your point. The OP might be better at Cisco or Juniper writing code and giving input on circuit design for various protocols. Maybe he could do some work on the current BSD TCP/IP stack and related modern routing projects to show that he's not stuck in the 80s (70s?) I've been pushing bits for coming on three decades now and have never run into IPX in the real world.
It depends on the job. If'n you're hired to build the next cookie cutter box store then you're just counting drops and distances between IDFs. But if you're building out something new, maybe this is the guy.
Only one interview? When was this? I would have hired you. Anyone that can dig down in to ANY network protocol enough to write a stack deserves a chance.
You see, there is nothing I want to remember. What techniques can manage that?
a) Drink vodka until death by liver failure b) Tequila works too c) JATO + Pontiac d) JATO + Pontiac in an enclosed garage (not as fun) e) Hey y'all, watch this! (Might require a few tries) f) Long walk on a short pier with Doc Martins g) Know something that Putin doesn't want you to know h) P&T's Bullet trick without understanding how it's done i) Ya know how on your first day of prison you're suppose to pick a fight with the meanest guy? Yeah, that will work. j) Get a help desk job with supplied binder k) If you have remembered the techniques then you have already failed l) Sure I can replace this outlet without turning off the breaker, I'll just be careful m) That looks like the right type of mushroom n) When in Mosul telling ISIS that it's okay, you're an atheist o) Just keep walking downtown with the headphones on while posting to Facebook p) See if you can make it across the lake on your snowmobile in November q) Spring break r) Driving while black s) Trying to reenact the D.B.Cooper hijacking t) Quaaludes u) Kick Chuck Norris in the ass v) Piss off the Clintons w) Speak directly to Barbara Bush x) Go hunting with Dick Cheney y) Ignore red tide warnings when clamming z) 72 hour pornhub marathon
That just takes two things, practice and obsession.
People often ask me how to "get into" computers, as in getting into IT. My answer is that if you're not already "into" computers, then it's too late. Oh you might take a class and get a help desk job, but if you really want to do computers and haven't been dumpster diving for them, well then you just don't have it.
This is why places can be so powerful for us, the anchor memories. Have you ever gone back to your home town after many years away? Man the stuff that starts coming back.
Well, son, there was a time before memory dialers. I still remember phone numbers of friends from when I was in school some 45 years ago, and our first phone number, CHestnut8-2354 from 52 years ago. Helped me later with IP numbers. One of my co-workers calls me the walking DNS. "Hey Joe, I need a block of 8 IPs for the Newport site." "Here you go, now send me an email so I don't forget to put them in on the sheet. I'm busy eating dinner."
My wife found 30 lb buckets of kitty litter for $9.99 shipped from Jet one day. We ordered 6 of them. They put the buckets in boxes with padding. Now my mailman isn't speaking to me.
I hear it, I'm in a native fishing village in Washington with a 7 mile commute to my aerospace IT job. Paying a bit more than you but well under $1000/mo for lease and utilities, 2300 sqft and sound view a block off the water. I won't think of taking a job south of Everett.
Cooking last night a 1" rib eye for my daughter, who likes it very rare: Hot pan at 550F, 3 minutes a side and 5 to rest. I like mine done a bit more so 5 minutes a side and about a minute to rest (it smelled so good I couldn't wait.) There was about 4-5 minutes to get the pan to temp on an electric range.
Like hey! I'm class of 79 also. I did kind of like the semi-random access of 8-tracks with the four position track selector.
Broadcasting had a similar format known as carts where were played in cartdecks. It was a three track at 7.5ips for a stereo format with one track for the stop and start tones.
As a broadcast engineer in another life, I must say you explained that well.
I agree, it needs to be another service on another band. Take one of the VHF TV channels or pop it up in the 230MHz area. If it's digital it won't need more than 6-12MHz band anyway.
Exactly! Remember L.A. back in the 70s before California said enough is enough and required cleaner cars? And how, thanks to them and Tricky Dicky we all breath better? Nixon also signed the Clean Water Act too, if I recall.
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I hope that after your conversation you removed said engineer from the gene pool.
Well, if he needs I have an 8" floppy of TurboPascal for CP/M hanging above my desk.
Working IT in Aerospace the very last thing I want is my engineers thinking they know something about networking or IT. Just about every IT issue we have is some engineer thinking they know more than IT about our network. Many hands have been slapped, many a GPO crafted.
Pre-Web2 era? Hell as far as banking goes, we're still on a dial-up line talking to a terminal server so we can telnet in to the mail machine to use elm to read our mail!
I lost my wife this January. My company said to take all the time I wanted off, ended up being about a month. I don't know what I would have done without their support (and wonderful insurance package.)
I hear ya. I can remember the phone number of my daughter just because it's only a few numbers off of my cell phone. The rest of them, no way, I never have to dial them.
There were some numbers that I couldn't actually tell you without dialing them on a TouchTone pad, they actually became muscle memory.
You just described a Sales Engineer. But I see your point. The OP might be better at Cisco or Juniper writing code and giving input on circuit design for various protocols. Maybe he could do some work on the current BSD TCP/IP stack and related modern routing projects to show that he's not stuck in the 80s (70s?) I've been pushing bits for coming on three decades now and have never run into IPX in the real world.
It depends on the job. If'n you're hired to build the next cookie cutter box store then you're just counting drops and distances between IDFs. But if you're building out something new, maybe this is the guy.
Good one!
Or a Grateful Dead keyboardist.
Damn, that would be a nice after retirement job for me, kind of like going fishing.
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Only one interview? When was this? I would have hired you. Anyone that can dig down in to ANY network protocol enough to write a stack deserves a chance.
You see, there is nothing I want to remember. What techniques can manage that?
a) Drink vodka until death by liver failure
b) Tequila works too
c) JATO + Pontiac
d) JATO + Pontiac in an enclosed garage (not as fun)
e) Hey y'all, watch this! (Might require a few tries)
f) Long walk on a short pier with Doc Martins
g) Know something that Putin doesn't want you to know
h) P&T's Bullet trick without understanding how it's done
i) Ya know how on your first day of prison you're suppose to pick a fight with the meanest guy? Yeah, that will work.
j) Get a help desk job with supplied binder
k) If you have remembered the techniques then you have already failed
l) Sure I can replace this outlet without turning off the breaker, I'll just be careful
m) That looks like the right type of mushroom
n) When in Mosul telling ISIS that it's okay, you're an atheist
o) Just keep walking downtown with the headphones on while posting to Facebook
p) See if you can make it across the lake on your snowmobile in November
q) Spring break
r) Driving while black
s) Trying to reenact the D.B.Cooper hijacking
t) Quaaludes
u) Kick Chuck Norris in the ass
v) Piss off the Clintons
w) Speak directly to Barbara Bush
x) Go hunting with Dick Cheney
y) Ignore red tide warnings when clamming
z) 72 hour pornhub marathon
That just takes two things, practice and obsession.
People often ask me how to "get into" computers, as in getting into IT. My answer is that if you're not already "into" computers, then it's too late. Oh you might take a class and get a help desk job, but if you really want to do computers and haven't been dumpster diving for them, well then you just don't have it.
This is why places can be so powerful for us, the anchor memories. Have you ever gone back to your home town after many years away? Man the stuff that starts coming back.
I use the fourth Doctor's TARDIS.
Well, son, there was a time before memory dialers. I still remember phone numbers of friends from when I was in school some 45 years ago, and our first phone number, CHestnut8-2354 from 52 years ago. Helped me later with IP numbers. One of my co-workers calls me the walking DNS. "Hey Joe, I need a block of 8 IPs for the Newport site." "Here you go, now send me an email so I don't forget to put them in on the sheet. I'm busy eating dinner."
My wife found 30 lb buckets of kitty litter for $9.99 shipped from Jet one day. We ordered 6 of them. They put the buckets in boxes with padding. Now my mailman isn't speaking to me.
I hear it, I'm in a native fishing village in Washington with a 7 mile commute to my aerospace IT job. Paying a bit more than you but well under $1000/mo for lease and utilities, 2300 sqft and sound view a block off the water. I won't think of taking a job south of Everett.
Cooking last night a 1" rib eye for my daughter, who likes it very rare: Hot pan at 550F, 3 minutes a side and 5 to rest. I like mine done a bit more so 5 minutes a side and about a minute to rest (it smelled so good I couldn't wait.) There was about 4-5 minutes to get the pan to temp on an electric range.
You have to let it rest, ya know.
'member MagicCubes?
Like hey! I'm class of 79 also. I did kind of like the semi-random access of 8-tracks with the four position track selector.
Broadcasting had a similar format known as carts where were played in cartdecks. It was a three track at 7.5ips for a stereo format with one track for the stop and start tones.
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Damn Hairy! There's your problem, she should have run for President of Mexico!
As a broadcast engineer in another life, I must say you explained that well.
I agree, it needs to be another service on another band. Take one of the VHF TV channels or pop it up in the 230MHz area. If it's digital it won't need more than 6-12MHz band anyway.
Exactly! Remember L.A. back in the 70s before California said enough is enough and required cleaner cars? And how, thanks to them and Tricky Dicky we all breath better? Nixon also signed the Clean Water Act too, if I recall.
Oh, and that whole opening up China thing.
Fuck, I never thought I'd be nostalgic for him.