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T
December 20, 2005 7:44 AM

How's the job turned out, Ian?

Ian
December 20, 2005 8:31 AM

Not too bad. Things are quiet right now, but the person I'm replacing leaves on Thursday; after that, it's just me and my Junior System Administrator to look after things!

It seems like a friendly place to work, I have ideas about how to improve the computer systems which my manager likes, and I've fixed a few problems already :). Admittedly, the SQL/Ingres part of the job is a little daunting, and I'm currently doing a crash course in CISCO routers, to try and learn a little before my safety net leaves!

lucas
December 21, 2005 7:09 AM

when the whole network crashes, i will bet it is the cissco router`s log file... it seems incable of overwriting old data with new, and also incabble of operating with out recording logs. (well thats my experince anyway)

lucas
December 21, 2005 7:14 AM

as in when the internal memory space is full...
worked fine otherwise, and was fine as soon as the memory was cleared.

R
December 22, 2005 7:06 AM

Just don't make the mistake I made when I failed my CCNA test (on the first attempt), which was to get everything right in configuring the routers and then forget to execute that three-word command at the end that ensures the router reboots with your configuration: "copy run start" ;).

Ian
December 24, 2005 9:44 AM

Oooh, I've already fallen foul of that one, but luckily, I had people looking over my shoulder :)

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