Find the thumb dumb in your ear brain.

[reddragdiva]

Today I had my first face-to-face job interview of this round. The pay is at the bottom of my acceptable range and I would have to wear a tie, but the job looks quite interesting. The interview ran two hours and I babbled a bit, but there was rapport. We'll see.

This evening I had definitely the stupidest phone interview of my life: a technical Unix quiz of the "what command line would you use for this job" variety, obviously meant to be written, administered over the phone by a technically illiterate pimp who called both the slash and hyphen a "dash" and was hopelessly confused by the notion of a pipe. My brain hurt and my scalp tensed.

arkady is over again this evening. redcountess has been watching West Wing series 2. I have been slowly beating Liz's FreeBSD machine into working. (The OpenOffice 1.1.4 package is best installed with -f after you've installed ORBit from ports.) I have also installed the prerequisites for MediaWiki on my PC. Final payslip from old employer came today. Still looking for that unemployed ennui kthx.

Comments

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I tend to favor koffice myself, it's available on whatever system KDE is.

[reddragdiva]

koffice in 3.4 will apparently use the OOo 2.0 file format. Good.

[zey.livejournal.com]

a technical Unix quiz of the "what command line would you use for this job" variety

I've always hated those things. In Unix, there are often many ways to skin a cat.

[reddragdiva]

I presume the results will be checked by the clueful. Or whatever mangled version of them made it out of that process.

[zey.livejournal.com]

Jeez, you're an optimist.

"The guy mentioned pron as a way to schedule tasks. Wrong!"

"He threatened to kill me if I asked him how to shut down processes. Possibly insane."

"Mentioned something about topping himself when I asked how you'd check memory usage in real time. This bloke needs psychiatric help."

[belegdel.livejournal.com]

My previous boss banned us from using the phrase "killed the child processes" or anything similar.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

"long lost child came home" is still my favourite apache error message.

[belegdel.livejournal.com]

I'm always tempted to answer "man" to every question.
:)

[wednesday]

Psst: no ennui when you have fulfilling things to do and aren't gonna die.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

That's OK. I'm taking care of the ennui bit myself in his place. He's welcome to share it if he really wants to....

[kest]

ennui: three weeks MIN