Instant Message Excerpts: On Being a Network Engineer, 19

| December 11, 2012

Sometimes rather serious queries from the noobies aren’t handled with quite the seriousness they might expect in return from senior staff. Karim (5:46:55 PM): Previously switch was faulty and we have proceeded with hardware replacement. After the replacement we hit a snag trying to push the backup configuration to the new switch. It seems that […]

Instant Message Excerpts: On Being a Network Engineer, 18, part 2

| October 10, 2012

Not long after the earlier conversation, a followup from my teammate. Biff(4:34:42 PM): you were serious? Russ(4:34:58 PM): about…? Biff(4:35:25 PM): about learning Latin, I mean. want to be a priest? Russ(4:35:33 PM): heh. not hardly Russ(4:35:59 PM): I’ve always been a linguist at heart. Russ(4:36:07 PM): And I love the classics Russ(4:36:26 PM): I’d […]