I actually *am* a network engineer, working daily on Google's backbone.

Actually the knowledge tested for in interview's isn't that great (certainly not enough to be productive on day one), but as with others it's the proven ability to learn that counts.

No you don't. (Network engineer working for a major global carrier in Australia)

*US* carriers will sell you T1/T3 lines, but they're not to the local standards. Australian standard lines are E1/E3 (Euro) or more commonly E1 PRI's (AKA Telstra Onramp).

Of course none of that matters for data as almost everyone just uses Gig-E (or 10ge) over single mode fibre these days, although some carriers still hold a torch for SDH/SONET.

Yes, it's a great skill to be able to setup a Cisco from the CLI, but it takes 1/10th the time from the GUI.

Er, no. For anything larger then a trivial config the CLI is much faster, and that's if you type it. Use templates (as most larger configs will) and it's not even close.

I'm pretty sure Jeremy's an American these days (or still British). You're thinking of Andrew Tridgell who is most certainly Australian.

My T410 switched to the multitouch gestures for one X revision a few months back, then X changed back and I haven't been able to it since.

The only real bit of the T410 touchpad I had is the stupid little bumps on it.

From friends at Oracle isn't the official answer to use a VM from one of their "Clouds"?

I work for one of the companies that does the *large* proxies for education.

Until iOS 4 even the Apple apps don't use proxies correctly, with iOS 4 apps *can*, but pretty much *don't* use them.

The big problem with this is people buying tech and just expecting it to work. Sure this *should* be the case, but it's not, and people seem to have grasped that about PC OS', why not other devices that try to use the Internet.

Mine uses ADP as well, but Evince on Linux works fine for me.

Please don't abuse whois like that.

Do a whois on the *full* IP only, then use traceroute to determine provider chains.

In this case BBTECH has nothing to do with it, they just have the first /10 of 219/8 (see the inetnum line of whois output).

Is this app going to be OSS? My current network diagram generator uses graphviz and its output isn't that great.

Yes.

Seriously you could put a bid in to have it in a field in Texas, and, if you're the best bid they'd give you the conf.

I was on the 2008 team, and putting on a conf to the level LCA does is a huge amount of work, so if you can bid and do it you have a real chance.

Of course not being in Australia (or New Zealand) makes it very expensive for those people to attend, so unless you can find a sponsor for flights you really aren't likely win for LCA2012 in Texas.

I also run several large Australian educational networks, and while a little low that figure is believable.

Only this year have several of them started upgrading above 100Mbit.

Also the QLD system doesn't do *every* school, it might do every *public* school but that's less then two thirds of the total number of schools.

You're getting ripped. 100Mbit is $30k/mo (just the data). We recently got a quote for 10Mbit fibre, all installed for $6k/month (inner city Melbourne, but not CBD).