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Fabby
Fabby
8:59 PM
I'll tell you my career path:
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
okay. Fire it up.
 
Fabby
Fabby
I started as a chemist...
and at the Free University of Brussels,
they once had a chemist that used up 55% of all computing resources
of the supercomputer they had...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
you?
 
Fabby
Fabby
(by using bubble sort on a 1000000 long table)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Aargh!
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:01 PM
No... not me! ;-)
so from then on, Chemists were required
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I hope so. That hurts my little programmer's heart! ;D
 
Fabby
Fabby
to follow the same course as IT guys in PASCAL programming
so I got a good start in programming
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Ah. Okay. But PASCAL is pretty easy, isn't it? It's like BASIC with more strictness so that you can use it for science, right?
 
Fabby
Fabby
and IT was my hobby.
Not at all...
PASCAL is more like C but with:
strong typecasting
(no uninitialised variables allowed)
strong syntax
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Not? I thought so. But no braces syntax, I remember...
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:04 PM
actually: everything C lacks.
instead of {}
you use: BEGIN END
so also more verbose!!!
anyway...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I never did anything with PASCAL. But my physics/IT teacher loves it (Delphi actually, but that's at least the same now...)
 
Fabby
Fabby
So I started looking for jobs before my military service
and no jobs to be had as a chemist...
and tons of jobs as IT
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I started maybe 4 or 5 years ago with TurboBASIC I found on an old 5 1/4" Floppy laying around in the basement... :)
 
Fabby
Fabby
So I started 6 months before military service as EDP-Production lyaison Officer...
:D
CDCPascal for me
and then TurboPascal!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Then came QuickBASIC for quite a long time and finally I moved over to Java and some very basic C++
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:07 PM
then military
then again:no jobs to be had, so I started working as a programmer
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Thank god I can skip that part...
 
Fabby
Fabby
analyst-programmer, analyst
network engineer, database admin, system engineer
then IT manager, IT director
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
wow. nice!
 
Fabby
Fabby
Got fired for gross misconduct (wrongly)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
not so nice...
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:09 PM
;-)
then IT Project Manager, then teacher of English/French
:D
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
How many years did that take you until you reached those positions?
 
Fabby
Fabby
Then again: lost my job 2 months ago... (replaced by cheaper person)
If you give me your e-mail address for 1 second (and then delete it) I'll send you my CV...
You'll have mine too!
Nathan has mine already, so...
:P ;-)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Erm...
 
Fabby
Fabby
or do you want me to give mine to you???
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
okay.
got it.
Sorry for being paranoid... ;)
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:13 PM
send me a mail and I'll send you my CV...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Firing up thunderbird...
 
Fabby
Fabby
I'm still on Evolution! :-)
So now looking for a new job...
... 3h/day: looking for jobs anywhere in the world.
(I've left Russia already, so only a few 100 Km from you now...)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Evolution? What do you mean?
 
Fabby
Fabby
Mail & Calendar program
Old Novell Linux Software
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Ah. Did not know such a prog exists...
Where are you then? Germany?
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:17 PM
Belgium...
Tongeren.
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Don't ask me where that is... I am not that good in Geography ;)
 
Fabby
Fabby
Oldest city of Belgium:
Roman era
Funny! Even your email doesn't contain your real name!
You should have my CV already!
(no picture though)
Anyway, anything else you need?
Bank account?
Picture of me and my girl-friend?
>:)
I'm the one talking to a wall now! :P
ping me when you get back!
Oh, and don't try to SMS me: I've left my phone at my sister's...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Sorry, mum rushed in and asked me about how my exam was. She has priority!
 
Fabby
Fabby
Mum always has, until you've got a girl-friend!
(prepare her already!)
or your GF will hate her for the rest of her life!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I wish I had one, but not yet... :P Time will come.
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:23 PM
:)
It has its advantages and disadvantages...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I know. I have seen that problem.
 
Fabby
Fabby
Now you have rules, alone there are only your own rules...
then with two again: more rules...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
And the rules of the guy owning the house.
 
Fabby
Fabby
not really...
I own the flat in Moscow...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Let me read what you wrote up there quickly...
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:25 PM
There are still 2 people living there
ping me when you get back here...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
@Fabby I'm finished. No need to escape :)
 
Fabby
Fabby
:-)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I have two mail accounts. One for general online stuff and everything related to programming and a private one for school, job and close firends.
 
Fabby
Fabby
answering questions!
ah! Even though I sent you my CV, I'm still not part of "job"! :D
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
And no, the fiber wire from Belgium to BW seems to be a bit slow today...
I did not beg you for it, you wanted to send it!
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:28 PM
Lemme thing. license plate letters?
No, you wanted to know about my career! :P
takes a lot of hard work though!
what's the longest working day I've ever had???
(guess in hours)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Well, I would not have needed that much detail...
Erm... 30?
(ducking, running)
 
Fabby
Fabby
39
What other people normally do in an entire week, I did in 1,5 days...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Oh. Wow. Didn't you get caffeine intoxication after that?
 
Fabby
Fabby
Correct that: what normal people do in 3 weeks, I did in 1,5 days!
I'm about 3* faster finding solutions behind the keyboard as anyone else I know...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Respect. Which job was it? Higher or lower?
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:31 PM
Project Manager...
I did the job of a:
Network Engineer, PC engineer, Printing engineer, DB admin, Windows Engineer, application engineer with just the help of one server engineer
The guy couldn't believe his eyes!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
The prejudice usually is that managers are busy with polishing their shoes and killing Crazy Chickens (Moorhuhn in German)... Wow again.
 
Fabby
Fabby
(he also was the one who gave me the best professional compliment I ever got)
"Now that I've worked with you, I finally see what the advantages of a good Project Manager are..."
:D
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I bet he will tell his grandchildren of you... :D
 
Fabby
Fabby
I also as an IT director replaced together with the French IT Manager and the German System Engineer
an entire department of US personnel of about 20 for an entire week!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Anything you could not replace except the coffee machine?
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:35 PM
(although we only did emergencies and "normal" stuff had to wait forthe other 20 to come back...)
I can make a mean espresso using just charcoal! So I can even replace that!
(thought myself that in the army!)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Eeww >.<
 
Fabby
Fabby
My boss, the global Executive VP knew, but the rest of the US personnel didn't
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Why would anybody want to drink that?
 
Fabby
Fabby
you don't understand:
with just water, coffee and a few branches off a tree
I can make a mean espresso using my grandmother's coffee machine...
;-)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
<-- giving himself a facepalm
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:38 PM
So when the 20 people walked into the office and only saw three people sitting there
and not a pile of work waiting for them, they couldn't believe their eyes...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I believe that.
 
Fabby
Fabby
But I even had the CEO's PA come down to my office to hand in the CEO's laptop as "I didn't even know where the CEO's office was in that entire building"
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I just compared Tongeren to my home village on wikipedia while we're talking. You have almost exactly 10x the inhabitants we have.
 
Fabby
Fabby
and we were only 3 people! :D
But Tongeren is a City!
(with a medeival charter to prove it!)
Is your town a Hanzestadt?
;-)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I live in a 900 years old village somewhere between Stuttgart and Ulm with about 3000 people on slightly over 6 km²...
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:42 PM
cool!
I' was just looking up BW
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
You can walk through the river through our village in rubber boots - far away from a "Hansestadt".
 
Fabby
Fabby
There doesn't seem to be a BW...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
What's the word for small river?
 
Fabby
Fabby
ah! with S
Brook
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
BW = Baden-Württemberg
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:43 PM
That's what I was looking at...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
It's the federal land in the south-west. The 2nd biggest one.
 
Fabby
Fabby
I thought that was Bayern!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Bayern is in the east. The biggest one.
This is BW.
 
Fabby
Fabby
Ah! I thought you were trying to be cryptic and giving the License plate of your town
:D
Anyway...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Nooooo.... It's just that Baden-Württemberg is too long... Like Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or Nordrhein-Westfalen. Nobody always types them. So: BW, MV, NRW
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:47 PM
so you never use your license plates to say where you're from?
I'm from K
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Well, that would be too easy... ;)
K is Köln (Cologne) in Germany...
 
Fabby
Fabby
or M or B
or KA(rlrühe)
Actually, an (ex-) colleague of mine use to live in DAC
and he told me that if he took his car on holiday to another country
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
It's Karlsruhe.
 
Fabby
Fabby
he used to get a temporary license plate of M
sorry!
Forgot the S
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Oh, the Nazi place...?
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:50 PM
(this is 25 years ago)
yup...
if he didn't, his car was always vandalised...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I was there as a school trip one day. Horrible.
 
Fabby
Fabby
I read a lot of literature about that era
and actually, don't forget that the Nazi's came to power through a "Putsch"
they were at one time the biggest party, but they never had a majority!
And I also read Anne Frank's diary in the OV
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I hate history to be honest. that doesn't interest me at all, at least in school. I just sometimes talk with my friend who is an expert and feel ashamed for my little knowledge...
 
Fabby
Fabby
but also a German girl's diary
and she was in the female "Hitlerjugend"
(forgot the real name, it was different for girls)
Well!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Why are you typing always ü instead of u?
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:53 PM
History is important to understand the future...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
It was BDM (Bund Deutscher Mädel).
 
Fabby
Fabby
Typo!
YES!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
But not the type of history you get served in classes.
 
Fabby
Fabby
(also 20 YO)
that I read this...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
They teach you this event, that event, when who let a fart and so on, but not the overall context.
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:56 PM
yeah...
I'm falling asleep...
nice talking to you...
shall we continue some other time???
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I will fall asleep as soon as I finished learning for that exam tomorrow. :P
 
Fabby
Fabby
Go study!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
But it was a nice distraction... ;)
 
Fabby
Fabby
C U 2morrow!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
See you tomorrow then!
@Fabby Still online? I just wanted to say that you email still did not come over... :P There seems to be a knot in the wire
 
Fabby
Fabby
10:03 PM
22:17 in my sent items...
:/
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Local time in which zone?
 
Fabby
Fabby
CET???
yours???
:D
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Also CET (UTC+1).
 
Fabby
Fabby
lemme look again...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
You think I know where that time zone border is?
 
Fabby
Fabby
10:05 PM
no NDR....
So it should have arrived...
only 247 KB
PDF
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I can refresh and refresh - nothing.
I send myself a test mail...
Arrived in less than 5 seconds.
But yours is not showing up...
 
Fabby
Fabby
Just sent an urgent test of 1KB with a return receipt...
Urgent message should jump to the head of the queue...
did you send from let's say hotmail to your other mail?
because on the same server it's bound to work!
job mail on another server?
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
No GMX-->GMX.
I try from hmamail...
 
Fabby
Fabby
:D
that's not a test!
you should send from one domain to another...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Oh, forgot they only provide inboxes >.<
 
Fabby
Fabby
10:09 PM
That's why I use gmail: global presence!
It used to be my test mail only!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
You mean TLD?
 
Fabby
Fabby
:D
no, I mean 2 different servers in 2 different locations, regardless of TLD
you can have a German server with a .COM address
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Lemme think what I could use...
 
Fabby
Fabby
I meant from hotmail to GMX
or gmail ,or hotmail, or yahoo mail
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I tried "sendanonymousemail.net". That way I don't have to create accounts...
 
Fabby
Fabby
10:12 PM
good!
tracing route to your server
12 hops
let's see if smtp is available
telnetting to your mail server
port 25 closed...
your server seems to have a problem with incoming stmp mail...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Okay...
Nice. :-/
 
Fabby
Fabby
nothing yet? Not even the urgent mail???
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
This to "email made in Germany"...
Nothing. Not even the test.
 
Fabby
Fabby
did you have enough time to open the picture?
I'm not bullshitting you!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Did not see it, except that it looked like a mail prog bar...
 
Fabby
Fabby
10:17 PM
(I feel akward now...)
You should have had enough time to see that...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Yes.
 
Fabby
Fabby
it's a screen shot of my sent items...
Oh, I would appreciate you not calling me by my first name...
(in the general chat room)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I saw that now too... But what shall I do? Go over to GMX and flagellate their technician?
 
Fabby
Fabby
Wait...
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I stay with Fabby.
 
Fabby
Fabby
10:19 PM
I normally get a reply from google if the mail cannot be delivered after 24 hours..
(or maybe it's 12. can't remember: hasn't happened a lot lately)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
GMX usually replies immediately...
Except when it is dead, of course
 
Fabby
Fabby
Wait until the morning when the engineers walk in...
Then start torturing!
Now!
GO STUDY!
:P
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
I will wait until noon after I come back from Physics... Yes, master! ;)
 

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