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Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
From: Lamar Owen <lowen () pari edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:24:05 -0500
On Monday, March 05, 2012 09:36:41 PM Jimmy Hess wrote:
Other common, but misguided assumptions (even in 2012): 1. You will be using IPv4. We have no idea what this IPv6 nonsense is. Looks complicated and scary. 2. 255.255.255.0 is the only valid netmask.
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(16) The default gateway's IP address is always 192.168.0.1 (17) The user portion of E-mail addresses never contain special characters like "-" "+" "$" "~" "." ",", "[", "]"
Hilarious. Wish I'd seen this a few days ago, my whole week would have been brighter.... I'll add one from my 'I asked the programmer about a problem in the code, which the programmer proceeded to say wasn't a problem' list: (18) No, our control protocol doesn't have authentication, it's up to the network to keep undesired users out. (I won't say what this software is, but suffice to say the package in which it was a part cost over $250,000).
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- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills, (continued)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Scott Helms (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills William Herrin (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Michael Thomas (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Justin M. Streiner (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jimmy Hess (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Alain Hebert (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Randy (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Mark Andrews (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jeroen van Aart (Mar 06)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Lamar Owen (Mar 08)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills William Herrin (Mar 08)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Tei (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Keegan Holley (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Michael Thomas (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills William Herrin (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jeroen van Aart (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)