Work Interview by Mail

5/26/2004; 7:22 PM

Yesterday my pals left me alone all morning because they attended the SMS presentation. I juggled some software maintenance and helping a quitting friend write his CV. Strangely enough, the company sent him the first interview by mail as a test.

The company he applied for is a Microsoft based security company, and amongst other questions there was a question about VS API. This is a Virus Scanning API integrated within Microsoft Exchange to ensure that each e-mail message is scanned at least once. The major advantage of this API is that if the message has already been scanned it is not rescanned thus increasing efficiency. There was a question about the NTFS file system and did a quick search to find additional info apart from the usual things everybody knows. NTFS allows security at file level while FAT does not, and theoretically NTFS provides better security against viruses.

Today I bothered to search how to split a huge file into smaller files in Linux. I split the 1GB web log file into 10 smaller files by "split –b 100m combined_log" . The 100m stands for 100MB and sizes can be defined in bytes, kb or number of lines. Split then creates files with names xaa, xab, xac … I finally compressed them with "tar –czf xab.tar.Z xab"

After work we went to the computer store to replace my 7th million faulty RAM chip and solve the printer ink smudging problem. The ink problem was caused by a small piece of plastic that remained attached to the print cartridge. My RAM was a little more problematic because from three different sets of RAM none was compatible. I got my money back and spent half of them on cat food. She laughed so heartily when I got a 4kg dried food bag that half of the super market starred at us like idiots. My loved ones freaked out when they saw so much food. We played God and showered them with cat food.

FC Porto won the Champions League final beating Monaco by 3 – 0. Like all finals it wasn’t an over enthusiastic game with Porto scoring the latter two goals from counter attacks. Morientes played a dull game but had a number of miscalled offsides to his disadvantage.

At last I am busying myself with Romania Research. Good Boy! These are the accommodation results of the Tulcea Region.

Tulcea

Maliuc vilage
Letea (typically village in the delta)
Mila 23 / Lakes Furtuna & Baclanesti
Crisan
Sf. Georghe
Uzlina

Hotels for Danube Trip

Tulcea

Hotel Egreta, Tel.0240.51.71.03 carmenjolo@yahoo.com
Hotel Europolis, Tel.0240.5124.43
Hotel Delta, Tel.0240.51.47.20
Hotel Ipo, Tel.0240.531.674

Maliuc

Mila 23

La Vica
Guesthouse MARCOV, Tel.00 40 (0)240 546 452, 8 Euro, B & B

Crisan

Silviu Gheorghe
Trifim Sorin, 00 40 (0)240 547 077, 7 Euro, B & B
Calin Maria
Vasiliu Petre, 00 40 (0)240 547 021 petrerotl@yahoo.com, 10 Euro, B & B
Cacencu Trifan, 00 40 (0)240 547 066, 7 Euro, B & B
Gherasim Gabriel, 00 40 (0)240 547 020

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