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Redbrick Companies

2006-03-08T16:21:31Z

Markpb:

Once upon a time there were a lot of former RedBrick people starting companies, particularly in the professional services area. Do any of these companies still exist and if so, where do I find them? -- [[User:Fergus|fergus]]

You can find them right here!

==In present operation==

* [http://www.smartcentric.com SmartCentric] - Smartcard security/financial application development: [[User:markpb|markpb]], [[User:elpres|elpres]].
* [http://www.vade.ie Vade] - Web Hosting & Development: [[User:kyper|kyper]], [[User:phreak|phreak]] and [[User:ryaner|ryaner]].
* [http://www.callisto.ie/ Callisto] - IT Vendor: [[User:Halenger|halenger]].
* [http://www.jeebers.com Jeebers] - E-business solutions: [[User:Jeebers|jeebers]].
* [http://www.cliste.net Cliste] - Consultancy: [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]] and [[User:X|x]].
* Beanbag Ltd - Consultancy: [[User:Shimoda|shimoda]].
* [http://www.terminalfour.com Terminal4] - Enterprise Content Management: [[User:Piero|piero]] and [[User:Bubble|bubble]].
* [http://www.digitalrights.ie Digital Rights Ireland] - Online Lobby and Activism group. [[User:Colmmacc|colmmacc]]
* [http://www.techphreek.com TechPhreek!] - Consumer electronics dealership. [[User:lithium|lithium]]

==Previous==

* Eolach - Open Source consulting: [[User:Hyper|hyper]], [[User:Thalia|thalia]] and [[User:Fergus|fergus]].
* [http://www.rfc-networks.ie RFC-Networks] - Web dev, hosting, consulting, open source: [[User:Phil|phil]], [[User:Mark|mark]] and [[User:Noelfitz|noelfitz]].

==Other companies brickies work for==

* [http://www.securelinx.ie Securelinx] - Linux consultancy: [[User:Kpodesta|kpodesta]].
* [http://www.pwc.ie PwC] - System Audits/Compliance/Process Improvement/Tax: [[User:Cokane|cokane]], [[User:Myk|myk]].
* [http://www.kerna.ie Kerna Communications]: [[User:Lecter|lecter]], [[User:Marvin|marvin]], [[User:Rob|rob]] and [[User:Bass|bass]].
* [http://www.elan.com Elan] - Pharmaceuticals: [[User:kyper|kyper]] and [[User:halenger|halenger]].
* [http://www.google.com Google.com]: [[User:aeris|aeris]], [[User:doc|doc]], [[User:drjolt|drjolt]], [[User:pooka|pooka]], [[User:valen|valen]], [[User:dizer|dizer]], [[User:redgiant|redgiant]], [[User:toaster|toaster]] and [[User:magluby|magluby]].
* [http://www.heanet.ie HEAnet]: [[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]], [[User:singer|singer]], [[User:orly|orly]] and [[User:lickylip|lickylip]].
* [http://www.magnet.ie Magnet Networks]: [[User:homerj|homerj]] and [[User:grimnar|grimnar]].
* [http://www.symantec.ie Symantec]: [[User:macbain|macbain]], [[User:moridin|moridin]], [[User:plop|plop]] and [[User:tibor|tibor]].
* [http://www.hosting365.ie Hosting365]: [[User:.phil|phil]].
* [http://s3group.com/ S3 (Sillicon and Software Systems)] (and no, it's not the video card makers) - Software and hardware services for Digital Media, Medical Systems, System IC and Network Processors: [[User:cammy|cammy]].
* [http://www.rte.ie RTE] - Your national broadcaster. (No, your TV license does not fund my wages): [[User:spock|spock]].
* [http://www.sbpost.ie Sunday Business Post] - Ireland's national business newspaper: [[User:griffin|griffin]].
* [http://www.ibm.com IBM]: [[User:waggers|waggers]], [[User:trevj|trevj]], [[User:goratrix|goratrix]], [[User:edel|edel]].
* [http://www.yardmedia.ie Yard Media] - Digital Post Production: [[User:decob|decob]].

Network Admin

2006-03-08T10:53:20Z

Markpb:

==Network Admin==

Back to [[Interview Questions]]

'''Magnet'''

*List the RFC1918 private address space blocks.

*OSPF is a link state routing protocol. What is meant by the term link state?

*What is the Spanning Tree protocol used for?

*What is the function of an Rendezvous Point (RP) in a multicast PIM-Sparse Mode network ?

*What is control plane policing ?

*List 7 fields in the IPv4 header and their sizes in bits ?

*Write an outgoing route-map for a bgp session, advertising all bgp routes, except those containing AS 34245?

*What do you know about global routing table size increases? What problem is it causing and what are engineer.s doing to try and alleviate the problems it's causing?

*What do you know about IP address and AS number exhaustion? What current and future methods are you aware of to combat both of these problems?

*What 5 networking books do you think every network engineer should read?

'''HEAnet'''

* Can you explain how to work out how many addresses are usable in a standard subnet?

* If you had to write some code to see if an IP address was in a particular subnet, how would you do it?

* What is a VLAN? How do they work?

* Can you explain some differences between, and give examples of when you would use HSRP, VRRP and BGP for resilience?

* Give an example of when you might use, or have used, tcpdump/ethtool/sniffer ?

* Updating ACLs safely, how would you go about it?

* Can you describe the three-way handshake, roughly?

* What's a link-state protocol?

* Do you know what an administrative distance is? Any examples?

* PKI: Can you describe, roughly how Public Key Cyrpto works? If a protocol is encrypted, how can it be proxied?

Network Admin

2006-03-08T10:52:51Z

Markpb:

==Network Admin==

'''Magnet'''

Back to [[Interview Questions]]

*List the RFC1918 private address space blocks.

*OSPF is a link state routing protocol. What is meant by the term link state?

*What is the Spanning Tree protocol used for?

*What is the function of an Rendezvous Point (RP) in a multicast PIM-Sparse Mode network ?

*What is control plane policing ?

*List 7 fields in the IPv4 header and their sizes in bits ?

*Write an outgoing route-map for a bgp session, advertising all bgp routes, except those containing AS 34245?

*What do you know about global routing table size increases? What problem is it causing and what are engineer.s doing to try and alleviate the problems it's causing?

*What do you know about IP address and AS number exhaustion? What current and future methods are you aware of to combat both of these problems?

*What 5 networking books do you think every network engineer should read?

'''HEAnet'''

* Can you explain how to work out how many addresses are usable in a standard subnet?

* If you had to write some code to see if an IP address was in a particular subnet, how would you do it?

* What is a VLAN? How do they work?

* Can you explain some differences between, and give examples of when you would use HSRP, VRRP and BGP for resilience?

* Give an example of when you might use, or have used, tcpdump/ethtool/sniffer ?

* Updating ACLs safely, how would you go about it?

* Can you describe the three-way handshake, roughly?

* What's a link-state protocol?

* Do you know what an administrative distance is? Any examples?

* PKI: Can you describe, roughly how Public Key Cyrpto works? If a protocol is encrypted, how can it be proxied?

Network Admin

2006-03-08T10:52:22Z

Markpb:

==Network Admin==

=Magnet=

Back to [[Interview Questions]]

*List the RFC1918 private address space blocks.

*OSPF is a link state routing protocol. What is meant by the term link state?

*What is the Spanning Tree protocol used for?

*What is the function of an Rendezvous Point (RP) in a multicast PIM-Sparse Mode network ?

*What is control plane policing ?

*List 7 fields in the IPv4 header and their sizes in bits ?

*Write an outgoing route-map for a bgp session, advertising all bgp routes, except those containing AS 34245?

*What do you know about global routing table size increases? What problem is it causing and what are engineer.s doing to try and alleviate the problems it's causing?

*What do you know about IP address and AS number exhaustion? What current and future methods are you aware of to combat both of these problems?

*What 5 networking books do you think every network engineer should read?

=HEAnet=

* Can you explain how to work out how many addresses are usable in a standard subnet?

* If you had to write some code to see if an IP address was in a particular subnet, how would you do it?

* What is a VLAN? How do they work?

* Can you explain some differences between, and give examples of when you would use HSRP, VRRP and BGP for resilience?

* Give an example of when you might use, or have used, tcpdump/ethtool/sniffer ?

* Updating ACLs safely, how would you go about it?

* Can you describe the three-way handshake, roughly?

* What's a link-state protocol?

* Do you know what an administrative distance is? Any examples?

* PKI: Can you describe, roughly how Public Key Cyrpto works? If a protocol is encrypted, how can it be proxied?

Unix Admin

2006-03-08T10:51:50Z

Markpb:

==Unix System Administrator Questions==

Back to [[Interview Questions]]

===Unix===
* What's the latest version of the Linux kernel?

* Can you tell me how you would make a directory group writable? how would you rm a file that starts with a minus.

* Filesystem is full, but no large files seem to be present. What do you do? What could it be?

* What's the system.map file?

* Could you write a cd command in the programming language of yoru choice ?

* What does the fork() system call return?

* explain the steps between sending an e-mail and it being received.

* What language do you generally use for scripting;
**shell: Do you know what the "shift" command does? What variable contains the return value? of the last process?
**Perl: Can you explain what tainting is? Can you explain what the -w command line argument does?
**Python: Can you explain what a dictionary is?

* A command is going haywire, can you describe the steps you would take to diagnose the problem? How would you collate information useful for forming a detailed bug report?

* What is IRQ balancing, how would you do it? What does 64-bit computing really mean?

Rbwiki Cabling

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Timeline

2005-08-25T09:52:35Z

Markpb:

==
==
<CENTER>
<hr>
::Redbrick Timeline::
<HR>
"Ecquando Vigilo" 
This is a rough timeline for different events 
on redbrick, relating to redbrick, or in DCU, 
from the time of redbrick's inception in 1996. 
<HR>

[[TimeLine2005|2005]]  
[[TimeLine2004|2004]] 
[[TimeLine2003|2003]]  
[[TimeLine2002|2002]]  
[[TimeLine2001|2001]]  
[[TimeLine2000|2000]] 
[[TimeLine1999|1999]]  
[[TimeLine1998|1998]]  
[[TimeLine1997|1997]]  
[[TimeLine1996|1996]] 
[[TimeLineCon|Contributions]]  
[[TimeLineSub|Submissions]]
</CENTER>
<HR>

This was started by Cokane and then taken over by Awol.
-- Main.[[Rbwiki_JohnDoyle|JohnDoyle]] - 21 Jul 2005

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Timeline

2005-08-25T09:44:08Z

Markpb:

==
==
<CENTER>
<hr>
::Redbrick Timeline::
<HR>
"Ecquando Vigilo" 
This is a rough timeline for different events 
on redbrick, relating to redbrick, or in DCU, 
from the time of redbrick's inception in 1996. 
<HR>

[[[TimeLine2005|TimeLine2005]] 2005]  
[[[TimeLine2004|TimeLine2004]] 2004] 
[[[TimeLine2003|TimeLine2003]] 2003]  
[[[TimeLine2002|TimeLine2002]] 2002]  
[[[TimeLine2001|TimeLine2001]] 2001]  
[[[TimeLine2000|TimeLine2000]] 2000] 
[[[TimeLine1999|TimeLine1999]] 1999]  
[[[TimeLine1998|TimeLine1998]] 1998]  
[[[TimeLine1997|TimeLine1997]] 1997]  
[[[TimeLine1996|TimeLine1996]] 1996] 
[[[TimeLineCon|TimeLineCon]] Contributions]  
[[[TimeLineSub|TimeLineSub]] Submissions]
</CENTER>
<HR>

This was started by Cokane and then taken over by Awol.
-- Main.[[Rbwiki_JohnDoyle|JohnDoyle]] - 21 Jul 2005

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