[paulmon]

A bunch of us got together a few weeks ago, 18 in total I believe, however I didn't feel like we got to know anyone. So as I start, and I know this type of thread has appeared before, what do you do for a living? I wanted to post it to this forum to limit it to us Canadians. Perhaps when we get this club idea off the ground we can put up our own message forum.

Anyway's here's what I do:

I'm an Principal IT consultant for TELUS. I specialize in systems architecture and network security; one of my main skills is architecting very secure and scalable web serving solutions, solutions designed for millions of request. In fact I've designed and built several of Toronto's largest Internet providers (before I was with Telus) mail and web serving networks. For the computer literate out there one of these network is serving ~1.8 terabytes of data/day!

What about everyone else? I know we have a pilot or two around here.

Paul

[Tonyt3]

Quote:

Originally posted by paulmon
A bunch of us got together a few weeks ago, 18 in total I believe, however I didn't feel like we got to know anyone. So as I start, and I know this type of thread has appeared before, what do you do for a living? I wanted to post it to this forum to limit it to us Canadians. Perhaps when we get this club idea off the ground we can put up our own message forum.

Anyway's here's what I do:

I'm an Principal IT consultant for TELUS. I specialize in systems architecture and network security; one of my main skills is architecting very secure and scalable web serving solutions, solutions designed for millions of request. In fact I've designed and built several of Toronto's largest Internet providers (before I was with Telus) mail and web serving networks. For the computer literate out there one of these network is serving ~1.8 terabytes of data/day!

What about everyone else? I know we have a pilot or two around here.

Paul

I too am an IT Consultant, currently working for one of the largest IT companies in the world. Rather than try to impress you with the details I will give you the cold hard facts:
I do as little as possible.

[paulmon]

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Originally posted by EB MINI
This appears to be the "Ra ra ra" thread.

Everybody, look at what I do and how important I am.

silly Tony*t3.

Not my cup of tea really, all this boasting.
As far as I am concerened that isn't really 'getting to know somebody'.

TaTa.

I personally couldn't care how important you are and that's not why I find this interesting. Quite frankly doing what I do isn't very important at all, I'm not a doctor, I don't save lives. However some may find it interesting and start up a conversation. Mostly what I get here in Toronto is that "isnt's TELUS a cel phone company."

I didn't start this to be a "Ra Ra ra" thread. I simply wanted to see what everyone does, I find it interesting. From there it usually develops into other areas of conversation. Sure, knowing what you do doesn't get me to know you but the follow up questions might. For example, as I mentioned in my post we have at least one if not two pilots around here I'd love to know what got them into flying and where that's taken them. That's called "getting to know someone" if you don't want to participate, that's fine.

In only an handful of posts I see that we have several IT geeks. Could this be because of numbers or because we're more comfortable with this Internet thing?

I see that obehave has access to rockets, this I find that interesting, a little scarry, but interesting nonetheless. Now, why an american is posting in a "Canada" forum I don't know. hehe. Do you like our beer that much obehave?

Paul

[Chris Williams]

I'm a trainee solicitor. I practice with a midsized corporate law firm in the Midlands. I qualify in September 2003. Anything else you'd like to know feel free to ask!

Regards
Christopher

[HarryHBMCC]

I'm a software developer, writing interoperability tools.

As for why everyone answers Canadian threads, I think most people just read via the "view new posts" button which mostly tosses the messages from different forums together.

Harry

[paulmon]

Quote:

Originally posted by HarryIndiBlue
I'm a software developer, writing interoperability tools.

Really what languages do you usually write in, C? For what platform? please say unix please say unix

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As for why everyone answers Canadian threads, I think most people just read via the "view new posts" button which mostly tosses the messages from different forums together.
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That's my theory too. I must admitt I love that "view new posts" button it rocks.

Paul

[HarryHBMCC]

Server too busy??? Argh, guess I can type it again.

I write UNIX tools for Windows machines to help people use Windows machines like UNIX machines and to have UNIX and Windows machines work together more effectively. Sheesh, I should be in marketing...

Harry

[oldnell]

I know I'm not Canadian, but I'm also in IT. I'm an IT Systems Manager (whatever one of those is) for a large law firm in Cheltenham.

[paulmon]

Quote:

Originally posted by HarryIndiBlue
Server too busy??? Argh, guess I can type it again.

I write UNIX tools for Windows machines to help people use Windows machines like UNIX machines and to have UNIX and Windows machines work together more effectively. Sheesh, I should be in marketing...

Harry

Unix tools for windows that's got to be an uphill battle. Pretty slick. So come clean Harry are you a windows lover or a unix head?

Paul

[HarryHBMCC]

I like to have my cake and eat it too so I like to run UNIX utilities on Windows as I can then run software for scanners, etc., can run MS Office to open attachments from other people and yet I can still do things on a powerful command line. Not an uphill battle really -- there are a lot of people on Windows boxes who wish they weren't and our tools make it a little less painful for them.

I used to be just a UNIX C programmer but then did a lot of C++ on Windows and now I'm mostly back to C. I use scripting too, along with porting, fixing and writing the scripting engines themselves. I created a language and wrote a compiler as part of my MSc project.

I'm a UNIX guy at heart but my head knows where the rest of the world lives and works for the most part.

Harry

[paulmon]

Quote:

Originally posted by HarryIndiBlue
I like to have my cake and eat it too so I like to run UNIX utilities on Windows as I can then run software for scanners, etc., can run MS Office to open attachments from other people and yet I can still do things on a powerful command line. Not an uphill battle really -- there are a lot of people on Windows boxes who wish they weren't and our tools make it a little less painful for them.

I used to be just a UNIX C programmer but then did a lot of C++ on Windows and now I'm mostly back to C. I use scripting too, along with porting, fixing and writing the scripting engines themselves. I created a language and wrote a compiler as part of my MSc project.

I'm a UNIX guy at heart but my head knows where the rest of the world lives and works for the most part.

Harry

I completely agree with you Harry, tools like cygwin give you a great balance between Unix and Windows. Nothing beats the ability to, cat, awk, grep and sed your way through a problem.

Paul

[paulmon]

Quote:

Originally posted by obehave
Didn't even look at the forum name. Just replied to a new posting.
Just bottle rockets personally, for some reason I can't play with the big ones

And the rest of the world is greatful. hehe.

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Don't drink much anymore but when I do buy beer for me, it's Molson Canadian. NOT the fake crap
( cough... ICE ...cough....Golden...cough..)
LaBatts Blue or Moosehead will do in a pinch.

You poor sole are those the only Canadian beers you can get? Yuu should drive up to Canada sometime and Harry and I will take you for a trip to some of the best micro breweries around with a stop at the Wolly in Guelph for a pint of their best cask conditioned ale. Damn, I'm getting thirsty.

You see, we keep all the good beer to ourselves and don't export it.

Paul

[Bonjour]

I graduated from university last year and am now working as an IT technician here:

www.haringeyclc.org.uk

[paulmon]

Nah, becuase in Canada something like 95% of out population lives between Montreal and Toronto. So it's more like "Lake Ontario" than the Atlantic.

Customs will ask you to leave your guns behind. haha

Paul

[HarryHBMCC]

Canadian beer in the US is often like the vice versa (Molson and Labatt brew all the 'Budwieser' and 'Miller' we drink). Often it doesn't resemble the original. I remember some family members in Seattle WA bought me some Labatt Blue to make me feel at home but the green bottle, 3% alcohol and completely different taste had me laughing. The name was all that was in common! I bet the same is true of our Canadian brewed US names.

Harry

[paulmon]

Ya we bump all out beers up to the mandatory 5%.
My understanding is that they try and stay "true to the original" but make changes for local taste. In the case of Canadian brew in the US it get's watered down to taste like everything else.

Paul

[ruthie]

Quote:

Originally posted by paulmon
A bunch of us got together a few weeks ago, 18 in total I believe, however I didn't feel like we got to know anyone. So as I start, and I know this type of thread has appeared before, what do you do for a living? I wanted to post it to this forum to limit it to us Canadians. Perhaps when we get this club idea off the ground we can put up our own message forum.

Anyway's here's what I do:

I'm an Principal IT consultant for TELUS. I specialize in systems architecture and network security; one of my main skills is architecting very secure and scalable web serving solutions, solutions designed for millions of request. In fact I've designed and built several of Toronto's largest Internet providers (before I was with Telus) mail and web serving networks. For the computer literate out there one of these network is serving ~1.8 terabytes of data/day!

What about everyone else? I know we have a pilot or two around here.

Paul

Paulmon, why did you want to limit this thread to Canadians? Just curious.

[paulmon]

Several of us got together here in Toronto a few weeks ago but as MINI lovers normally do we ended up driving more than talking. I thought it was a way to get to know some of the locals. I also know that a similar thread was started ages ago in the "General" forum and I think it got to be pretty huge so this was just my way of narrowing the field a little. However as it has been mentioned the "view new posts" button seems to be making the actual forum titles pointless, I love that button.

However all that being said, everyone is welcome in Canada.

Paul

[aircanuck]

Quote:

This appears to be the "Ra ra ra" thread.

Ra Ra Sisk Boom Bah, then why reply!? You just boasted that you didn't like the topic. YOU BOASTER YOU

I think it's obvious what I do, or used to do. Just graduated from being in the deep south for the last 4 years, and a temporarily unemployed pilot going through the interview processes right now. I got canned from Bombardier Aerospace in Dallas after Sept.11th. So ra ra that . I am a professional loafer at the moment

[paulmon]

WoW! What do you know it's the first american to use "eh?" in the right context. We'll make a Canadian of you yet. haha.

Aircanuck, what are you doing to keep your flight hours up? Taking any local planes out for spin? I make a great co-pilot "Hey watch out for that cow!"


Paul