Interview Fallout

My phone interview this morning was succesful so I have a "face to face" interview tomorrow at 9am. This is in addition to the one on Friday at 2pm. All of a sudden I am looking forward to relaxing on the weekends again !! Hopefully my days as an unemployed bum could be drawing to a close.
Warning, the rest of the post will probably be of interest to about 20% of you. Read at own risk of severe confusion and or boredom.

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My phone interview today was "succesful" in that it got me a face to face interview tomorrow, but from a knowledge point of view I was a bit patchy. Scary some of the questions I was a bit vague on (not to mention some of them totally clueless). The job sounds like they still use a fair bit of C (cf C++) so there were a few malloc, void * questions. Yikes. Secondly the development is on UNIX so there were a few UNIX questions along the lines of "What is a zombie process?" and also fork/exec. All Operating Systems 101 stuff really. I probably could have answered those questions straight out of uni but they had me scratching my head today. Hence I spent today brushing up(*) on some of those basics. Undoubtably they will have completely different questions tomorrow !!

(*) Invested in a subscription to Safari Bookshelf yesterday. It has come in very handy already. Basically it gives you online access to a huge array of computer/technical books for US$20 a month. No it isnt overly cheap, but to put it in perspective, its only about a pint a week (hmmm ... on second thoughts ....)! The only catch with it is that you can only have 10 books on your virtual bookshelf at a time, and any one book has to stay on the shelf for at least a month. That doesnt seem too bad though. The selection is excellent. First two weeks are free so if you are vaguely interested you should sign up. (You will need a credit card though.)
While I am on a tech reference rant, currently the C/C++ Users Journal has a limited offer of 12 month access for U$20. This gives you access to 12 months issues, plus all the back issues. FWIW.

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