job screening question

Fri Jul 6 02:25:52 UTC 2012

On Jul 5, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:

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> --- bill at herrin.us wrote:
> From: William Herrin <bill at herrin.us>
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>> 5.      What is the reason for the 100m distance limit within an ethernet collision domain?
> 
> What's an ethernet collision domain? Seriously, when was the last time
> you dealt with a half duplex ethernet?
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> Now if someone answered it that way, I'd definitely be 
> interested while the HR person would just hang up...
> 
> scott

+1 -- That would be a perfectly valid answer and one of the list of answers I would actually give to HR.

Owen