<div dir="ltr">Back in the day when I worked for Telstra Wholesale we did ISP cutovers from Telstra ADSL to the Spectrum Share product. Teams of techs would go into exchanges and cut them over, then hand over the FNN's to the teams in the office to make the billing changes. Some poor schlub (...me) had to compare the "remove" list with the "add" list (by hand, with a highlighter pen!) to figure out if there were any "removes" without corresponding "adds" - then fix the mistake.<div><br></div><div>Automating that comparison process was the first software I wrote where I got paid for it.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 23:35, Mark Smith <<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith@gmail.com">markzzzsmith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><div style="width:380px;margin:16px 0px"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Courtesy of Nathan@NZNOG.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Where have the Gary Brannons of the industry gone? The hair, the moustache and those glasses!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><a href="https://youtu.be/saRir95iIWk?si=oS1AjiSqcUnxmvKb" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/saRir95iIWk?si=oS1AjiSqcUnxmvKb</a></div></div></div><div style="height:0px"></div></div><br></div>
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