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SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR OF THE WEEK: Week of January 9, 2006
| site: |
| BP, via SAIC |
| servers: |
| ~50 |
| workstations: |
| ~1500 |
| sysadmins on staff: |
| 2 |
| site overview: |
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In the process of rolling out a new 64 bit Linux based
“Petrotechnical Visualization Environment”
for BP Exploration and Production
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| job title: |
| Global Linux Architect |
| time at this job: |
| 1.5 years |
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| years as a sysadmin: |
| 17 years |
| first computer: |
| Apple ][ |
| first OS: |
| Apple OS (don't remember the version) |
| favorite OS: |
| Linux |
| first computer with root/administrator access: |
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ATT UB2 running Sys V R3 (well, first machine with the
concept of accounts & root)
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| first programming language: |
| Apple Basic |
| favorite programming language: |
| Perl/PHP |
| most often used programming language: |
| PHP |
| first sysadmin job, computer and os: |
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Operator for HPC group at University of Houston, DEC VAX
740, VMS 4.4
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| ideal sysadmin job: |
| Some type of Architect with a
good team to mentor |
| favorite sysadmin tool: |
| cfengine |
| most interesting sysadmin tool: |
| cfengine |
| sysadmin tool I couldn't work without: |
| bash |
| education: |
| some college, and a whole mess
of OTJT (On The Job Training) |
| when I was growing up, I wanted to be: |
| A good teacher |
| If I wasn't a sysadmin, I'd be: |
| A teacher |
| when friends and family ask me to
“fix” the computer or
“fix the internet”, I say: |
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That I will help (most of my friends are
in computers for a living anyway) |
| when I first meet someone,
and they ask what I do, I say: |
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I make computers play nice with each other |
| system administration is ...: |
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Making sure that the users do not have to think about their computers
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| advice to a junior admin: |
| Now days, join LOPSA! |
| advice to a senior admin: |
| Now days, join LOPSA! |
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| favorite food/cuisine: |
| Texas BBQ (Rudy's, to be exact :) |
| pizza topping: |
| no fishies, please. |
| work music: |
| iPod shuffle |
| crisis music: |
| Boston, NIN, Enter the Hagis |
| ___ gets me through the work day: |
| momentum |
| hobby/other job: |
| photography and motorcycles |
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| my office is: |
| in the basement, again. *sigh* |
| co-workers say my desk is: |
| usually neat. |
| I learned the most from: |
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my four years at an EvilConsultingCompany(tm)
[PSA/CT/Collective] |
| wish list: |
| World peace...oh, wait...wrong game. :)
New laptops & camera gear |
| daily web sites: |
| RSS feeds, baby! |
| hot standby/failover or redundancy: |
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depends on the environment. HS/Failover have some latency but
better in other ways, redundancy adds complexity
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| editor: |
| vim |
| mail user agent: |
| mutt or evolution |
| web browser: |
| elinks or firefox |
| gui or cli: |
| depends on the day |
| computers at home: |
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6 laptops spinning, 3 desktops/servers spinning.
All IA32.
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| (primary) home computer and OS: |
| IBM X24 running Fedora Core 4 |
| oldest hardware in your garage or basement: |
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Ross SPARCPlug. It is a second gen prototype.
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| anything else? |
| Thanks for LOPSA and a great job at LISA05! |
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