| site: |
| Xelia Wizard Systems |
| servers: |
| About two dozen |
| workstations: |
|
We provide support for over 500 workstations
|
| sysadmins on staff: |
| 1 Sysadmin, 1 Site technician |
| site overview: |
|
We provide Internet access, VOIP service,
hosted custom web applications
and other managed IT services to our customers
in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona.
|
| job title: |
| Network Administrator |
| time at this job: |
| 2 weeks |
| | |
| years as a sysadmin: |
|
I've been administrating Linux-based systems since 2001.
|
| first computer: |
|
I remember a "Fat" Mac from my early childhood.
A Commodore 64 was the
first computer that was mine.
|
| first OS: |
| 8-bit! |
| favorite OS: |
| Debian GNU/Linux |
| first computer with root/administrator access: |
|
Other than my childhood computers?
That would probably be the machines I
administrated in middle school and high school.
|
| first programming language: |
| LOGO |
| favorite programming language: |
| Java |
| most often used programming language: |
| Java/C/Scripting |
| first sysadmin job, computer and os: |
|
I remember being paid for weekend stint in middle
school. My high school library/AV department hired
me to lug computers around and reset
passwords on their WinNT network.
|
| ideal sysadmin job: |
| Sysadmining for a lab with big toys. Distribution-level devloper |
| education: |
|
Partways through a Computer Systems Engineering
degree at Arizona State University.
|
| when I was growing up, I wanted to be: |
| An astronaut |
| If I wasn't a sysadmin, I'd be: |
|
Actor (== restaurant waiter)
|
| when friends and family ask me to
“fix” the computer or
“fix the internet”, I say: |
|
I don't think you can afford my hourly rate ;-)
|
| when I first meet someone, and
they ask what I do, I say: |
|
I administer computers.
|
| system administration is ...: |
Challenging, and not without its frustrations.
System administration is also lacking in
support for junior admins (either via eduction,
mentoring or another avenue).
|
| advice to a junior admin: |
|
Join LOPSA! Find mentors and local peers.
|
| | |
| advice to a senior admin: |
|
Hire Junior admins. Other than when I was a minor, I never have had a more senior admin as a supervisor.
|
| | |
| favorite food/cuisine: |
| Ethiopian |
| pizza topping: |
|
Feta cheese and diced Roma tomatoes
|
| work music: |
|
www.kexp.org |
| crisis music: |
|
Who has time for music during a crisis?
|
| hobby/other job: |
|
Alternative theatre/performance, belly dancing
(though very much a novice), biometrics
|
| | |
| my office is: |
|
Too small and lacking privacy.
|
| learned the most from: |
|
The details?: doing; breaking; fixing.
Larger issues? Peers, LISA, the
sage-members mailing list and its
lopsa replacements.
|
| wish list: |
|
Self documenting systems
|
| editor: |
| vim |
| mail user agent: |
| Thunderbird/mutt |
| web browser: |
| Firefox/lynx |
| gui or cli: |
| Mu |
| computers at home: |
| 3 |
| (primary) home computer and OS: |
|
My craptop runs Debian GNU/Linux.
|
| oldest hardware in your garage or basement: |
|
'99? I think I've thrown out/given away the rest.
|
| anything else? |
|
Hmm, the ... questions seem to be geared
towards another generation -- I hope I don't
make anybody feel too old ;-)
|
delicious
digg
technorati