| location: |
| Phoenix, AZ |
| site: |
| Global Crossing |
| servers: |
| About 300 or so |
| workstations: |
|
Lots of end users - lots of workstations (> 1K)
I just tend to the servers, mostly :)
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| sysadmins on staff: |
| Five, including our manager |
| site overview: |
|
Our largest data centers are on the east and west coasts,
also the UK.
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| job title: |
| Systems Administrator IV |
| time at this job: |
| 10 months in the current position |
| | |
| years as a sysadmin: |
| 5 |
| first computer: |
|
I remember in the late 80's my dad had picked up a
Texas Instruments TI-99/4a which was really my intro to
computers. However, my first very own box was a
Packard Bell I purchased for college in 1995.
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| first OS: |
| Probably Apple System 6 |
| favorite OS: |
| Linux (Slackware) |
| first computer with root/administrator access: |
|
The Unix systems for the college I attended, where I worked
part time as a student sys admin.
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| first programming language: |
| BASIC |
| favorite programming language: |
| Perl |
| most often used programming language: |
| well, Perl - though I do like to tackle some projects with C. |
| first sysadmin job, computer and os: |
|
After I graduated, I worked full-time for a year at the
school's computer department. We were a Mac OS and
Windows NT shop and had about two dozen boxes.
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| ideal sysadmin job: |
| I've got it!! |
| favorite sysadmin tool: |
| probably a toss up between lsof and nmap |
| most interesting sysadmin tool: |
| Ethereal, truss amoung others |
| sysadmin tool I couldn't work without: |
| snoop |
| education: |
|
B.S. Industrial Arts management,
Minor Computer Science
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| when I was growing up, I wanted to be: |
|
A professional windsurfer.
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| If I wasn't a sysadmin, I'd be: |
|
Living on a ranch tucked away in a remote corner of AZ.
|
| when friends and family ask me to
“fix” the computer or
“fix the internet”, I say: |
|
“Sure, what's the problem.” (I think
“Could you open a ticket?”)
|
| when I first meet someone,
and they ask what I do, I say: |
| A Unix Systems Administrator
|
| system administration is ...: |
|
Challenging, fun and a great reason topic of discussion at family
events ;P
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| advice to a junior admin: |
|
Don't be afraid to ask lots of questions - be afraid of not having
at least tried to figure it own on your own first.
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| advice to a senior admin: |
|
Don't settle in to a "comfort" zone with your work. Keep pushing
yourself to learn.
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| | |
| favorite food/cuisine: |
|
Tacos and Corona
|
| pizza topping: |
| Broccoli - I'm not much of a carnivore :) |
| work music: |
| radio paradise in the background |
| crisis music: |
| Rage against the Machine |
| ___ gets me through the work day: |
| My morning coffee. |
| hobby/other job: |
| road cycling, photography |
| | |
| my office is: |
| Too far away from home. |
| co-workers say my desk is: |
| Looking like I just move in. |
| learned the most from: |
|
irc logs - ha! |
| wish list: |
| An external storage array for my home systems. |
| daily web sites: |
|
/.,
sunsolve.sun.com,
cyclingnews.com,
LOPSA!
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| hot standby/failover or redundancy: |
|
Redundancy. Really, systems architected with combination of
failover characteristics and built in redundancy should be the
goal :P
|
| editor: |
| plain old vi |
| mail user agent: |
| pine |
| web browser: |
| Firefox |
| gui or cli: |
| tcsh |
| computers at home: |
| currently 10 |
| (primary) home computer and OS: |
| IBM ThinkPad T43 running Slackware linux |
| oldest hardware in your garage or basement: |
|
I usually end up tossing most things when moving or during
Spring cleaning so I'd have to say a Sun Ultra 2.
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| anything else? |
Great job, LOPSA board members!
I would like to to mention that I am keen on seeing more interest
and movement in technical research topics for peer review made
available on lopsa.
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