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SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR OF THE WEEK: Week of February 20, 2006
| location: |
| Indianapolis, IN |
| site: |
| Dept. of Computer and Info Sciences,
Indiana U. Purdue U. @ Indianapolis (IUPUI)
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| servers: |
| 20 |
| workstations: |
| 200 |
| sysadmins on staff: |
| 4 + 1 webmaster |
| site overview: |
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We are a heavy Solaris and Linux shop with a fair measure of Microsoft
included. Some IRIX thrown in for flavoring.
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| job title: |
| Lead Network Engineer |
| time at this job: |
| Almost 9 years |
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| years as a sysadmin: |
| 18 years |
| first computer: |
| Zenith 8086 |
| first OS: |
| MSDOS |
| favorite OS: |
| Current Linux and OpenBSD |
| first computer with root/administrator access: |
| Sun386i / Series of Novell Servers
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| first programming language: |
| Fortran (bleck!) |
| favorite programming language: |
| perl |
| most often used programming language: |
| perl and C |
| first sysadmin job, computer and os: |
| Engineering School @ IUPUI - Suns (SunOS 3.5) and
IBM PS/2 386 running Novell 2.1
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| ideal sysadmin job: |
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Current one I'm with but with a larger budget, more space and more staff
to enable all of us to work on interesting projects and research.
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| favorite sysadmin tool: |
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tough call -- I'll go with lsof although I have many honorable mentions.
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| most interesting sysadmin tool: |
| nessus |
| sysadmin tool I couldn't work without: |
| vi |
| education: |
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BS in Computer Science, Currently over half way point with a MS.
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| when I was growing up, I wanted to be: |
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An Astronaut (until I discovered I was blind as a bat)
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| If I wasn't a sysadmin, I'd be: |
| Doing something in the area of security research |
| when friends and family ask me to
“fix” the computer or
“fix the internet”, I say: |
| Sure (with a smile) |
| when I first meet someone,
and they ask what I do, I say: |
| Help keep all of *this* running... |
| system administration is ...: |
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a fine balance in keeping both your systems and users happy.
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| advice to a junior admin: |
| Love whatever you choose for a profession |
| advice to a senior admin: |
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Remember that the greatest resource you manage are the admins working
for you.
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| favorite food/cuisine: |
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Mexican, Italian, Chinese, and seafood served most any way
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| pizza topping: |
| Pepperoni and Sausage |
| work music: |
| Depends on my mood. About anything except country |
| crisis music: |
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Metal often or if I need to keep things in perspective, Alice's Restraunt
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| ___ gets me through the work day: |
| My Coworkers and friends |
| hobby/other job: |
| Sports (playing and watching), music, reading |
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| my office is: |
| a wilderness of free association |
| learned the most from: |
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my mentors (professionally) and father in almost everything else
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| wish list: |
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Right now that Indy could win a championship in something!
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| daily web sites: |
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slashdot
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| editor: |
| vi |
| mail user agent: |
| Thunderbird and pine |
| web browser: |
| firefox |
| gui or cli: |
| cli most often |
| computers at home: |
| 6 |
| (primary) home computer and OS: |
| Windows XP (family use) and Linux (laptop) |
| oldest hardware in your garage or basement: |
| 200MHz pentium laptop |
| anything else? |
| Thanks for getting a great start on building a wonderful
organization!
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