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SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR OF THE WEEK: Week of February 27, 2006
| location: |
| Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| site: |
| Lominger Limited, Inc. |
| servers: |
| 30 |
| workstations: |
| 55 |
| sysadmins on staff: |
| 2 |
| site overview: |
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We are a small company with an on-site data center as well
as some colocation space for production equipment. We run
Linux for most of our servers, but also have Windows and Max
OS X systems for various purposes.
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| job title: |
| Network & Systems Administrator |
| time at this job: |
| 1.5 years |
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| years as a sysadmin: |
| 7 |
| first computer: |
| Gateway 2000 486DX 33MHz |
| first OS: |
| DOS 5.0 |
| favorite OS: |
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Depends on situation (Windows for desktop, Linux for server)
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| first computer with root/administrator access: |
| My home PC with linux on it in 1995 |
| first programming language: |
| C++ |
| favorite programming language: |
| None |
| first sysadmin job, computer and os: |
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Windows administrator for a mostly Dell-based shop
(desktop and servers).
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| ideal sysadmin job: |
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A mix of systems and network administration where I have
significant influence in the infrastructure design and
purchasing processes.
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| favorite sysadmin tool: |
| Ethereal |
| sysadmin tool I couldn't work without: |
| ssh client |
| education: |
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BS in Computer Science from The University of Wisconsin, Madison
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| when I was growing up, I wanted to be: |
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When I was young, a fighter pilot. Later, an Electrical Engineer.
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| If I wasn't a sysadmin, I'd be: |
| Good question. I don't know. |
| when friends and family ask me to
“fix” the computer or
“fix the internet”, I say: |
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“Have you been using IE?
Remember that Ad-Aware program I installed? Run it.
Still no luck? OK, open a command prompt and type the following...”
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| when I first meet someone,
and they ask what I do, I say: |
| “Systems and Network administration...
computer stuff” |
| system administration is ...: |
| A profession. |
| advice to a junior admin: |
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Find a test machine and play around. Install every OS you can over and
over. Break things, then figure out how to fix them. Make that test
machine “work” with other machines and devices on a network.
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| favorite food/cuisine: |
| Breakfast food |
| pizza topping: |
| Sausage and Onion |
| work music: |
| Random |
| crisis music: |
| KMFDM |
| ___ gets me through the work day: |
| Coffee |
| hobby/other job: |
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Athletic activities (soccer, running, swimming, biking), WoW,
“Happy Hour Organizer”
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| my office is: |
| Messy |
| co-workers say my desk is: |
| Under the piles somewhere. |
| learned the most from: |
| Tinkering |
| wish list: |
| A RAID controller and external disk cabinet for home
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| daily web sites: |
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Tom's Hardware,
Slashdot,
SecurityFocus
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| backups to tape or disk? |
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Disk as an intermediate storage pool due to speed of backups and
recoveries for recent data. Ultimately, tape for longevity and off-site
storage.
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| editor: |
| vi |
| mail user agent: |
| pine |
| web browser: |
| Firefox |
| gui or cli: |
| Generaly cli |
| computers at home: |
| 2 (operational) |
| (primary) home computer and OS: |
| Dell Dimension 9100, Windows XP Professional |
| oldest hardware in your garage or basement: |
| A Sun Token Ring card circa 1992 |
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