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SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR OF THE WEEK: Week of May 1, 2006
| location: |
| San Diego, CA |
| site: |
| Sony Computer Entertainment America |
| servers: |
| ~3000 |
| workstations: |
| ~1000 |
| sysadmins on staff: |
| 10 |
| site overview: |
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Working at a creative company, we support everything from render farms to
end user desktops.
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| job title: |
| Associate Systems Administrator |
| time at this job: |
| 7 months |
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| years as a sysadmin: |
| 7 months |
| first computer: |
| 486DX2 |
| first OS: |
| Slackware Linux (I still have the 28 3.5" disks) |
| favorite OS: |
| Linux |
| first computer with root/administrator access: |
| 486DX2 running slackware
(personal) |
| first programming language: |
| PERL |
| favorite programming language: |
| PERL |
| most often used programming language: |
| PERL |
| first sysadmin job, computer and os: |
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current, various flavors of linux
(mainly redhat based RHEL3/4, 7.3, 9.0 and CentOS)
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| ideal sysadmin job: |
| current |
| favorite sysadmin tool: |
| ssh |
| most interesting sysadmin tool: |
| awk |
| sysadmin tool I couldn't work without: |
| PERL/Awk |
| education: |
| informal (rtfm) |
| when I was growing up, I wanted to be: |
| Gene Monkey specializing in Virii |
| If I wasn't a sysadmin, I'd be: |
| never really thought about it. |
| when friends and family ask me to
“fix” the computer or
“fix the internet”, I say: |
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Somehow I manage to duck that question 99.9% of the
time. The other .01% I act like I have too much wax in my ears ;)>.
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| when I first meet someone,
and they ask what I do, I say: |
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Systems Admin,
just because I love the blank looks (and the novelty hasn't warn off
yet).
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| system administration is ...: |
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Knowing what your customers want before
they do, and of course a little magic/voodoo.
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| advice to a junior admin: |
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(Where I am) Don't be afraid to ask questions
or make mistakes, and of course RTFM.
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| advice to a senior admin: |
| Share your knowledge.
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| favorite food/cuisine: |
| whatever strikes me at the moment (not picky) |
| pizza topping: |
| Pepperoni |
| work music: |
| Drum 'n Bass |
| crisis music: |
| Depending on situation Drum 'n Bass/Techno/Metal |
| ___ gets me through the work day: |
| *knowing that I'll be going home to my
wife*, *music*
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| hobby/other job: |
| Games/Reading |
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| my office is: |
| chaotic |
| co-workers say my desk is: |
| covered with tapes/books/papers |
| learned the most from: |
| I am still learning (manuals), but the people I
work with foster and support me. |
| wish list: |
| 28 hours in a day |
| daily web sites: |
| Ars, Boing Boing, /. (sometimes i need a laugh the the
comments are the best way), and a bunch of different industry news
(Joystiq, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Reg, IGN/Gamespot, etc.)
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| Is the Sarbannes-Oxley Act (“SOX”)
good for system administration? |
| ask me in a year :)> |
| editor: |
| vi |
| mail user agent: |
cli: mutt
gui: (thunderbird) |
| web browser: |
| firefox |
| gui or cli: |
| cli in gui (X) |
| computers at home: |
| 3 |
| (primary) home computer and OS: |
| Windows XP Pro (for Gaming)/Ubuntu Linux
(Dual boot) |
| oldest hardware in your garage or basement: |
| Old Vaio PCG-F580K (lappy) |
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