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SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR OF THE WEEK: Week of May 22, 2006
| location: |
| Framingham, MA |
| site: |
| Bose Corporation |
| servers: |
| 171 UNIX servers |
| workstations: |
| just the Linux box on my desk |
| sysadmins on staff: |
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Define “sysadmins”. 4 UNIX admins; there are
also 6 Windows admins in another group. 7 network guys,
1.5 storage admins, 10 desktop support people. 3 desktop
“infranstructure” guys.
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| job title: |
| official: Senior UNIX Administrator
unofficial: ”Backup Guy” |
| time at this job: |
| a bit over 1 year |
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| years as a sysadmin: |
| 19 years |
| first computer: |
| some late 1970s Data General beast |
| first OS: |
| see first computer |
| favorite OS: |
| if it ends in “ix” it's OK with me |
| first computer with root/administrator access: |
| NCR Century 100 |
| first programming language: |
| Basic |
| most often used programming language: |
| pick a shell |
| first sysadmin job, computer and os: |
| 1987, Massachusetts Microelectronics
Center, PDP 11/780, Ultrix |
| ideal sysadmin job: |
| one that doesn't involve a pager |
| favorite sysadmin tool: |
| awk |
| sysadmin tool I couldn't work without: |
| vi |
| education: |
| BS in CompSci with a minor in financial systems |
| when I was growing up, I wanted to be: |
| a chef |
| If I wasn't a sysadmin, I'd be: |
| less bitchy on the phone |
| when friends and family ask me to
“fix” the computer or
“fix the internet”, I say: |
| “can you tell me where it hurts” |
| when I first meet someone,
and they ask what I do, I say: |
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I make computers
do what they are suppose to do so other people can use them
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| system administration is ...: |
| not just a job, it's a wardrobe |
| advice to a junior admin: |
| make your prompt represent your access level |
| advice to a senior admin: |
| write up some documentation on how you did that |
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| favorite food/cuisine: |
| lamb pie |
| pizza topping: |
| bacon and mushroom |
| work music: |
| Internet radio |
| crisis music: |
| whirring disk drives |
| ___ gets me through the work day: |
| 4 o'clock |
| hobby/other job: |
| gardening, cooking, poetry |
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| my office is: |
| not as unorganized as it looks |
| co-workers say my desk is: |
| unusable |
| learned the most from: |
| Steve Miller, bless his soul |
| wish list: |
| 8 hours of sleep. |
| daily web sites: |
| nothing worth mentioning :-) |
| Is the Sarbannes-Oxley Act (“SOX”)
good for system administration? |
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Anything that promotes actual system security is good when
put in the right hands. Unfortunately computer security policy often
seems to be driven from a more political side of the house and that is
never good for computers, people or busines.
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| editor: |
| vi |
| mail user agent: |
| browser |
| web browser: |
| firefox |
| gui or cli: |
| Yes |
| computers at home: |
| 4 |
| (primary) home computer and OS: |
| Toshiba SatellitePro - dual boot W2K and RH
(though honestly it is rarely running RH any more)
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| oldest hardware in your garage or basement: |
| some old Win98 laptop of my
brother's that my father wants me to "check out"
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| anything else? |
| Follow your bliss |
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