atsaloli

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by atsaloli 9y ago
I know.. blows my mind sometimes.
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Indeed, my background was in administering Internet services (Web, mail, DNS, netnews, etc.) This was my first time troubleshooting a printing issue professionally. I was the only UNIX sysadmin in the shop and I was hired in as a "Ne
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Thanks!! The network ate the font is actually how the problem was reported. :-) That was a fun break from not breaking the HP-UX server running the 24/7 factory and from babysitting various Linux web app server issues at the colo. :-)
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Same! You live, you learn. Thanks!
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Thanks for the kind words!
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Author here. I've opened a ton of PowerPoint presentations (God help me) but this was the first time I've run into this issue. :) I usually crawl around inside of Web services / infrastructures while troubleshooting.
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Illumos
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Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font(verticalsysadmin.com)
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Aiming to reduce cleaning costs(worksthatwork.com)
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by atsaloli 9y ago
What is your desired career path / trajectory?
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by atsaloli 9y ago
I get paid in 30 or 60 days usually.
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by atsaloli 9y ago
How much vertical space do you need for coding?
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Coming soon - 49" curved monitor http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/49--chg9...
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by atsaloli 9y ago
I attribute my professional success as a system administrator in no small part to attending USENIX LISA conferences. https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17 Excellent training for system administrators.
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Start a meetup. =)
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by atsaloli 9y ago
There are two support levels for GitLab EE (Enterprise Edition) users: Starter (response by next business day) and Premium (response within 4 hours). As a GitLab reseller, I offer HN users 10% discount on GitLab EE. My email address is in m
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Another article from the author of "Code Simplicity" on effective forging (making) of software. Short and digestible. "Why be rude or cruel when you don’t have to be?" Highlights how modern software development is a coop
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Kindness and Code(codesimplicity.com)
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The source of all frustration(linkedin.com)
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by atsaloli 9y ago
I used to have an account on Nyx. https://www.nyx.net/ "Nyx, the world's oldest Internet Service Provider, is a free public-access ISP that free e-mail, (including webmail), web space, web/domain hosting, a f
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by atsaloli 9y ago
SHARE is user group / association for people working with IBM mainframe type products. http://www.share.org/about I taught CFEngine at one of their conferences (for managing Linux running on z/OS) and got exposed
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by atsaloli 9y ago
I started at a local user group ( http://www.uuasc.org/ , the Unix Users Association of Southern California). At my very first meeting, the organizer asked me what I could present on... next meeting I was presenting. Very smo
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by atsaloli 9y ago
http://codesimplicity.com/ for fundamentals of software design and improving code bases
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Vint Cerf's article on Claude Shannon: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v547/n7662/full/547159a...
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by atsaloli 9y ago
I like Ohio Linux Fest ( https://ohiolinux.org/ ) even though I have to fly across the country to attend it. It's cozy and it's got heart. I remember having breakfast with Ethan Galstad (Nagios founder) a few years
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The Fundamental Philosophy of Debugging(codesimplicity.com)
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by atsaloli 9y ago
I would love to buy it and give it another go. Wonder how that would work and how much it would cost, and if it's even an option. Seems a shame to see it close.
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by atsaloli 9y ago
This reminds me of a Linux Journal piece I did 5 years ago on system administration of the Watson supercomputer (after they got their 15 minutes of fame on Jeopardy): http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/system-adminis
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by atsaloli 9y ago
I'm reading "Magic Realized", poetry on life and love and the joys and (occasionally) horrors thereof. https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Realized-Other-Poems-Spirit/dp/... (My Amazon review: https:&#x
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by atsaloli 9y ago
If you'd like to learn system administration, visit http://www.sabok.org and http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/training-program-to-make-a-... As for the tools you mention see https://medium.c

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