LOL

Playing doctor i see

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Thank You

GaleForce

Forum buzzkiller :icon17:

You stationed at Miramar? I come from San Diego, but currently stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC. 27 months in Iraq.... I feel for you.

Ha, the C-130 is what I use to commute often times. US Army Paratrooper.

BMW Service Advisor

I work in radio as a online content director, IT manager and (as of today) digital sales manager. In my free time, I'm awesome.

Im a recruiting agent for: :tup:

Sorry, I posted and forgot to check in. If you're still interested:

From safety, I was able to transition to HR, and from HR, I was able to transition to investigator. When I was a safety guy, I positioned myself as a policy-writer and "big picture" person rather than a "safety cop." As soon as I proved I was capable of professional-level work, I just told management that they could either make me an HR generalist or I would look for work somewhere else. I was a good enough employee that I felt comfortable taking that risk. After getting a few years HR experience, I landed the EEOC Investigator position.

I <3 C-130


four fan trash can...

tho i worked Rescue, and later EC-130s... we still hauled troops sometimes

That's a pretty interesting story. How does it feel to be on the "other" side. :tiphat::icon17:

Retired System Engineer for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. If it had a wire, I messed with it...

Director of Sales for Europe, Mideast and Australasia for a motion picture equipment company. Funny actually, I am German, living in the States, working for a English Company and my territory is all outside the US, makes actually not much sense, but hey, I love living here!

Longbow Apache Helicopter technical inspector. Sorta a big deal! lol.

ahhh, so you are one of the fuckers that if I could travel through time I would punch in the nuts... :bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:



Maintainer vs Engineer..... never ending battle :bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:

yea... no :gtfo2:

Totally being sarcastic. Lighten up.

Airforce always hating.

:icon18: :tup: yeah! it's just Mu being Mu...give him some shizz back and it will all be good! ;)


MU!!!!! :hello:

Assistant District Attorney
BA fr: Bama
JD fr: Ole Miss

IT Manager for Local Bank

BS from Auburn University

War Damn Eagle :happydance:

Submarine cable consultant

BACE

Securities Trader

Business Owner Co-CEO

&

Lifetime Fitness Cycling Instructor

Damn! That sounds like a lot when I type it out! Good thing I quit a couple of the other things I was doing! Lol

Im suprised Facebook creepers isnt an occupation. :tup:

it is, you just don't talk about it

My title is 'Lab Manager'.

Probably does not mean much to people and is not what they would expect. No I do not work in the medical field =P

The Lab is around 14 racks of servers for the use of testing and development of an open source distributed/clustered file-system for linux. As the lab manager I am half developer half linux system-administrator. I am the only guy who actually administers the servers and I do all the automation stuff (creating vms, dns automation, backups, etc..).

I have been doing it about a year and definitely gained a lot of useful experience but it has been a lot of machines/work for one person. My last job I did for 6+ years was just a generic linux sysadmin working with a bunch of other sysadmins on a large team for a server farm of > 3000 servers which was significantly less stressful for about the same pay. I honestly enjoyed my previous job more but I feel this one has more potential.

Any other Linux guys on here?

business development peon for a software company

Occupation exchange
 

Public Relations.

Linux System Engineer; Fvck windows! I kid, I kid. I actually have to work in Windows from time to time. Our entire infrastructure is RedHat and most of my work involves Postgres, Tomcat, Java (eek!), cfengine, aws.

I use to be a linux sysadmin. Used git, subversion, apache, cfengine and all that other good stuff.

edit:
@houkouonchi, what are you using for automation?

For package/configuration stuff on machines I am using chef. It sets up everything all the servers have (like nagios and its custom perl plugins I wrote for raid/smart status/error checking) makes sure they all have the same package/etc..

I also did a lot of automation for virtual machines with libvirt. A utility was initially written by a previous employee but I have added a lot to it. It originally only supported ubuntu 12.04 and had a lot of hard-set stuff in it and depends on ubuntu's cloud-init. I basically had to make cloud-init images for debian, fedora, rhel, centos, and suse. Sles was atleast decent in that it had a utility for creating images which was quite helpfull but at the time cloud-init package didn't exist for a lot of the distro's but things are a lot better these days. I still have to make my own images but atleast its easier now.

Its basically designed so you can spinup a VM and have it running/booted/sshable in ~1 min via libvirt/qemu/kvm. It provisions them, sets their hostname, ram/disk as well as installs SSH keys from the user who runs the utility. I also recently modified it to be able to create LXC containers as well. I also made a server/client program via python that uses an API over HTTP to create DNS records in powerdns powered MySQL db as all the guests are DHCP to create DNS records for newly created vms.

I also work on the test suite (python) used on the nightly runs that test out new builds of the file-system for testing as well as setup a bunch of gitbuilders that are basically machines that build the code everytime a new commit is added to a repo so tracking can be done when builds fail (which commit caused the failure, etc..) and packages can be built off these builds (rpm/.deb) for nightly tests as well to test the newest code using package based installs like a real user would do.

I would say one of the most annoying things is simply all the distro's I have to deal with. At the previous web-hosting company I worked at it was 3000+ servers (all debian) but I had to automate vm and baremetal to pretty much any distro under the sun that we want to support and do testing on (which is quite a few). I couldn't really find good utilities that really supported *all* the distro's we needed so I ended up writing my own PXE based imaging system as well for quickly re-imaging baremetal machines.

Probably a lot of what I said doesn't mean anything to most on this forum =)

I also have to go to the data center every so often when I have to replace a lot of disks or something. I deployed all the new servers we have but the original deployment (ugly) was done by someone else. I also manage all the switches/networking/routing stuff as well which I also backup daily. I also setup monitoring for the switches via MRTG along with automation of doing switchport descriptions so bandwidth stats can easily be searched, etc...

Basically the entire second deployment of hardware we have we got for free so all the hardware (even down to the network cables) came from a parent company that was going to e-waste it. The only problem is the crappy desktop seagate drives (each one has 8x1TB) have been dieing like crazy.

Here is what the deployment of servers I did looks like (half of the machines i manage):



I deployed all that in a week almost entirely by myself (from nothing in the racks, to racked, cabled, imaged, booted servers doing stress testing). I was pretty physically dead after that week =)

And if you want to see the horrible cabling job of the previous one:



Ok... I have gone too far now. All you asked was what I do for automation although technically most of what else I listed is automation as well =)

This forum needs more *nix geeks for me to talk to.

Military training instructor in the USAF. I wear a big funny hat and run basic training at Lack land AFB in San Antonio, Texas.

Soon to be moving (hopefully) to Monterey, California for school to be a linguist.

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:icon18: well well well....I am sure you have seen several of the fellas from my family depending on how long you have been there...

Active Duty Army Captain (Personnel and Human Resources)

Hopefully my application for Law School goes through so I can start practicing public defense in Washington State.
Yeah I know....attorney....gonna burn in Hell....blah blah blah :icon17:

:tup: Hey, knowing your path forward in life is important! kudos!! :) :p jk jk

Thats awesome, thank you for your service. I'm a military vet myself, I did 8 years in the active duty Army.

Now I work for the Dept. of Justice here in DC.

In a generic response...I work in the IT dept of a hospital. Love it OBTW :)

Personal banker for a smaller florida bank, Also a Florida state firefighter and EMT. Not too much luck with hiring though since florida is like a puppy mill for firefighters and hiring is zero to none. hopefully things look up though.

Been here over 4 years now

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Nice.. well thanks again for your service.:tup:

:tiphat:

Just doing my part.