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Re: [Wlug] JOB - Senior Operations Engineer - Boston, MA

by Keith Wright

> From: Ross Hecox <rhecox(a)advertising.com> > > We reach more people than Google. > Thought that would get your attention. It got my attentions for the 250 milliseconds needed to decide that a moron wrote it. Are you sure you wanted my attention? > Advertising.com is one of the most successful > companies in online advertising (1) Spam must die. (2) Advertising is a tape-worm in the belly of the beast. > and we're looking for someone just like you Why do advertisers keep talking about people just like me? I think of myself as a unique individual. If you can't cope with that, you must be looking for someone else. > The information transmitted in this email is intended > only for the person(s) or entity to which it is > addressed and may contain confidential and/or > privileged material. Any review, retransmission, > dissemination or other use of, or taking of any > action in reliance upon, this information by persons > or entities other than the intended recipient is > prohibited. If you received this email in error, > please contact the sender and permanently delete the > email from any computer. I am but one individual, but in accordance with your expressed wishes, I will do what I can to ensure that this confidential advertisement is seen by as few people as possible and that they do not take any action upon it. -- Keith

June 18, 2007

Re: [Wlug] JOB - Senior Operations Engineer - Boston, MA

by Clint Moyer

Who invited this guy? ---- Ross Hecox <rhecox(a)advertising.com> wrote: ============= We reach more people than Google. Thought that would get your attention. Advertising.com is one of the most successful companies in online advertising and we're looking for someone just like you to help take our company to the next level. Advertising.com has an immediate opening for a Senior Operations Engineer in our Boston, MA office. Interested? Read on to find out more and apply. "So it's a great place to work, but what exactly do you do?" Born and bread in Baltimore, Advertising.com reaches more people each month than Google, Yahoo! and MSN. How? We buy up ad space from sites all around the Web and sell it to advertisers in aggregate - using very sophisticated technologies and solutions to match advertisements to ad space. The Senior Operations Engineer will be responsible for day-to-day monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining our highly available, 24x7 (99.999%) hosting infrastructure for our Third Screen Media group in Boston, MA. The position will be responsible for the design and build out of performance enhancements, security, and capacity expansion. This individual will be committed, well organized, attentive to detail and an exceptional communicator: This position will interface not only with development, but with program management, documentation and release engineering. ESSENTIAL PERSONAL AND OPERATING VALUES: * Goal driven. Highly communicative. Technology curious. * High work ethic and driven to ensure maximum uptime and performance. * Works well with other departments including engineering , client services and program management. * Knowledge and operational experience with a Unix based, enterprise-class multi-tenant hosted solution.. * Monitor the health, capacity and performance of a high availability, high traffic environment - ensuring the environment is operating optimally and at peak efficiency. * Vigilantly and quickly act as second level support and manage incidents until resolved; develop solutions, proactively communicate with other team members and customers. * Contribute to planning efforts for disaster recovery, capacity expansion, component upgrading and system hardening * Work with Program Management and Engineering to determine QA paths for upcoming releases. * Coordinate the production releases between the various organizations for scheduling and deployment. * Capable of defining and running projects from concept to delivery. * Learn fast, work independently, and handle multiple simultaneous projects. * Provide support documentation, including procedural documentation; QUALIFICATIONS * 5-7 years of experience in working in multi tenant hosted environment * Working knowledge of Linux, SAN, servers/databases, WAN, firewalls, load balancers and SQL architecture. * Excellent writing and verbal communications skills. * Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills with the ability to discuss technical issues with non-technical colleagues. * Effective when working under pressure and delivering to high standards within tight deadlines. * Experience with J2EE systems * Comfort with Windows XP, Macintosh and UNIX environments * Previous experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment * In depth understanding of enterprise and/or ASP systems and how to evaluate performance and stability across these systems. * Detailed knowledge of real-time systems, databases and performance. * Strong background in supporting a 7X24 production environment. EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: * BA/BS in computer science or technical related field. * Experience in technical documentation would be considered a plus * Experience in testing and performance labs would be considered a plus Please apply directly at www.advertising.com/careers.php<http://www.advertising.com/careers.php> Engineer II, Operations TSM Ross Hecox Sr. Technical Recruiter Advertising.com 1020 Hull Street, 2nd Floor Baltimore, MD 21230 Phone: 410.244.1370 x11544 Fax: 410.454.0369 rhecox(a)advertising.com<mailto:rhecox@advertising.com> Wanna cool place to work? Check us out at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwzE_QyM6UU D.O.T. - Discover Outstanding Talent ________________________________ The information transmitted in this email is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender and permanently delete the email from any computer.

June 18, 2007

JOB - Senior Operations Engineer - Boston, MA

by Ross Hecox

We reach more people than Google. Thought that would get your attention. Advertising.com is one of the most successful companies in online advertising and we're looking for someone just like you to help take our company to the next level. Advertising.com has an immediate opening for a Senior Operations Engineer in our Boston, MA office. Interested? Read on to find out more and apply. "So it's a great place to work, but what exactly do you do?" Born and bread in Baltimore, Advertising.com reaches more people each month than Google, Yahoo! and MSN. How? We buy up ad space from sites all around the Web and sell it to advertisers in aggregate - using very sophisticated technologies and solutions to match advertisements to ad space. The Senior Operations Engineer will be responsible for day-to-day monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining our highly available, 24x7 (99.999%) hosting infrastructure for our Third Screen Media group in Boston, MA. The position will be responsible for the design and build out of performance enhancements, security, and capacity expansion. This individual will be committed, well organized, attentive to detail and an exceptional communicator: This position will interface not only with development, but with program management, documentation and release engineering. ESSENTIAL PERSONAL AND OPERATING VALUES: * Goal driven. Highly communicative. Technology curious. * High work ethic and driven to ensure maximum uptime and performance. * Works well with other departments including engineering , client services and program management. * Knowledge and operational experience with a Unix based, enterprise-class multi-tenant hosted solution.. * Monitor the health, capacity and performance of a high availability, high traffic environment - ensuring the environment is operating optimally and at peak efficiency. * Vigilantly and quickly act as second level support and manage incidents until resolved; develop solutions, proactively communicate with other team members and customers. * Contribute to planning efforts for disaster recovery, capacity expansion, component upgrading and system hardening * Work with Program Management and Engineering to determine QA paths for upcoming releases. * Coordinate the production releases between the various organizations for scheduling and deployment. * Capable of defining and running projects from concept to delivery. * Learn fast, work independently, and handle multiple simultaneous projects. * Provide support documentation, including procedural documentation; QUALIFICATIONS * 5-7 years of experience in working in multi tenant hosted environment * Working knowledge of Linux, SAN, servers/databases, WAN, firewalls, load balancers and SQL architecture. * Excellent writing and verbal communications skills. * Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills with the ability to discuss technical issues with non-technical colleagues. * Effective when working under pressure and delivering to high standards within tight deadlines. * Experience with J2EE systems * Comfort with Windows XP, Macintosh and UNIX environments * Previous experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment * In depth understanding of enterprise and/or ASP systems and how to evaluate performance and stability across these systems. * Detailed knowledge of real-time systems, databases and performance. * Strong background in supporting a 7X24 production environment. EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: * BA/BS in computer science or technical related field. * Experience in technical documentation would be considered a plus * Experience in testing and performance labs would be considered a plus Please apply directly at www.advertising.com/careers.php<http://www.advertising.com/careers.php> Engineer II, Operations TSM Ross Hecox Sr. Technical Recruiter Advertising.com 1020 Hull Street, 2nd Floor Baltimore, MD 21230 Phone: 410.244.1370 x11544 Fax: 410.454.0369 rhecox(a)advertising.com<mailto:rhecox@advertising.com> Wanna cool place to work? Check us out at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwzE_QyM6UU D.O.T. - Discover Outstanding Talent ________________________________ The information transmitted in this email is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender and permanently delete the email from any computer.

June 18, 2007

Job posting

by Mike Leo

Although they have already filled my old job, it looks like they are hiring another linux admin: Linux Engineer, Wellesley The Linux Engineer will be responsible for the daily administration of the Linux environment. Project work including installation, configuration and post support of Linux servers, primarily RedHat. Support evaluation and testing of Susu Linux and security products. Support Oracle on Linux including databases, applications and RAC. 4-6 years experience working with Linux environments in an enterprise setting a must. If you are interested email me off-list at mleo963(a)yahoo.com

June 18, 2007

Ubuntu switch user & screen lock

by Bill Mills-Curran

I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I've recently used the "switch user" option to log in without logging my son out. However, after logging out of my account, the screen is locked for my son, and his login password will not unlock the screen. Anyone else seen this? TiA, Bill

June 18, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Screen goes blank with ubuntu and geforce 8800 GTS.

by Eric Stein

telnet? Nobody uses that anymore. :p Eric Lee Keyser-Allen wrote: > Also, never underestimate the power of telnetting into the box that's > messing up and solving the problem from that console :)

June 17, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Screen goes blank with ubuntu and geforce 8800 GTS.

by Lee Keyser-Allen

Also, never underestimate the power of telnetting into the box that's messing up and solving the problem from that console :) On 6/16/07, Mike <mwp(a)sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > Hi, > It sounds like something funny is going on with the boot splash program. > If this was happening to me I would turn it of and do some debugging. > > You can do this right from grub. When the menu appears hit 'e' (less the > quotes of course) to edit. Then move the cursor down once to the kernel > line. Hit 'e' again and remove the words 'splash' and 'quiet' from the > line. Then hit <enter>, and lastly 'b' to boot. > > This is a one time change for this boot. You can make these changes > permanent by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst. Read the directions inside > the comments and modify it appropriately. Do not edit the lines directly. > If you do they will get overwritten by an update. Once you have edited the > file appropriately run the 'update-grub' command and reboot. > > There is a possibility that you are out of range too. I believe that there > is a configuration file in /etc/usplash. You should be able to change the > splash screens resolution there. > > The last bit of advice I can give is to make sure your Nvidia drivers are > up to date (the stock Ubuntu one's "should" work... I haven't had to > download from NVidia in a while). And then you can reconfigure your > xserver by running 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. Make sure you > select 'nvidia' and the appropriate screen resolutions. Sometimes I find > that NOT specifying the sync ranges of the monitor helps (especially in > laptops). > > Hopefully you can get some logs using the advice above. The output from > dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.0.log would also be helpful. > > Cheers, > Mike > > > <quote who="Kieran O'Callaghan"> > > I have system I just put together with a PCI-Express Geforce 8800 GTS > > running ubuntu 7.04. During installation of Ubuntu everything showed up > > fine on screen. After installation, I ran into the problem that right > > after grub starts loading linux, the screen goes blank (monitor light > > turns from green to amber) and stays that way right up until X loads, at > > which point I get video. This hasn't been a problem so far, but I just > > installed some updates and it seems like now X isn't loading or I'm > > getting some sort of message before X loads, because it turns on and > > just stays blank the whole time. > > It seems like it would be easy if I just put a different video card into > > the system, but I don't even have another PCI express video card. I also > > don't have any PCI video cards anymore. All I have are AGP cards and > > the system doesn't have an AGP slot. So, it looks like taking the hard > > drive out and moving it to another system is the only option. > > Any thoughts on why the screen is doing that would be appreciated. The > > monitor doesn't seem to be getting no signal, because normally it brings > > up a message saying no signal rather than just blanking. It seems more > > like it's gone into a power saving mode. I've tried it with other > > monitors and had the same results. > > > > -- > > Kieran O'Callaghan > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > -- > They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, > deserve neither liberty or security --Ben Franklin > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- Lee Keyser-Allen (lkeyser(a)alum.wpi.edu)

June 16, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Screen goes blank with ubuntu and geforce 8800 GTS.

by Mike

Hi, It sounds like something funny is going on with the boot splash program. If this was happening to me I would turn it of and do some debugging. You can do this right from grub. When the menu appears hit 'e' (less the quotes of course) to edit. Then move the cursor down once to the kernel line. Hit 'e' again and remove the words 'splash' and 'quiet' from the line. Then hit <enter>, and lastly 'b' to boot. This is a one time change for this boot. You can make these changes permanent by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst. Read the directions inside the comments and modify it appropriately. Do not edit the lines directly. If you do they will get overwritten by an update. Once you have edited the file appropriately run the 'update-grub' command and reboot. There is a possibility that you are out of range too. I believe that there is a configuration file in /etc/usplash. You should be able to change the splash screens resolution there. The last bit of advice I can give is to make sure your Nvidia drivers are up to date (the stock Ubuntu one's "should" work... I haven't had to download from NVidia in a while). And then you can reconfigure your xserver by running 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. Make sure you select 'nvidia' and the appropriate screen resolutions. Sometimes I find that NOT specifying the sync ranges of the monitor helps (especially in laptops). Hopefully you can get some logs using the advice above. The output from dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.0.log would also be helpful. Cheers, Mike <quote who="Kieran O'Callaghan"> > I have system I just put together with a PCI-Express Geforce 8800 GTS > running ubuntu 7.04. During installation of Ubuntu everything showed up > fine on screen. After installation, I ran into the problem that right > after grub starts loading linux, the screen goes blank (monitor light > turns from green to amber) and stays that way right up until X loads, at > which point I get video. This hasn't been a problem so far, but I just > installed some updates and it seems like now X isn't loading or I'm > getting some sort of message before X loads, because it turns on and > just stays blank the whole time. > It seems like it would be easy if I just put a different video card into > the system, but I don't even have another PCI express video card. I also > don't have any PCI video cards anymore. All I have are AGP cards and > the system doesn't have an AGP slot. So, it looks like taking the hard > drive out and moving it to another system is the only option. > Any thoughts on why the screen is doing that would be appreciated. The > monitor doesn't seem to be getting no signal, because normally it brings > up a message saying no signal rather than just blanking. It seems more > like it's gone into a power saving mode. I've tried it with other > monitors and had the same results. > > -- > Kieran O'Callaghan > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security --Ben Franklin

June 16, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Screen goes blank with ubuntu and geforce 8800 GTS.

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kieran O'Callaghan wrote: > I have system I just put together with a PCI-Express Geforce 8800 GTS > running ubuntu 7.04. During installation of Ubuntu everything showed up > fine on screen. After installation, I ran into the problem that right > after grub starts loading linux, the screen goes blank (monitor light > turns from green to amber) and stays that way right up until X loads, at > which point I get video. This hasn't been a problem so far, but I just > installed some updates and it seems like now X isn't loading or I'm > getting some sort of message before X loads, because it turns on and > just stays blank the whole time. > It seems like it would be easy if I just put a different video card into > the system, but I don't even have another PCI express video card. I also > don't have any PCI video cards anymore. All I have are AGP cards and > the system doesn't have an AGP slot. So, it looks like taking the hard > drive out and moving it to another system is the only option. > Any thoughts on why the screen is doing that would be appreciated. The > monitor doesn't seem to be getting no signal, because normally it brings > up a message saying no signal rather than just blanking. It seems more > like it's gone into a power saving mode. I've tried it with other > monitors and had the same results. > Have you tried booting a Knoppix CD/DVD to see if the result is the same? If your video is OK when booted with Knoppix, you could mount your hard drive and fix it that way. I'd look at /boot/grub/menu.lst and comment out any gfxmenu commands for starters, since you mentioned that it goes out to lunch around that time. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGcx+dHl0iXDssISsRAiU7AJ47ZSW0RShrwCtbHarcUAHBJRsxegCfWk0A 65V8qnR5ltqtls/FIoeBdfE= =1DR7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

June 15, 2007

Screen goes blank with ubuntu and geforce 8800 GTS.

by Kieran O'Callaghan

I have system I just put together with a PCI-Express Geforce 8800 GTS running ubuntu 7.04. During installation of Ubuntu everything showed up fine on screen. After installation, I ran into the problem that right after grub starts loading linux, the screen goes blank (monitor light turns from green to amber) and stays that way right up until X loads, at which point I get video. This hasn't been a problem so far, but I just installed some updates and it seems like now X isn't loading or I'm getting some sort of message before X loads, because it turns on and just stays blank the whole time. It seems like it would be easy if I just put a different video card into the system, but I don't even have another PCI express video card. I also don't have any PCI video cards anymore. All I have are AGP cards and the system doesn't have an AGP slot. So, it looks like taking the hard drive out and moving it to another system is the only option. Any thoughts on why the screen is doing that would be appreciated. The monitor doesn't seem to be getting no signal, because normally it brings up a message saying no signal rather than just blanking. It seems more like it's gone into a power saving mode. I've tried it with other monitors and had the same results. -- Kieran O'Callaghan

June 15, 2007