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Re: [Wlug] JOBS: Seeking a summer intern in Linux administration

by Keith Wright

> From: "Scott Venier" <scott(a)scooter.cx> > > Andy Stewart wrote: > > > Jared Greenwald wrote: > > > > > Nothing says Linux like a Word doc... > > > > You noticed that too, eh?? :-) > > > Unfortunately, that's the sad reality of the difference between > Engineering and HR. As long as HR is doing the hiring, having a Word doc > version of the old resume is always a good idea. :) I forwarded that to a WPI Management professor who is always looking for MQP sponsors, and doesn't hate Word documents. Now that I have moved it elsewhere I can clean the abomination from my hard drive. -- Keith

May 2, 2007

Re: [Wlug] JOBS: Seeking a summer intern in Linux administration

by Scott Venier

Andy Stewart wrote: > Jared Greenwald wrote: > >> Nothing says Linux like a Word doc... >> > > You noticed that too, eh?? :-) > Unfortunately, that's the sad reality of the difference between Engineering and HR. As long as HR is doing the hiring, having a Word doc version of the old resume is always a good idea. :) Scott

May 2, 2007

Re: [Wlug] JOBS: Seeking a summer intern in Linux administration

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jared Greenwald wrote: > Nothing says Linux like a Word doc... You noticed that too, eh?? :-) 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 iD8DBQFGOH5oHl0iXDssISsRAt3MAJ4sOt2P1vBd/KHnvVgju1M8nPdwyQCfQfbb /op4i5YSaQdlHSbjwu+NPXM= =feSP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

May 2, 2007

Re: [Wlug] JOBS: Seeking a summer intern in Linux administration

by Jared Greenwald

Nothing says Linux like a Word doc... On 5/1/07, Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > HI Everybody, > > If you have an interest in this position, please reply directly to the > recruiter: > > Mischke, Ali <Ali.Mischke(a)ironmountain.com> > > Please note: when I forward email such as this, I'll be putting "JOBS:" > or "JOB:" at the beginning of the subject. You may thus filter at will. > > Thanks, > > Andy > > === > > Does WLUG have a student forum? I am the Engineering Internship > Coordinator at Iron Mountain Digital in Southborough, MA, and am trying > to get the word out about a paid internship we have for this summer. We > are looking for a student (junior, senior or graduate student) with > strong Linux skills to help administer an Engineering lab of 125-175 > Linux servers. I have attached the job description and would appreciate > if you could help get the word out to any student members of your > organization. > > Thanks in advance! > > Ali Mischke > Senior Manager, Analysis and Design > Iron Mountain Digital > > 120 Turnpike Road > Southborough, MA 01772 > Phone: (508) 808-7347 > ali.mischke(a)ironmountain.com > > === > > > - -- > 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 > > iD8DBQFGN7l3Hl0iXDssISsRAiGVAJ9PcqnYps7gc+2SZLc9cfXAz6mhWwCcCW4Y > 7c062GdyqG5Rw5nDEwT009I= > =0Jq9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >

May 2, 2007

JOBS: Seeking a summer intern in Linux administration

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Everybody, If you have an interest in this position, please reply directly to the recruiter: Mischke, Ali <Ali.Mischke(a)ironmountain.com> Please note: when I forward email such as this, I'll be putting "JOBS:" or "JOB:" at the beginning of the subject. You may thus filter at will. Thanks, Andy === Does WLUG have a student forum? I am the Engineering Internship Coordinator at Iron Mountain Digital in Southborough, MA, and am trying to get the word out about a paid internship we have for this summer. We are looking for a student (junior, senior or graduate student) with strong Linux skills to help administer an Engineering lab of 125-175 Linux servers. I have attached the job description and would appreciate if you could help get the word out to any student members of your organization. Thanks in advance! Ali Mischke Senior Manager, Analysis and Design Iron Mountain Digital 120 Turnpike Road Southborough, MA 01772 Phone: (508) 808-7347 ali.mischke(a)ironmountain.com === - -- 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 iD8DBQFGN7l3Hl0iXDssISsRAiGVAJ9PcqnYps7gc+2SZLc9cfXAz6mhWwCcCW4Y 7c062GdyqG5Rw5nDEwT009I= =0Jq9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

May 1, 2007

Re: [Wlug] MySQL Server Hardware

by Adam Keck

Hello John, Some commentary on database hardware came across Digg recently: <http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/> -Adam On 4/30/07, John Westcott IV <John.Westcott(a)tufts.edu> wrote: > > Quotes from John Stoffel > > Well, the nice thing I like about Sun hardware is that you have remote > > serial console access all the way down to the BIOS. This, to me, is a > > key issue in supporting any critical system. This way I don't have to > > drive into the data center to fix things if at all possible. > > > Yes, this is quite important since I live near Worcester and the DC is > in Medford. > > Second, in your case you might want to think about a MySQL cluster if > > you have lots of stringent uptime requirements, but it's not clear > > what kind of downtime you can handle. > > > I thought about clustering the database but its about 80G in size with a > big projected growth (around 125G this time next year). > The 5.0 current clustering technology uses in memory storage making this > almost unfeasible (I did price out some hardware to do this but it was a > bit beyond my budget). > MySQL 5.1 has started to use disk based storage for pieces of the tables > but its still Beta. > Aside from that limitation we are still on a 4.1 release and I'd rather > separate an OS change and a DB change into two phases. > > You might want to look at the new Sun Opteron X4x000 boxes, they're > > cheaper and faster than Sparc, but come with the nice remote > > management features that I find indispensable. > > > Since I posted this, I have looked at the Opteron 4X00 series and I am > leaning towards them as machines for this project because of the price > and the fact that if Solaris x86 does not work out I can run Linux on > them :) > > Another vendor would be Rackable Computing, they have BIOS access over > > serial and it works well. > > > I'll check them out. > > Again, not knowing your system loads, I'd say that any AMD Opteron box > > with plenty of memory would be just fine for you. In this case, the > > more memory the better, and of course having fast local disks in a > > RAID setup is also key. Mirroring the OS and data disks is key here > > to long life. > > > OS drives are always mirrored in our machines and part of the upgrade > will be new RAID disk arrays. > > Oh yeah, moving to Solaris in X86 might also help in this transition, > > in that you get more bang for the buck, but don't have a complete > > issue with re-training and finding new tools to do what you want. > > Solaris 10 on x86 is pretty neat. > > > Thanks for the vote of confidence on giving Solaris x86 a try, I'll let > you know how it turns out. > > John > > > > > Thanks to all who contributed to this thread (or do in the future) > -John > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- -Adam

April 30, 2007

Re: MySQL Server Hardware

by John Westcott IV

Quotes from John Stoffel > Well, the nice thing I like about Sun hardware is that you have remote > serial console access all the way down to the BIOS. This, to me, is a > key issue in supporting any critical system. This way I don't have to > drive into the data center to fix things if at all possible. > Yes, this is quite important since I live near Worcester and the DC is in Medford. > Second, in your case you might want to think about a MySQL cluster if > you have lots of stringent uptime requirements, but it's not clear > what kind of downtime you can handle. > I thought about clustering the database but its about 80G in size with a big projected growth (around 125G this time next year). The 5.0 current clustering technology uses in memory storage making this almost unfeasible (I did price out some hardware to do this but it was a bit beyond my budget). MySQL 5.1 has started to use disk based storage for pieces of the tables but its still Beta. Aside from that limitation we are still on a 4.1 release and I'd rather separate an OS change and a DB change into two phases. > You might want to look at the new Sun Opteron X4x000 boxes, they're > cheaper and faster than Sparc, but come with the nice remote > management features that I find indispensable. > Since I posted this, I have looked at the Opteron 4X00 series and I am leaning towards them as machines for this project because of the price and the fact that if Solaris x86 does not work out I can run Linux on them :) > Another vendor would be Rackable Computing, they have BIOS access over > serial and it works well. > I'll check them out. > Again, not knowing your system loads, I'd say that any AMD Opteron box > with plenty of memory would be just fine for you. In this case, the > more memory the better, and of course having fast local disks in a > RAID setup is also key. Mirroring the OS and data disks is key here > to long life. > OS drives are always mirrored in our machines and part of the upgrade will be new RAID disk arrays. > Oh yeah, moving to Solaris in X86 might also help in this transition, > in that you get more bang for the buck, but don't have a complete > issue with re-training and finding new tools to do what you want. > Solaris 10 on x86 is pretty neat. > Thanks for the vote of confidence on giving Solaris x86 a try, I'll let you know how it turns out. > John > > Thanks to all who contributed to this thread (or do in the future) -John

April 30, 2007

Re: [Wlug] I'd like to see Windows do this....

by Brian Waite

On Sunday 29 April 2007 22:08, Tal Cohen wrote: > I agree that we were lucky; we did not design the system to run crippled - > I just thought that it was cool that it did :) Do not get me wrong, I do > not have anything against Windows...I just really do not think it would > have died so chivalrously. > > I agree with you that the OS should be on the RAID array. This was one of > the lessons learned from this event. Make sure you learn the lesson right. You could use Raid for the OS but not the same raid. Personally I am more of a hot spare os drive myself, but if you want to use RAID you don't want to be at the mercy of the OS installer Ms, Linux, or otherwise to keep your data safe in the case of an upgrade or reinstall. My philosophy is to keep the OS and data physcailly seperate for ciritical data. Just my 2 cents Thanks Brian > > Tal > > -----Original Message----- > From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On > Behalf Of John Stoffel > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 4:07 PM > To: Worcester Linux Users Group > Subject: Re: [Wlug] I'd like to see Windows do this.... > > > Tal> It was just the OS, not the data disk (the data disk is a 3 disk > Tal> Raid 5 array). > > Again, If you've bothered to use RAID on your data, why not on the OS > as well? It's not like the OS is all that big space wise, so it's > cheap to mirror. > > And not always will the system (unix or otherwise) fail so nicely. > You were lucky in my book. :] > > John > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 30, 2007

Re: [Wlug] I'd like to see Windows do this....

by Tal Cohen

I agree that we were lucky; we did not design the system to run crippled - I just thought that it was cool that it did :) Do not get me wrong, I do not have anything against Windows...I just really do not think it would have died so chivalrously. I agree with you that the OS should be on the RAID array. This was one of the lessons learned from this event. Tal -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of John Stoffel Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 4:07 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] I'd like to see Windows do this.... Tal> It was just the OS, not the data disk (the data disk is a 3 disk Tal> Raid 5 array). Again, If you've bothered to use RAID on your data, why not on the OS as well? It's not like the OS is all that big space wise, so it's cheap to mirror. And not always will the system (unix or otherwise) fail so nicely. You were lucky in my book. :] John _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 30, 2007

Re: [Wlug] PGP Key Signing Party

by Walt Sawyer

Here is mine. 7232 6FDF 6586 24F5 D2D7 588C B851 D6B0 0003 2D3B Thanks! Walt Sawyer Eric Martin wrote: > This upcoming meeting we are going to have a PGP Key Signing Party. > For those of you who don't know what PGP is, allow me to briefly > explain. This is all base off of the GPG Key Signing HOWTO > (http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/kspa/gpg-party.en.html) which I suggest for > further reading. Those who do know can feel free to skip down to the > next paragraph. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, and is a Public > Key Infrastructure that allows us to communicate securely and deal with > data in a secure fashion. There is a public key that one would > typically upload to a server and a private key that you hold on to. > With the private key you can decrypt / sign, and with the public key you > can encrypt / verify emails and documents. Key signatures come into > play when you validate that a specific key belongs to a specific person > and extend the web of trust. > > Here's what needs to be done BEFORE the meeting on your computer, > or on > a secure terminal (e.g. not in a computer lab on your campus). I'll > post directions both for GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) and Kgpg (the KDE front > -end to gpg for all of those who like GUIs). > > 1. Generate a Key Pair / Verify your key won't expire soon > gpg --gen-key > (Default values of DSA/Elgamal is fine and the default of 2048 is > good.) > I recommend 3 - 5 years for a key lifespan (how long the key will be > good for) > > 1a) for those of you wishing to use Kgpg, goto Keys -> Generate Key > Pair and fill in the dialog box > Once you create the New key pair, check the Save As box under > _Revocation Certificate_ to save a Revocation Certificate (see 2) > > 1c) For those of you who already have a key, make sure yours isn't > about > to expire (like mine did). If it has expired, you can extend the life by > $ gpg --edit-key <key-id> > and typing expire at the command prompt > > next, generate a new key-pair and sign your new key with your old key > so anyone who trusted your old one will trust the new one. > > 2) Generate a revocation certificate > Revocation certificates are for situations where you forget your > passphrase, the key becomes comprised, etc you can revoke your key. > $ gpg --output revoke.asc --gen-revoke <key-id> > Save this in multiple places, print a copy etc in case you need > it. > 2GUI) If you didn't create a revocation cert in Kgpg, just right click > on your new key and select Revoke Key. when the box pops up only check > Save As > > 3) Upload your key to the Designated server for this party (pgp.mit.edu) > > $ gpg --send-key --keyserver=pgp.mit.edu <key-id> > 3GUI) Right Click on the Key, select Export Public Keys, select Default > Key Server (make sure it's pgp.mit.edu under Settings) > > 4) Email me your key's fingerprint so I can add it to the list > > $ gpg --fingerprint <key-id> > Copy and Paste that into an email to the coordinator (me, Eric > Martin). > > 5) print out a copy of that same output and bring it to the meeting. > > I'll make up a check list and bring them to the meeting for everyone > to use. > > Example output from Step 4: > > pub 1024D/A9413B9F 2007-04-09 [expires: 2010-04-08] > Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F > uid Eric J. Martin <eric.joshua.martin(a)gmail.com> > uid Eric J. Martin <freak4uxxx(a)gmail.com> > sub 2048g/01F81B8E 2007-04-09 [expires: 2010-04-08] > > my <key-id> is A9413B9F (which is always the same as my last 8 hex > digits of my fingerprint). If like me you don't always remember your > key-id you can use your email address and it will still work. > > My full key information is: > > Key ID: A9413B9F > Key Type: DSA > Hex Fingerprint: D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F > Key Size: 1024 > > (The DSA key is always 1024 bits. The ElGamal Encryption key is 2048 > bits in my case, but isn't needed for the keysigning party.) > > What you should bring to this party > > 1. Yourself, no exceptions > 2. Two forms of positive photo ID - driver's license and passport are good > 3. Key Id, Key Type, Hex Fingerprint and Key size info > > ***Please print out your own copy of your info to compare against mine > when you arrive *** > > 4. Pen / Pencil > > What you Should Not Bring > > 1. Computer > > I want to thank Chuck Anderson for helping me out. If you have any > questions please let me know. > > Eric _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 29, 2007