Little Plastic Castle

 
    
30
Jul 2008
2:04 AM PDT
   

Wednesday 7/30/2008

:: recap ::

-- Set up interviews for Friday morning.� Two guys to interview for the WICK opening.� Both candidates look somewhat over qualified and will probably not enjoy this job.� Guess we'll have to find out.

-- New Project start: K/K-A� --� house with PFF -- Prince Chili Longhorn and I will be building this.� Looks pretty simple from the documentation I went through so far.

-- Mac couldn't get into skylla.� Explained to everyone that this is why I wanted to do the PM servers at the same time as the rest of the PA and PP systems.

-- Discussion with Cartman regarding our LDAP problems.� He's going to schedule meetings so we can get a clearly defined issue and then we're going to root out the solution.

-- Slick is in training this week.� I think he's going to come in for the interviews Friday.

-- Carrot Cake wants to discuss the WICK systems because she's freaking out over the RSYNC discussion.� Everyone is freaking over it and she wants me to look into it.� I pull up the visio diagram and after a few minutes tell her that she's okay.� The diagram shows rsync happening bewtween leela and some other box up in Ohio, but nothing that touches the Greek systems.� The only thing touching the Greek boxes is HTTP and NFS.� They're going to be fine.

- Took the time to explain to Carrot that we're only 7 people trying to keep a $2B datacenter running.� If they don't get us more hands, people are going to have to wait longer for solutions.� (And that is true.� We have 1 UNIX engineer (Me), 2 support staff augmented by 1 contractor, and we have 1ESX engineer who has 2 support staff.)

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    About Me: Little Plastic Castle is an extension of This Child's Life which is not hosted at inboxjournal. This blog will make little sense to anyone other than myself. It's a stream of consciousness log of what I do on a daily basis in my job as a UNIX computer systems engineer. o/~ "They say goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine...so the little plastic castle is a surprise every time, and its hard to say if they're happy, but they don't seem much to mind." o/~ I endeavor to respect confidentiality and thus I use nicknames for the people I work with. (Mr. T, Ratface, Jerry, Cartman, Grandpa Simpson, Slick, and so on.) I drop system names in here and abbreviations, but any note that requires something like a FQDN will always be marked private. You can comment if you like, but I'll only respond if I feel like it.

    Interests: Cast of Characters: Just a few of the names I use for people, this is the nickname and what their job responsibility is. Mr. T - My Direct Manager (Engineering) Slick - ESX Specialist Cartman - Network Engineering Lead Grandpa Simpson - Network Engineer Becky - WebSphere Engineer Ratface - Developer/Architect Jerry - Project Manager (BTI) Matt T. - Project Manager (Blackbird) The Martian - Application Developer AVP Ice Queen - Engineering AVP Chez - Assistant to Ice Queen Watts - Engineering/Development Sr. Mgr. Hoppy - I.T. Security LDAP Squirrelface - I.T. Security Accts Woodchuck - I.T. Security Accts Russian Bride - Application Tester Trisha - Testing AVP Tequila - UNIX Admin OPS Chops - UNIX Admin OPS Mac - UNIX Engineer (Contractor, works with Tequila & Chops) Margie - SAN specialist (ch)InkPen - Backup Specialist Chimpy - OPS Mgr Duke - UNIX Lead even though he knows nothing about UNIX