Little Plastic Castle

 
    
04
Aug 2008
2:16 AM PDT
   

Monday 8/4/2008

-- I interviewed two new candidates for an assistant, one on Thursday another on Friday.� There wasn't a lot of actual work being done, just mostly meetings and interviews.� I settled on the first guy, his name is Jeff.� With any luck, Mr. T. is making him the offer about now.

�- HAPPY FUCKING AUGUST.� (August is historically the worst month for me personally)

09:05 - Meeting with Ditty, Squirrelface, Hoppy, and Hoops about the outstanding portal audit info.� Squirrelface is tossing out items that failed audit and I have to address them.� One of the items is that "su permissions are 755 and should be 500".�

it's idiotic.

- 09:06 - Call Brett.

- Squirrelface doesn't know what any of these audit items mean in a real-world application.� The items on the list are just silly to me.� Default umask is 022 and they want it to be 027.� Whooptie-shit.

10:05 - Reboot of my workstation.� Trying to connect to VDI kicks me out with a 503 error.� Stephanie @3600 tells me it's because I'm using the "super secret engineering proxy" @202. and I need to switch it to confserver.� Poof, I'm in.

10:15 - Mr. T reminds me AGAIN to log my time.� Bah!� Why do I always blow this off? :)

10:30 - Added Brett to wasadmin group on nymph to see if he can get the rsync CMS stuff working.

10:35 Mr. T. said Jeff doesn't want the job.� Too stressful.� hah, fuck.� What a puss.

�1:10 - Had rice for lunch.� yay.

- Interviewing TC as a formality.� He's an internal guy who wants to transfer to this open REQ, but he's no where near qualified for the job as far as I know.� I have a ton of questions qued up that I hope he can answer.

00 Spoke with my friend Mitch.� He needs a job reference.� Gave him the OK to disclose my contact info.

3:30 - Rejected TC due to his lack of UNIX exp.

- Gave Mitch a GLOWING reference.

- Grabbed stats for Gunslinger on Thyme136

- Good Oscar called me about the K&K project.� I asked her to schedule a meeting with Prince Chili Longhorn, myself, and Becky.� She's going to make it Wednesday @1.

- Something is wrong with LDAP on Oceanus.� Brett & I get in but can't sudo.� It's pulling the info from the e-dir server so I don't know what the deal is.� Asked Hoppy to check into it.

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  • Username: coraline
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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