[geeks] Re: [rescue] Re: kernel scalability....

[Brian Hechinger]

> Speaking of which, "informal survey"
> "What do you do for a living, and whats your "history" ?"

currently: unemployed
past:

Senior Solaris Admin for Agere for two months before getting laid off, dealt
mostly with NFS home directory servers and a compute farm made up of a silly
number of SunBlade 1000 machines (the US-III CPU based 480R machines weren't
available yet and Agere/Lucent couldn't wait) as well as several 2TB NetApp 
F880 NAS boxes.

Senior Solaris Admin for Mack Trucks for about 6 months before being laid off,
was one of a small team of admins that kept all the sun gear running.  about
40 sun boxes ranginf in size from ultra2 to UE4500 as well as some resiliance
boxes that ran the raptor filewall stuff.  great job.  got to use a mainframe,
got to play with VMS.  very laid back.  very pissed off about getting let go
since it was 5 minutes from home.  it was an ass kicking job too.  oh well.

one of two admins for half.com where i dealt with linux based web server 
running ColdFusion (yuck) and of course the big sexy sun hardware.  i'm gonna
keep this one short lest it degrade into a rant about the morons i worked for.
left this job to work at mack.

2 years in brasil, teaching english of all things.

junior solaris admin/AT&T UNIX admin for Lucent taking care of boxes that ran
inhouse data gathering software to gather usage information off of telephone
switches for statistical and planning reasons.  two products.  one ran on the
AT&T 3b2 the other ran on solaris/sparc (sparc20s, this was when they still 
cost a boatload of cash, right before the ultras were released)

prior to that i worked many odd jobs from landscaping to cooking to manual slave
labor to electrical to plumbing, to, well, you name it, i've probably done it.

recently divorced, one daughter (turns 5 in november) and no real plans.

dream job: at this point, i'm not being to picky.  my dream job would be A JOB.

cheers,

-brian