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By: Cleotis
Date: 5/12/99 3:50:33 PM
# Replies: 11
First of all, I must apologize profusely. None of us can stand people who only come around when they want something, and I must admit that it's been quite some time since I've done my time here at the Nunnery. However, much like the families who lost their kids in the Colorado shootings suddenly found themselves in church, I suddenly find myself clinging to my professional life by a thread and retreating to this place of comfort and guruism - the Nunnery.
I met this guy in '95 who I became buds with. He knew all there was to know about the Internet, and I knew nothing. He taught me, I learned, and next thing you know I'm building web sites for a living. Because he was my buddy, and because he was smart, and because he taught me everything I know about the net, I put up with his lack of ability to meet deadlines and deliver on promises.
Last week, he almost cost me $35,000 in lost work. In my "kiss off" letter, I calculated that he's already lost me about $3,000 because he can't deliver on deadlines. I finally had enough, and I dumped him.
In a flash of idiocy, I signed a 1-year contract for a dedicated server colocated in a massive data center in Virginia. I was like, "I'll just buy my own server!"
Now, I realize that I'm in way over my head. I don't know jack about running a web server - which is why I'm here.
Surely, there are some experienced web geeks that hang out here that would love to be my contract sysadmin.
The specifics:
System specifics:
Additional Software
Yep, I'll want to know how to use some of these, and I'll also need an IRC server configured as well.
Any takers?
Response #1
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/13/99 11:13:59 PM
You know, there are 'teach yourself to be a Linux administrator geek with a hard on in 21 days' books available.. and they're much less expensive than $1000 plus air travel.
Personally, I'd be interested in helping out because I only know enough to be a dangerous admin, and I want to learn more. I don't know if that's the kind of assistance you had in mind, though. :-) (Plus I was kinda planning to travel to Nashville anyway...)
Response #2
By: Cleotis
Date: 5/14/99 7:40:53 PM
Regarding the hard-on books, I had considered a 30-day crash course and immsering myself in the whole schmeer for 4 to 6 weeks. The problem is that I've got other projects that I'm committed to.
It did work out. I found a guy who I was friends with from IRC who digs Linux and knows a little more than the average Linux guy. He's doing some contract work for a small ISP in South, South Texas (Penitas, about 8 miles from the border near McAllen) and he's agreed to by my sysadmin for better worse.
I feel pretty good because I really like the guy. He's 19, and eager to learn. I think we'll both win. I will pay him well and he'll learn a lot, and I get a budding sysadmin who will feel a sense of loyalty to my company.
Then again, it may not be a perfect world like I want it to be, in which case I'll be in touch with Homer PDQ. :-)
Response #3
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/15/99 12:36:20 AM
I'm glad it worked out. You hav meine email addressen shoold za need arghiize.
Response #4
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 5/16/99 11:54:11 PM
We're switching some of our systems over to FreeBSD and Linux at work, so I'm gonna have to start learning it my own self.
I have a box at home that I've earmarked for said purpose, so I might be a possible source for information/help, as well.
Lemme know.
gowan@wt.net
Response #5
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 5/17/99 6:56:53 PM
Don't feel bad. I think the whole world is gonna have to learn Linux. Seems as though with the momentum it's picking up, there's gonna be little way to avoid it.
Response #6
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 5/19/99 2:23:51 AM
Spaz Sez:
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Don't feel bad. I think the whole world is gonna have to learn Linux. Seems as though with the momentum it's picking up, there's
gonna be little way to avoid it.
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Yup...gotta love it! 17% share of the server market and growing. In 20 minutes I was able to put RedHat on my Sparcstation and have a working webserver and ftp server up and on the net.
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #7
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/19/99 8:02:43 PM
I forget the name of the company, but they're making these little pentium-based servers that are about as big as the old external modems of yore. They come in a rack-mount configuration that fits two to a single-rack space. They're cheap and they run RedHat. Cute.
Die, Microsoft, DIE!
Response #8
By: sooz
Date: 5/20/99 12:58:53 PM
Get over it, Homey, get OVER it!
Free enterprise rules.
Response #9
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/21/99 8:06:34 PM
Yah. Which is why MICROSOFT MUST DIE.
:-)
Response #10
By: Ralf
Date: 6/27/99 5:01:42 PM
So kill them with a better idea. Quit bitchin.
(Don'tya love pickin up a thread from six weeks ago? :-)
Response #11
By: Cleotis
Date: 6/27/99 6:47:45 PM
Homer. Those are Cobalt Raq's. And support for them is rising. They're quirky - can't run everything all the time, but what they do run, they run well. As close to plug and play as the server world has seen.