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| up_the_irons | wonder who ballen was... | [04:35] |
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| up_the_irons | hi ballen | [10:35] |
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| ballen | Hey up_the_irons, thanks for doing the testbed VM. Just got your email | [12:29] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: ah, I had a feeling it was you... ;) | [12:29] |
| ballen | :-) | [12:29] |
| up_the_irons | no problem on the VM, I did many betas when the beta program was going | [12:30] |
| ballen | cool
Can you do a minimal install + plus man pages, and src -> base + sys don't worry about it if you've already got it going | [12:30] |
| up_the_irons | this is what i usually do:
- base - kernels (GENERIC) - info - man - ports ballen: ^^ | [12:32] |
| ballen | that'll due | [12:32] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: I can add src to that if u like | [12:32] |
| ballen | don't worry about it I can always install it later
btw, whats in info so used to doing installs in a certain way I don't even remember | [12:32] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: info is the 'info' pages (like 'man' but more like a book format) | [12:34] |
| ballen | ah right
so how big is ARP Networks? as far as employees, clients ,etc | [12:34] |
| up_the_irons | doing an interview, bbl | [12:40] |
| ballen | ok dokie
I'll be around also I'm a sysadmin looking for work, if thats what you're interviewing ;-) | [12:40] |
| up_the_irons | haha
it is actually the dude came early anyway, be back when i'm done | [12:41] |
| ballen | k | [12:44] |
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| up_the_irons | ballen: ARP Networks is a small company headed by myself, along with a couple network / system admins that I call up when I get busy. we have a 100 sq. ft. cage in Wilshire Annex in Los Angeles, that houses all our servers and our clients' servers. | [14:07] |
| ballen | right on
so how are you on say my VM locks up at 2AM and I email you in a panic for a restart | [14:07] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: I'm the Director of Technology at a firm called DigiSynd, a Disney company, I don't do ARP Networks full time. I used to, but as hosting prices went from $250 / mo. to $10 / mo, I decided it was best to manage small client base at affordable prices, and try to keep everything running as automated as possible | [14:10] |
| ballen | ah ok | [14:11] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: quite honestly, I'd be awake at 2AM. Send an email to support@arpnetworks.com, use the Help Desk system, or hit me up on IRC. But a VM restart is something that I'm going to let clients do by themselves, through the portal | [14:11] |
| ballen | yea I'd rather to be able to do it anyways | [14:11] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: also, you'll have out-of-band access through VNC (this feature is already implemented) | [14:12] |
| ballen | yea I saw that | [14:12] |
| up_the_irons | the point is, as much as possible, let customers service themselves | [14:12] |
| ballen | right on | [14:12] |
| up_the_irons | so right now we're focusing on the niche markets. Not a lot of places offer FreeBSD, or any *BSD, while you can get a Linux VM for a dime a dozen | [14:13] |
| ballen | yep which is so annoying btw, the lack of BSD's vps | [14:14] |
| up_the_irons | so I lean toward pushing those
yeah, since most VPS companies are Xen based, they can only reliably do Linux | [14:14] |
| ballen | Also, why'd you decide on QEMU | [14:15] |
| up_the_irons | KVM/QEMU can run a larger range of OS's | [14:15] |
| ballen | yea | [14:15] |
| up_the_irons | and it can do it damn reliably | [14:15] |
| ballen | interesting clips on the front page of digisynd.com btw | [14:16] |
| up_the_irons | I've had OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, and WinXP all running on the same box
all fast no crashes I tried *every* virtualization system out there, and only KVM/QEMU was able to do that yeah, digisynd.com has some nice stuff up there | [14:16] |
| ballen | wow, excellent. My experiance with Qemu is with XenServer and running FreeBSD in XenServer is horrid | [14:17] |
| up_the_irons | plus, the KVM code was accepted into the Linux kernel very early on, a testament to how well the developers had built it.
the only *BSD that I was able to reliably run on Xen was NetBSD 3.0, and that is old now | [14:17] |
| ballen | true, guessing you're running Linux as your host OS? | [14:18] |
| up_the_irons | ironically, I can't get NetBSD to run on KVM/QEMU ;)
yup, Linux | [14:18] |
| ballen | hah, thats interesting.
NetBSD that is | [14:18] |
| up_the_irons | yeah..
it kernel panics somewhere in the boot process just haven't had time to follow that bug | [14:18] |
| ballen | yea
curious, whats the sysadmin position you're trying to fill | [14:19] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: Junior SA for DigiSynd. I fell down the SA rabbit hole long ago, and have not been able to climb out. We are very backlogged. Need some help doing everything from OpenVPN, to postfix admin, to KVM/QEMU management, to security auditing, to cluster management
ballen: where are you located? | [14:21] |
| ballen | Right now Rochester, NY heading back to Northern MI on the 24th
Currently employeed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and finishing my MS in Networking and Systems Administration | [14:22] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: nice, awesome
ballen: Los Alamos NL has a lab in NY? | [14:24] |
| ballen | nah
work remotely started onsite in July 07 for 6 months and came back to NY for school | [14:26] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: ah cool
ballen: which school? | [14:27] |
| ballen | was originally a "co-op", paid internship
Rochester Institute of Technology Both my undergrad and grad | [14:28] |
| up_the_irons | nice
I finished my Computer Science undergrad at UCLA, back in '04 | [14:29] |
| ballen | right on
yea hopefully I get get my thesis done here in a month or so can* | [14:30] |
| up_the_irons | never went into grad school, even though they gave me an invite.. no GRE, no letters of recommendation, just straight in. But after 5 1/2 years of school, I needed a break ;) | [14:30] |
| ballen | heh yea, I didn't need to do a GRE either since I was coming back to the same school. | [14:31] |
| up_the_irons | oh nice | [14:31] |
| ballen | which was one of the key determining factors of coming back and not another school | [14:31] |
| up_the_irons | i bet :) | [14:32] |
| ballen | Not sure if you'd be interested in bringing in someone thats not local, but I could send along my resume if you'd like | [14:33] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: yeah, right now we're definitely looking for someone local | [14:34] |
| ballen | ah right on | [14:34] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: but I wouldn't mind having your resume on file anyway. you can send it to garry [at] digisynd.com
never know what might come up | [14:34] |
| ballen | will do | [14:35] |
| up_the_irons | cool | [14:35] |
| ballen | and sent | [14:37] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: got it | [14:39] |
| ballen | cool | [14:40] |
| up_the_irons | nice GPA... and funny, I don't think I've seen "Thesis" and "GitHub" used in the same sentence
;) | [14:40] |
| ballen | hah, yea | [14:40] |
| up_the_irons | nice to see a Thesis isn't all about numbers and symbols anymore | [14:40] |
| ballen | going to release it under the MIT license because who knows if I can keep it up, or if I'll want to move on | [14:41] |
| up_the_irons | for sure | [14:41] |
| ballen | not much use for it to just sit on a CD or in backup somewhere after I'm done | [14:41] |
| up_the_irons | haha, nice "Car Repair". I have that on my resume as well ;) | [14:42] |
| ballen | :-)
yea, had a '88 BMW 325iX | [14:42] |
| up_the_irons | I still drive an '87 Acura Legend | [14:42] |
| ballen | that I worked on a lot
until I hit a deer two months ago | [14:42] |
| up_the_irons | yeah, I've done like everything on my Legend.. only taken it to the mechanic 5 times in 10 years.. i've done a ton of work in my driveway ;)
ah man, too bad, it wrecked it huh? | [14:43] |
| ballen | well, it was kind of a economic decision. Insurance wanted to total it.
and I wanted a car that I didn't need to fix anymore | [14:43] |
| up_the_irons | ah right
yeah, i hear ya on that after 10 years of working on mine, i'm kinda losing the motivation. at least, if I had more free time it would be on thing, but i don't anymore... | [14:44] |
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| ballen | yeeep, I used to work on it with my dad a lot hes a big car guy.
when I moved out to Rochester, lost a shop to work in and a buddy to work on it with | [14:45] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: ah, yeah
i always worked by myself, but for a long time it was just on the side of the street, or when I got an office, it was in the office parking lot. I finally got a house with a garage in like '06, so that was awesome :) | [14:49] |
| ballen | yea proper facilities are always nice | [14:50] |
| up_the_irons | yep
food time cd $lunch | [14:51] |
| ballen | lol k, same her except dinner
here* | [14:51] |
| up_the_irons | hehe | [14:52] |
| ballen | alright I'll be around tomorrow. If you get the testbed setup just shoot me an email. | [14:52] |
| up_the_irons | ballen: yup, sure thing | [14:52] |
| ballen | thanks | [14:53] |
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| up_the_irons | syminet: did ya see wilshire annex today? | [17:03] |
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| ballen | up_the_irons: you up and around? | [23:09] |
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