Here is an interesting week. A company that wants me to come work with them has gotten a major chipset mfg from taiwan to agree to pay for me to do Computex. They (the first company) will likely pay for business class tix for me to go.
Of course the main company I work for has me on this major project call Seabiscuit, which is so major that I can't even talk about it with most of the company!
Then of course I will have to ask this company for a paid week off to go to Taiwan to Conputex, which is being paid for by 2 other companies. The first company (the airfare one) wants me to work with them as a permanent sort of thing, but I like the company where I am now. I finally have things working well and probably will be getting more toys.
Speaking of toys, my old company, which failed, sent me some more old toys so I have a few extra computers now with video capture cards. Need to do something with those (mythtv anyone?)
On totally unrelated news, another company that I am part of, a nights & weekends sort of thing, just found out that I got fiber optic cable laid near my house and how cheap the bandwidth from them is, so it looks like I will be getting a server rack in the basement, bandwidth and some electric paid for, a major UPS and possibly even a generator put in.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Guess the first two comments were little ado about nothing.
What to do here... Well, a bit about me perhaps. I am a 40-something computer professional. I live in the metro-NY area and have recently begun working for a company in the travel industry, in charge of taking the mess that is their server rack and making it into something good as well as maintaining all of the internal PCs.
That was actually my charge when I took the job in late November, 2005. Here it is, about 3 months later and all of the crappy PC workstations in the company are gone. The Dells that were here have been reloaded and more Dell PCs have been ordered. Everything from the workstation end is far more stable now.
A bunch of old generic servers have been removed and replaced with Dell 2850s for the mail and databse servers, a Dell SC1425 for the outgoing mail (we do a lot of that) and an older Dell 350 (1Ghz) for the firewall.
There are a bunch of Compaq servers in use as well, but those seems stable, which leaves me with 2 machines to be replaced, but those really need some work done on the software side before that can be accomplished.
From an OS side we are WinXP on the workstations (except for mine) and Centos on the server (and my workstation) side.
I just recently moved the company from an old java servlet based chat system to a nice open-source program call Crafty Syntax. I am a big fan of open source and fortunately so is the president of the company, so I can spend the time to do work on Open Source projrcts and donate the code back during work. That would explain using Centos, no? :)
On the "rushtrader" side of things, I have 2 main projects. One is a Direct Connect hub for the trading of Rush concerts. That would explain the monniker, no? Rush tacitly allows this and as a result we are quite careful to not allow anythign commercially released into the mix. The other project is to manage the chat forum for a Zebra, a group with roots in New Orleans and on Long Island.
What to do here... Well, a bit about me perhaps. I am a 40-something computer professional. I live in the metro-NY area and have recently begun working for a company in the travel industry, in charge of taking the mess that is their server rack and making it into something good as well as maintaining all of the internal PCs.
That was actually my charge when I took the job in late November, 2005. Here it is, about 3 months later and all of the crappy PC workstations in the company are gone. The Dells that were here have been reloaded and more Dell PCs have been ordered. Everything from the workstation end is far more stable now.
A bunch of old generic servers have been removed and replaced with Dell 2850s for the mail and databse servers, a Dell SC1425 for the outgoing mail (we do a lot of that) and an older Dell 350 (1Ghz) for the firewall.
There are a bunch of Compaq servers in use as well, but those seems stable, which leaves me with 2 machines to be replaced, but those really need some work done on the software side before that can be accomplished.
From an OS side we are WinXP on the workstations (except for mine) and Centos on the server (and my workstation) side.
I just recently moved the company from an old java servlet based chat system to a nice open-source program call Crafty Syntax. I am a big fan of open source and fortunately so is the president of the company, so I can spend the time to do work on Open Source projrcts and donate the code back during work. That would explain using Centos, no? :)
On the "rushtrader" side of things, I have 2 main projects. One is a Direct Connect hub for the trading of Rush concerts. That would explain the monniker, no? Rush tacitly allows this and as a result we are quite careful to not allow anythign commercially released into the mix. The other project is to manage the chat forum for a Zebra, a group with roots in New Orleans and on Long Island.
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Hello
Well, this is a first for me. I never expected to write a blog, and in fact I am not really sure why I am doing it now. I guess this will serve as a first post. I'll add more about me and what I do shortly.
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