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I have contracted for a while, and I’ve seen my share of contractor envy, distrust, and discrimination. However the most common emotion I encounter is envy. At every site I have ever visited, the following conversation has occurred (give or take a few words): them: “Why don’t you go permanent?”. me: “Because I like to …

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The OS build for these blades was very specific and was tuned to the target application (two-stage bulk processing that was both memory and CPU intensive at different points). The blades were installed using kickstart onto IBM blade enclosures. SAN NFS mounts were implemented for common data transfer, and company HPC farm processing software layered …

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This project involved converting ~300 servers from unpatched RHEL4 installations to RHEL6. RedHat satellite for mass-installation. meta-rpm solution updating old and incompatible packages and scripting to new versions Resolving various issues with running a new OS with old methods of usage A final installation phase involving boot-from-san technology   eg    

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An existing solution for transferring logs from webclusters to a logging host was updated for stability and flexability. The original solution used syslog-ng to transfer weblogs to a central syslog-ng host. The solution was updated to: Cater for rsyslog aswell as syslog-ng Transfer ALL system logs to the central host Use a 2-node heartbeat/drbd cluster …

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Over a period of 4 months, I deployed a solution called FreeIPA developed by RedHat and Fedora. This solution is based around Kerberos for authentication, and an LDAP backend for user, group and host management. (Imagine an Active Directory for Linux and you are most of the way there, AD being based also on Kerberos …

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