I just lost my job today, so here we go..

I'm a ~30 years career Sysadmin/DevOps/Server Shepard/Graybeard whatever its called now UNIX nerd.

Looking for work doing UNIX'y stuff. I mostly do automation, and have avoided working with AI and Kubernetes (though I have a bit of k8s experience at two jobs, I just prefer "the old way")

Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Ansible, Shell scripts, etc.

I've built Linux distributions, and automation tools. Having worked at Redhat, TurboLinux, Penguin Computing, Salesforce, and Chef.

Built and maintained monitoring systems, checks, and lived the on-call life.

Built and managed CI systems, and Pipelines.

I've written and maintained software in Ruby, Python, and Shell. I've dabbled in just about every other programming language you'll find on a UNIX system.

I have spent a lot of time with *BSD, Solaris, IRIX, and Linux, and to a lesser extent HPUX, and AIX.

If its sysadmin work on a UNIX, I've likely done it.

Remote only / West Michigan maybe / not willing to relocate

#getfedihired #unix #linux

@timbl
I remember logging in anonymously to #CERN using #telnet on an old #UNIX system to access #lynx to #browse the #Internet in 1992-93 at The Queen's University of Belfast #QUB. Shortly after, QUB installed PCs with direct Internet access. P.S. I still use lynx today.

Edit: to better clarify where and when!

A cursed feature of C in 1972: Labels and functions were reassignable (i.e., lvalues)!

For example, this is a clever way to initialize once:

goto init;
init:
ouptr = oubuf;
init = init1;
init1:

which is compiled to:

jmp *4120
mov 4136,4144
mov 4122,4120

Note the indirect jump and assignment to that address. All gotos used indirect jumps. This apparently would have also worked with functions.

#c #unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Hi folks. Does anyone know of a terminal-based chat or messaging program, threaded or otherwise, that's easy enough for newbs?

My goal is to switch away from a terrible web-based discussion forum.

#linux #unix #chat #forum #software #pedagogy #academia