cliffdickerson

Ask HN: Enterprise sysadmin to high scale web app sysadmin?

Posted by cliffdickerson on Thursday January 07, 2010 @10:17PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a run of the mill enterprise sysadmin. The largest cluster I've ever built was 128 node oracle grid and I've never had to solve a scaling problem more difficult then "add more ram."I've always been interested in larger systems and with the success and volume of web apps there are more and more 1000 plus server deployments out there. I want to start applying for these types of jobs and was...

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Re:The Design and Implementation of XMonad on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @09:39PM (#814405)

My favorite tilling WM http://wmii.suckless.org/ You can configure it with any scripting language but the downside is the help is lacking compared to the IRC community for XMonad and awesome.

Re:Ask HN: Income on the Side? on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:17AM (#733812)

This strikes me as slightly funny/ironic. As a sysadmin/IT person I do small programing jobs for side cash. :) When possible I try not to contribute spaghetti into the wild.

Re:Watch This Video. Do The Complete Opposite of Whatever It Says. on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @07:24PM (#731325)

At this risk of sounding stupid, what is this #startups channel? # like irc?

Re:Ask HN: Finding sales people? on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @07:10PM (#729056)

Good info thank you. Without a doubt I need to learn more. I'm just a dumb tech person.

Re:Ask HN: Finding sales people? on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @06:56PM (#729035)

I'm in Vegas. I'm Willing to look for customers in LA, SF and Phoenix as well as here in the Vegas metro area. In reality the job can be done remotely from anywhere.

Do these appointment setting groups provide leads or are they just a mechanical turk to make the calls and set the appointments? Do I give them an Oracle customer list I purchased?

I'm reading Randy's site now, thank you.

Re:Ask HN: Finding sales people? on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @06:41PM (#729013)

Alain,

Thanks for the link, and good advice. That's the trouble I'm having now is all the sales people I do know I would consider con artists before I'd call them good sales people.

I'm also having a hard time with compensation. Do you pay a flat % for a sale coming from the "setup fee" and then a small % of the recurring monthly fee's or just a flat salary?

Ask HN: Finding sales people?

Posted by cliffdickerson on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @06:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm in the process of trying to start a small managed services company and I am completely lost as to how to find sales people. Any thoughts? I have a tech demo showing off all the great automation, monitoring and alerts to show how "we" can save you time, and keep your systems up. I even have some decent literature and presentation info, I'm just lost as to how to get it in front of people. My...

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Re:HalfMask - an Experiment in Password Masking on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @11:06PM (#695144)

I typed a password, It "stood out" so I had my wife see if she could read it and she couldn't. I had her type a password and I could read it no problem. once she had typed it she could read mine no problem as well. It seems once you've "seen it" it stands out. Sorry, maybe I missed something?

Still cool JS trickery none the less.

Re:Keyboard-driven Window Management in OS X on Monday June 15, 2009 @10:28PM (#659445)

That would be the single best thing to happen to my computing environment ever.

Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day? on Sunday June 14, 2009 @06:32PM (#657654)

He asks for $2.99 min so his paypal fees are payed, etc. I gave a bit more and got a personal thank you. It does have a demo mode as well.

Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day? on Sunday June 14, 2009 @01:44PM (#657328)

Ha, I'm posting it again, but only because I love this software so much. Check out SizeUp http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ It has replaced Mercury Mover for me.

Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day? on Sunday June 14, 2009 @01:41PM (#657323)

Not to keep pushing this software, but SizeUp allows for a keyboard shortcut to do full size windows (for any window) and then snap back to previous size, plus a whole mess of other great features. Its literally the app that kept me using OS X after switching from Linux. And its name your own price licensing.

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day? on Sunday June 14, 2009 @11:46AM (#657187)

This might help.

http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/

Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day? on Sunday June 14, 2009 @11:18AM (#657148)

I agree, If you are going to install Linux, even something as "it just works" as Ubuntu there are better laptops to choose for hardware support. I still think there are fan sensor/control issues that require a bit of a hack to get working even semi correctly.

Several of the OSX annoyance I have faced came from switching to a mac from Linux using a tiling windows manager. I found some software "SizeUp" http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ that lets me do similar keyboard controlled tiling of windows and with few other cheap apps I'm almost 100% keyboard :)