My thoughts on life, the universe and beer

Howdy,

Been wondering about Operations vs Consulting in IT for the last weeks.

The company i work for is being merged with another service company. The managers are creating new departments and moving people around. My new department is called something like “ASP Operations”. We will run all the centrally managed systems, our machine rooms etc.

I’ve always looked at IT as IT….not operations vs consulting etc. My job has always been very much a mix of those two since i work in a team of 3 admins that do work on SAN & Linux environments.

After thinking a bit i decided that i like operations a bit better then consulting for me. I like to create my environments, be they SAN, Linux or whatever. I like to build them, run them and finally replace them.

All hail the System Administrators of the world!

Well….
Bgrds,

Finnzi

Eyyy…

Just watched the newest episodes of The Big Bang Theory & Family Guy. Hot damn!….

The newest Big Bang Theory episode is the funniest ever!….i just laughted my ass off…..god …how can some TV show that’s non-animated be so fucking funny!

Lately i have been reading up on some mailing lists, and i saw that some work is being done on online-resizing of block devices with device-mapper-multipath in the RHEL 5.3 beta. This is exactly the feature i have been waiting for……my fellow Windows admins have been making fun of me for adding a new lun every time i need to resize a disk on my Linux boxes….it sucks! …..

I often wonder if people actually acknowledge the amount of work Red Hat has put in development of Linux….i hate to see all those damn Ubuntu followers badmouth Red Hat for being “Microsoft” of the linux world…..

I often highly doubt that i would be working with linux based systems at all if i would not have bought those Red Hat 4.2 cd’s i did back in 1997 i think it was……Man, does this bring back memories or what.

Today, i work with pretty much anything with a CLI….After i got accepted into our NOC (Network Operations Center) in 2003/2004 i’ve been the goto guy for anything with a CLI interface. My experience is just ridiculous….Networks, SAN’s, UNIX/Linux/Every fricking OS with a CLI interface, VXWorks, whatevah!….bring it on …

After 2 weeks of searching i just found my keyring…..It got lost after the last drunken adventure with my homes @ Skyggnir ….Siggi, Steini, Ommi, Orvar, Halldor, Oli, Baddi, Andri, Saevar….you guys know who you are!

Well …off to watching some TV …laters homes!

Bgrds,
Finnzi