[ale] Job change leads to job announcement

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com>wrote:

> Congrats on no longer dealing with 65% msft!
>
Indeed! At least my laptop was all Linux. Lenovo W520 with 16GB ram and
4-core I7 v.2 was a screamer (and more horsepower than many of the
servers!).

I had automated most of it. But Microsoft breaks things all the time so I
did have to chase corner cases. Automating across EVERY platform from XP
through current Win8 requires some finesse and a liberal amount of alcohol.
I used bash and winexe :-)



> On Feb 4, 2013 11:30 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am leaving IBM to join a medical research think tank group at Emory.
>>
>> That means my position at IBM is about to be available. Maybe. Not sure
>> yet how they are going to do things. But at this moment, they are looking
>> to add someone to keep my chair warm.
>>
>> The position needs a person who is OK working with Microsoft (65%) and
>> Linux (35%) (Mostly RedHat and CentOS and occasionally SuSE) and willing to
>> poke around at AIX and maybe even smack a Cisco router with an upgrade. I
>> was __W_A_Y__ overqualified. This would keep a "new person" hopping and a
>> mid-level person very occupied. Lots of assorted tech to tinker with. Lots
>> of virtual machine work (Vmware and oVirt/KVM) and OS updates and other
>> assorted IT support "stuff".  Plus the winning entry gets to inherit the
>> pile of bash scripts I wrote to automate as much of the Windows stuff as
>> possible so I wouldn't have to touch it :-) .
>>
>> Warning: email uses Lotus Notes which should be outlawed by the 1972
>> Geneva Convention on cruel and unusual workplace punishments.
>>
>> Using Linux on your main desktop/laptop is very OK and actually
>> encouraged. Win7 otherwise. There is an IBM supported version of RHEL that
>> is very solid and usable (except for that Notes crap).
>>
>> If you want to work at the former ISS location, hit me up off-line and
>> I'll forward the info upstream. The external job notice is NOT out yet so
>> my description may be crap. I've had a lot of fun getting to solve problems
>> and create new solutions and poke with a wide mix of technologies. It's a
>> good but of people to work with.
>>
>> --
>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
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>> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
>> tail. It won't fatten the dog.
>> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
>> *
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James P. Kinney III
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*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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http://electjimkinney.org
http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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