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New Job; New City

Submitted by jessetrucks on Thu, 2011-01-27 11:45
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So, I've been silent for so long because I was working heavy hours on a very consuming project for my previous employer. However, I've now finished that project and moved on to what I hope is a very long term post at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), an I live in the Knoxville, TN, USA area now.

LOPSA Elections next week!

Submitted by jessetrucks on Thu, 2009-06-04 15:30
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The next elections for the LOPSA Board of Directors is next week!

Please review my candidate statement, and please vote for me if you are a current member of LOPSA. At the very least, vote!

Moving along...

Submitted by jessetrucks on Thu, 2009-06-04 13:03
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So, as mentioned in a recent post, I relocated for a job. Well, I relocated for complex reasons, but it was initiated by a job offer. As mentioned in a previous post, I now work for D. E. Shaw Research, LLC in Endicott, NY. We relocated the farm operation to Brackney, PA just over the NY/PA border.

The hauling of stuff, animals, and people is complete, but there is much work left in unpacking and re-organizing everything from normal daily life to animal care-taking.

Movin' movin' movin'...

Submitted by jessetrucks on Tue, 2009-05-19 13:16
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For everyone who, like me, got excited that I was actually posting... Okay, for those few who read my recent postings and finally got interested, I am in the process of packing up my farm and moving almost 900 miles. This process will be complete in the first week of June.

Mr. Trucks Regrets (He's been unable to blog of late.)

Submitted by jessetrucks on Sat, 2009-04-25 02:45
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So, you haven't heard from me in a while. Again. Please don't act surprised. We know you'd just be faking to make me feel better.

LXer Interview

Submitted by jessetrucks on Wed, 2009-02-04 14:18
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Scott Ruecker of LXer interviewed me via email about my involvement with LOPSA and the SCaLE U training classes coming up in a couple weeks on February 20 in

Blogging hurdles

Submitted by jessetrucks on Sat, 2008-09-27 22:29
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So, apparently I have to rethink not whether I want to blog, because I think I made that mostly clear in the last post, but I have to rethink my process.

I thought about why I almost never post to this blog.

bio

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Jesse Trucks has worked in a startup; at an ISP in the 90's; as the single IT guy; in an organization with nearly 150 system administrators maintaining thousands of enterprise servers; managing a team of systems administrators for a consulting firm; on a Unix systems related R&D team at a mid-sized telco; and building and supporting more than a dozen special purpose supercomputers supporting computational biochemistry for a private research company. He now manages information security for supercomputer operations at a major U.S. National Laboratory supporting open scientific research.

About Confessions of a SysAdmin

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Confessions of a SysAdmin is a blog by and for primarily system administrators, but it may appeal to others of professional occupations, especially those in various IT related fields.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • LOPSA
  • system administration
  • the computer industry and trends
  • configuration management
  • security
  • change management
  • disaster recovery
  • communication and other professional skills
  • the blogosphere
  • whatever else comes to mind...

Long time no blog...

Submitted by jessetrucks on Sun, 2008-07-13 00:15
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So, apparently trying that blogging thing didn't work so well in the last several months of chaos. So, I think we're back to a variation of the same question:

Why blog?

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