frost_knight

I travel all over the United States to clients and build or fix their Linux infrastructure. A lot of time spent in clearance-required disconnected SCIF environments surrounded by grim faced men with guns. I didn't travel so much this past year, mostly assigned to several remote clients, but since 2017 I've typically averaged 200-250 nights in a hotel per year.

When I'm home I help operate a rabbit rescue.

Willing to share them?

I think Lazarus is one of the greatest game mods ever made. They even added the option to become an evil Avatar and side with Blackthorn.

I've been using Finale since 1994, and am sad.

I'm willing to give Dorico a shot, but that's a lot of years of muscle memory to re-train unless it can be configured to use the same keyboard shortcuts.

Red Hat Principal Consultant here, July will be 7 years at the company for me.

Before IBM purchase: travel to clients, build and/or fix their stuff, recommend improvements

After IBM purchase: travel to clients, build and/or fix their stuff, recommend improvements

At least on my side of the aisle I haven't noticed any notable changes in my day to day work for Red Hat. IBM has been very light touch on our consulting services.

Once I realized I only liked soft drinks because of the carbonation, it was easy to switch to seltzer water. Now not only can I not stand most sugary drinks, I've almost entirely lost my sweet-tooth for everything. I basically only drink water, coffee, and whiskey in various proportions but mostly water. A little cream in the coffee.

I'm still ok with honey, and every once in a while I have a hankering for a single scoop of ice cream or custard.

A few times a year I get a migraine or super bad headache. A can of coke, when you don't ever drink it otherwise, is super effective against headaches.

I'm a consultant for Red Hat. I'm assigned a number of clients at a time, travel onsite (or work remote) to fix or build their systems, and sometimes supervise small teams as part of larger engagements.

Red Hat gives me my assignments for the next few weeks or months, tell me what end result everyone wants to see, and sends me to go get it done. I'm 100% trusted to do the job, no micromanagement. If I need help I'm a phone call away from expert engineers in all of our products. I have a TS clearance, so I'm onsite more often than not because I'm working on disconnected networks.

While I technically have a manager, they're more like a handler or mission control. He hands me my tasks, tells me the lay of the land, and gives me access to anything I need for the job. I'm not really "managed" on a day-to-day basis. Every engagement has it's own project manager that I work with closely but even that is a peer relationship, no supervisory.

I travel constantly but love it. 200+ nights in a hotel every year for the past 5 years. My wife's job is mostly remote, so she joins me on occasion, and I can get her plane tickets with my racked up mileage points. I can "pay" for our vacations entirely with loyalty points (car, hotel, plane).

One thing I love about Red Hat is everyone pushes each other forward. Co-workers reach down and pull their colleagues up behind them. Never before have I felt such a sense that my colleagues have my back all the way. A very "we're all in this together" attitude throughout the company. Also, while you're always encouraged to move up the promotion ladder if you want, if you've found a niche that you're comfy in then that's supported to. There's no up-or-out like some organizations, and no forced ranking thank Yoba.

tl;dr Red Hat completely trusts me to do my job, and does everything it can to help me succeed. It's awesome.

I'd counter with:

- Adventure

- Riddle of the Sphinx

- Raiders of the Lost Ark

- Dragonstomper

- Star Raiders

Malwarebytes also blocks the site, saying it's infected with a trojan.

Many moons ago I had a job with a private office. Brass nameplate on the door. I asked the intern who sat at a desk outside in the hall to kick me if I ever started acting all-pretentious-like. She agreed with great enthusiasm, but thankfully I kept a solid head about me.

I had the most ridiculously comfy couch in my office. Blue, threadbare, worn-in. Every time anyone sat down in it I warned them that they were going to fall asleep if they stayed there too long. Without fail, I'd hear wood sawing after a manner of minutes. Vendors, colleagues, the CIO, the CEO, my wife dropping by to visit, that couch was insidious.

Traveling consultant-architect for Red Hat here.

Before IBM purchase: Travel to clients, build and/or fix their things, suggest improvements.

After IBM purchase: Travel to clients, build and/or fix their things, suggest improvements.

At least from my side of Red Hat I've experienced zero changes in how I go about my work. In fact, my schedule is even more packed now, we can barely keep up with the demand. As far as I can tell IBM has left us alone to do our thing. Maybe it's different for other departments.

Everything sent to /dev/null can eventually be retrieved from /dev/random, given sufficient time.

Back in 2007 I was the chair of the Washington, DC chapter of the ACM. The chapter had been dormant for a while so I thought hosting a lecture by a big name in computing would be a good kickstart. I emailed Brian Kernighan asking if he'd be available and willing to give a talk on Unix. He said he'd be absolutely delighted.

He was a wonderful speaker and just a great guy to talk to. He patiently signed copies of K&R C that folks had brought, told interesting anecdotes, and was a kind and pleasant person to everyone who spoke with him. Very approachable.

One thing I remember is him telling me that he only gets stage nerves if he knows he's being filmed. Massive crowd? No problem. Photographs? Go for it. Video cameras? If you do, you have my permission but don't tell me, and make sure I don't notice them.

After that I kept reaching out to other Big Names, and many of them said yes. I figured there was no harm in asking, all they could do is say no. And not a single person I asked said no because they didn't want to, it was always because the scheduling or travel just wouldn't line up properly.

This past February I had the honor of giving my first ever keynote presentation. The conference was sponsored by my employer. That said, aside from mentioning that I worked for said employer, I never mentioned it again nor did I try to sell anyone anything.

I had some of the best most awesome conversations during the coffee and lunch breaks. I can only hope that I gave a fraction of insight during my keynote that I received during the hallway talks.

Hello VonGuard, fellow Red Hatter here. I also love working for Red Hat, I think it's a great company. I'm a consultant, which means I travel to clients all year to build, configure, and fix RHEL products.

We're in desperate need of more consultants and trainers. However, it's a heavy travel load. Last year (2019) I spent 291 nights in a hotel room. Still, I love the job.

When you buy RHEL you're not buying the software, you're buying a support contract and indemnifcation. RHEL also provides a long-term stable platform.

There's no-cost developer licenses as well that you can use with subscription manager. And, of course, there's also CentOS for free-as-in-beer.

I volunteer at a rabbit shelter, and have performed rabbit care for years.

Albendazole is used to counter a rabbit parasite called E. Cuniculi. A complete 30-day Albendazole regimen, for a rabbit, is about $40.

Have From Software do the combat engine as well.

Location: Maryland Eastern Shore, USA

Remote: yes

Willing to Relocate: no

Travel: yes

Technologies: linux, vmware, aws, perl, python, devops, sysadmin, intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, ethical hacker. rhce, cissp, ceh

Resume: on request

Email: winter at frostmarch dot com

If you say something that you sincerely believe is true, but isn't, then you aren't lying...you're wrong. Important difference.

You can't blame CentOS for switching. Their goal is to create as close to a bit-for-bit rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as possible.

I've heard of this idea before and it sounds great. But I can think of a hack for it that could make the trip even worse.

"This is a coin. It's just a regular coin from my pocket, but I want you to carry, and know that as long as you carry this coin - for the rest of the night - you'll be safe."

(lean in close to whisper into the recipient's ear)

"But if you lose the coin...if you lose the coin, you're doomed, mate. Completely f*cking doomed."

Rabbit rescue. I volunteer at a shelter in Maryland. Clean cages, administer medicine, check food and water and hay, brushing, and provide lots of scritches. Shameless plug: www.esrrec.org. If you visit the website, the "donate" and "volunteer" rabbit photos are my own pets.

Music composition. I have a nice little midi setup. A full sized synth, a 25-key controller, a launchpad controller with external track controls, and a special device that allows me to connect a tablet and a smartphone to use as additional controllers or sound devices. Ableton Live and Finale. Lately I've been composing music for weddings, but also dipping my toes into electronica and ambient. I'm an old hand at Finale, still new to Ableton.

For 4 years I was the systems security officer for a college. At least 2 students per week fell for a phishing scam. It didn't matter how much we warned about it; emails, orientation lectures for firstyears, one-on-one talks, big alerts on the Blackboard system, you name it.

They'd get an email claiming to be from the help desk and BAM owned. My sensors would pick it up and cut their access off and they'd have to come to my desk for restoration. I was unfailingly polite and respectful. Didn't make anyone feel dumb, no berating, just a calm explanation of exactly what happened and how to avoid it in the future. No student ever had it happen to them a second time.

One staff member fell for phishes at least 5 times, though. The president of the college had to talk to that individual eventually.

If it's a former disgruntled employee then they shouldn't know what the daily token is, since they should at that point be gone and no longer have access to such details.

If they do, however, know the token, then you have another problem altogether.

It matches my experience too, much to my frustration. I've studied music theory and composition for years and have composed a fair number of pieces. I can play piano and sing but have no interest in being a performer. My instrument is pen and paper (or midi controller, Finale, and Ableton).

I'm 3 credits short of a bachelor's degree because I've never been able to pass any foreign language course. 10 attempts. Languages go through my head like sand through a sieve. I even took a language proficiency test and the proctor said I did so badly that I could have achieved a better score through blind chance, randomly selecting answers.

I'm now married to a fluent Japanese speaker. Even with her help it doesn't make any difference, it just won't "stick" no matter how hard I try. She tells me my pronounciation is excellent, however.

The college I went to will not accept any substitutions, thus the frustration.

And yet I learn programming languages quickly.

“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”

-- Ninefingers, "The Blade Itself", Joe Ambercrombie

Candy Crush Saga on git? Sounds more like a fantasy novel.

Maybe the day he drops the franchise and reverts to his own brand a bunch of us HN folks could come out and throw a huge party for him.

Have you heard of or tried Ultima V: Lazarus?

It's a fantastic total conversion of Ultima V using the Dungeon Siege engine. It requires that you have Dungeon Siege or Legends of Aranna installed (won't work with Dungeon Siege 2). The (almost) complete Ultima V with extra sidequests and the option of becoming an evil Avatar. It's one of the best game mods I've ever played. I believe Richard Garriott himself gave Team Lazarus a big huzzah.

some things from the original U5 couldn't be implemented in the DS engine. The blink spell had to be cut, for example.

http://u5lazarus.com/