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Linux admin

Systems Administrator Whose Ruby, Perl or Python Scripting Minimizes Manual Work

In the pitched battle between man and machine, the crafty System Administrator works feverishly to reduce tedium. As a uniquely talented sys admin you can write scripts with true control structures and complicated loops in Perl, Ruby or Python. Armed with that capability you lord it over a 150 count Linux and OS X server farm by proactively controlling processes that would otherwise need your manual investigation and intervention. Your goal is minimizing what's laborious in the sys admin world.

Besides scripting, you know systems. You know hardware. You know package management. On day one you can build and set up a new Fedora Core machine and install any software package you're asked to. You can find the dead and dying drives in the enterprise and replace them, whether they be standalone, part of an md, an lvm, or a hardware RAID. For you, it's a simple matter to change the root password on the 150 machines in your flock.

You probably worked as an admin in your school's computer lab. As a matter of fact, you're pretty confident you can get a Unix machine to do anything. With keen analytical skills you can take a mysterious symptom and produce a diagnosis. You won't hesitate to pour over logs when you know they hold the key to the problem, but you've seen your fair share of messes and mostly don't need to. If a machine doesn't POST, there's no need to freak out there's an explanation and you'll find it, and sooner rather than later. Oh, and you dig Macs, although you may love your N810 more than your MacBook.

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ShopWiki is the only shopping search engine that scrapes the whole web with a custom AI to build its database of more than 250 Million products for sale.

For more information about ShopWiki, check out:

http://www.shopwiki.com/wiki/Help:About+Us.

ABOUT SHOPWIKI


In 2005, Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman (DoubleClick's former CEO and CTO, respectively) and Eliot Horowitz founded ShopWiki in New York City with the goal of indexing everything that can be bought online.

ShopWiki is a shopping search engine designed to help consumers find specific products on the Internet with ease. It is the only shopping search engine that combines advanced Web-crawling technology with consumer-written wiki buying guides to help shoppers make the most informed buying decisions.

ShopWiki does not sell any products. We simply help our users find any product available for sale on the Web. ShopWiki actively crawls the Internet to find and organize the widest selection of products from more than 180,000 online merchants. Our intelligent search capabilities let shoppers look for products using natural language without limiting the parameters.

ShopWiki is also a community of shoppers that care about price, quality and precise information. Our wiki buying and gift guides help users make informed decisions when purchasing products. Users are able to edit, change and add to any wiki guide to ensure other community members are given the most accurate, up-to-date information available.

ShopWiki furthers the concept of user-submitted information with video reviews. The user-submitted video reviews act as a trusted friend detailing the features of a specific product or category to help users make smart buying decisions. Anyone can submit a video review, but ShopWiki only posts videos that truly aid in the shopping experience.