[Gllug] Hello from Cape Town

[Alvin Chang]

Hi Glluggers:

A warm greeting from Cape Town, South Africa!

I'm a committee member of the local LUG - CLUG (C for Cape; featured
in Linux Format this May in the overseas LUG section). In this role, I
co-admin the box for ftp and mailing lists. Since I'm moving to London
next month, I'd like to join the LUG in London, and say Hi.

I've mainly used Debian for servers like firewall(iptables),
router(zebra), mail(postfix+cyrus), web(apache+mysql+php),
backup(amanda) and Ubuntu for desktops. However, since my employer -
University of Cape Town is married to Novell, I also recommend others
to use SUSE since there is Novell Client rpm available. My latest work
was a 32-CPU RHEL4-AS cluster comprises of 1 master node and 8 worker
nodes. The master node NFS-export shared directories and worker nodes
PXE-boot off the master node which also assigns IP numbers via DHCP.
The worker nodes communicates via MPI, and sometimes the NIC's maxes
out at 125MB/s both ways in full-duplex.

As LUG members tend to be working in the IT field, I'd like to ask you
how deep the water is over there. I understand there's no free lunch
under the sun, but what I'm wondering is if a Linux SysAdmin can find
a job within weeks, not months. Any contacts will be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
PS>Oh, yes, I did read the archive for this month and saw at least 2
posts for vacancies and at least 3 members offered links to their
company's job listings.

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Alvin Chang Yu-Ming
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