[Gloucs] .....And thanks for all the fish

[M.Blackmore]

Guy Edwards02 wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I will soon be leaving Gloucestershire so I was wondering.
>
>1) What do people want done with the GLUG cd duplicator machine? 
>
I wonder, if you are going to be working in Oxford, whether this could 
be adopted by OxLUG? It could then live in the Eng. Dept, for example, 
as a resource to both LUGS.

I'm also around at home much of the time (preschool kids and long term 
disability put me out of work running me own little PC company and being 
a part time academic) though I would love a part time job, it's full 
time I can't manage healthwise. It's pretty miserable hanging around 
without adult company..)

err as I was saying, I could also offer a home for it here in Charlbury 
and it wouldn't be much of a hassle to feed CDs in between cleaning 
snotty noses and preparing snacks etc. and we have a proper little post 
office here which never gets so busy one hangs about in a line to get 
things weighed and packaged up.

Hmmm, wonder if the college would contemplate a pair of people job 
sharing. I used to be (well, started some of the first) PC Support 
Services in local govt and a large research organisations way back in 
the 80s, when you did everything: training, building and repairs, 
handholding, the lot. I've an instinctive nose for hardware faults and 
have excellent communications skills being a two cultures person who 
swapped from being a theatre company director to computing when I got 
fed up with poverty! Someone else with stronger sys admin skills in 
linux (I've just been a "user" for the last decade, not really dug too 
deep into the OS) could partner with me, enabling an overall skill range 
that it would be very hard to match in a single individual... but I 
suspect the travelling would be a bit much tho from Charlbury, as this 
is in Cheltenham?

But I digress... there are two options for the cd duplicator.

Malcolm

>It's a
>bit old but it works fine and means you don't have to sit at a
>workstation feeding CD's in to be burnt, you just stick in some blanks
>and come back later. 
>It's marked up "Gloucestershire Linux User Group" but I fear that if I
>leave it here at the college it might get commandeered by another
>department and vanish into the ether. It's a bit heavy too, and rather
>bulky (slightly bigger than a big pc). Francis? Mick? Glyn etc? Anyone
>got space for it?
>
>2) In case anyone's looking for work: With me going there will be
>vacancy advertised soon for my previous position at Gloscat college.
>Basically it's as a technician rebuilding computers that students rip
>apart in practical classes and looking after the Linux/Windows research
>network. Basically it's a great position if you already know a bit about
>rebuilding computers and want to get some experience as a sys admin on
>your own network (about 56 workstations, 8 Linux servers, 2 windows
>servers). If you're having problems getting a first Linux position, then
>this can get you the experience you need. 
>The advertisement may read "must know Netware 4" ignore this as I
>haven't seen a NetWare server in 3 years. 
>
>They're also advertising for a Cisco network manager with the main
>network team but there's only one Linux box they use that I know of ;)
>
>Me... I'm off to Oxford Uni. (Engineering Department) to support a
>bigger network, to join a team and to look after lots of
>Unix/Linux/Windows people. \o/ 
>
>Guy
>
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