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Interesting trick for recruiting from Groupon
So a few days ago the wife was reporting problems with her e-mail and one of those e-mails she was having problems with was groupon. So I decided to take a look at the e-mail headers to figure out when they were sent and I found this little gem.
Received: by mta11g.e.groupon.com (PowerMTA(TM) v3.5r16) id hu7ouq0ie1sl for
X-Recruiting: Interested in headers? Join us: http://www.groupon.com/techjobs
From: "Groupon"It’s a cute trick to get people who understand headers to be interested in the company.
Did I forget to mention that we at Oxygen Cloud are hiring, http://www.oxygencloud.com/careers.html
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Are you ready to be a System Admin at Oxygen Cloud?
As you know I joined Oxygen Cloud a few months back as Senior System Admin and now as we grow we need more in the Operations team as we get ready to launch our new secret project.
If you have a passion to work at a fast moving company, understand the unique demand of supporting a fully automated scalable backend then you are the person for this job!
Go ahead and submit your resume to me zuhaib.siddique
oxygencloud.com . You can read the full description of the job here: http://www.oxygencloud.com/careers A Systems Administrator position here at Oxygen encompasses much, much more than just maintaining some Linux servers. You will be given the the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and tools in order to overcome the real-world challenges that accompany the ambitious goal of bringing Oxygen to the masses.
We are looking for very smart, very dedicated individuals that like nothing more than to get their hands dirty addressing scaling, performance, and availability challenges across a vast cloud infrastructure. Passion, skill, and a whole lot of Geek Cred are the attributes we are looking for here.
Does 90% of your home electric bill come from powering dozens of gadgets and several Linux boxes? Does your idea of a “fun night” involve opening your wireless access up to your bandwidth stealing neighbors, so that you can invert all of their web content? Do you find that your most common thought on a daily basis is “I’ll just write a script for that”? If so, then we want to talk to you.
Role/Responsibilities:
Manage the day-to-day operations of Oxygen’s infrastructure to ensure smooth 24×7 operation
Work closely with Engineering to ensure proper and timely deployment of software to staging and production environments.
Use cutting edge methods and technology to identify and solve problems related to performance, scalability, reliability, and availability
Develop, implement, and continually improve upon best practice processes and procedures
Skills/Experience:2-4 years of hard core system administration or technical operations experience
Very strong knowledge of Linux system administration practices and troubleshooting.
Strong passion for Cloud storage and Cloud computing technologies
Experience with Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, and cloud services infrastructures
Ability to troubleshoot errors and proactively identify issues
Demonstrated ability to generate and maintain technical documentation
Bonus Skills:Understanding of MySQL performance characteristics and scaling options
Knowledge of systems architecture design and implementation
Knowledge of configuration management and automation (Chef, Puppet, etc.)
Experience with the following tech: Nginx, Ruby, Python, LDAP/AD, DNS/BIND, SSO, SMTP, NFS, Beanstalk, Memcached, SSL
Requirements for applying:Tell us what interests you about this position
Tell us about a project that you have significantly contributed to and are very proud of
E-mail the above and your resume in PDF format to jobs@oxygencloud.com -
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A week late in writing this post but yeah I got married
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Backing up and Restoring your MySQL RDS Instance (and other Cloud DBs)
As more and more things move to the “cloud” as a Sys Admin you might find your self tasked with managing a Database that you don’t have shell access too. That has been the case for me with my last two jobs, Laughing Squid and now as Senior Sys Admin at Oxygen Cloud. With Oxygen we needed to backup some AWS RDS Instances and wanted to do it using a server on EC2 so we don’t have the bottle next of our local internet. This same method works with Rackspace Cloud Sites which I used at Laughing Squid. Its use a little known (could not find it easily with a google search) trick with mysqldump
mysqldump -P <port#> -h <server ip>-u mysql_user -p database_name table_name > backup.sql
To restore your DB in the cloud you use a more well-known mysql technique
mysql -u mysql_user -p -h <server ip> cloud_db_name < backup.sql
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YouTube – Daft Punk – Derezzed Guitar Cover (Tron)
via YouTube – Daft Punk – Derezzed Guitar Cover (Tron).
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Want to stalk me? Check my iPhoneTracker History
Looks like the iPhone stores GPS data on you to your local backup (and maybe apple) and you can now view it using iPhoneTracker. Scary and the history mode is even more scary as you can see where you went during a day and its pretty accurate.
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I’m on windows vista. How exactly can I view this? I’ve read it everywhere that it’s ‘so easy for anyone to view’ which apparently makes it all the more ‘scary’ but I can’t at all find where it’s hidden.
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@Curtis As far as I know currently no one has written an app for Vista, you might want to check this FAQ on how to view the info on a Mac without any software: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#10
You can try to translate the info for Windows. Also the source code of the project is on github and you can find that here: https://github.com/petewarden/iPhoneTracker
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Dynamite With Me and San Francisco Giants Cody Ross & Brian Wilson
YouTube – DynamiteWith Me and San Francisco Giants Cody Ross & Brian Wilson.
Aahan is discussing. 
Curtis are discussing. 
Aahan 1:00 pm on July 30, 2011 Permalink
Congrats man!