Currently Senior System Administrator for Oxygen Cloud building and scaling out their operations. Spent time in the past with various companies including Laughing Squid Web Hosting, LinkedIn, Lockheed Martin, and etc. helping from IT (LinkedIn) to Rockets (Lockheed).
We at Oxygen Cloud are always looking at ways to make the cloud more personal. A while back we stumbled over the Backblaze blog talking about “How to build cheap cloud storage” and it gave us an idea! What if we get one, but turn it up the volume to 11 by integrating the Backblaze into the Oxygen Cloud?
This is what 55TB looks like!
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Hi Keith,
We are looking at releasing a Linux build of our client in the next two weeks, so any user can install Oxygen Storage Connector on their Linux NAS to create an OC appliance.
The Oxygen Tunnel gateway is a service we provide that allows users access to their Oxygen Storage Connector without configuration of their Firewall from anywhere. Since this is part of our infrastructure I cant get too much in to details about its technical working but if you want to learn more I suggest you drop a ticket at our support desk at oxygencloud.com/support
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
First little note, this is a post from my old blog that was hosted at typepad. After seeing the light and moving to wordpress I need to move them here so the links still work =\
After reading a lot about LaTeX, and seeing its powerful use in making documents i decided a good way to learn a lot more about LaTeX is to make a Resume using it.
My Resume: zuhaib-cv-ns.tex, zuhaib-cv.ps (coming soon), zuhaib-cv-ns.pdf
What is LaTeX? Well if your asking that question, you might want to check the link out. But if you have ever read a computer text book, or any document published from a scientific or computer science community there is a very good chance it was made using LaTeX as it provides you more power over simple WYSIWYG editors like Word, especial for texts involving math equations.
Now a few notes about my resume, first is that i used a lot of sites to help make my resume, looking at other peoples works and referring to The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX. This is a good way to get started in anything new i feel, looking at examples and using texts as references as it can be pretty boring to just read.
Back to my resume for it to work you need to have res.cls but the one i used is an edited version of the one found on CTAN. The changes i made was to remove a badly place page break which would come out if you tried to use itemize for your position description which i wanted to use as i like the bullets. I am calling this version of rel.cls 2.09a and i will be e-mailing it to the original writer and see if i can get this incorporated in to the rel.cls on CTAN.
My Rel.cls: rel.cls
The main tex file was based off the one provided by Jason R. Blevins, with some edits you can see in my tex file like to allow for bullets and to add itemize to position and other changes i liked from other people resumes that i will list below.
My tex editor of choice was actually TextMate for OS X, i liked a lot when working in OS X and the fact it and handle a lot of different type of files from LaTeX to just about anything you can throw at it. If your not on OS X, or dont want to play for TextMate, look at Emacs as that is the granddaddy for LaTeX.
To make the PDF and etc files i used the Makefile again from Jason Blevins file, again edited only to fit my needs
My Makefile: Makefile
That is about it i have for my make file, for more i would tell you to read these sites that helped me a lot besides the one i mentioned early
Links
LaTeX Resume Tips
LaTeX CV Template
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX
How to Write a Killer Resume (for Software Engineers)
And something for you people that must use word:
Aahan is discussing.
Keith Bucknall 11:42 am on April 4, 2012 Permalink
Hi there, great post, can I ask if you could package the Oxygen storage connector into a distro to sit on top of the Blazepod – in essence creating a OC appliance?
What are the Oxygen tunnel gateways are these the same as the storage connectors?