Re: [lopsa-discuss] [Sajobs] DevOps Accelerator bootcamp for SysAdmins

2013-12-12 Thread David Frye
On 12/12/2013 03:02 PM, rajulv...@gmail.com wrote: Sunny: Your cynicism is well founded. Right now job market is not rational to sysadmins - two similar resumes but one with DevOps slant gets preference and pay scales are more like software engineering than operations. That's what I am learning

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Face-to-face exchange of contact information?

2013-10-07 Thread David Frye
On 10/07/2013 09:11 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: On 2013-10-07 08:25, Pamela Lynn Howell wrote: I do exactly the same as Matt. Often working in infosec, I tend not to trust blindly provided QR codes. What about URL shorteners? I am not an infosec guy, just an informed sysadmin, and am totaly sh

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What attracts your attention?

2013-09-11 Thread David Frye
On 09/09/2013 12:59 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: What, as an experienced systems administrator, could actually attract your attention to a job ad? What holds your attention long enough for you to write a thoughtful cover letter and update your resume? I've been seeking work for a couple of months now

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Seriously? No discussion of Snowden?

2013-06-11 Thread David Frye
Thanks, Matt, Yes, that link is unformatted text, but following from the LOPSA home page, to the blog, to the article and you still have an advertisement. It's kind of like having a breaking news event of national scale and having a pop-up window or a pre-video commercial. It's distracting fro