[Scottish] [JOB] Looking to hire 3 Senior Linux Sysadmins.
Hello there, I've just started with a new company in Gibraltar and now I'm hiring 3x Senior Linux Administrators for a new platform buildout and live operation. The setup is Apache/Websphere/Tomcat/Oracle on HP gear. I'm looking for mid-career individual contributors with a desire to get into something new and who are looking for a change of location. Previous experience with Apache/Java/DB web-facing stacks is definitely needed for this. There will be some on-call once things are up and running. Immediate start 40-45k GBP, based in Gibraltar. Aggregate income tax at 40k is 23%, and there's no VAT. The company: IGT http://www.igt.com The location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar The job: Senior Linux Administratorhttp://www.gibraltarjobsboard.com/view_job/post_id/0093-Senior-Linux-Administrator If you're interested, contact me off-list and I'll send more info over. Regards, Iolaire ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice
On 05/01/2011 23:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 01:48:38 pm Jason Irwin wrote: Looking at Virign Media just now, any good? On the whole yes - the infrastructure is **very** good - fibre to the wall of your house means you get the bandwidth they advertise, and on the whole service is very reliable. They were never very good at services (NTP, email, and the bundled hosting package is rubbish) and since the Virgin takeover they seem to be trying to land grab by running transparent proxying for all port 80 stuff and adding value by pre-filtering email. There's only been about 2 or 3 significant outages I've noticed in the time I've been using them (12 yrs now) all due to problems with their DNS services (switching to a seperate server solved the problems for me). As for support? Well its a call centre in Asia somewhere who work from a set of about 4 scripts for diagnosing internet problems - they don't even acknowledge the existence of Apple Macs, let alone Linux. And you can expect to spend 30 minutes in a queue for the privilege - but I've been involved in some very serious and expensive support contracts with detailled SLAs which have been about as much use. Good luck, C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Virgin media have their issues, but their support is not all offshore. I know this, as I work for them providing broadband support, and am based in Airdrie. We also have no scripts, at all, the only part that is scripted it the ofcom required notification of potential charges if a tech turns up and nobody is home. If you do a lot of filesharing or usenet, then you may want to look elsewhere, as they are traffic shaping p2p and usenet traffic quite heavily on all service tiers now. they also have a traffic management policy in place on all but the top tier of service (everything below 50 meg) at peak times but it is all detailed on the website. We provide the same level of support for mac and windows, but officially provide no support at all for linux, however if you know how to work the machine, then we should be able to support you. I have their 50 meg service, and in general am reasonably happy with it, although I was getting better speeds on usenet downloads on my previous ISP (3rd party provider) G ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice
On Friday 07 January 2011 03:14:48 pm Georgia Thomson wrote: On 05/01/2011 23:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: As for support? Well its a call centre in Asia somewhere who work from a set of about 4 scripts for diagnosing internet problems Virgin media have their issues, but their support is not all offshore. I know this, as I work for them providing broadband support, Now I know who to call ;) Thanks Georgia! ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Checked your proxy lately?
Hi all, While I'm sure you've all got your systems setup securely, I've noticed that recently there is more noise in my logs from HTTP proxy requests than I get for ssh attacks. AFAIK, I'm not running an open proxy. The origin of these requests are primarily China. Do I nned to spell out the risks here? It may be worth having a wee check of your logs/configs? 92.240.68.153 - - [07/Jan/2011:12:58:09 +] GET http://japanese.engadget.com/media/2007/10/apple_sony_cybershot_t2.jpg HTTP/1.1 404 325 http://www.altavista.com/image/randomlink; webcollage/1.135a - 1155 kermit.southwold.net text/html 58.218.204.110 - - [07/Jan/2011:16:16:02 +] GET http://www.foodnese.com/indux.php HTTP/1.1 404 288 - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) - 763 kermit.southwold.net text/html 58.218.199.147 - - [07/Jan/2011:20:00:23 +] GET http://173.201.161.57/ HTTP/1.1 200 26 - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) - 14391 kermit.southwold.net text/html 58.218.199.147 - - [07/Jan/2011:22:25:08 +] GET http://98.126.15.13/proxyheader.php HTTP/1.1 404 290 - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) - 1120 kermit.southwold.net text/html ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
