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		<title>Faster Than Grep</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hicks</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the guano is hitting the fan when your boss’s boss comes up to your desk and says: “What’s faster than grep?”
It was looking like a boring day. I got in late, almost 11 (B-A-D, I usually work 10:30-18:30), and by 11:30 had nailed all the daily maintenance stuff and was looking at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Server Survives Total RAID Failure</title>
		<link>http://isnerd.net/2007/11/07/linux-server-survives-total-raid-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hicks</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like a perfectly normal day, until I hear the screaming RAID failure alarm blaring out of the server room as I walk past. My pace picks up considerably&#8230;
&#8220;Hey, who&#8217;s screaming in the server room?&#8221; I shout as I get to our office area.
&#8220;Ah that&#8217;s Strawberry - Joan thinks its RAID controller died so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Systems Administrator (So you want to be a Systems Administrator? Part 4)</title>
		<link>http://isnerd.net/2007/11/03/the-ultimate-systems-administrator-so-you-want-to-be-a-systems-administrator-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hicks</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ultimate Systems Administrator doesn&#8217;t exist. There&#8217;s always someone better than you at something - or some aspect of it. But don&#8217;t ever let that stop you trying.
I wont let it stop me from trying to paint a portrait of this fictional server-ninja.
I&#8217;ll take the best traits from the best SA&#8217;s I&#8217;ve ever worked with, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3Ware 24 Disk 600MB/sec RAID6: An affordable mini-SAN?</title>
		<link>http://isnerd.net/2007/11/01/3ware-24-disk-600mbsec-raid6-an-affordable-mini-san/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hicks</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I worked with a 3Ware RAID controller it was 2004, and it was a 9000 series SATA. It lived up to its marketing hype - I personally benchmarked it exceeding 100MB/sec on RAID5 writes - an impressive result for the time. The largest controller available was a 12-port job, so the largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you want to be a Systems Administrator? Part 3</title>
		<link>http://isnerd.net/2007/10/29/so-you-want-to-be-a-systems-administrator-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hicks</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 3 - Breaking Down the Door
So you&#8217;re faced with a paradox.
For a Systems Administrator, the most valuable thing on his or her resume is experience. People without experience simply cannot compete for a job against people who have it. This field is completely hands-on and practical - most of the skills and knowledge you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you want to be a Systems Administrator? Part 2</title>
		<link>http://isnerd.net/2007/10/28/so-you-want-to-be-a-systems-administrator-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://isnerd.net/2007/10/28/so-you-want-to-be-a-systems-administrator-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hicks</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So I got pretty well to the top of my field - without going overboard and becoming a super-specialist / cranky old 20 year veteran, before I got promoted out of the field a few weeks ago.
Before the memories fade too far I wanted to write down what led to my success - and mistakes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you want to be a Systems Administrator? Part 1</title>
		<link>http://isnerd.net/2007/10/27/so-you-want-to-be-a-systems-administrator-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://isnerd.net/2007/10/27/so-you-want-to-be-a-systems-administrator-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hicks</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Who am I?
So I&#8217;ve been a systems administrator in varying capacities for ten years. Things got really serious in 1999 when I became the main linux guy for an ISP, and went on from there into a small and medium business consulting/outsourced IT dept style business, on into a startup (yucky!), then to a large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Site</title>
		<link>http://isnerd.net/2007/10/27/new-site/</link>
		<comments>http://isnerd.net/2007/10/27/new-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hicks</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote three articles on my old blog about &#8216;So You Want To Be A Systems Administrator&#8217; - and the flood of incoming hits brought my old webserver down - twice.  An athlon 500 with 384meg of RAM is fine for this stuff right up until you get a few hundred hits in a [...]]]></description>
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