Will Chatham

The com­pany I work for is seek­ing a Linux Admin to work with us here in
Asheville, NC. This is a great oppor­tu­nity to work on some really cool
stuff and gain good expe­ri­ence with the fed­eral government.

Here’s the run­down of skills sought:
Must Haves:
2+ Years Linux Admin­is­tra­tion Expe­ri­ence (pre­fer Red Hat Enter­prise)
Some expe­ri­ence with com­pil­ing code from source.

Must be a US cit­i­zen able to obtain a secret secu­rity clearance

Instal­la­tion, con­fig­u­ra­tion and man­age­ment of the fol­low­ing:
Apache
Tom­cat
MySQL

Nice to Have:

VERITAS Net­backup
Qualstar/Quantum Tape back­ups
EMC SAN / Nav­i­sphere
Fiber HBA installation/configuration
Fiber Switch­ing (zon­ing etc)
Cisco Switches
PIX Firewall

If you are inter­ested, let me know!

Ran into a prob­lem today where users were try­ing to down­load Office 2007
doc­u­ments from a web site, but were prompted to save them as a Zip file.
Turns out the new exten­sions for Office 2007 doc­u­ments (docx, xlsx,
pptx, etc) need to be added with a new mime-type for Apache to serve
them up correctly.

It’s a pretty sim­ple fix.

In /etc/mime.types add this:

application/vnd.openxmlformats docx pptx xlsx

Save and restart Apache, then the doc­u­ments should be han­dled correctly.

Why Linux is Bet­ter does
a great job of explain­ing the rea­sons for peo­ple who are not geeks. If
you find your­self try­ing to con­vince your grand­mother to run Ubuntu by
using ter­mi­nol­ogy such as “linux ker­nel”, “pack­age man­ager”, or “sudo”,
give up and send her here.

And speak­ing of Linux, here’s a list of Linux Com­mands I Hardly Knew, some of which you may or may not
know. I found a few time savers I had never known. More good com­mands
can be dis­cov­ered in the com­ments of the article.

If you are tired of cre­at­ing HTML tables (for tab­u­lar data only, of
course) by hand, here’s a quick and dandy way to do it online with a
tool called Kotatsu.

If you’ve been fol­low­ing me on Twit­ter, you will know I am quite the jQuery advo­cate as of late. jQuery is
a JavaScript library that rivals (and beats the pants off of) libraries
such as mootools and scrip­tac­u­lous, and can add all sorts
of dynamic, eye-popping and usabil­ity enhanc­ing func­tion­al­ity to your
pages. Just one of the pow­er­ful, grace­fully degrad­ing things that
jQuery can enhance is the CSS drop­down menu. Check out this arti­cle describ­ing how to enhance
the Suck­er­fish CSS drop­down menu with jQuery.

If you are inter­ested in learn­ing more about what jQuery has to offer,
check out 5
0 Amaz­ing jQuery Exam­ples.