OT/WTD: Linux Herder

Those of you who have some idea of how to herd Grid clusters might
want to check this ad:

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/job/cdata/professional/DCL0182-1

Half-tempted to apply myself, I could do with a pay rise! I hear
that there have already been several enquiries.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Will you tell your web monkeys that the HTML entity code for GBP is
£ [1]

[1] Note the semi-colon - they haven't.

 

D'you want me to tell them that sentences usually have verbs and
subjects, too?

To which they'll reply, "It works in Internet Explorer 6!"[2]

Have you done tonight's Windows Upgrade yet?

[2] I presume; I use IE7 where it works. We're still not cleared to use
IE7 at work due to problems with intranet pages.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Really? That's interesting[1]. I will have a play with entities the
next time I am near a copy of IE.

[1] For bored on a Tuesday night values of interesting, that is.

 

Why bother? It would only confuse them.

But it does not jbex in Firefux or Opera. Moreover, is it not rather
ironic that an advert for a Linux nerd was written in a way that only a
Micro$oft browser could render correctly?

In which county is the city of Brunel?

 

I shall point that out to John Morse forthwith. I wonder if that
was a test?

Going back for a booster at the w/e.

North Heathrow. It's officially Middlesex, that whispy myth of hereabouts.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

<mode=darsy>
I wouldn't get out of bed for that!
</mode>

 

heh.

 

Quite. I let it pass because the shed argot is unique unto itself. Who
knows if that sort of thing is acceptable there.

 

whereas Telford is in (fsvo) Edinburgh.
(they also have a Stevenson, but it seems to be less engineering and
more hairdressing)

 

They're both Colleges, Edinburgh has 3 universities, The University of ,
Hairy-Twatt and Napier.

 

Which always catches me out. I /want/ it to be in Bristol

 

/Anything/ is acceptable. It just might never get seen again, that's
all. Some things end up below the rolls of old Lino that the spider
nests in.

 

...sometimes I do too...

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Well; from my experience (is that OK?) we don't do jbex unrotted, nor
neither rssbeg nor betnavfngvba. And general swearing is dere-geurre
(~=arswar[t]s: anag).

 

To which they'll reply, "It works in Internet Explorer 6!"[2][/QUOTE]

So... what was the job again? And why would one want that job, in an
environment where the web monkeys get away with being IE-only?

Richard

 

["Followup-To:" header set to uk.rec.sheds.]
Richard Bos said:

Zbarl ? Because all your tools do it that way and you've learnt in an
environment where everyone tells you that's how you do it and you don't know
any better, and why would you if you're doing what you're told & trggvat
cnvq for it ?

The web's becoming broken. I see a steadily increasing proportion of
"content" which is pointers to stuff that isn't available without extra
platform-specific binaries that aren't necessarily available for all
systems, or have incompetent broken installers, and "they jbex on mine, who
cares about yours, get yerself a _proper_ wossname, like mine" and all the
old tedium.

 

"Pay rise"? Blimey mate academia is poorly paid then.

 

Our Grid presence is entirely divorced from the rest of the Uni,
especially from Human Resources. They probably don't even know what the Grid
is (or Linux!), have no idea what CERN is, and barely know that we exist.
"Physics? We closed the Physics Department ten years ago!"

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

I see. In that case, 'tis pity I know hooter-all about Grid except for
what it is, because I'd love to have an interesting job in the UK some
day.

Richard