A few days ago techtarget published a short interview about the OSU Open Source Lab, where I worked while studying at OSU:
“Lance Albertson, architect and systems administrator at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, uses a sys admin staff of 18-21-year-old undergrads to manage servers for some high-profile, open-source projects (Linux Master Kernel, Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, and Drupal to name a few). In this Q&A, Albertson talks about the challenges of using young sys admins and the lab’s plans to move from Cfengine to Puppet for systems management.”
I must say, the work I’ve seen student sys admins do at the OSL is outstanding, and I’ve met some of the sharpest people there I’ve ever worked with. Glad to hear they are still going strong.
After I came back from Whistler, BC, I stopped by in Oregon, where I had the pleasure to be a groomsman at one of my best friends’ wedding: Justin married his Karen.
It was a lot of fun, though I didn’t imagine it being so complicated to get married in this country that you need to rehearse the day before.
Of course, the other guys wanted to set me up to catch the garter, but I got miraculously saved. Needless to say, this is the 21st century, so it’s on youtube:
From my “exchange student” point of view, I have to say, this gave me much deeper insight into American society than any other event I attended here (and I’ve been in the US for a while). It is sad most exchange students have to miss out on this.
PS: I’ve officially worn enough pink that day to last me well through my twenties!
Somebody told me recently, this year’s Oregon winter would become colder, yet less wet than what the common Oregonian would call a “usual winter”.
He read it on the internet – therefore it must be true, right?
The current weather at least seems to sustain his theory. Pretty cold hands and ears when riding the bike in the morning, but a relatively dry seat… seems to be much better of a weather for me as a part-time Oregonian! It was even nice enough for me to take a handful of new photos from my “fall at osu series”…
