Archive for April, 2007

Jobs

// April 25th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // General

As I’m soon to graduate and enter the jobs market I have read quite a few job adverts recently. This vacancy for a Linux sysadmin at Last FM really caught my eye, not only are they using Debian and Ubuntu but the job specification includes, “A preference for vi over emacs”.

I’m not quite sure why it matters what editor people use but it makes the advert memorable and means it’s likely to be talked about, ‘viral recruitment’ perhaps. I guess this post means that it worked.

Feisty Feature of the Day

// April 12th, 2007 // No Comments » // General

Phil Bull has summed up his list of Feisty features blogged to date, he’s trying to write about a new Feisty feature every day from the beginning of March until release (one week to go!). It’s well worth a read, I’ve been running Feisty since November and there were a couple of things I found out about still.