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Submission + - The origninal Astronaut Farmer...Burt Rutan?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09, 2007 @02:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: In timing with the release of the Astronaut Farmer. I saw the trailer for this, and it reminded me of the developments in the AltSpace community.
I think the producers/writers based it on some notable people in the industry since the winning of the X-Prize.
So my vote is for Burt Rutan.
but here are the others to note.
Burt Rutan?
Elon Musk?
John Carmack?
Steve Bennett?
Brian Feeney?
or
Just good old Billy Bob?

Submission + - What's in a job title?

Submitted by on Friday February 09, 2007 @01:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: Currently I call my self a Systems Administrator. I've been told that may not be such a good job title when trying to move up/get ahead. Here is what I do:

Write all the company's web applications (WebObjects/Java)

Maintain the company's web site/ftp site/mail server. I also write all the HTML pages (aka webmaster which isn't 'in' anymore, apparently)

LAN/WAN & VPN connectivity.

Maintain file servers

Maintain LDAP server

Maintain DNS

Desktop support

Server maintenance training

DBA (MySQL, some Oracle)

I maintain 8 servers in three countries.

Don't know if it matters but I also report to the VP of Engineering/IT who reports to the CEO. What do you think, what title would you choose? Title's like head yahoo doesn't really work :-)

I could just be full of it...

(No offense to any Systems Administrators out there...)

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