Marek Mahut

Congratulation to my ex-CEO, Matthew Szulik, for his Ernst & Young National Winner for Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Award. Matthew’s acceptance speech.

Astronomers discovered on picture taken by Hubble Space Telesope of Fomolhaut star a tiny dot, which has been identified as its orbiting planet called Fomalhaut B. It has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 34.6 billion kilometers across. Fomalhaut b lies 2.9 billion kilometers inside the ring’s inner edge and orbits 10.7 billion miles from its star.

NASA released a status report stating that Phoenix is going to end its valuable mission on Mars soon. Communication center lost the connection with Phoenix last week, but managed to reestablish the connection at some point. It’s nice that even Phoenix has his twitter account :) Check it out for updates. Phoenix, thanks for all the valuable work you’ve done there and see you in few years when a human exploration mission to Mars will take you back home to peacefully rest in a museum. Respect to you and especially to all people behind his mission.

If you’re a vegetarian and you enjoy having a good beer, you may want to check this list of vegetarian beers.

Paris Hilton will take seat on Virgin spaceflight trip for $200,000. She also again proved how stupid she is by saying: “I’m very scared to do it. What if I don’t come back? With the whole light years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I’ll be like, ‘Great. Now I have to start all over.‘”. Paris, honey, this is not star trek, ok?

Hello, do you meet expectations below and you would like to work in Brno for a great Open Source company? Contact me please.

• Position Summary:
  • Works as a member of a team responsible for the Corporate Infrastructure Services at Red Hat, including website, RHN service, and other internal and external customer facing services.
  • Defines, designs, and implements services and solutions using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • Proposes and implements system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the systems infrastructure.
  • Is involved in hardware procurement, system planning, upgrading, monitoring, testing, troubleshooting and servicing.
  • This position requires participation in an on-call rotation with the other team members, for the 24×7 coverage of these operations.
  • This position also requires monitoring of a ticket queue for problems and requests relating to these operations.
  • Communicates highly technical information to both technical and non-technical personnel. Participates in and leads development of IT projects.
• Requirements:
  • Relevant university IT degree or equivalent work experience.
  • Requires a minimum of three to four years UNIX/Linux experience, and administration of systems in a fast paced, customer oriented production environment. Strong Linux system troubleshooting skills required.
  • Candidate must be able to interact and communicate with remote team members, and other internal teams and stakeholders involved in supporting a world wide infrastructure.
  • Strong knowledge of Enterprise storage and backup methodologies, as well as enterprise-level System Management tools and services such as LDAP, Kerberos, Puppet, GIT, System Monitoring, Clustering, Oracle, MySQL are a plus.
  • Ideal candidate would possess RHCE. Experience with Data Center configurations preferred.
  • Candidate must possess strong computer ethics, as this position will be dealing with company confidential data.
  • Must be able to move and install computer systems and monitors, weighing approximately 23 Kilograms.
  • Communicative knowledge of English, both written and spoken.
• We offer:
  • Competitive salary & benefits including:
    • 13^th salary
    • Quarterly bonuses
    • Company stock grants (restricted stock units)
    • 5 weeks of vacation
  • Training & development programs.
  • Work in open source multicultural environment.
  • Career growth opportunities.
  • And the best: we’ve Nintendo wii in the office! ;)

Funny thing I’ve found on interwebs.

1. You correct teachers when they say Slovakia is located in Eastern Europe.
2. You need to repeat your name at least twice when introducing yourself.
3. You know that metric system is the shit.
4. You know that the tallest player in NHL has the same passport as you do.
5. You speak at least two languages that you never needed to learn (god bless the czech).
6. You know that Hostel and Eurotrip do not reflect wtf Slovakia is about.
7. In your homeland, you do not run away from the cops…You chase them… Oh yeah and Absinth is not illegal over there…
8. When drinking with Americans, you’re always the one to finish the keg… cuz everybody around is already passed out…
9. You have at least once in your life drank the “Chucho” wine.
10. You do not have a middle name.
11. No, you really can’t see your family during the Thanksgiving.
12. You take Kofola over Coke, Martiner over Budlight, Slivovica over Captain Morgan, movie by Jakubisko over movie by Tarantino and Bryndzove Halusky over McDonald’s.
13. You know that Janosik could kick Superman’s ass even if he was on a damn wheelchair.

As you might heard already, Cisco bought jabber.org… a good reason to change jabber server provider :) From now on, you can catch me at mmahut@8mag.net!