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holocaust non sequitur

marek — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:38:06 +0000

Not much time in my life for blogging, but I never forget to post an valuable picture if I see one. Also, on side note, I’ll be in Raleigh, NC for next two weeks – drop me a line if you want to have a beer.

Red Hat Czech Open House

marek — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:04:44 +0000

Red Hat Czech invites you to Open House event in Brno. Come and see how enterprise open source software is build – be a part of it! :)

Winter is here! (not Stuart)

marek — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:21:20 +0000

Note: -14C is 6.8F and -20C is -4F.

Vegetarian beer

marek — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:13:52 +0000

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

I’m looking for a good sysadmin

marek — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:07:11 +0000

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! ;)

New jabber account

marek — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:42:31 +0000

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!

Managing Study and Work

marek — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:04:33 +0000

I’m a full-time employee, but now also, a student at Masaryk university. Could I ever manage to do both tasks in my life? I’m not sure, but I’m sure that I want to study! I found an interesting paper about it and wanted to share it with you, that’s the reason for this post.

Astroparty Cerova 2008

marek — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:21:20 +0000

Photos from solar eclipse observation party at Cerova has been posted on my flickr account! Enjoy!

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We ran Fedora 9 with USRP to operate the radio-telescope. Great success!

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Red Hat Summit 2008

marek — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:28:24 +0000

I’ve attended Red Hat Summit in Boston and I must say I’m impressed. Even being as a staff member I had occasion to meet a lot of people, Jim Whitehurst, Joel Cohen, Paul W. Fields, Mike McGrath and a lot more.

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I’ll also spend one week in Raleigh, at our Red Hat headquarters, mostly to meet people I’ve been working with for last one and half year.

Red Hat profit rises as revenue up 27 percent

marek — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:22:21 +0000

My company just reported results of fiscal year 2008. Well done!