I am seeking an entry to mid level Linux System Administration position or any related opening. Actually I'll take any unrelated opening at this point. I have been unemployed since last May and my family is food bank poor. Unemployment insurance has run out and we are barely scraping by on my wifes paycheck. I'm not looking for crowd funding or donations. I need a job. If you are in a hiring position or someone that could bring this to the attention of someone that is you can help a family of 4 in a big way.

I have many years experience as a System Administrator but only in smaller environments with around 10 - 20 Linux / UNIX systems. I am trying to find a position in a larger Linux environment and expand my skill set. I am trapped in an awkward place where people think I have too much experience for entry level positions and unsuitable for a senior level position because of skills that I lack. My primary job killers are no experience with virtualization, clustering and web site administration. I have no Mac experience. I am also in my late 50's. Computer years are like doggie years so I am about 1000 years old in computer years.

My core skills in Linux/UNIX System Administration are solid and should be immediately useful to your team. I'm experienced in installing, configuring and troubleshooting software and file servers using Red Hat & Fedora Linux, HPUX UNIX, Windows and their associated networks. I have experience scripting repetitive Linux tasks. Working via shell is not a problem. I'm experienced with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook). I have a strong background in customer tech support over the phone and training end users in person.  I have a very strong desire to learn new skills (I desperately need to learn new skills.) while applying my current skills to any tasks at hand. I have been the primary IT support person for the engineering groups at the companies I've worked for so I am skilled at helping when the printer wont print, copier is jammed, email doesnt work, computer won't boot, etc. etc. etc. 

I am available immediately and flexible on my wage. Please make me an offer. My wage expectations have been destroyed and I will accept just about anything. Full time, part time, temporary, anything. Any shift. Send me a private message and I'll send a link to my LinkedIn profile that contains detail on my employment history and should give you more insight into who I am and where I've been. If you think there is a possibility I'll email my resume with full contact info. I'm trying to stay a little hidden because this whole experience is humiliating and I'm embarrassed if past coworkers see me.

This could be you some day. Here is what happened to me. Over the years I've become very specialized in electronics manufacturing and engineering environments. LA county has become increasingly hostile to PCB manufacturers due to chemistry used in their processes. Most of these companies have closed or moved to Orange County. This is why I need to find employment in a different type of company. My wife has a very good job with insurance benefits and we live in her family home that she was born in and are extremely reluctant to sell it. This is why we don’t move to Orange County. I have 2 boys, 10 and 12 years old. They don't really understand how broke we are and are relentless in their requests for tennis shoes, video games, movie rentals and countless other mundane things that were always taken for granted in our home. Nothing can make you feel more like a failure than having to chant “no, we dont have any money” to your kids constantly. A surprising number of people I thought were casual friends like my kids friends parents and such treat me like I have the plaque. I think they're afraid we will ask them for something. I should have seen the writing on the wall for my industry and sought work in data centers of some kind years ago. If you see your industry fading or your skills are to specialized make moves to correct it or life can get very hard very fast.

If you think there's a possibility you can help me find a job, please take the time to try.

Whats going on with the pandacoin website? Haven't been able to connect for days.

What is special about it?

I bought some blackcoin and started staking. The wallet keeps switching from I should get a reward in 2 or 3 days. It's been over a week and nothing. I don't get it. 1 percent isn't very impressive but I was wondering how it is or if it is compounded. Now I'm wondering if it exists at all. Can anybody explain how blackcoin staking pays out?

With nxt I leased my balance to a forging pool and the return so far is nxt to nothing. Anybody know how or if this 1 percent is compounded?

Do all pos coins payout only if your lucky? I don't get it.

3 times I have withdrawn pandacoin from the browser miner and nothing shows up in my wallet. I checked the wallet address carefully each time. I only found the first withdrawal that did show up in my wallet with the block explorer. Anybody know of a problem with this?

Most of my experience is with red hat or fedora want to use whatever works best.
A link to a setup guide for raspberry pi that includes setting up mining software would be very helpful.

I read this in an IPC technology briefing:

Just as metals may soon be replaced in many products by the new compounds, it also appears that the days of copper circuits in electronic devices are numbered.

As new generations of computer chips continue to shrink in size, so do the copper pathways that transport electricity and information around the labyrinth of transistors and components. When these pathways grow smaller, they become less efficient, consume more power, and are more prone to permanent failure.

It is generally accepted that a replacement for traditional copper must be discovered and perfected in the next five to 10 years in order to perpetuate Moore's Law, the defining industry paradigm which states that "the number of transistors on a computer chip, and thus the chip's speed, should double every 18 to 24 months."

To overcome this hurdle, industry and academia are vigorously researching new candidates to succeed traditional copper as the material of choice for interconnects on computer chips. One promising candidate is graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged like a nanoscale chicken wire fence.

Prized by researchers for its unique properties, graphene is essentially a single layer of the graphite found commonly in our pencils or the charcoal we burn in our barbeque grills.

A new study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in conjunction with Intel was recently published in the journal ACSNano. The Rensselaer researchers discovered they could enhance the ability of graphene to transmit electricity by stacking several thin graphene ribbons on top of one another. This brings the industry closer to designating graphene as the "heir apparent" to copper.

Single layers of graphene nanoribbons are not suitable for interconnects because they exhibit a "band gap," which is an energy gap between the valence and conduction bands, making them ineffective in this role.

The new study shows that stacking the graphene nanoribbons on top of each other significantly shrinks this band gap. Specifically, the optimal thickness is a stack of four to six layers of graphene; stacking more layers doesn't reduce the band gap any further.

The goal is to one day manufacture microprocessors with both the interconnects and the transistors made entirely out of graphene. This game-changing vision, called "monolithic integration," is likely still any years into the future.

If realized, it will certainly revolutionize the way computers and electronics are designed and manufactured.

I bought a box full of scrypt mining stuff. I have an old dell pc running windows xp home version.

I got a dualminer and Gaw fury hashing but having trouble with 1 gridseed blade and 2 gridseed 5 chip miners.

The usb hub driver is working for the other miners but the gridseed miners dont show up. I loaded VCP_V1.3.1 and CP210x_VCP drivers. I dont know if loading both is a problem or what usb hub driver is best for this. Is there a driver for xp that you know will work for these miners?

Also not sure which cgminer version is best for both gridseed types. What works in the .bat file used to start mining? I've only used cgminer so far. Should I setup a .conf file instead of a .bat? Do I still need a .bat if I set up a .conf?

Anybody?

I bought a box full of scrypt mining stuff. I have an old dell pc running windows xp home version.
what driver should I use to connect miners? cgminer has hotplug followed by a number in the bat file. How do I know what number to use?

I want to run a gridseed blade, 2 gridseed 5 chip miners, dualminer and a gaw fury. I have a powered usb hub and have used cgminer with a antminer u2+ in the past. Any complete setup guide links you can recommend to get me started appreciated? Wanted to set up the blade first.

So home mining seems hopeless due to the growth of industrialized mining operations. But isn’t this battle of the titans going to end badly for them as well? With difficulty skyrocketing isn’t the profitability for these giants sinking fast. Cheap power and cold climate advantages are available to all of them. Specialized cooling systems. What happens when nobody but the giants are buying miners from Bitmain, GAW or any of the other manufacturers. The mining equipment manufacturers are all mining with large farms that are driving their customers away from mining. I suspect they will look back longingly to when they sold equipment to little guys like me. A large diversified market is a good thing when things go sour.

So they are all selling contracts for cloud mining, but aren’t all the cloud miners going to eventually yawn at the inevitable diminishing returns and walk away. Script won’t save them. Have you seen the new scrypt asic miners that Bitmain is going to start shipping by this December. Already sold out.

Will the giants come to an agreement to limit their activity to assure their survival or will their greed prevail. Some people will believe anything but my money is on their greed. Will they just mine for themselves? Are there enough new coins generated to feed these beasts? Will new technology arrive with even more power and the difficulty magically not rise? The downward pressure on the prices of mined coins will only increase as the giants constantly sell to pay their bills and salaries. Their expenses will not shrink with time. The price may continue downward. Why should it rise? Will everyone that actually uses Bitcoin switch to a coin that isn’t mined?

What about when the Bitcoin blocks get halved in mid-2016. Half the return. Overnight!

Do the giants have any choice but to charge down the road they are on if they want to stay alive. It appears there may be a cliff ahead. This can’t continue inevitably. Something has to change. I hope it is decentralized. Was this the plan all along. Bitcoin seems to be a self-adjusting system. Difficulty seems like a fuse. Were the creators of Bitcoin that smart? When the giants compete themselves into the ground and the difficulty slowly drifts down like dust and smoke after a battle, maybe some home miners will turn their machines back on. I hope so.


What do you think the future holds for the mining of coins?

I have 1 S3 that has a low hashrate. I set to 250 with the miner configuration web page. I opened the asic-freq file and made sure it was set to 250. Still hashes under 400 GH/s. Any suggestions? I haven't loaded latest firmware. Should I?

I was suspecting my network but I have another S3 overclocked and hashing fine. I changed ports on the switch it was connected to. I was using a wireless bridge and changed it to a cabled connection to the router. Ive tried a couple lower frequencies but always under 400.

There are no Xs or dashes. All 0s.

I received a payment in my online wallet for 1 satoshi. It has been confirming for days. It has 70 outputs listed each for 1 satoshi. I asked tech support what this was about and they said it was a spam payment, my security wasn't compromised and I should just ignore it. This is the second one of these I've received.
Why would anybody send these? Whats the point. Anybody know anything about spam payments?

Specifically want to run a dualminer usb. Any suggestions?

Anybody know a trustworthy seller of S3s for immediate shipments and pre-orders.

I'm new to Coinbase and use them to transfer BTC from online wallet to US dollars in my bank account. It takes, counting weekends, about 6 days for the money to show up in my bank. Does anyone know of a faster alternative to Coinbase with reasonable fees?

I bought a dual miner, 70 KH/s to see what could be expected from scrypt mining. Also put some cpus running Linux and minerd online and pointed all of my impressive 150 KH/s at clevermining that auto switches to most profitable scrypt coins. Payout is in Bitcoin. Payout has been very small. I don't see how anyone can do this at a profit. Am I missing something?
I already mine Bitcoin with some antminer S1s and initially tested the waters with a U1+ antminer. The U1+ had no ROI worth mentioning but showed the potential for more powerful mining equipment. The S1s are showing enough potential to buy some S3s. I'm not seeing the same potential in scrypt mining. So many are doing it, I'm thinking I must be missing something. I want to understand how to approach scrypt mining or maybe just leave it to others. Any help? I've only looked at gridseed miners because they look affordable. Is there better hardware to start small with that will show some potential?

All my antminers have the reset button so I reset them to default settings and connect with a browser to the default ip address. Then I change it, reboot and connect with a browser to the new ip address. Config the miner but it wont mine. I am communicating with it fine but it wont mine. I started a wifi connection to see if it would mine this way and it started mining.

So now I 1st set up a cabled connection between my router and the antminer to perform initial setup and get the wifi running and they don't mine until the wifi is going. I am pretty network challenged. Anybody know whats up with only being able to mine with wifi connection? They all have both a cabled connection with a fixed ip address and a wireless connection where DHCP assigns the ip address. Weird. I don't get it. :-P