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Antarctica Needs a Network Engineer
littlekorea writes "It's a little underpaid, but network engineers with a fetish for very cold weather might be interested to know that the Australian Government's Antarctic Division is seeking network engineers to manage its telephony, satellite and radio comms in Antarctica. According to the job FAQ, summer temperatures aren't a lot colder than your average data centre. But winters of -30 degrees celsius (-22 Fahrenheit) might make the morning jog a little challenging."
It should be an overclocker's paradise there! Of course, better get the best rig you can get starting out, because I'm pretty sure Newegg's shipping isn't as cheap to there.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
"We need to talk to you about something
that happened at the North Pole."
"If this is about the night
the heat went out,
there's nothing to be
embarrassed about."
- "It's not about that."
- "We agreed to never speak of it again."
"So we slept together naked."
"It was only to keep our core body
temperatures from plummeting."
"He's speaking about it."
"For me, it was a bonding moment."
Morning jog? This is a job for a flabby individual with lots of personal insulation, and jogging is out of the question!
"Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you down into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?"
cool job
I was going to scold Slashdot for posting a job ad on the front page. Imagine all the crap resumes that'll wind up in the HR inbox now.
Then I realized I despise HR, especially those in the hiring/recruiting section.
I'm imagining some choice resume snippets from this crowd -
- I live in my moms basement and never leave, so I won't go stir crazy
- I've seen that John Carpenter movie about monsters in Antarctica like 9 times
- I could totally do a rad experiment where I overclock an old PDP-11 processor to 9ghz since its so cold
- UHF? VHF? Fah! I can replace that with a hacked WRT router running linux for like $5
- Penguin/Linux jokes galore
.....to "Hiring Freeze"
Bad testing environment for that. A few minutes exposure to Winter ambient conditions and you'll welcome the warming glow of the Active Denial System (AKA open-air microwave oven).
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
What are you doing in Yakutsk?
Getting ready to attack Kamchatka... [rolls dice]
Sources on google. /C
This is /. you need to site sources using Wikipedia and only Wikipedia...
It was cold a few years ago when it was -45C but all that happened was they closed the elementary schools.
We had a similar situation in the UK recently. We had 5cm of snow and the whole country shut down for two days.
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
SSD ftw?
For the Winter?
the climate is much, much better.
That's debatable. I prefer my water in solid form it's less... well, ya know, wet.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
To be fair, it was more like 10 cm, in some places...
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I think it'd be pretty cool to be able to walk around the polar base doing work outside, in t-shirt and jeans while being warmed from a microwave device. That's called progress =)
If it's cool that just means you aren't doing it right. =]
SSD ftw?
For the Winter?
I just finished winterizing my SSD and let me tell you, it's surprisingly difficult to wrap chains around a hard drive and still have it fit in your case.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
You don't have to shovel rain.
no.