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Usenix LISA "Build A Cloud Day", Fri, Nov 8, 2013 in DC (no charge!) 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Considering all the security issues raised this year, isn't it time you built a private cloud? Build a Cloud Day will be dedicated to teaching users how to build and manage a cloud computing environm...
LOPSA NJ Chapter meeting: IBM Blue Gene /P, Thu, Sept 5, 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 01:27 am
It isn't on the website yet, but the September meeting will have a special guest: Title: Anatomy of a Supercomputer: The architecture of the IBM Blue Gene /P. IBM refers to their Blue Gene family of...
Sysadmins/Devops needed for study 23 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
I met Jeevitha Mahendiran at Usenix LISA last year. She is studying sysadmins and what we do. She writes: I'm Jeevitha Mahendiran, Graduate Student/Research Assistant Faculty of Computer Science, Dal...
Evi Nemeth's life-raft spotted? 22 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
The search for Evi Nemeth and the others onboard the Nina has been restarted. The the crowd-sourced search of 56,000 satellite pictures appeared to find an orange/yellow object to the west of Norfolk ...
Puppet Camp DC, Tue, Nov 5, 2013 (free admission!) 21 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
If you are sad you can't attend PuppetConf 2013 this week, start planning for Puppet Camp DC. It is co-located with the Usenix LISA conference, which is Nov 6-9, 2013 in Washington D.C. Puppet Camp D...
Introducing my new tutorial: Evil Genius 101 15 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Topics include: Helping your coworkers understand and agree to your awesome ideas Convincing your manager about anything (really!) Turning the most stubborn user into your biggest fan Getting othe...
Usenix LISA training schedule published 15 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13 The training this year has a lot of advanced topics that will bring a smile from anyone working in a DevOps environment. Tutorials on Jenkins, build-your-own-...
Unix/Linux "bash" shell users: 9 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Do not do this at home: https://gist.github.com/solidsnack/4744661 That's just wrong.
So your management fails at IT, huh? 8 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Recently on a mailing list sysadmins were describing horrible management they've experienced. Here is my reply: First, I want to say that my heart goes out to all of you describing terrible working c...
TPOSANA BugHunt Announced! 5 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
"The Practice of System and Network Administration" (TPOSANA) is now 7 years old (with some chapters virtually unmodified since the first edition, 12 years ago). We are preparing to update the book an...
