When I get my copy of ;login: from USENIX I page through looking to see if there is a tool that I can use. I pay more attention to the PERL Tools section as I want to learn more about PERL and add it to my tool belt. But I have yet to really wrap…
For whatever reason dban only ships an ISO image. If you want to boot from USB key the process of creating one is fairly trivial.
These seems noteworthy to sysadmins: http://www.businessinsider.com/apollo-is-buying-rackspace-in-a-43-billion-deal-2016-8
As a system administrator I get chained to my monitor most of the time …….I had to pause to make sure no hardware crashed where I have to run a few floors to the NOC. But it is true. If we aren’t replacing hardware or pulling cable we are looking at a monitor. Well some…
I work for a school district and this is our busy time with creating new accounts for all the new hires. For some reason, this year the admin folks filling out the new account form have been mis-spelling many of the user names. Took a bit of digging by our helpdesk folks to find that…
As one of those who are considered a Grey Beard (Oddly if I let my beard grow in it is red while my hair is grey or white). I am at the point in my career where it is time to clear out your book shelf. Over the 30+ years in this field I have…
The wheels turn slowly, but they do turn. The next step is polling all the people who have an interest in the system asking for any input they’d care to share. I’ll be sending out email through the various lists. If you have something to contribute, stand by for messages!
To some of you this may be a trivial thing but for me it is like finding that extra money in your wallet or even hitting the lottery. Some of you may know I am a single sysadmin shop. I do have other sysdmins in my Department but I am actually on my own to…
As part of our current effort to overhaul the system that supports LOPSA’s Mentorship Program (LMP), I’m going to write some basic status updates here. (Along with cross posting to the main discussion list.) Two LOPSA members — Scott Murphy and Matt Finnigan — have volunteered to form a team of three to oversee this…
So it’s been a year since the last post. Way back, we managed to create a team of volunteers and we started working on spec’s… and we coasted to a stop. I’m looking for someone who is will to help me manage a “restructure LOPSA’s mentorship program” project. By “manage” I mean: Work with me…