I'm currently in the process of getting a new chapter up and running in our nation's capital: LOPSA DC. All of the details are still tentative (as we've not yet been officially approved) but right now we have this information available: Meeting Date: Last Tuesday of each month Meeting Time: 7-9pm Location: Office…
Recently I posed a question on IRC that sparked an interesting conversation: "For those of you that have been around the industry for awhile, what is the biggest difference you see between the people you came up with and the newest generation of sys admins?" To further expand on this and open the…
On Tuesday we had an employee work his final day at my place of employment. As he was leaving, he returned all of his IT equipment, as is standard practice at pretty much any company where you're given equipment for your job. The interesting twist though is that today he called and said there was…
A little over a year ago, I ran into a problem that I wanted to discuss with some local IT professionals to see what see what their experience had taught them. I searched around and eventually stumbled across LOPSA, only to discover that a local chapter didn’t exist. Inspired by the organization’s mission, I…
The Crabby Admins are proud to feature Tom Limoncelli speaking at our meeting tomorrow, April 4, from 7-9pm. Tom will be presenting on "The Ganeti Open Source Virtualization Project (& Why a Time Management Guru Loves It)". For anybody in the Baltimore/DC area that may not have attended a LOPSA meeting in the past, I…