ABLEconf 2009 Phoenix Call for Presentations

The Arizona Business and Liberty Experience Conference (ABLEconf) is soliciting presentations for its second annual conference. ABLEconf will take place on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at the University of Advancing Technology (UAT) in Tempe, Arizona. Continuing ABLEconf’s drive to showcase free and open source software for business, we are seeking presentations in either 20 or…

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shell scripting class

Shell scripting is one of the offerings as Fall semester is almost upon us. Time to sign up for classes :). I will be teaching the shell scripting community college class. This is in person, so only relevant to those willing to be in Mesa two nights a week for 8 weeks. We also have…

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ABLEconf 2009 Phoenix

[http:www.ABLEconf.com/|ABLEconf] has [http:www.ABLEconf.com/press_releases/2009Jul29.html|announced] its 2009 Phoenix date and location. The Arizona Business and Liberty Experience ([http:www.ABLEconf.com/|ABLEconf]) is a conference organized to promote ways to leverage the use of free and open source software, such as Linux, Firefox and OpenOffice.org, in wide variety of settings. Planned tracks will discuss how to use open source in SMBs,…

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disaster pictures

In working on some promo material for Sysadmin Days we started looking at Jesse’s Disaster Recovery class. Over the weekend a total hardware loss at Designwyse came up on #LOPSA. See some pictures showing complete destruction. It occurs to me that it would be handy for LOPSA and System Administrators to have some pictures of…

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One year of LOPSA

Today, 14Nov2006, LOPSA is having its one year anniversary! Congrats to LOPSA for all of its accomplishments in just one year. Thanks to all the volunteers ( and let’s not forget that the LOPSA board members are also all vounteers ) who’ve worked so hard to make LOPSA a success! Thanks also to the sponsors…

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LOPSA Wishlist

A site that works completely for https. (done – doug) https and http state to stay the same when following links. (done – doug) A searchable archive of s-m mailing list. (obsolete? – doug) An include the world effort to make sure non-.us sysadms don’t feel excluded. A volunteer coordination committee and volunteer mailing list….

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