This is the first entry in a series of topical discussions on LOPSA’s shortcomings, as I perceive them, and how I think that we should be addressing them. Most of the text is taken from my candidate statement (PDF warning). Throughout its existence, LOPSA has seen a steady increase in its membership count. The last…
I'm very happy to announce that I am a candidate for election to the LOPSA Board of Directors for the ensuing term. I have worked very hard for LOPSA as a volunteer, but there are certain things that you can only do from inside "the machinery", as it were, so I'm throwing my hat in…
One of the wonderful things about the bash shell on *nix systems is that history persists between sessions so you can easily reuse commands. Unfortunately, this is not built into powershell on windows, but you can get close to it by putting this into your profile.ps1 which is read each time you start up powershell….
So, there’s a TON of stuff going around online about CISPA – the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. There’s a great, if long, thread on Reddit, but if you want something shorter, the EFF has a FAQ, and there’s a Myth vs Fact PDF on House.gov. The overall purpose of this legislation is actually…
I've recently read up on resume writing with an eye how I can improve my resume and job prospects. My main takeaways were: For maximum impact, tailor the resume to the position you are applying for. Keep the resume to one or two pages long – no more! Provide a compact summary of professional experience…
Old SysAdmins never die; they just page to disk.
nwdiag generates a network-diagram image file from a .diag text file logically describing the network http://blockdiag.com/en/nwdiag/ nwdiag is intended to generate network diagrams that are embedded in larger documents; not for generation of standalone documents. Therefore there is no provision for adding document metadata, such as Name, Author, Date. However, you can add an infobox (a…
I'm now in the position of being one of the senior administrators for my employer's software in their managed software as a service division, and on a team that has seen a great deal of growth in the past year. This has meant I had to undertake mentoring of the junior admins. I've learned…
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Jesse Trucks, GCUX
jtrucks@lopsa.org
Director
http://lopsa.org
In January I assumed the Secretary duties from Jesse Trucks, which has pushed me over the promised 5 hours per week involvement. Most of that was learning how to do Wiki text and also transcribe our meeting minutes from recordings. (Learning MediaWiki was a plus since at $WORK I had started using that for…