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New Scam?
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…
Changing the “From” address in emails generated by scripts
Here is a convenient way to set the From address in emails generated automatically (for example report jobs run from cron): echo be good | mutt -s 'message from Santa' -e 'my_hdr From: Santa.Claus@NorthPole.org' mutt's my favorite command-line emailer. It is featureful and highly customizable. www.mutt.org
Computers, Networks and murphys law
Computers, Networks and Murphy's Law While on vacation recently good old Murphy's law came up and bit me. In my selection of a vacation rental I made sure it had broadband access so in case I had to put out fires at $WORK I could easily connect. Also for the ride there I had my…
What is Object-Oriented Programming?
There is a remarkably lucid (and brief!) explanation of object-oriented programming at http://www.aonaware.com/OOP1.htm This is something I've tried to clear up twice before and given up. Boy, am I glad I found the above explanation! Aleksey
IPv6 Day is here, are you ready?
If you are a sysadmin of any kind of system or network, you should at least be passingly familiar with IPv6 Day. If not, you're living under a rock. You might not have deployed it yet, but you should at least be familiar with how the available IPv4 addresses are vanishingly small and that…
LOPSA-ETENN’s First Meeting Was a Success!
It is my pleasure to report on the the inaugural meeting of LOPSA-ETENN. We met last night at space graciously provided by our first sponsor, Cafe 4. Eighteen people joined us for the meeting.
The first hour of the meeting was spent getting to know one another. Jesse Trucks opened the meeting officially at 7pm, with an introduction to LOSPA and our goals and hopes for LOPSA-ETENN. We spent 45 minutes discussing amongst the group what sorts of topics we would all like to hear. We came away with enough potential topics to fill years worth of meetings, as well as potential speakers for the next year.
The first meeting was a great success, and we anticipate plenty of growth in the next few months. We will be meeting again on July 3rd, 2012.
-Mike Julian
LOPSA-ETENN Chapter President
LOPSA ETENN 6-5-12 Updates
Just wanted to say thanks to all the SA's that came out last night! We had an excellent turn out for our first meeting and started nailing down topics/discussions we want to happen over the next year. There were several organizations represented last night including Pilot/Flying J, TEK Systems, ORNL, Garden Montessori School, and…
Lessons Learned: Watch out for spaces when using ‘cd’ on Unix
We have a wonderful old solaris legacy system that runs our payroll, hr, accounting systems. Our primary, unix savvy DBA leaves on vacation and leaves some minimal instructions for the junior, non-unix savvy DBA on how to clean out the print queue when a user submits a very large job by accident (which happens way to often). Yesterday jDBA comes running over and says I cannot ssh into the unix system — sure enough, I try to ssh in and immediately am kicked right off. Soon the helpdesk is swamped with reports of users who cannot access the system any more. I hop onto my trusty console switch and log in, only to get errors where it cannot find the /bin directory. I then start asking jDBA just what the heck he did (can anyone guess…). Continue reading
Why are you a LOPSA member?
So, I've been thinking hard about the value proposition for LOPSA–what makes it worth being a member? When we recruit new members, what do I tell them about LOPSA (e.g., "You should join LOPSA because…") It's been a tough question to ask. Here's why: motivations. As with any group, there are bound to…