Long-time dream come true, I’ve taught a class at a USENIX conference. My initial sysadmin training consisted of on-the-job-training at EarthLink plus at least 1 conference a year (USENIX and/or LISA). That was the culture at EarthLink, you just HAD to go to USENIX conferences to be a professional sys admin. I used to say…
If you are a LOPSA member, please vote at http://election.lopsa.org for your board of directors. You can read their statements there and see the LOPSA live sessions and their blogs at http://lopsa.org. You can vote for all 9 positions or for a subset if you do not feel that you know enough about all the…
So we have an application where $vendor’s product hooks into ldap for authentication and authorization. This is a good thing as we can authorize people for different roles based on settings in ldap. However $vendor’s implementation leaves a bit to be desired as the way it works is that the first time a user logs…
Have YOU voted in the LOPSA Board of Directors elections? I have! LOPSA Members should do their duty to elect the next round of Directors that will take LOPSA into a better future with more member benefits and more members! Participation of every member makes a huge difference to all of us and the community…
So after $vendor sent a person onsite for 3 days to fix our problems last week, we find that the problems are still not fixed and in fact are worse. I dutifully open up a new ticket and cc the support manager, my local VAR, and the person that came on site. A few hours…
ServerFault will be giving away LOPSA memberships to top contributors, details at the ServerFault blog: http://blog.serverfault.com/post/free-lopsa-memberships-for-top-server-fault-users/
I have been having a lot of problems with $vendor (contact point is named Steve) who sold me a system that does not work well via a local VAR. I have been very happy with the local VAR (contact is Bob) and am even more happier after the following phone conversation:
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I gave an interview to http://myfootpath.com/advice-and-answers/career-interviews/systems-administrator-career-interview/ a while ago. Gives a bit more background on who I am and what I think about System Administration.
I ran into a interesting problem with an internal web application I built several years ago. It would only show a blank page in IE8 and above and in Firefox 4 and greater while other versions of IE8 and Firefox showed the page correctly. There were no errors on the newer browsers. After a bit…
I have to say the the LOPSA-Live session for the Candidates was a great experience. That was my first time ever using IRC. I wasn’t sure how I would do going into it. It was tough getting my thoughts onto a keyboard in that fast of a time frame. I felt like I was lagging….