There are people who insist that you should never top post. There are people who insist that you should always top post. Both sides need to just get over it already. By volume, though the world is gone to top posting. Outlook does it by default. Gmail does it by default. AOL does it by…
Egyptian authorities “turned off the net” by forcing ISPs to withdraw BGP routes. http://gigaom.com/2011/01/28/how-egypt-switched-off-the-internet/ If asked to do this in your country how would you respond?
/root/install.log:/usr/bin/vncinitconfig: line 139: uname: command not found When will folks learn to fully qualify commands in scripts? Or at *least* set the PATH before invoking unqualified commands.
err: Could not retrieve catalog: Syntax error at ‘}’; expected ‘}’ at /blah/blah/blah.pp:56 on node blah.blah really? really?
The third edition of the SWEBOK is due out this year. System Administration could use this fairly mature guide to a neighboring body of knowledge as a model for our own guide to our body of knowledge.
World IPv6 Day is June 18. Are you ready? World IPv6 day is coming – June 8 2011
Yesterday, I noticed this interesting tidbit from Rackspace calculating the cost of data over the last Decade of Storage. Of course, there a few bumps in the road that made me chuckle. Interestingly, in the last couple of years it plots the cost from $0.40/GB to $0.06/GB. This ties together a whole bunch of things…
One topic that is sure to get our membership interested is talking about outreach, or how to let people know about LOPSA. (The other topic is the name, but that’s for another post, maybe 😛 )
One way to build “brand awareness” is rather simple: just show the logo. You don’t need to write about LOPSA (unless you want to), but just displaying the LOPSA logo on your web site will help raise awareness.
Unlike other organizations, we’re rather “open source minded” about the logo. We don’t require advance permission, we don’t want contracts, and we don’t want any control over your content in order to use our logo.
Just link it. It’s that simple. In fact, to make it even easier to “show the brand”, the wonderful LOPSA tech team have already provided the HTML in convenient cut and paste form: https://lopsa.org/logos
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As recently as last Summer, “real” information on using EC2 and other cloud providers was hard to come by. By “real” information, I mean accounts of actual hands-on use of clouds by system administrators. Marketing hype, CIO ROI “data”, CSO “security fears” and other low-signal information was everywhere.
Given the recent questions and discussions on LOPSA email lists, cloud isn’t going away, but there seem to be some questions about how to tell when a cloud solution is more appropriate than your own hardware or managed hosting.
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It’s been here for a while, but it just hit me today. I’ve got 1Tbit of networking bandwidth in 1U on my hands. 48 10/1 gbit ports (SFP+), 4 40 gbit ports (QSFP), all at full duplex and layer2/3 non-blocking. That’s an astonishing bandwidth of 1.28Tbits/sec thanks to the Fulcrum Micro chip nestled inside. at…