Feedback to Oracle

Oracle’s Chief Customer Officer released a survey not long ago. They asked for my input. They may wish they had not. Among my feedback items: This comment field is not nearly enough to contain the depth of my dissatisfaction. The entire support structure/contract management is stunningly incompetent. I have never before seen such incompetence in…

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2011 Cascadia IT Conference – Call for Participation

The Call for Participation for CasITConf11 is posted at http://www.casitconf.org/casitconf11/Call_for_Proposals.html. We’re looking for talks, panels, and presentations. We’re also looking for training/tutorial speakers. The deadline for talk/panel/presentations is 31 DEC, 2010 The deadline for tutorial proposals is 15 NOV, 2010. The main web site for the conference is http://www.casitconf.org/casitconf11. Please spread the word!

Wow, I actually manage all this

My boss is trying to justify more resources so I made a list of all the stuff I am responsible for. 74 production servers with 8 major OS’s and 6 minor versions within the major versions 23 test servers 15 storage devices with 5 different OS’s 52 services How many are you responsible for?

Cool use of xargs

As part of our mail server testing we moved 10 people over to the new mail server and I used imapsync to get mail from the production mail server to the test mail server. I need to run this every 5 minutes and can run no more than 5 processes at a time. xargs allows…

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2011 Cascadia IT Conference – the details

The League of Professional System Administrators and the Seattle Area System Administrators Guild invite you to the Cascadia IT Conference – a regional workshop for Systems, Networks, Database, and Web Administrators and others who provide professional IT support/services. This is your opportunity to network with your regional peers, to learn from leaders in the field…

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