Open Source Tools for Education In my last Blog entry I spoke about my attendance at The Pennsylvania Education Technology Exposition and Conference (www.peteandc.org). I was happy to see a session was dedicated to highlight Open Source Tools for education. The session was run by Charlie Reisinger, Technology Director for Penn Manor School District in…
Interesting Session on Kids Computing at PETE&C Conference Some of you that know my work have heard me say I am usually not allowed to go to any congferences but with my new job I know have a chance to go to LISA (even if it isn't in Philadelphia) and other Conferences. Since LOPSA-East has…
In June 2014 I volunteered to work with the Communications Committee to help pump content into LOPSA’s social channels. Perhaps you’ve noticed a few things appearing? Unfortunately, it’s far more likely that you’ve not noticed much change in LOPSA’s visibility on social media. LOPSA is @lopsa on Twitter, and is also on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+. Why…
After a config change, I needed to debug these messages which began appearing in bursts in the Apache error logs: Error opening file for reading: Permission denied with no other information like filename or even timestamp. These occurred no more frequently than hourly. Using strace ran out of gas quickly because -etrace=file still had too…
It’s with some amount of sorrow and trepidation that I begin this blog entry. One of the things that I often need to be reminded of is my own limitations. I think we all can forget that we’ve got human limits and sometimes we take on more than we can deal with. I am a…
Hi, Lots of folks have asked me about where to eat while at LISA this week. Here are a few ideas… Walking Distance Breakfast: Try the Specialty Cafe on 1400 5th Ave just a bit south of the Hotel. Lunch: Matts in the Market at 94 Pike St in the Pike Place Market. Space Needle…
In the Fall a young sysadmin's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of LISA. (apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson) It's that time of year again, the time when a thousand-plus sysadmins make the trek to wherever the annual LISA conference is being held. This year, it is being held in Seattle, and most of the LOPSA Board…
Well, I guess its time I continue with these posts. I had originally intended a big coming out by putting blog posts and such in various places back on September 25th (International Ataxia Awareness Day), but Shellshock ate up my free time…. So, I had made a new year's resolution this year to…
Well this is twice in a year that I get to do an emergency patch to all my machines – Ugh! The bash vulnerability is a major one because it can affect any program that uses bash to set environment variables such as dhclient, cgi-scripts, etc. To test if you have the problem run: env…
Work upgraded me to a new Thinkpad T440p which has the new clickpad with a single physical button in the clickpad instead of the three separate buttons on the older T410 that I was using. So how do I get the one clickpad button to act like a three button mouse. After a bit of…