Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Solstice, Happy Kwanzaa, or whatever your appropriate holiday is at this time of year.
system-admin
The latest admin trick I learned…
Although LOPSA is platform-agnostic, my current job has me solidly as a Solaris and EMC storage admin. I have experience on just about every other platform of at least a limited extent (DEC UNIX, SCO, HPUX, Windows 4.0, 2000, 2003, Linux mainly RedHat, FreeBSD, OSX, etc…). However all the new tricks I learn, most are…
CFP: AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2007
The organizers of the Fourth Annual International AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2007 announce the Call For Participation. Come talk to your peers about – Work completed – Work in progress – Theories – Best practices – Related research or something else that has tickled your brain while working with AFS and/or Kerberos. The…
Notes from LISA 2006, Part 3
Here are my notes from Wednesday afternoon… Site Reliability at Google/My First Year at Google Tom Limoncelli opened his talk by discussing three ground rules. It turns out that ground rule #2 was the most important – there were certain details he simply could not talk about. In fact, rule #2 turned out to be…
Notes from LISA 2006, Part 2
“While I am an attorney, I am not your attorney.” –Alex Muentz This posting covers aspects my activities on Wednesday morning that I consider to be noteworthy. Keynote: Hollywood’s Secret War on Your NOC The keynote, presented by Cory Doctorow, was basically a pep rally for the EFF. It seemed to be carefully formatted to…
Notes from LISA 2006, Part 1
“Look! He has a rave mounted to the roof of his car!”
–Murray, noticing a DC police cruiser
Sadly, LISA ’06 is just over 24 hours away from coming to a close. As usual, it has been a very rewarding experience, filled with great moments and great knowledge. In an effort to preserve more of what I’ve taken in, I’m making some notes here.
New York Times Ethicist on sysadmins finding child pornography
Randy Cohen, who writes the Ethicist column in The New York Times Magazine, answered a question today from an “Internet technician” who discovered pornography belonging to his company’s president while “installing software on [the] company’s computer network”. Some of the images seemed to depict underage teenagers. He asked whether he should call the police, mentioning that he feared for his job.
Security patches and journalistic ethics
This week, Apple released a rather large security update to Mac OS X. Predictably, that’s been followed by a flurry of articles in the press speculating as to what this means about OS X’s security relative to other OS’s. I’m not interested in discussing the security of OS X. (Today, anyway.) What bugs me is a lot of the press coverage. The release of a security patch, whether by Apple, Microsoft, or an open-source team, should not be used as a vehicle for speculation that the patched software is insecure. Continue reading
One year of LOPSA
Today, 14Nov2006, LOPSA is having its one year anniversary! Congrats to LOPSA for all of its accomplishments in just one year. Thanks to all the volunteers ( and let’s not forget that the LOPSA board members are also all vounteers ) who’ve worked so hard to make LOPSA a success! Thanks also to the sponsors…
Happy Birthday, LOPSA!
Well, I was going to wait for us to put up an announcement on the front page of “LOPSA”:http://lopsa.org/, but since “Tom Limoncelli”:http://www.everythingsysadmin.com/archives/000164.html just pointed to his blog posting, I guess it is OK to go ahead.
Happy Birthday, LOPSA! It has been a long and sometimes tough journey to reach our one year milestone. We suffered through some early setbacks and had to launch prematurely. But we launched successfully, and we’ve continued to grow, succeed, and provide service throughout the year:
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