In my efforts to generate an SA skills matrix, I’ve discovered that we haven’t managed to quantify what we do in categories in a clear and consistent manner. Therefore, I’m calling on other SAs to help me build this list. The results of my efforts will be returned to the community, as well, so let’s…
As I posted on my own blog: I am looking to build a system of evaluating my new team’s set of skills and experiences. To start, I am looking to create a spreadsheet style matrix to get something prototyped quickly. So far I haven’t found much online as a base to work from. Of the…
I wanted to know who was using our DNS servers for recursive lookups from off campus. Getting all the data together for this wasn’t hard, but once I had it it was difficult to read, so I made a graph of it. Here’s how: First I got all the data into a csv file one…
Today’s “Ohio LinuxFest”:http://www.ohiolinux.org/ was quite an interesting event. Doug and I were the only two LOPSA members working the booth, although a few local-ish members stopped by to say “hi”. Because of that, the only time either of us got out from the booth was to stretch our legs, and when I served on the…
Stephen Potter and I are meeting lots of new potential members here . At least one new member has already signed up. Since they don’t have official networking, I’m logged in via GPRS. Many people haven’t heard of LOPSA, so raising awareness is part of our target. The event looks to be a big success….
So you’ve put about 200 man hours into your configuration system this year. It’s good. There are a number of things you’d change about it, but you’re at a point that it’s running rather smoothly. All of a sudden, there’s this great new system that comes out. All of your problems are solved! It promises…
Just a reminder the “Ohio Linux Fest”:http://www.ohiolinux.org/, a *free* day long symposium on all things Open Source will be happening this Saturday from 8AM to 5PM at the Columbus Convention Center. I could still use some LOPSA faces to help in the booth. Since this blog is syndicated to OpenSolaris.org, I’ll also note that either…
Linda & I have spent the past 5 days in Seattle, looking at houses and touring datacenters. I’ve posted some of my peanut gallery comments about the Seattle datacenter scene: http://mhalligan.livejournal.com/15407.html http://mhalligan.livejournal.com/15763.html http://mhalligan.livejournal.com/15166.html
After nearly six years with AT&T (formerly SBC, who purchased my original employer, Ameritech) as a Unix system administrator and security manager, I start a new job next week with IT Convergence as the Sr. System Administrator/Team Lead for a new Unix system administration team based in Madison, WI. We have openings on this team…
Now is the time to start thinking about the annual LISA conference. This year the conference will be held in Washington DC at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel. The conference runs from December 3 through 8. I am especially proud of this year’s conference. I think we have a fine collection of speakers and papers this year, and I look forward to being your host. If you want to read more about the planning and work that is going in to LISA 06, please visit the conference blog here: