Steve Murawski's candidate statement follows… FIRST A BIT OF BACKGROUND I'm Steve Murawski. I'm running for one of the open seats on the LOPSA Board. If you haven't heard of LOPSA, stay tuned – more on that in a minute. I've led a circuitous route to becoming a sysadmin, but when I first became…
George Beech's candidate statement follows… A little about me Hi, I’m George and I’m running for one of the open seats on the LOPSA Board. I’ve been involved in LOPSA for about four years now. I’ve been involved with the NYC local since it started, and have been part of the LOPSA-EAST (Formally PICC) committee for…
I'm privileged to have served system administrators over the past three years as a member of the LOPSA Board of Directors. I hope you will grant me the opportunity to continue serving in that capacity. My previous candidate statement provides more detail about the things I'm proud of about LOPSA and areas where I think…
It has been two years and it has gone by very quickly. The link to my 2012 statement is here https://lopsa.org/content/2012-candidate-statement-john-boris When I ran for the board i was pushing for Education and the Mentorship program. So I became the liaison for the Board to the Mentorship Program. It has been a very informative…
My 7 Year Old hacker Strikes Again A short while back I wrote about my 7 year old Granddaughter who I nicknamed "Kevin" due to her password cracking skills. Well today I found out she struck again. While commuting into $WORK I get a call from her father asking "Will the school charge me to…
Windows XP End Of Life and a Health Service Provider The other day while working on my old laptop at home (well it is about 5 years old) A message popped up that said Windows XP support ends April ?, 2014. So I figure I have to bite the bullet and now get the extra…
I've been a LOPSA member since 2013, and my new job in Providence, RI has allowed me to pursue starting a Rhode Island chapter of LOPSA. Rhode Island and Southeast Massachusetts are close enough to Boston to make it easy to overlook them but not close enough to make it convenient to attend Boston events….
Dealing with a 7 year old computer hacker Over a recent weekend we had our 7 year old Granddaughter stay over. All of my kids have been around computers since they were old enough to sit at a keyboard (41, 39 & 34). So it stands to reason my Grandchildren would follow suit. My Granddaughter…
Another ramble about the Target issue. A recent article says that there were "thousands" of alerts from a new security product (identified as Fireeye, but claimed to be developed by the CIA, which the commercial product supposedly is not) that was deployed a few months prior to the breach. Each of these alerts was supposedly…
I run a Zimbra mail server at the K-12 school district where I work. Overall I really like the system, but my user base is very susceptible to phishing spam so once a month or so someone will give up their password to a spammer who then proceeds to use our mail server to send…