Today the friendly UPS man brought me my copy of Agile Development with Rails, the LOPSA Book of the Month for April. I was interested in this book because, although I haven’t been a professional developer for a very long time, I remain fascinated with new programming languages and (more importantly) new development methodologies. I’ve…
Summary of RFC3315 and related (see bottom of message) RFCs as they relate to DHCPv4.
DHCPv4 is a bit of a mess; Continue reading
Or, at least my comment about using VMWare GSX/VMWare Server and running Solaris X86 (Nevada) under it is: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=re_vmware_and_the_frequent Thanks to Eric for the little plug for LOPSA.
I have become a strong follower of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology for time management. I’ve been using the system for almost six months. I’m now experiencing the discord of having too many inboxes: my primary task list (kept in Outlook, believe it or not) work inbox Help Desk tickets Change Request tickets Microsoft…
[Flowtools | http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/] [SiLK | http://silktools.sourceforge.net/] [nfsen | http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/] [nfdump | http://nfdump.sourceforge.net/] [ntop | http://www.ntop.org/] [ipacco (not really netflow) | http://ipacco.sourceforge.net/index.php]
Hello all, Anyone out there looking for work, or maybe just a change? Great! I’m hiring a SAGE level 3 or low 4 System Administrator. Check out the job listing at my company’s site: http://www.argonst.com Feel free to mention that you are a member of LOPSA (yes, I actually explained what LOPSA is to our…
KDE’s SSL connectivity has been broken for me for a while now. Apparently at some point KDE no longer was compatible with the “openssl” port. I run FreeBSD 5.2 but use the openssl port, so I just resort to using my laptop to get to SSL-wrapped connections. It’s kind of annoying. Well, I just got…
BitPusher has a personal colocation offering that we provide to friends & colleagues. We usually charge $75 per month per 1U server. We’re offering a special rate for LOPSA members, however. $55/month, with no setup. More information is available at http://www.bitpusher.com/lopsacolo.php . E-mail mhalligan@bitpusher.com to get signed up.
So, I’m working on starting up a local group. North of San Francisco. Sonoma County and surrounding areas. First meeting is February 1st in Santa Rosa. “Sonoma County System Administrators”:http://SoCoSA.org/. Lot of things to figure out when starting up a group. I’d helped do it before with a local linux users group that now has…
Hi all. I am working on replacing Intuit TrackIt with RT for our IS staff of seven and thought I’d avail myself of the knowledge of the League. I’m sure others will be helped by this too, unless we’re the last seven people who aren’t using RT. I’ve installed RT and it’s working fine. I’m…