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Kali Linux Cookbook – Review
Kali Linux Cookbook by Willie L. Pritchett & David De Smet (2013) is a useful book. I have been using parts of Backtrack, the precursor to Kali Linux, for years, and so when Offensive Security released Kali Linux, I got the distro and started playing with it. The Kali Linux toolkit is large and varied….
How I Built and Operate a Successful LOPSA Chapter
Many people have asked me about how I started and how I run LOPSA-ETENN, so I decided to compile everything into one document. If anyone has any questions, feel free to email me at mike@mikejulian.com. I'm more than happy to help anyone start a chapter, or grow an existing one. http://mikejulian.com/startinglopsachapter.pdf
My impressions of LISA’13
For me there were two primary take aways from LISA’13. The first is that because of the “internet of things”, the fact that we carry phones with us everywhere, and that data collection and storage costs become much smaller than the costs to sort through data to determine what data to keep; we have ubiquitous…
Degree Programs in Systems Administration
Just a reminder, https://sites.google.com/site/educatingsystemsfolks/home/university-programs lists degree programs in system administration.
Going to LISA? Please attend the “Systems Administration – From Occupation to Professional” BoF
Sparked from a thread[1] (well, a series of threads actually…[2]) on the LOPSA Discuss list, there's going to be a BoF session at LISA on Thursday night[3] on the topic of what it would take to move the field of Systems Administration (or, Network Administration, or IT Operations, or DevOps, etc.) from an occupation to…
Instant Sikuli Test Automation – A book review
Review of "Instant Sikuli Test Automation" By Ben Lau, Published by Packt Publishing in their "Instant" series, BIRMINGHAM – MUMBAI, 2013 SBN 978-1-78216-787-7 It is always dangerous applying the word "Instant" to any process requiring download and installation of software. On page four, the authors offer a direct link to the then-current version of Sikuli. …
Forwarding PXE to from Linux DHCP to Windows WDS server
Had an issue recently where the Windows team needed to remotely re-image a server with WDS, but they didn't have DHCP/PXE servers in that data center. We did have a Linux server running dhcpd for our Linux builds though. We wanted to figure out a way to get the remote server PXE-booted from the Linux…
2013 LISA lightning talks signups are now open
The LISA conference has a lot of interesting, informative, and invigorating content. Now it's time to add some illumination to it as well! The lightning talks are a great chance for last-minute thoughts to be presented in a public forum. The talks will be from 16:00 to 17:30 on Wednesday the 6th of November,…
2014 Cascadia IT Conference Call for Proposals
Please consider submitting a tutorial or talk (or both) proposal for the 2014 CasITConf. It will be 7 & 8 MAR, 2014 at the Deca in Seattle (same place as this year's conference). https://casitconf.org/casitconf14/call-for-proposals/ Please tell anyone else you think might be interested.