I’ll be moderating the #lopsa-live Candidate Q&A tomorrow evening, so this is just a quick note to remind people to participate tomorrow night and get to know the people you will be voting for to help run this organization. The format will be as follows: A quick administrivia bit on how it will run (similar…
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/system-administrator-certifications,2-632.html
A few posts back I posted about my Granddaughter who I cleverly nicknamed “Kevin” after Kevin Mitnick. After her little hacking escapade on her Aunt’s laptop I had a discussion with her about privacy and why we use passwords. But who would think you would have to deal with that at her age. Especially when…
Recently i was writing up a presentation for work and was looking for a comic image to add to my presentation. In my days with the Federal Government I used to get a periodical called Government Computer News. Inside it was a cartoon a creation of Rich Tennant (http://www.the5thwave.com/content/about-rich-tennant) The feature was called the 5th…
First: If you got a note from me (Philip) saying your e-mail address on the LOPSA Blogs got changed, it wasn’t actually me. I did initial setup on the blogs and I believe that the company doing theming and final configuration (particularly changing AUTHN/Z methods) left my personal address I used for boot-strapping the blog…
Normally, after a replacment, I usually do a largely unnecessary 'zpool scrub'.* But, I hear reports that something is still not quite right after I had left it resilvering….though in what I could find in my terminal scrollback before I got disconnected from the console session, didn't reveal any indication that there'd be a…
If you happened to be on #lopsa a few nights ago, you might have seen this: Thu 00:54:15< lkchen> uh, oh….zpool import – "The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data" Thu 00:54:27< lkchen> was in the process of replacing a disk in the root zpool, when the system got killed…
I was reading the submissions for LOPSA's SysAdminDay contest earlier this morning, and it got me to thinking. Each of the entries has a slightly different viewpoint on what being a systems administrator is. This might, in a nutshell, be a microcosm of LOPSA's biggest problem — I'm not sure we really know what a…