Sys Admin Day, Los Angeles
http://sysadminday.eventbrite.com/ Thanks Matt Simmons for the inspiration! Aleksey
System Engineering – professional association
Just learned of this (relatively new) professional association of system engineers – http://www.incose.org/ Their “System Engineering Handbook” looks yummy – I’m definitely going to check it out.
Getting Started with Configuration Management
For sysadmins not yet using a Configuration Management tool, I’d like to recommend Cory’s article “Getting Started with Configuration Management” http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2011-04/openpdfs/Lueninghoener.pdf
RMS explains the origin of the term POSIX
POSIX = “Portable Operating System” + Unix http://www.stallman.org/articles/posix.html
Wow! I taught at USENIX.
Long-time dream come true, I’ve taught a class at a USENIX conference. My initial sysadmin training consisted of on-the-job-training at EarthLink plus at least 1 conference a year (USENIX and/or LISA). That was the culture at EarthLink, you just HAD to go to USENIX conferences to be a professional sys admin. I used to say…
Please vote for your new board
If you are a LOPSA member, please vote at http://election.lopsa.org for your board of directors. You can read their statements there and see the LOPSA live sessions and their blogs at http://lopsa.org. You can vote for all 9 positions or for a subset if you do not feel that you know enough about all the…
How not to do LDAP authentication
So we have an application where $vendor’s product hooks into ldap for authentication and authorization. This is a good thing as we can authorize people for different roles based on settings in ldap. However $vendor’s implementation leaves a bit to be desired as the way it works is that the first time a user logs…
Did you vote?
Have YOU voted in the LOPSA Board of Directors elections? I have! LOPSA Members should do their duty to elect the next round of Directors that will take LOPSA into a better future with more member benefits and more members! Participation of every member makes a huge difference to all of us and the community…
Vendor issues continued
So after $vendor sent a person onsite for 3 days to fix our problems last week, we find that the problems are still not fixed and in fact are worse. I dutifully open up a new ticket and cc the support manager, my local VAR, and the person that came on site. A few hours…
Free LOPSA memberships available at ServerFault
ServerFault will be giving away LOPSA memberships to top contributors, details at the ServerFault blog: http://blog.serverfault.com/post/free-lopsa-memberships-for-top-server-fault-users/