I’ve been collecting information about all the places that our members are blogging, and I’m seeing an amazing amount of excellent content.

While LOPSA’s roots are in the UNIX/Linux community, many of our members are also responsible for Windows and other platforms. One aspect of being multi-platform people is knowing how to do the same kinds of tasks on all the various platforms.

Here’s a great blog where the authors take an important task, and then have UNIX and Windows experts demonstrate how to perform this task on that various platforms.

Enjoy!

http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/
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Had a great presentation on illumos (www.illumos.org) from the project head last night at the Unix Users Association of Southern California, Los Angeles chapter meeting (www.uuasc.org). Several top Solaris developers have created, from Oracles’s last CDDL release of OpenSolaris (and these releases have stopped, there’s no more OpenSolaris), an open-source fork of Solaris. They’ve filled…

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I’ve posted my interview with Maciej at my new blog: An interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard I heard about the hypergrowth that Pinboard experienced due to the mass migration of users from Delicious, and wanted to get his perspective on how he had managed the huge spike in traffic and new users, and to find…

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Note to future conference chairs: December 31st may sound like a fantastic and obvious deadline. Don’t do it. Everyone is incredibly busy the last two weeks of the year and no one has time to think about a submission. Pick a time when people are free to ponder, something open like, oh, say, Sunday the…

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To find the parent table name given a TOAST table (which is kind of like a spillover table, for data too big to put in the regular table – it’s too big to fit into one row; so it goes into multiple rows and is compressed) which has a name like pg_toast_12513885, cast the OID…

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The online registration system for the 2011 Cascadia IT Conference is online now at http://www.casitconf.org/casitconf11/Registration.html – time to register!

Call for Participation – 2011 Cascadia IT Conference March 11 & 12, 2011 Hotel Deca, Seattle, WA, USA The organizers of the Cascadia IT Conference invite you to submit proposals for panels and talks to be presented at Cascadia IT Conference ’11. CasITconf’11 is a gathering of professionals from the diverse IT (computer and network…

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Oracle’s Chief Customer Officer released a survey not long ago. They asked for my input. They may wish they had not. Among my feedback items: This comment field is not nearly enough to contain the depth of my dissatisfaction. The entire support structure/contract management is stunningly incompetent. I have never before seen such incompetence in…

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The deadline for tutorial proposal submissions has been moved to the 18th because the current deadline was too short after the LISA conference. If you are considering submitting a tutorial proposal please do! http://www.casitconf.org/casitconf11/Call_for_Proposals.html Lee Damon co-chair, 2011 Cascadia IT Conference

The Call for Participation for CasITConf11 is posted at http://www.casitconf.org/casitconf11/Call_for_Proposals.html. We’re looking for talks, panels, and presentations. We’re also looking for training/tutorial speakers. The deadline for talk/panel/presentations is 31 DEC, 2010 The deadline for tutorial proposals is 15 NOV, 2010. The main web site for the conference is http://www.casitconf.org/casitconf11. Please spread the word!