Atlanta MDF, the local SQL Server users group, will hold a meeting on March 3, 2009, on the topic “Overcoming SSIS Deployment Challenges.” Registration is required. For more information, see their website.
Tonight’s presentation was by Derek Carter aka Goozbach on Cobbler. Derek is a Cobbler developer. Presentation notes should eventually get posted at his site.
Yep, still ignoring this blog. But no more than my other blogs.
We are happy to announce a LOPSA Birds of a Feather at SCaLE. This is your chance to hang with Jesse Trucks, Chris St. Pierre, and all the other crazy SAs representing LOPSA at SCaLE this year. The BoF will be from 6:00 – 7:00PM on Friday night in the Logan Room. So be sure…
(The things you find when you’re spring cleaning, lemme tell ya… yeesh! In addition to posting this here for posterity, I’m also now cross-posting to my personal blog archive at http://adeleshakal.com/wordpress/2000/12/ — some of this is rather dated now, but some of it is still as pertinent as it was over eight years ago.) These…
As you may have heard, LOPSA will be teaching classes for SCALE U and will be doing a booth at SCaLE this year. All things SCaLE U can be found at http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/conference-info/scale-u SCaLE is fast upon us and we need volunteers for the booth and to assist with the classes. We are specifically looking for…
How to Suck at Information Security Some of my favorites are: * Require your users to change passwords too frequently. * Expect your users to remember passwords without writing them down. * Don’t cross-train the IT and security staff. * Expect end-users to forgo convenience in place of security. * Lock down the infrastructure so…
I heard a couple of jokes the other day: Q: What’s better than going to the Southern California Linux Expo, one of the top Linux events in the country? A: Attending classes I’m teaching at SCaLE U, a joint production of SCaLE and LOPSA. Q: What’s worse than my contrived jokes? A: Nothing. Just please…
As I wrote in much more detail on my Confessions of a SysAdmin (CoaSA) blog, LOPSA is partnering with SCaLE on training classes to bring you SCaLE University! Read more about it at SCaLE’s site or the LOPSA Press Release. For my more in-depth treatment on the subject, please see the CoaSA post. I hope…
Shameless Self Promotion: Head on over to my blog where I pontificate about what I think 2009 has in store for us: http://mindlessadmin.blogspot.com/2008/12/yet-another-list-of-predictions-for.html