For my Quantitative Analysis class I need to collect and analyze some survey data. Building on my question last month about what a System Administrator is, I have designed a quick survey and I would greatly appreciate help from the members of LOPSA. If you could take a few short minutes and complete…
Open Source and Young Programmers In previous entries I spoke of teaching my young Granddaughter to code. It is a bit tough keeping the attention focused but the tools work very well. I receive emails from opensource.com and this latest email highlighted Blockly. This is the engine behind the code tutorials on code.org. It is…
I think we should retire the LOPSA Gram email, and instead, spend that time putting up items on the LOPSA site. For example: It's my understanding that not everyone bothers to be on/read this email list, so there are people who don't yet know that we have two new board members. And, I wonder how…
Open Source Tools for Education In my last Blog entry I spoke about my attendance at The Pennsylvania Education Technology Exposition and Conference (www.peteandc.org). I was happy to see a session was dedicated to highlight Open Source Tools for education. The session was run by Charlie Reisinger, Technology Director for Penn Manor School District in…
Interesting Session on Kids Computing at PETE&C Conference Some of you that know my work have heard me say I am usually not allowed to go to any congferences but with my new job I know have a chance to go to LISA (even if it isn't in Philadelphia) and other Conferences. Since LOPSA-East has…
In June 2014 I volunteered to work with the Communications Committee to help pump content into LOPSA’s social channels. Perhaps you’ve noticed a few things appearing? Unfortunately, it’s far more likely that you’ve not noticed much change in LOPSA’s visibility on social media. LOPSA is @lopsa on Twitter, and is also on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+. Why…
After a config change, I needed to debug these messages which began appearing in bursts in the Apache error logs: Error opening file for reading: Permission denied with no other information like filename or even timestamp. These occurred no more frequently than hourly. Using strace ran out of gas quickly because -etrace=file still had too…
It’s with some amount of sorrow and trepidation that I begin this blog entry. One of the things that I often need to be reminded of is my own limitations. I think we all can forget that we’ve got human limits and sometimes we take on more than we can deal with. I am a…
Hi, Lots of folks have asked me about where to eat while at LISA this week. Here are a few ideas… Walking Distance Breakfast: Try the Specialty Cafe on 1400 5th Ave just a bit south of the Hotel. Lunch: Matts in the Market at 94 Pike St in the Pike Place Market. Space Needle…