In the last #LOPSA-live chat session, cat suggested that we need a “hints” RSS. She was suggesting that daily we should post a simple one or two liner that answers a really quick question. To use her words, “pithy one-or-so liners that are useful, but not so useful as to be worth a full posting”….
During the recent LoPSA live chat on #lopsa-live it was mentioned that there weren’t enough topics for people to write about on the website and how it was harder for people to come up with an interesting topic than it was to actually write about that. That inspired me to finally draft a proposed series…
I run a few small websites on my home server; one for myself, one for my homeowner association, one for the people who graduated in my MBA class, etc. Someone pointed out to me the other day that the HOA website was no longer working. I don’t know when it stopped working; the last time…
I’ve been receiving double notifications for things posted to the website. Trying to see where it’s occuring.
Looking for proposals for workshops to be held at LISA ’07.
One-day workshops are hands-on, participatory, interactive sessions where small groups of system administrators have an opportunity to discuss a topic of common interest. Workshops are not intended as tutorials, and participants normally have significant experience in the appropriate area, enabling discussions at a peer level. However, attendees with less experience often find workshops useful and are encouraged to discuss attendance with the workshop organizer.
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Last night Sun held it’s first Austin Solaris User Group meeting at Painter Hall on the UT campus. The event was reasonably well attended with ~15-20 people from various companies and academia around Austin. The meeting was broken up into two parts: a presentation about new features in Solaris 10 release 11/06 and a discussion…
Hmmmm, exploring blogs as sysadmin tools. I have several blogs, and mostly ignore them all.
Phrases that always bode ill … ‘hold my beer, this is gonna be cool’ (WormMan) “How much do you know about unix” (at maintenance hour) “oops” (Strata) “Are you busy…” (doubly so if it starts with a call on, say, Saturday night) “I know you’re busy, but..” (Strata) “All I wanted to do was …”…
Ok, so I know that Redhat doesn’t recommend upgrading Fedora by changing your yum repositories and doing a yum upgrade. However, it got me from Core 2 to Core 3 to Core 4. I couldn’t understand what harm it could be to use it to go to Core 5. Yes, I’m behind, but not like you might think. I actually started this a couple of months ago before my daughter was born; I’ve been a little busy since then.
I did my normal procedure and did the upgrade. Everything appeared to go fine, the downloads happened, the new packages installed, there weren’t a whole lot of problems to work over. Then I tried to reboot to the new kernel. And the booting stopped after udev. Since I didn’t have a lot of time that day, I went ahead and booted back to the Core 4 kernel, and everything worked. Fast forward a couple of months, without having to reboot my system….
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Yesterday I emailed (http://lopsa.org/pipermail/discuss/2007-February/002048.html) the LOPSA discuss mailing list concerning my desire to finally learn how to program. Tom Perrine (calls himself a grey beard), responded and said that he and others of his ilk, have a hard time imagining a sysadmin that doesn’t know how to program. When Tom started out, he spent 15…