Whee. I’m finally done with my trip report for work. It probably still needs polishing. I’m done though. I can’t bring myself to write anything else about it. It’s viewable at Travis Campbell’s LISA 2006 Trip Report. All my notes are also published on Google Docs. If anyone’s interested, I’ll post direct links to them,…
Well, I didn’t expect it to take this long to get to the point of making this blog entry. Busy-ness is happy-ness, or something schmarmy like that… So, I had this Oracle database with 9 independant tablespaces – each one for a different library in this case. The challenge, I am moving them all to…
Wow! What an awesome BCS Championship game last night. Well, OK, maybe it was just the Gators that looked awesome. Sorry, Buckeye fans, it just didn’t look like you fielded a team last night. The Gators just did whatever they wanted last night, and the Buckeyes couldn’t stop them. I bet Troy Smith is *hurting*…
“We are still fighting the Global War on Terror with Solaris 2.5.1”
–Andrew Seely
After a few weeks of holiday season distraction, I’ve finally finished writing Thursday’s notes. This is a time when I wish I could make it look like I posted the blog entry a while ago. 😉
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Solstice, Happy Kwanzaa, or whatever your appropriate holiday is at this time of year.
Although LOPSA is platform-agnostic, my current job has me solidly as a Solaris and EMC storage admin. I have experience on just about every other platform of at least a limited extent (DEC UNIX, SCO, HPUX, Windows 4.0, 2000, 2003, Linux mainly RedHat, FreeBSD, OSX, etc…). However all the new tricks I learn, most are…
The organizers of the Fourth Annual International AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2007 announce the Call For Participation. Come talk to your peers about – Work completed – Work in progress – Theories – Best practices – Related research or something else that has tickled your brain while working with AFS and/or Kerberos. The…
Here are my notes from Wednesday afternoon… Site Reliability at Google/My First Year at Google Tom Limoncelli opened his talk by discussing three ground rules. It turns out that ground rule #2 was the most important – there were certain details he simply could not talk about. In fact, rule #2 turned out to be…
“While I am an attorney, I am not your attorney.” –Alex Muentz This posting covers aspects my activities on Wednesday morning that I consider to be noteworthy. Keynote: Hollywood’s Secret War on Your NOC The keynote, presented by Cory Doctorow, was basically a pep rally for the EFF. It seemed to be carefully formatted to…
“Look! He has a rave mounted to the roof of his car!”
–Murray, noticing a DC police cruiser
Sadly, LISA ’06 is just over 24 hours away from coming to a close. As usual, it has been a very rewarding experience, filled with great moments and great knowledge. In an effort to preserve more of what I’ve taken in, I’m making some notes here.