Just a reminder the “Ohio Linux Fest”:http://www.ohiolinux.org/, a *free* day long symposium on all things Open Source will be happening this Saturday from 8AM to 5PM at the Columbus Convention Center. I could still use some LOPSA faces to help in the booth. Since this blog is syndicated to OpenSolaris.org, I’ll also note that either…
Linda & I have spent the past 5 days in Seattle, looking at houses and touring datacenters. I’ve posted some of my peanut gallery comments about the Seattle datacenter scene: http://mhalligan.livejournal.com/15407.html http://mhalligan.livejournal.com/15763.html http://mhalligan.livejournal.com/15166.html
After nearly six years with AT&T (formerly SBC, who purchased my original employer, Ameritech) as a Unix system administrator and security manager, I start a new job next week with IT Convergence as the Sr. System Administrator/Team Lead for a new Unix system administration team based in Madison, WI. We have openings on this team…
Now is the time to start thinking about the annual LISA conference. This year the conference will be held in Washington DC at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel. The conference runs from December 3 through 8. I am especially proud of this year’s conference. I think we have a fine collection of speakers and papers this year, and I look forward to being your host. If you want to read more about the planning and work that is going in to LISA 06, please visit the conference blog here:
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On September 30, LOPSA will have a booth at the Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus. We could use some help with volunteers in the booth helping to explain LOPSA and sign up new members. If you’re local to Columbus and can spend some time at the booth, please let me (spp at lopsa . org) know.
Despite all my on-line searching, I couldn’t get my T60 Thinkpad running the “Thinkpad Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate software” Bluetooth stack to synchronize with my Windows Mobile 5 Cingular 8125 phone, using Bluetooth. Here’s what some other guys and I ended up figuring out today:
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From Brent Chapman:
TechReach International is a new non-profit organization being formed to deploy no-cost telecommunications services into humanitarian relief efforts, using trained/certified volunteer communications specialists and state of the art technology.
On Tuesday 19 September 2006, from 12:30pm to 6:30pm, TechReach International will be hosting a “Simulation Day” on the Intuit campus in Mountain View, to demonstrate proven technologies in a simulated field environment.
We’ve been using the TWiki system for documentation at work for a while now. But there’s some documents that while they’re convenient to edit in the TWiki, really need to have a paper version available in the data center. Luckily, our data center contains a duplex-capable printer, some red binders and occassionally some student assistants…
I’ve just gotten about half way through a blog post about some (at least to me) cool drupal work I was doing. I wanted to check and make sure that I used the proper Textile formatting on a piece of the blog, so I dropped down to the “[ inline:xx ] tags” link to check,…