KDE’s SSL connectivity has been broken for me for a while now. Apparently at some point KDE no longer was compatible with the “openssl” port. I run FreeBSD 5.2 but use the openssl port, so I just resort to using my laptop to get to SSL-wrapped connections. It’s kind of annoying. Well, I just got…
BitPusher has a personal colocation offering that we provide to friends & colleagues. We usually charge $75 per month per 1U server. We’re offering a special rate for LOPSA members, however. $55/month, with no setup. More information is available at http://www.bitpusher.com/lopsacolo.php . E-mail mhalligan@bitpusher.com to get signed up.
So, I’m working on starting up a local group. North of San Francisco. Sonoma County and surrounding areas. First meeting is February 1st in Santa Rosa. “Sonoma County System Administrators”:http://SoCoSA.org/. Lot of things to figure out when starting up a group. I’d helped do it before with a local linux users group that now has…
Hi all. I am working on replacing Intuit TrackIt with RT for our IS staff of seven and thought I’d avail myself of the knowledge of the League. I’m sure others will be helped by this too, unless we’re the last seven people who aren’t using RT. I’ve installed RT and it’s working fine. I’m…
Here’s the next-to-last installment of this essay. Remember, most of this was originally written before the decision to launch LOPSA as a stand-alone entity. However, I believe that it all remains relevent as LOPSA plans its first full year of independent operation. !! Different goals of USENIX and (old)SAGE USENIX and (old)SAGE are, as are…
So I have this idea to make a quilt out of my old SAGE and LISA Tee Shirts and Raffle it at the next LISA as a benefit for LOPSA. I have a bunch of shirts and some ideas on how to approach this. My Shirts don’t go back too far though. My first LISA…
Like many of us here, I have been reading “Time Management for System Administrators” by Thomas Limoncelli. A lot of what is in the book is common sense, things that you look at and go, “Oh! Hey, right on!” or “Why did I not think of that in that way before?”. Then I got to…
If you don’t like talking to people, especially in person, or to strangers who are not even remotely technical, then get out now. Sometimes, I feel like I’ve been consulting since the womb. In practicality, every FTE position I’ve had, I’ve really just been a consultant who happened to have health insurance, and worthless stock…
We are social animals, much like the systems many of us run. A Unix system not connected to the Internet doesn’t remain healthy for long; it craves communication with others for it to be useful. I had dinner with a friend who made the observation that people want to be part of a community but…
Well, I’m back. It was an incredibly hectic week at LISA, and I’m still digging out at work from being gone for the week. I hope to finally get all the pieces of this essay done in the next 2 weeks. There have been lots of developments in the USENIX, SAGE and LOPSA relationships. I…