For those of you outside the SF Bay Area, apologies for the imposition.
For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area of California this week...
Here's a friendly reminder of the upcoming BayLISA meeting this
Thursday, November 17, at 7:30pm.
We're meeting at the usual location, LinkedIn's 2051
Thats not the way it works in the US. What happens there is the profession
collects some money from it's members, lobbies [1] the right politicians
and then the profession is regulated.
You now have some "insiders" with a big stake in keeping wages up and the
entry price into the profession
MD> I suspect what members of LOPSA want and don't want will be
MD> irrelevant, because regulation is usually pushed on professionals by
MD> the public they serve (and who are failed and burned by the chancers).
It depends -- my sense is that licensing requirements (i.e. requirements
that people t
I suspect what members of LOPSA want and don't want will be irrelevant,
because regulation is usually pushed on professionals by the public they
serve (and who are failed and burned by the chancers).
As to mechanics, well, it's different where I come from - they are
regulated in Ireland, the traini
Those are nice racks.
It depends on distance, cost and your time requirements. We shipped a full
rack 2500 miles and it took almost 2 weeks.
I don't think you can avoid the copious wrapping -- any worthy shipper is
going to want to make sure your article is undamaged.
What distance? How long c
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote:
Yeah...this kind of question might stir up more sides if it were posed to a
list that wasn't LOPSA Since, isn't one of the reasons we belong to LOPSA
is that we want this to happen.
Not everyone in LOPSA wants regulation of system admin
Anyone have an experience or pointers on shipping racks?
I need to get an empty 48U APC rack packaged and shipped.
They arrive bolted to a pallet with copious wrapping. Seeing as they cost
~1200, if this costs too much we'll just a new one.
Thanks,
Martin
I am fascinated by the fact that there are researchers that study
system administrators and how to make their work easier/better/etc.
The #1 thing they tell me is "we need more interaction with more
sysadmins to help guide our research!"
The "CHIMIT workshop" at Usenix LISA 2011 is an opportunity t
