[lopsa-discuss] LOPSA mailing list migration

will be affected by the change, and since I don't subscribe to all of those lists I may not see replies sent to the lists. -- [1] DANIEL RICH President +1-408-627-4769 To advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to

Re: [lopsa-discuss] recent US patent that might affect modern mail-list management systems ?

As at least one person pointed out in the comments on that article, there are multiple cases of prior art that invalidate that patent. It challenged, there is very little likelihood that patent would hold up in court. --- Dan Rich | http://www.employees.org/~drich/ | "Step up to red alert!"

[lopsa-discuss] LOPSA Recommended Reading List

a few of my suggestions. Feel free to either reply to me directly, comment on the post, or e-mail the list with your suggestions. The list is probably the best choice however, as I would love to see active discussion on this topic. Thanks! -- [1] DANIEL RICH President +1-408-627-4769 To

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Thoughts on the LOPSA Gram

The LOPSAgram should be up on lopsa.org, but the way it is currently published you can only link to individual issues, not items within the issues (although there is no technical reason we can't put anchors in it that you could link to them). The posted issues are all available under: https://lopsa

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Why don't people join Lopsa?

On 7/31/14, 15:35, Derek Balling wrote: > Well, we're going into our tenth year or trying to find something in the > intersecting venn-set of [a] useful, and [b] people are willing to pay for, > and [c] achievable. > > With little to no success. > > D Speaking for yourself of course. There are roug

Re: [lopsa-discuss] 2014 LOPSA Board election slate

en as long as possible. --- [2] DANIEL RICH Director +1-408-670-4769 On 2014-05-07 08:58, Elijah Wright wrote: > It's a thing that can be unofficial policy, until someone raises their > discomfort with it. The right thing to do would *eventually* be to > encode it into byla

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Backpack or bag what do you use?

I'm a big fan of North Face's computer backpacks. They look like a regular backpack but have a computer pocket that is just like a regular computer bag. There is lots of storage space, the Surge I have has a laptop sleeve against your back, a full-height pocket for books and other items, a thinner

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Big centralized temperature monitoring system?

Someone else already mentioned the Dallas one-wire sensors, they're great and easy to setup and use. I haven't played with them, but Smarthome (smarthome.com) now sells CAO Gadget's ( http://www.caogadgets.com/) wireless sensors and the receiver you need to use them. I've been considering getting

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Sys Admin Day activities

hips. My son just > graduated college and started to work in IT. I'd love to be able to > give him the gift of LOPSA membership to get him started right in the > community. Not related to sysadmin day, but it would be nice if there > was a mechanism in place for that. > >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] LISA, and the conference hotel

And (since I just booked my SCALE room this past weekend) that's a great rate that beats every advertised rate I was able to find for the LAX Hilton (including all of the discounts I can dig up and using my Hilton HHonors membership - things like PriceLine not included). However, I ended up *no

[lopsa-discuss] monitoring for a very *large* site?

Not to hijack Tom's thread, but does anyone have any good experiences on tools to monitor a very large site? We have been using Groundwork Opensource for a while, but haven't been happy with it. I have also spent the last 9 months looking into HP's BTO (formerly OpenView) and it isn't really fi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] monitoring for a very small site?

I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, I would probably grab a copy of Opsview. it's built on top of Nagios but gives you a nice configuration management system along with integration with MRTG and NagVis for graphing. I've been using it in one of our small remote data centers to evaluate it and

Re: [lopsa-discuss] CMS systems

It really depends on what you are trying to do with it. I use both Joomla and Drupal for various things, and they both have their plusses and minuses. Both have a huge support community with lots of modules available for various functions. I have a love/hate relationship with both of them. On

Re: [lopsa-discuss] 30% Apple

Derek J. Balling wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Benjamin Krueger wrote: >> http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Restraint+of+Trade: >> >> /"Contracts or combinations that tend, or are designed, to eliminate >> or stifle competition, create a/ Monopoly >>

Re: [lopsa-discuss] 30% Apple

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On 2/17/11 09:21 , rac...@mcs.anl.gov wrote: > > I think the big deal in this is that IF you want to get your product > > onto the i* series of stuff you are forced to go through Apple. > > They are not allowing competition in sales.I can't take my i* app > > to

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Monitoring and Alerting

I'm at a large site, 2500+ employees, 800 monitored hosts (several thousand farm machines that are only monitored in aggregate) and a few petabytes of storage. We feel we need to get every message from our monitoring system (GroundWork/Nagios at the moment, but we're migrating off of that). We us