[lopsa-discuss] LOPSA-NJ is Looking for a speaker for their January Meeting 1-5-17

Pardon the Interruption. LOPSA-NJ is seeking a speaker for its January meeting. The meeting will be held at: Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library 2751 Brunswick Pike Lawrenceville, 08648-4132 See map: Google Maps

[lopsa-discuss] Looking for Rediker Software users

Sorry for the intrusion. Anyone replying please reply off list as not to clog the air waves. I am looking for someone who is at a School district (k-12) within 2 hours of Philadelphia that is using Rediker's software for their Student Information System. TIA -- John J. Boris, Sr. _

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Call for input on Mentorship program [LOPSA Discuss]

Rob Mentoring is a broad name for the program. When we formed it other terms were bantered about one that comes to mind was apprenticeship but mentor seemed to fit a broader range of help areas. The three descriptions you give are part of the program and have been requests from Proteges over time.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Call for input on Mentorship program [LOPSA Discuss]

I'll answer some of these as I was involved from the start. >> Does the mentorship team keep in touch with unmatched requestees, to >> ensure that they still want mentoring in the thing they requested? >> Especially when those requests go unanswered for long periods of time, >> leading to: >> >>

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Any one have experiences (good or bad) with ESET Antivirus/malware

Ski, I use ESET on all of my machines (WIndows) we also use it at $WORK. We negotiated a good price of about $5 a seat. Maybe less. Since I started using ESET I have reduced my calls to fix my kids PCS to almost zero. At work it saves our Butt numerous times. Some of our techs also run malwarebytes

Re: [lopsa-discuss] IT Asset Management solutions

Brian We were using School Dude until they upgraded and moved away from their small client on the device and went to a discovery method. But our arrangement broke their model. So we are waiting for a a solution. Since we are a big dell shop we were looking for one that would get me warranty informa

[lopsa-discuss] The 2016 LOPSA Elections are open

The voting process will be conducted using the Meek system. In this, you basically order the candidates according to your preferences, and your vote goes towards getting a single candidate elected. It's actually a bit more complicated than that, because fractions of your vote may be used to elect m

Re: [lopsa-discuss] LOPSA-East

I thought William sent this out. It was cancelled as we only had 20 people register. On Saturday, April 23, 2016, Adam Levin wrote: > Hey all, quick question: is it true that LOPSA-East has been cancelled? > > I registered, and booked the hotel room. A friend of mine went to > register, and the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Options for free mailing list hosting.

I use Pair Networks (www.pair.com) for my Web hosting and get 5 Mail lists Free and $5 a month for anything over that. They use Mailman and it has worked just fine for me. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > I looked into this exactly, som

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Modern work environments

When I made the move from being a Machinist to a "desk jockey" I started in an open floor environment. A converted warehouse with desks and walls that only separated the offices. It was very distracting but by being in the open it got me promoted as another office saw I was the only one with a PC

Re: [lopsa-discuss] sajobs equivalent for people looking for employment

I did a quick look and lopsa doesn't have such a list. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > Is there an equivalent to the sajobs mailing list for people looking for > contracts and full time jobs, to let others know that they are available > and > looking? > > > Thanks. > >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What is a System Administrator

Mark, I take the term "System Administrator" as a broad statement that covers a myriad of job functions. Now many people may not agree with my way of thinking but I see the Profession of System Administration the same way I see the Maintenance Mechanic in a Factory, Auto Mechanic in a Garage, Elect

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Membership vs. SponsorshipWho pays your dues (was Re: Membership vs. Sponsorship)

I believe Craig was looking for a break down of sponsorship money to dues. Not sure if that was in there. On Tuesday, February 10, 2015, Steve VanDevender < ste...@hexadecimal.uoregon.edu> wrote: > Craig Constantine writes: > > just to save everyone the trouble... > > > > I just glanced thro

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for some help on exposing High schoolers to system administration

I'm in On Monday, January 19, 2015, Corey Quinn wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2015, at 9:43 AM, Ski Kacoroski > wrote: > > Hi, > > One of my personal projects is getting high school kids exposed to system > administration. > > > I'd have thought for sure that there would be laws against that... > > I a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Is there a well curated list of tech conferences somewhere?

The Lopsagram is sent out through CiviCRM. So when Matt stepped down Ski stepped in to do the mailing. So we will look into how it was sent. On Tuesday, December 23, 2014, David Lang wrote: > lwn.net maintains a calendar of upcoming events and their CFP deadlines > > http://lwn.net/Calendar/ > >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Management of credentials for a group (aka, nonprofit org, or a large club)

Craig, In my present position we have just formed a new team and this is a question i posed to the list and a few others recently. I am leaning toward keepass2. The only thing that has to be resolved is where do we store the master database. I am very practical and we looked at using a site , like

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Seeking Global Charity Focused on Technology in Education

Evan Here in philly there is this place http://ntrweb.org They do things along these lines On Wednesday, October 8, 2014, Evan Pettrey wrote: > Hey folks, > > Our company is looking to sponsor a charity with the below requirements: > > >- Global focus >- Mission involves educating/provid

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

Ned, I don't have a netflix account nor do I watch Youtube much on my PC or my TV but I experience issues with video over my FIOS connection almost daily and it is for services they (Verizon) offers. I could be watching a movie on HBO or the History Channel or even ABC/CBS/NBC and all of a sudden

[lopsa-discuss] LOPSA-NJ Needs Speakers

Good Day all, LOPSA-NJ is looking for people to speak at their monthly meetings from August 2014 to June 2015. Would you like to speak at LOPSA-NJ? We’d love to have you come and speak! Meeting sizes vary from 15-55 people and are usually held in Lawrence, New Jersey. Each meeting begins with 30 m

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Yup, been there done that.

Over my years of working (too long really) I have had my share of "OOOPS! Did really do that?" or "Doh!". I have been chastised by my mentor (back in trade school when I sort of caused an extra day of work by misreading the drawing) to unmounting a live file partition while 5 miles away from the se

Re: [lopsa-discuss] System Admin is one of the best entry level jobs

s a great advocacy opportunity! :^D > > --Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name > > > On May 22, 2014, at 11:38 AM, john boris wrote: > > A key point in the list is 7 out of the top 10 are related to our field in > one way or another. They are computer related and some of

Re: [lopsa-discuss] System Admin is one of the best entry level jobs

Hey Chase, Lets not start a BBQ flame war here. US News says Memphis they rank Austin #5: http://travel.usnews.com/features/Americas_Best_BBQ_Cities/ Huffinton Post has Lockhart Texas but Austin still #5 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hoppercom/americas-ten-best-cities-_b_5106511.html Travel and Lei

Re: [lopsa-discuss] System Admin is one of the best entry level jobs

A key point in the list is 7 out of the top 10 are related to our field in one way or another. They are computer related and some of us started out programming and ended up as the sysadmin as a result of "Tag you are it." On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > On May 22, 2014,

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for an organizer for the first virtual LOPSA Chapter

Just to reply to the corporate question. As we don't have a corporate membership per de we are currently working with corporations that have approached us for such a thing On Wednesday, May 14, 2014, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > On 2014-05-14 14:23, Derek Balling wrote: > >> >> On May 14, 2014, at 4:1

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for an organizer for the first virtual LOPSA Chapter

Just to inform the folks on this thread. The mentorship team is taking steps to require the mentees to be LOPSA members. They are drafting language for this. This was announced at LOPSA-East during the Mentorship BOF and I believe as part of the careers panel On Wednesday, May 14, 2014, Derek Ball

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for an organizer for the first virtual LOPSA Chapter

To reply to Derek's comment about Members only. I think this would apply to any stored content of the meetings/Speakers/conferences but not for the event/meeting itself. As Tom stated it would be counter productive. So we have this "Speaker series" but it is at time that a person couldn't make and

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for an organizer for the first virtual LOPSA Chapter

All of the board minutes are on governance.lopsa.org there isn 't a page that says "board priorities for 2014" but all of our discussions are there for your perusal On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Michael Tiernan wrote: > On 5/10/14 11:47 AM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > > A common complaint about LOPSA i

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for an organizer for the first virtual LOPSA Chapter

do I believe Doug Hughes would ever stay up late. He's like the > crotchety old man asleep by 8, get off my lawn. > > On May 9, 2014, at 1:21 PM, john boris wrote: > > The one advantage I see to having multiple Virtual Chapters is time zones. > So an organizer on the West

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for an organizer for the first virtual LOPSA Chapter

The one advantage I see to having multiple Virtual Chapters is time zones. So an organizer on the West coast decides to hold the meetings at 8 PM. That is 11 PM on the East coast. Also with Multiple Virtual Chapters there could be multiple "Meetings" and people could then flock to the one that is m

[lopsa-discuss] Looking for Summer Computer Camps/Courses South Jersey Area

I am posting this to the Tech list and also to PLUG and apologize for any dupes. I am searching for a Computer Camp that teaches Scratch in the South Jersey Area that offers it for 7 year olds.. I know this is a bit tight scope but you gotta ask. I have googled and haven't found any yet.close by,

[lopsa-discuss] Okidata Maintenance Manuals -- Free

It is Spring Cleaning time and I have three Okidata Maintenance Manuals for the following printers: Microline 590/591 ODA Part# 59254201 Microline 320/321 ODA Part No. 59231102 Microline 390/391 PLUS ODA Part No. 59241101 These are binders (Original). Anyone doing repairs on these older units. Le

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Secure e-mail forwarder?

You mean "Fred" will be your Relay for email from Box A,B and C. I have just gone through part of this. but Postfix can do this as I just had to do a similar thing on Ubuntu. Setup A, B and C to send email to the relay host Fred. I am no guru on email I just know what I just went through getting my

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Your First Year As A Sysadmin

I fell into System administration through my job with the Defense department. It was like "Tag you do this." And the learning process started. I initially only had two Computer Science courses for my Engineering degree. After that it was a course here, there and a lot of burning the midnight oil. 9

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you want in asset tracking? - WAS Re: Recommendations for basic asset tracking

ilding their own Asset extension > for RT, based off RT 4.2. I think I may take a look at that one, since > I've been a long-time fan of RT in general. > > -- > Christopher Manly > Coordinator, Library Systems > Cornell University Library Information Technologies > c..

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for basic asset tracking

Peter, I used the Asset Tracker plugin to Request Tracker for a while until our place went to School Dude. I am not a fan of that software and it is a giant waste when the Asset Tracker plugin for RT worked and was free. Another free thing I used was called Asset Manager written by a guy who worked

[lopsa-discuss] Fwd: Last 3 days for free logos.

In case you wanted to order some LOPSA Gear this will save you the cost of the logo. -- Forwarded message -- From: Lands' End Business Outfitters Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:53 AM Subject: Last 3 days for free logos. To: jbori...@gmail.com Free Logos on Lands' End Apparel. Us

[lopsa-discuss] Fwd: Free logos get the new year started right.

If you are looking to buy some LOPSA Gear here is a code for Free Logos. -- Forwarded message -- From: Lands' End Business Outfitters Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:01 AM Subject: Free logos get the new year started right. To: jbori...@gmail.com Kick of 2014 with Free Logos on L

[lopsa-discuss] Free Logo on LOPSA Gear from Lands End

Just wanted to let the list know that Lands End has a free Logo promotion. So if you wanted to order some LOPSA Wear go to http://ocs.landsend.com/cd/frontdoor?*store*_name=LOPSA&*store*_type=3 and use the code EMLOGO at checkout. Here is the link for the Promotion http://ocs.landsend.com/cd/fr

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Has anyone ever heard of the "AITP"?

rnal of Information Systems Applied Research. > > They had a paper detailing their demographics, but the link doesn't work. > I might try to get my hands on it, because I'm rather curious too. > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:34 AM, john boris wrote: > >> Ed and Caro

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Has anyone ever heard of the "AITP"?

Ed and Carolyn, I believe this came up about a year or so ago. I will have to try and search my emails but I believe our goals parallel each other but at different levels. I am trying to find the correct words to use but I feel we deal they deal with anyone that touches a Computer as part of their

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Professionalization BoF at LISA'13

://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/technology/29wifi.html?_r=0 That speaks to something a lot of just experienced at LISA. This is a good effort and because it may have failed in the past does not mean it will fail this time around. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 3:58 PM, john boris wrote: > Will, > I am sorry I cou

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Professionalization BoF at LISA'13

Will, I am sorry I could not attend as I had to leave LISA early. I like this effort which in line (Sort of) w ith Matt Simmons efforts to create the LOPSA Professional Recognition Program. To answer Gene's statement as to while (1) { bring up subject argue for a few weeks to months do noth

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Dan Geer on the state of Professionalization in Cybersecurity

Will, After the Town Hall meeting they are having the LOPSA After Dark at one of the bars in the hotel. That will continue after the Mentorship BoF. Just an FY!. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Will Dennis wrote: > > (CC'ing Matt since he's currently on vacation, and want him to see this...) >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What are characteristics of the ideal sysadmin graduate

Ski, During my time here at $WORK I have seen my share of young sysadmins and the main thing I have seen missing is troubleshooting skills. I have always been torn on how does a person gain troubleshooting skills. Is a person born with that trait or do they gather and retain that knowledge from tra

Re: [lopsa-discuss] PEER 1 data centers

; Jesse Trucks, GCUX > jtru...@lopsa.org > > > > john boris wrote: > > Has anyone on the list had dealings with PEER 1 data enters. Here at $WORK > is looking to do business with a company that uses them for their hosting. > > -- > John J. Boris, Sr. > Online S

[lopsa-discuss] PEER 1 data centers

Has anyone on the list had dealings with PEER 1 data enters. Here at $WORK is looking to do business with a company that uses them for their hosting. -- John J. Boris, Sr. Online Services www.onlinesvc.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.or

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Math for SysAdmins - Conference tutorial?

In my rise in this field I looked back at my education and I had a basic statistics class and in all of my post high school math courses there were probably some statistics rolled into one of my Calculus classes and in my Engineering courses. But a basic Stat course would be a start so the sysadmin

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What's your favourite home-office all-in-one printer

I agree with Tom on the HP. I caught it at Staples on sale also got staples rewards for the purchase. I believe it dropped it to around $180. It fit in the same spot as my 7310. I have to say I turned on the coloring book app somehow so now when I turn it on to do some printing I get a random color

[lopsa-discuss] Anyone ever dealt with e.Republic

Has anyone ever dealt with e.Republic, more direct their division called Center for Digital Education? -- John J. Boris, Sr. Online Services www.onlinesvc.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Mark Burgess quote from April 2013 ;login:

One trait that a. System administrator should have is strong troubleshooting skills. They also have to to be a logical person so they don't chase down rabbit holes. You really can't list a definite programming language as that is a moving target as is become more sophisticated. On Wednesday, Ju

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Knowledge lost in time....

Lawrence I feel for you about the downtime and breaking your production server. Some of us don't have the luxury of either a staff to test patches and upgrades or a platform to test them on. With VMWare and VirtualBox (Insert favorite Virtual Machine manager here) handling more and more legacy and

Re: [lopsa-discuss] newegg

I have used Newegg for quite a while and have never experienced this. Recently I ordered a room heater from them. I read all the reviews and each review complained about the packaging and it came with bad packaging but it wasn't damaged. The package had extra tape and the shipping label like they w

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Seeking Transportation to LOPSA-EAST from DC

Thanks tom for clarifing that. On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > That's a good point. If you are traveling Thur or Fri, you can take > Amtrak directly to the New Brunswick train station. If you are > travling on Sat or Sunday you should go to Trenton ("Trenton, NJ > (TRE)") if

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Seeking Transportation to LOPSA-EAST from DC

Make sure the nj transit station is open on saturday. One year the nj transit station wasn't open on. Saturday.we had toshuttle a few folks to the amtrak station. On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, Peter Grace wrote: > I know that it's offtopic to Job's request, however amtrak to trenton then > the NJ Tr

Re: [lopsa-discuss] [lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s

2:24 PM > *To:* LOPSA Discuss List > *Subject:* Re: [lopsa-discuss] [lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s > ** ** > ** ** > On Apr 3, 2013, at 2:05 PM, John Broome wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:56 PM, john boris wrote: > > > Okay here at $WORK they a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] OTY: Ninth Circuit says border searches without suspicion are unconstitional

Lawrence, I think it was appropriate for the list. Albeit maybe ,missing some things or long winded but you as a Moderator can't get into editing a person's post. I think you made the right decision. John J. Boris, Sr. "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of

Re: [lopsa-discuss] OTY: Ninth Circuit says border searches without suspicion are unconstitional

Okay I check and here is what is in the policy for Mailing Lists. Now the Policy is for Hosted Mailing lists and I can only assume (sometimes it is bad for that) that lopsa-discuss is a hosted email list and this policy would appl https://governance.lopsa.org/LOPSA_Policies/Hosted_mailing_lists

[lopsa-discuss] Ubersvn question

Are there any ubersvn users on the list. I left a message on their forum but although it got a lot of views no responses. I have two issues. 1. My commits don't show up on the Dashboard 2. I would like to modify the dashboard The faq, forums and docs are silent on these. I also have an issue tha

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Do you do pro bono work?

are asking could take the better part of an evening or weekend day. I do make them sit there with me when I end up fixing their prob;em so they can see how tedious it can be at times. John Boris >>> Jonathan 01/15/13 4:07 AM >>> On 15/01/13 01:06, David Lang wrote: > O

Re: [lopsa-discuss] 2 factor authentication

Mason, You can create ssh keys that require a password. At least the ones I created on my systems always asked me for a password. if I didn't want the password I wouldn't eneter one. John J. Boris, Sr. "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train

Re: [lopsa-discuss] 2 factor authentication

Right off the bat I have to ask. What kind of authentication is required to download the client and then when you download the client isn't there authentication for that? Just asking. It just seems redundant. John J. Boris, Sr. "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the head

Re: [lopsa-discuss] closed list for discussing employers?

Jo, Do you mean for just lopsa members? Or what are you suggesting? Is this available on other sites? I am kinda stumped on how to offer that. John Boris Sent from my Blackberry -Original Message- From: Jo Rhett To: List, LOPSA Discuss Sent: 12/9/2012 4:52:35 PM Subject: [lopsa

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Robert Half Technology 2013 Salary Guide is up

What I would like to do is take the SAGE (or is it USNIX) salary survey and see the difference. That one is unbiased and it would be a good thing to see the difference. I do agree that a report like this from a head hunter might be toward the higher side to try and draw in clients. In response

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Fwd: [TUHS] unix horror stories

Outside of work I coach High School Football and over the last few years I have seen a trend that sort of makes me feel like my Dad. I see too much where young people don't want to take responsibility for their actions and , at least in my dealings, their parents want to smooth over any wrong doing

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Fwd: [TUHS] unix horror stories

I have had my share of "Oh no!" moments. My worst was I was remoted into a box and I had mounted a CD on a server in my office from a server at the other end of the city. I loaded the software without a hitch. But when I went to unmount the cd through the admin applet I hit enter as the words unmou

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Fwd: [TUHS] unix horror stories

+1 for John and Will, Sadly I think it is today's culture. Something that I wish would change. John Boris Sent from my Blackberry -Original Message- From: "Will Dennis" Cc: To: Stoffel, John To: Hughes, Doug Sent: 10/24/2012 3:39:24 PM Subject: Re: [lopsa-disc

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Sr vs. Jr Sys Admin

I agree with Matt but one of the skills (or traits) that a Senior SysAdmin should have over a Junior SySAdmin would be trouble shooting skills. These are gained over time. Going down blind alleys, Making mistakes and watching the Senior SySAdmin resolve an issue. So a Senior SySAdmin should have a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

I have been following this thread and finally have some time to chime in. I read the comment by Greg R about how USENET was the thing "back in the day" and how topday people hit Google first and then filter through that. I agree also that a person searching for an answer to a problem just wants the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recent Job Posting

Thanks to all. Got the email and the archives. Duh! I guess I should read the email's footers from now on. John J. Boris, Sr. "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> "John BORIS" 6/14/2012 12

[lopsa-discuss] Recent Job Posting

pardon the interruption. Recently there was a posting on the lISA list or discuss about a job opening I believe it was for the University of Wisconsin or in Wisconsin but it was for a system administrator. It said that they were looking for a person that might even be a junior and they would train.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Establish a definitive LOPSA Harassment and Discrimination Policy

Matt, What you are doing is just fine. This is a Public list and you are getting responses from both LOPSA and Non Lopsa people but you are getting a consensus of opinion. I don't think we would be doing our organization any type of Justice of writing a policy and not have a lawyer review it. John

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Maybe I don't get it -Harassment policy

y a non-profit org needs an attorney to draft it, only that they should read it after we create it and approve it, or provide suggestions. The attorney part is up to the board, but I feel that the membership itself should have a say in the policy. That's why I'm doing this. --Matt On Fr

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Maybe I don't get it -Harassment policy

Creating Policies for events that have never happened is just being prepared. During my stint on our local School Board we were constantly creating new policies for events that may have happened at other schools but not at ours. Now a lot of these are CYAs but they make it clear what to do in the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Establish a definitive LOPSA Harassment and Discrimination Policy

Matt, Great job in this effort. My comments here are along Evan's but I am not in the DC area. I must admit I was taken back when this question came up on the LOPSA-Live session. I don't see this in my surroundings. Now my head isn't in the sand and I know it exists. I was subject to this first han

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Inventory Management Systems

Scott, I use the Asset Tracker plugin for Request Tracker. It works fine for my setup. http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/AssetTracker http://bestpractical.com/rt/ I am not on that version (Sure would like to find the time to upgrade) but my version does work. My remote admins use just the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] List of schools offering degrees in system administration - did I miss any?

Matt, Yes this is something I am very interested in working on. I will look at the list. >>> Matt Simmons 05/12/12 9:52 AM >>> I asked this question on Reddit a while back: http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/n67bc/crowdsourcing_universities_that_offer_degrees_in/ There were a TON listed.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] List of schools offering degrees in system administration - did I miss any?

Aleksey, Thanks for posting this. I have bethien looking for this. John Boris Chairman , PICC'12 >>> Aleksey Tsalolikhin 05/12/12 8:40 AM >>> Schools offering degrees in system administration: Rochester Institute of Technology B.S. degree http://www.rit.edu/programs

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for help with troff documents

Mark, >Ah, fond memories. memories you might like to forget >As suggested, a revision control system would be a huge help. You don't need >anything as fancy as a distributed client/server system--I'm a big fan of >using RCS (possibly in addition to svn) for local revision control. yes something I

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for help with troff documents

www.picconf.org >>> Howard Bampton 5/3/2012 11:50 AM >>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:21 AM, John BORIS wrote: > The documents were created years ago and each year they have just been > edited. My issues normally are with someone deleting a .\} or a \{\ or > add an errant one of

[lopsa-discuss] Looking for help with troff documents

Here at $WORK I maintain a legacy system that does its reports with essentially troff. We use an enhanced version called Eroff but the commands are the same except for the ones that Eroff adds but the normal ifs, else and brackets are the same. This is not a macro issue it is an issue with section

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Membership types :was Sys Admin Day activities

d upon the fact that their employer or colleague paid for their membership dues. Just my 2 cents... On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:51 PM, John BORIS wrote: > What I meant by that was a person who pays for their membership as > opposed to one who is given it might have a bit more interest in th

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Sys Admin Day activities

brainstorming what a Corporate membership would be. John J. Boris, Sr. >>> 4/9/2012 1:46 PM >>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, John BORIS wrote: > The talk about Corporate memberships is fine with me but we would have > to setup a structure for that. A dues paying member gets voting ri

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Sys Admin Day activities

Finally got free to hop in on this. I agree about membership drives. Anything to boost numbers. I agree with Matt S's comment about abrasive (not sure if it rubs me the same wrong way) but I think it would be tough but highlighting achievements in our area would be the thing to Highlight. Not sure

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for Linux SA training?

Ian, Although late to this thread I am not sure if someone mentioned this but if you have a spare machine around he can "play" with that. I am not sure what distro you guys are using but Fedora would get him started with Red Hat. But if he builds a server by himself and then you find training he ca

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

I guess the testing issue in affirmative action is something new. Before I landed her (14+ years ago) I was on the interview circuit and one job I had to take two tests. The tester didn't think I answered all the questions because I got done too soon. The test was a joke, almost what you would give

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

Evan, Based on the last reply I have to chime in with the same statement. I left the Fed after 31 years and took the leap to the private sector and within 6 months was out on the street. When I went on the job search I got told by one young interviewer "Do you think at your age you can be up for th

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

Just a question as to the candidates that aren't reaching the bar. Are they failing due to lack of experience in Unix/Linux? I haven't had to hire anyone for quite a while and my last venture got me a ton of resumes but most of them never read the announcement and just saw Programmer and sent in th

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Bring Your Own Device: Security Solutions

Ryan, Although I haven't used their setup but Aruba networks can provide what you want. I saw them demonstrate their Wireless option at an Angelbeat conference in Philadelphia last year. I also saw an appliance by Air Defense that did a similar function but sat behind the access point and in front

Re: [lopsa-discuss] looking for graphing software to turn a text-based list into a graph of a circle with sectors and sub-sectors(?)

Aleksey, Have you looked at grap? I looked in the troff manual I have (Text Processing Dougherty and O'Reilly) and it isn't inj there but it is in my Eroff manual. Eroff is an enhanced troff product we use on SCO but I believe it is on another flavor of UNIX but there is no LINUX version. I did a s

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

Tom, We use !ig !rother. Used the free version for a long time but upgraded to the paid version just planning for mu future. It does what I need provides what you need or just roll your own little script to monitor what you want -Original Message- From: Tom Perrine To: Discussion, Lopsa

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What happened to basic routers?

Contact cxtec they sell refurbs with lifetime warranties they may have something in your price range -Original Message- From: Doug Hughes To: Hruby, Nathan Cc: Sent: 12/13/2011 10:43:22 AM Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] What happened to basic routers? Dell/force10 (S55) and HP (2910) b

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Monitoring and Alerting

I am a small shop. 17 Remote sites (two servers + firewall at each site) 7+ servers internal ~500 users. I say small because it is just me and a programmer here. I use Big Brother (have been for almost 10 years). I get notified via email to our main email site and then have our email (GroupWise) se