I know that there's (probably) a list meant just for job postings,
and I apologize ahead of time if there is, and I should have posted
this there.
It's an interesting position, and looks to still be open, for a
system administrator to work remotely, and full-time.
http://blog.librarything.com/ma
I saw this article first on G+ (and agree with many of the points).
It's an interesting piece, and not very long.
http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201503/2015031201-the-sad-state-of-sysadmin-in-the-age-of-containers.html
From the article:
++
The sad state of sysadmin in the age of container
On 6/9/2014 3:50 PM, Evan Pettrey wrote:
Greetings folks,
My company is currently in the process of obtaining a pentester to test
security on our systems and one that a colleague of mine has recommended
has asked us for the below information:
- Public IPs
- Public DNS records
I see
On 5/16/2014 10:11 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
I still think we should send a email to all past members once a year,
unless they specifically ask us to stop doing so. Once a year is low
enough that it isn't spam, and good enough to remind people who ignore
all other reminders because they were too
On 5/16/2014 9:02 AM, Josh Smift wrote:
Please do NOT start sending such things out on a regular basis.
I've remained on the list, even though I'm no longer a member, for
various reasons, but would find it unpleasant to suddenly be
receiving reminders of this sort.
"For $50, you can become a m
On 5/16/2014 8:43 AM, Derek Balling wrote:
Here's an idea:
Part 1 - Add "alias" storage to lopsa.org (so you can add e-mail
addresses which are associated with you but which aren't where we
send notices, and aren't made public)
Part 2 - Any e-mail address subscribed to one of our mailing lists
On 2/4/2014 4:18 PM, Tom Perrine wrote:
I know where I keep mine, but I'm not sure I've been paranoid enough
the past few years :-)
Where do you store your GPG keyring? Personal or business laptop? Home
or other server? USB or other removable media? In the cloud?
I should point out that I us
th a more reasonable address (sometimes the one I'm using now,
but not always).
I used it for a while on G+ but got tossed off in the great purge when
they decided that "Etaoin Shrdlu" was not a real person. People vouched
for me (including several who worked at Google), but to no
On 10/25/2013 7:55 AM, Josh Smift wrote:
s> but honestly, what are they thinking? Why do I have an account again?
I occasionally hear about life-event type news from former colleagues this
way, but I don't otherwise get any benefit from it at all. I'll probably
delete my account when I have a m
On 10/25/2013 7:26 AM, Josh Smift wrote:
My employer just sent around a link to a story about LinkedIn's new
service, http://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2013/10/linkedin-intro/ --
anyone know anything that contradicts any of this? If not, it's
pretty scary.
After the special moments I had with Linke
[Warning. It's book length.]
On 10/7/2013 6:28 AM, Adam Moskowitz wrote:
With LISA '13 [1] right around the corner, I got to thinking about
how "the cool kids" prefer to exchange contact information in a
face-to-face setting.
Long ago, and far away, before I became the recluse that I am (and y
On 9/27/2013 6:59 AM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote:
(I wrote)
How many 18 year old technical books still have useful information
that pertains to what you do on a day to day basis? Having just
cleaned out most of my library, I can tell you that the number is
vanishingly small.
I've been thi
On 9/22/2013 2:14 PM, Shrdlu wrote:
On 9/21/2013 9:02 PM, Shrdlu wrote:
Every now and then, I've ended up with items that were autographed
by an author (in the case of a PERL shirt, by *three* authors),
and I often find homes for them rather than just tossing them out.
I have been
On 9/21/2013 9:02 PM, Shrdlu wrote:
Every now and then, I've ended up with items that were autographed
by an author (in the case of a PERL shirt, by *three* authors), and
I often find homes for them rather than just tossing them out.
I have been quite touched by the response I got to
Every now and then, I've ended up with items that were autographed by
an author (in the case of a PERL shirt, by *three* authors), and I
often find homes for them rather than just tossing them out. I've been
cleaning out my library, and I was surprised that I'd kept the red Unix
System Administra
I've been receiving messages on my old gmail account, invitations for
various things, and so on. Many of them are people I know on this list,
so I'm gently pointing out that I log into the two gmail accounts I
kept, when I deleted most of them in my migration away from "free" email
hosted by googl
On 8/17/2013 10:42 AM, Betsy Schwartz wrote:
(did I mention that Mom is editing an 800-page book using Word
Perfect? Her fourth? With massive footnotes? Switching word
processors alone is not a trivial task)
As much trouble as this will probably get me into, I can relate to her
preference for
A while back, I left Flickr for Ipernity (along with a few thousand
others), and it's been pretty comfortable for me so far. There were
lots of people on Flickr that cared about how many views their images
got (many of them are professional photographers, so that makes sense)
although I do not.
R
On 8/6/2013 11:45 AM, Matthew Barr wrote:
I've seen folks mention that the more modern ink jets may not dry out
as quickly. How true is this?
I haven't had problems with that in years.
We print fairly infrequently, but every time I've seen an inkjet
that's used that little, it's always dri
Sorry, Josh, not picking on you in particular, it just seemed a good
spot to reply in this thread...
On 6/11/2013 9:16 AM, Josh Smift wrote:
DB> Whether you agree with him or not, he is showing the public at large
DB> what a idealistically motivated system administrator can do.
Maybe, but is
On 3/14/2013 10:15 AM, Shrdlu wrote:
Could we PLEASE make a special list for this, so that I don't have to
see it anymore?
Sorry. I please inadequate caffeine, your honor. I'd still like to have
the news article postings cease, if that was at all possible.
--
The right to buy weap
Could we PLEASE make a special list for this, so that I don't have to
see it anymore?
--
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
The Weapon Shops of Isher, by A. E. van Vogt
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On 1/11/2013 8:41 AM, Bryan Ramirez wrote:
at work we're having a discussion about 2 factor authentication. We're
comparing the traditional RSA token with Symantec's VIP Access solution.
[snip]
My hesitation with the Symantec solution is that it's most convenient to
download the client onto t
On 10/19/2010 8:45 AM, David Nolan wrote:
> I looked back in my email and didn't see anyone else posting jobs on
> the lopsa list, so I decided a direct job posting was not within the
> list etiquette.
I'd say that there could be a list for posting jobs, but that I'd really
prefer not to see job
On 10/15/2010 6:43 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> On 10-10-15 05:28 AM, Matt Simmons wrote:
>> There's certainly a lot to be said for not having fancy icons,
>> particularly in a "working" diagram, as opposed to the "fancy" diagram
>> you show off to management.
> Fancy icons look cool, but they need
On 10/14/2010 4:36 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> Um, no. It supports Visio XML output files, but cannot read proprietary
> format VSD files. It depends on how old your version of Visio is.
>
> --Jo (who is very happy with and uses OmniGraffle daily)
>
> On Oct 14, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Jonathan Nicol wrote
On 10/14/2010 2:46 PM, Atom Powers wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Jason Healy wrote:
>> Current candidates include:
>> - OmniGraffle (mac-only, so platform support is excellent)
>> - ConceptDraw NetDiagrammer (mac and windows versions available)
> I'll give my shout-out to Concept
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