I have found value in both Linked-in and Facebook, the latter personally.
If you're going to join Facebook, you need to be aware of the
potential stupidities and dangers.
One is the obvious -- don't post things you don't want your
boss/potential boss to see.
Another is the add ons and applicatio
The elections for the 2009-2011 LOPSA Board of Directors has concluded.
The winners are Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski, Dan Rich, David Parter, Derek
Balling, Jesse Trucks, Lois Bennett, Philip Kizer, Travis Campbell,
and Trey Harris.
Not elected is Matthew Barr.
We present below the report of the independ
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> Apropos of another thread about resumes: I screened a guy recently whose
> resume
> said "CISSP Training". I asked what that meant. He said he took the class,
> but
> not the test, and then went on to criticize the test questions as "too
My biggest problems with certifications, in general, are 3 simple things:
- Most are rote memorization crap. Like I said before, the "Name 6
flags to ls" thing.
- Almost all, if not *all* cost money. Some, I understand, require
you to take the classes before you take the test, making them cost
Hey friends,
I'm not just a member of LOPSA, I bought the company-
No, wait, sorry, wrong commercial.
I'm not just a member of LOPSA, I'm also an organizer of the Ohio
LinuxFest. This year OLF is celebrating 40 Years of Unix. And LOPSA
will be there to have a booth and even offer classes for sy
Ah, the downtime tales I can tell...
Back in my not-that-distant past working for a supercomputing center
downtime of the machine room was usually caused by one of two
problems: 1) lightning strikes taking down the power grid or 2)
electricians playing, "Hey this breaker isn't labeled! Let's see
Folks, this is a list about systems administration not parenting
skills. While I'm sure your ideas on how to handle this sensitive
topic may be helpful I'd like to encourage you to move it off-list.
Just My Unhumble Opinion.
Moose
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On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> They both have the same problem: they required a download->use->upload
>>
>> sshfs is a good idea, but are there MS Windows clients?
>
> I think you got to face it: The only thing native to windows is CIFS. And
> the only way to secure
(Subject changed to avoid thread hijacking.)
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Luke Quattrochi
wrote:
>
> BTW responding on this list makes me nervous. I am a young SA of less
> experience, and probably of a smaller company than many of you are at. If
> my tone seems off, please give me the benef
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Chris Reisor wrote:
> Yes, the reason you haven't noticed us until now is that you probably
> have a normal-sized bladder. :)
I have friends who refuse to leave the theater until the IATSE logo
[or equivalent] has been displayed.
I also have known enough peopl
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Rich wrote:
> Dreamworks Animation has had sysadmin in the credits in at least some
> form as long as I've been here -- so at least since Shrek 2.
sysadmins got credit inthe first Shrek movie. iirc it was still PDI then :-).
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BTW, for those looking to just keep track of their own work, without
dealing with a whole trouble ticket system, I highly recommend Best
Practical's Hiveminder [hiveminder.com] -- a sort of micro-RT where
you can assign deadlines, tag things, have events be hierarchical [ie.
A isnt' due until B is
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Tracy Reed wrote:
> And for those who like the emacs way of doing things check out
> org-mode:
>
> http://orgmode.org/
>
> Plain text is appealing to me.
>
Actually, I can't disagree. Except that the home server needs a power
supply, all 3 laptops are in a diffe
I'm looking for sysadmins who are relatively new (under 2 yrs) to help
me evaluate whether something is "too simple" or "too hard" for a
newer sysadmin.
It's very easy for those of us who have been doing this for a while to
forget what it's like when we're still learning the basics (although,
of c
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Esther Filderman wrote:
> I'm looking for sysadmins who are relatively new (under 2 yrs) to help
> me evaluate whether something is "too simple" or "too hard" for a
> newer sysadmin.
Hey, folks, I've got the data I need. T
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
wrote:
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> One more comment: I see a number of respondents here despairing because
> some people don't have the "run and find out" urge. I'd like to point out
> that the in-built urge to d
When I move home one of my top priorities is to revive SNAPitt.
(Systems & Network Administrators in Pittsburgh... or something)
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