Re: [lopsa-discuss] Automated system deployment w/API or SDK, for x86 servers

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Barr
boots right into clonezilla when necessary. You can manage profiles that way, and it has a nice set of API's, too. Matthew Barr mb...@mbarr.net cell: 646-765-6878 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/li

Re: [lopsa-discuss] SMB Load Balancing

2009-05-03 Thread Matthew Barr
TON of http load balancing/ layer 7 http proxying. To the tune of Gbps large. We saw something interesting from Foundry (now Brocade, and when they last came to sell us some) , but it had one major problem- no gzip compression offload. That was their ServerIron offe

Re: [lopsa-discuss] CISSP?

2009-08-22 Thread Matthew Barr
official capacity. That's likely more relevant to a jack of all trades in a mid level or junior level, though.When you get to senior, it's not going to be very helpful. I'd expect a senior to be able to pick up almost anything with a bit of time. But good f

Re: [lopsa-discuss] swap or no swap that is the question

2009-09-11 Thread Matthew Barr
he on that, but alert, so you know you need to fix it. But that's just my gut feeling. Matthew Matthew Barr mb...@mbarr.net cell: 646-765-6878 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss Thi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits

2010-03-02 Thread Matthew Barr
You do have to be diligent and actually use it, vs doing one-off systems by hand. And even when you do something by hand the first time, you have to make sure that it gets into the system. Of course... those one off systems have a bad tendency to become 2, then 3, then 4 off's. Matthe

[lopsa-discuss] Mail servers for colo/isp?

2010-04-18 Thread Matthew Barr
I'm about to rebuild a mail server, and am looking for suggestions about what people are using these days. I need to manage users, antispam, and antivirus. I run a mail server for a few nonprofits, and myself & a few friends. Some of them should probably move to Google Apps for domains, but I

Re: [lopsa-discuss] SAGE Sysadmin Salary Survey and salaries over $200, 000

2010-05-04 Thread Matthew Barr
On May 4, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: > > I only noticed this fairly recently although I suspect it has been brewing > for a while. What is now called a "technical architect" I might call a > SAGE Level IV sysadmin. Agreed. Sysadmin only goes so high, in some companies. > C