Re: [lopsa-discuss] change SLA and rates

2008-11-20 Thread Simon Lyall
that is so hard to deal with that people prefer to outsource, cloud-source or run things under their desks rather than work with. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your l

[lopsa-discuss] New Resource: serverfault.com

2009-05-01 Thread Simon Lyall
with just the beta password they give ). Note: I am completely unaffiliated to either site. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. ___ Discuss ma

[lopsa-discuss] Linux.conf.au 2010 Sysadmin Miniconf : Call for Presentations

2009-08-22 Thread Simon Lyall
CFP: LCA 2010 Systems Administration Miniconf As part of the linux.conf.au conference in Wellington, New Zealand in January 2010 we will be holding a 1 day mini conference orientated to Linux Systems Administration. Please see our website at http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/ for details.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] movie credits

2010-04-06 Thread Simon Lyall
trying to do here is create a list of Sysadmins in film and you decided to host it on wikipedia. I would really advise using a space you control (lopsa hosted perhaps) and create it there. Once it is in a good state you could link to it from the wikipedia articles. -- Simon Lyall | Very Bu

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

2010-05-04 Thread Simon Lyall
ourse. [1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2008/9/3/some-facebook-secrets-to-better-operations.html [2] http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture [3] http://highscalability.com/scaling-digg-and-other-web-applications -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ &quo

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Your Bookshelf

2010-07-15 Thread Simon Lyall
ce Wb sites by Steve Sounders (The area has moved rapidly over the last couple of years so this might not be the best book anymore) * Best Software writing 1 - Selected by Joel Spolsky and more general book that might be of interest: Better - A surgeon's notes on performance by Atul Gawande --

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-08-30 Thread Simon Lyall
that they could learn about them when required but leaving off looking at new technology until you explicitly require doing it (due to problem, new requirements or platform replacement say) doesn't strike me as ideal -- Simon Lyall

Re: [lopsa-discuss] GoDaddy jobs/turnover?

2010-09-04 Thread Simon Lyall
$199/year ) of anyone else remotely reputable. Outside of the really bad examples I think it's very hard to find the "bad companies to work for" since (a) what people are looking for in a workplace varies and (b) different depts and offices within the company will vary. -- S

[lopsa-discuss] CFP - LCA 2011 Systems Administration Miniconf

2010-09-08 Thread Simon Lyall
sysadmin.miniconf.org Ewen McNeill and Simon Lyall Conveners, LCA2011 Sysadmin Miniconf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/