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

2010-03-02 Thread josh
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:07:18AM -0800, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Do you have an infrastructure for documentation that makes it easy > and pleasurable to add or update documents? If not, you need to > develop one. Personally, I like the power of DocBook XML, and the > convenience of an Asc

[lopsa-discuss] Blastwave/CSW - just the practical side....

2008-12-16 Thread Josh Smift
I haven't been paying close attention, but we've been planning to go with OpenCSW at $WORK. I'd also be curious to hear from people who know more about the differences (again, from a technical rather than a political perspective). -Josh (iril.

[lopsa-discuss] licensing

2009-03-12 Thread Josh Smift
them. That's not a choice you get about the guy who crashes a plane into your house.) -Josh (iril...@infersys.com) ___ 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/

Re: [lopsa-discuss] AOL's whitelisting

2009-05-11 Thread Josh Smift
the fact that it's a screenshot somehow makes it harder to fake. -Josh (iril...@infersys.com) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provide

Re: [lopsa-discuss] hardware vendor reccomendations?

2009-07-30 Thread josh+sage
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:56:07PM -0700, da...@lang.hm wrote: > I need to have a vendor who will make sure that what they sell me works > under linux. > > I currently have a AMD based infrastructure and would like to stay with > AMD (avoiding the poliferation of different kernels that I need t

[lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits

2010-03-01 Thread josh+sage
guess what maybe I'm looking for is tips to help me improve outside of the procedural/operational framework. Things like "spend the first 15 minutes of every day documenting what you did the previous day" or "make the n00b on the team do all the documentation."

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

2010-03-02 Thread josh+sage
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:14:37PM -0500, berg...@merctech.com wrote: > I include documentation in the "budget"...whether I'm doing an estimate in my > head or presenting a more formal project plan, there's always a documentation > component. > > This way it's clear that documentation is an inte

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

2010-03-04 Thread josh+sage
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:39:01PM -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: > > One thing I haven't seen so far is a definition of who your audience is. Is > it other admins, help desk, end users, managers, etc...? > > The approach you need to take is very different depending on the answer to > that question.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-25 Thread Josh Smift
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/platforms.html claims that Puppet runs in Solaris 7 and later, and http://www.blastwave.org/jir/pkgcontents.ftd?software=ruby&style=brief&state=5&arch=i386 has Ruby 1.8.7 for Solaris 8, which seems to be pretty current.

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

2010-06-17 Thread Josh Smift
I don't know much about this: Is contract-for-hire legally very different from (a) working somewhere with a probationary period, with an explicit review at the end of it; (b) at-will employment in general, in states where that's the norm? -

Re: [lopsa-discuss] off-topic? What animal is a system administrator?

2010-08-24 Thread Josh Smift
An octopus: Surprisingly intelligent, able to do eight things at once, liable to spray you with ink and vanish if you annoy it too much. -Josh (iril...@infersys.com) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http