System Administration

SCaLE is coming up fast! Sign up for SCaLE-U classes taught by LOPSA instructors!

Register now to reserve your seat at the table for these highly acclaimed courses by seasoned instructors.

Hope to see you all there!

The next elections for the LOPSA Board of Directors is next week!

Please review my candidate statement, and please vote for me if you are a current member of LOPSA. At the very least, vote!

Tom Limoncelli of The Practice of System and Network Administration (TPOSANA) and Time Management for System Administrators (TMfSA) fame recently wrote a provocative blog entry called

Scott Ruecker of LXer interviewed me via email about my involvement with LOPSA and the SCaLE U training classes coming up in a couple weeks on February 20 in

As a followup to its highly successful training programs, LOPSA is partnering with the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) for the second year in a row.

LOPSA does training in partnership with conferences throughout the year in addition to the occasional (twice now) Sysadmin Days event. This year David Parter, a Director on the LOPSA Board, and I taught a System Administration Master Class at YAPC::NA 2008 in Chicago. Now LOPSA is partnering with OLF for the second year to bring you OLFU, a day of training. 

So, the LOPSA Sysadmin Days 2007 training event is now over. I thought it was a very successful event, and I met many new and interesting people.

I have no information on how the other courses went since I was teaching all four sessions, but anecdotally I heard they went well overall.

When I get caught up I'll provide more details about the event.

So, it's the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day today!

Every profession has their day, it seems, and this is our day. Please
take a moment today to reflect on the work your fellow system administrators do.

LOPSA Sysadmin Days is coming!

Just like last fall in Phoenix, I am teaching all four classes at this year's event.

Those classes are:

• Disaster Recovery: Will you survive?
• Change Management: Why suffer the paperwork?
• Advanced Security: A self-assessment study
• Communication for IT: A broad spectrum analysis

I hope attendence is as high in my classes as last year (or higher!). Last year they were the most attendended classes except, of course, for Tom Limoncelli's Time Management for System Administrators, a course based on his popular book of the same name.

We have some top notch instructor's again, and I wish I could take four classes instead of just teach them.

Please register today!

So, apparently I've been in a time warp. I took a break on writing blog entries to catch up on a couple things and suddenly it's months later.

As a friend of mine (who, apparently, took down his blog) has said, "bloggers blog," so here I am, trying to be a blogger who blogs.

Updates in brief: