March 21, 2010(Registration price goes up $75 on Monday night. Sign up now!)
Justify PICC to your boss
What is LOPSA PICC? http://www.picconf.org
Professional IT Community Conference:
Presentations, education, and fun.
IT and syadmin (Linux/Unix, Windows, Networking & storage).
2 days, 1 night, conference.
Low price/high [...]
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March 20, 2010There’s an exceptionally interesting and well-written post on The Daily WTF titled Up or Out – Solving the IT Turnover Crisis. Edit I feel like I should mention that it’s a couple of years old, too. That doesn’t change the validity of the text.
Spend some time and read the article. Written specifically for programmers, [...]
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March 15, 2010PRESS RELEASE
Discounted fee schedule ends Sunday, March 21st
New Brunswick, NJ, Today 42, 2010 – The Professional IT Community Conference (PICC) early bird registration prices have been extended for one week, in order to assist area administrators who have been hit with the economic downturn. This short term rate reduction ends Sunday, March 21st. Until [...]
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March 15, 2010How fast should your switches be?
Sure, the answer is “as fast as you can get”, but we don’t all have the budget for, say, this beast (chassis sold separately). Lots of us don’t have money for even a 48 port Gb managed switch.
So when deciding on a switch to buy, there are a [...]
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March 12, 2010I’ve got another column up at Simple Talk: Sysadmin today. It’s called Unteachable Disaster Recovery Techniques.
This is a true story, and it happened last week. I felt so strongly about it that I wrote the entire entry in one sitting.
Please give it a read through, and remember to rate it using the stars! Thanks! [...]
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March 12, 2010My company has decided that I need to learn more about administration of the Postgres database…which is to say that I should learn something about it. My knowledge is really pretty scant at the moment.
To that end, they’re sending my boss, my junior admin, and me to PostgreSQL East, a conference held in Philadelphia [...]
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