I just submitted a proposal for an hour long talk for this year’s PICC Conference in New Jersey. I shouldn’t have waited so long, but at least I got it in. Submissions are being accepted through the end of the month, and it’s really super-easy to do. All you need is a short paragraph describing [...]

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Today, I’m in San Jose at the Wireless Mobility Symposium, and while we were planning it, Stephen Foskett jokingly suggested that we needed a “geek-o-meter” to help gauge the technical level of the presentations. It sounded like so much fun that I had to do it. And since it’s the Wireless symposium, it had to [...]

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You might have heard that the US Government recently shut down MegaUpload, an online “file locker” which was used by many pirates to store their illegally acquired and transmitted software. Of course, the fact that it was used by a great number of people to store completely legitimate files was irrelevant to the DOJ. But [...]

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I’m happy to announce the January 2012 LOPSA Columbus meeting! This Thursday, January 19th, we’ll be at the offices of 2checkout.com again (thanks Warner!). The address is: 2checkout.com 4350 Equity Dr. Suite G, 43228 Here’s a link to the Google Map: http://goo.gl/rafcE View Larger Map The meeting topic will be “Beginner and Advanced Monitoring with [...]

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This Thursday, we’ll be holding the 2nd monthly LOPSA Columbus Chapter meeting, and I’ll be doing a presentation called “Beginner and Advanced Monitoring with Nagios”. I want to spend the majority of my time talking about configuring and managing Nagios, but compiling it takes valuable time, so in the announcement, I sent everyone a link [...]

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I’ve been reading the Visible Ops Handbook (which is great and you should go buy it right now if you don’t own it), and it’s made me think about a lot of things differently – particularly the role of config management as an enforcement tool, not just a tool of convenience. Before now, I’ve always [...]

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