May 20, 2013I got an email from a friend of mine who is soliciting for women who work in IT (preferably IT administration) to take part in a panel at LISA'13 called "Advancing Women in Computing". You can also watch last year's panel to get a feel for what it's like. Once again, my good friend Rikki [...]
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April 25, 2013I thought that you might be interested in seeing the lightning talk that I gave at Back Bay LISA the other day. I talk about the path of the profession of IT Administration in general. It's only four and a half minutes, so give it a watch: If you can't see the embedded video, you [...]
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April 22, 2013So, there's a TON of stuff going around online about CISPA - the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. There's a great, if long, thread on Reddit, but if you want something shorter, the EFF has a FAQ, and there's a Myth vs Fact PDF on House.gov. The overall purpose of this legislation is actually [...]
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April 16, 2013More as a reminder to me than anything... Windows 7 introduced the Network Level Authentication option for remote desktop. The two options for remote desktop are: Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure) Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication Using NLA is actually more [...]
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April 11, 2013Last night, we had a really good BBLISA meeting. It was the Lightning Talks meeting that I was looking for volunteers with. I had a great time, and I think everyone else did, too. All in all, there were around 15 people at the meeting, and nine lightning talks, covering a wide range of topics. [...]
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April 9, 2013A few weeks ago, I opened a survey to ask all kinds of questions about system administration in general, and offered some pretty amazing prizes as a carrot to entice you to do the survey. A lot of you did, even though you opted out of receiving prizes - either way, I thank you all [...]
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