Tom speaking at Puppet NYC Meetup
I'll be speaking at the July NYC Puppet Meetup meeting about the Puppet BlackBox project. If you missed this talk at PuppetCamp NYC, don't miss it here! Tuesday, July 22, 2014 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM The...
View ArticleANNOUNCEMENT: Our newest website: the-cloud-book.com
http://the-cloud-book.com is up and online! This is our new website dedicated to promoting The Practice of Cloud System Administration. It has a few incomplete pages, but we've decided to start...
View ArticleChange-Able Operations or "Could DevOps Save Spiderman?"
[This article first appeared in the SAGE-AU newsletter.] Have you heard about the New York City broadway show Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark? It should have been a big success. The music was written by...
View ArticleTom @ PuppetNYC Meetup: Tue, July 22
http://www.meetup.com/puppetnyc-meetings/events/194315322/ I'll be the speaker at the July PuppetNYC MeetUp. See you there!
View ArticleIPv6 is real... and mentioned on The Cobert Report
Did you catch Vint Cerf on The Colbert Report last night? Part 1: http://on.cc.com/1wtNMgk Part 2: http://on.cc.com/1wtNYMA He talks about Al Gore's involvement in funding the NSFNET, and the need for...
View ArticleTom @ Austin Cloud Meetup
Do you live near Austin? I'll be speaking at the Austin Cloud Meetup in September. They're moving their meeting to coincide with my trip there to speak at the SpiceWorld conference. More info here:...
View ArticleTom will be the October speaker at Philly Linux Users Group (central)
I've just been booked to speak at PLUG/Central in October. I'll be speaking about our newest book, The Practice of Cloud System Administration. For a list of all upcoming speaking engagements, visit...
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Special deal for Sysadmin Appreciation Day
Today is Sysadmin Appreciation Day! We appreciate all of you! The Practice of System and Network Administration is today's InformIT eBook Deal of the Day. Click on the link to get a special discount.
View Article50% off Time Management for System Administrators
O'Reilly is running a special deal for Celebrate SysAdmin Day. For one day only, SAVE 50% on a wide range of system administration ebooks and training videos from shop.oreilly.com. If you scroll down...
View ArticleI'm a system administrator one day a year.
Many years ago I was working at a company and our department's administrative assistant was very strict about not letting people call her a "secretary". She made one exception, however, on "Secretary...
View ArticleSystem Administrator Appreciation Day Spotlight: ServerFault.com
This being System Administrator Appreciation Day, I'd like to give a shout out to all the people on ServerFault.com who help system administrators find the answers to their questions. If you are...
View ArticleSystem Administrator Appreciation Day Spotlight: SuperUser.com
This being System Administrator Appreciation Day, I'd like to give a shout out to all the people of the superuser.com community. If you aren't a system administrator, but have technical questions that...
View ArticleHonest Life Hacks
I usually don't blog about "funny web pages" I found but this is relevant to the blog. People often forward me these "amazing life hacks that will blow your mind" articles because of the Time...
View ArticleOnline course: An Introduction to Operations Management starting soon
U Penn's Wharton School of Business has one of the best Operations Management classes in the world, and for the last few years it has been available as a MOOC. They've announced a new session starting...
View ArticleNew DevOps meetup starting in New Jersey!
As you know, I live in New Jersey. I'm excited to announce that some fine fellow New Jerseyians have started a DevOps Meetup. The first meeting will be on Monday, Aug 18, 2014 in Clifton, NJ. I'm...
View ArticleSimple bucket-ized stats in awk
Someone recently asked how to take a bunch of numbers from STDIN and then break them down into distribution buckets. This is simple enough that it should be do-able in awk. Here's a simple script that...
View ArticleHow sysadmins can best understand Burning Man
So, you've heard about Burning Man. It has probably been described to you as either a hippie festival, where rich white people go to act cool, naked chicks, or a drug-crazed dance party in the desert....
View ArticleLISA 2014 OMG
The schedule for 2014 has been published and OMG it looks like an entirely new conference. By "new" I mean "new material"... I don't see slots filled with the traditional topics that used to get...
View ArticleI'm giving away 1 free ticket to PuppetConf 2014!
PuppetConf 2014 is the 4th annual IT automation event of the year, taking place in San Francisco September 20-24. Join the Puppet Labs community and over 2,000 IT pros for 150 track sessions and...
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