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If you attend LISA15 in Washington D.C. this month, you'll want to catch James Mickens' closing keynote, It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea. James Mickens has…
LISA is an annual technical conference for IT operations professionals, organized by The USENIX Association. The first LISA was held back in 1987, and the event still has a…
It's 2015, and there are no computers in my house that run anything but Linux. Yep, I'm one of those people. My name is Jim Salter, and I'm a professional Linux sysadmin and…
Several years ago, when I was working on my Master's degree in Library Science, I took a course on Unix (Solaris) system administration. The course was supposed to involve…
Around 1994, I was a database and security consultant in London. Working in the financial sector around Threadneedle Street. In those days, the only choices for home operating…
Systems administrators: They keep our high-tech world up and running. From capacity planning, to 3 a.m. phone calls, to retiring that 10-year-old server that uses more power…
