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In a recent memorial service for Father Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame, former Sen. Alan Simpson had the following advice for attending students: "If you're…
What if you treated all of the configuration files and scripts which set up and control your infrastructure like an open source project in their own right? What if you put the…
It's certainly not news. We've talked before about how learning OpenStack is a great way to kickstart an IT career. But just how valuable is it? And if you want to make the…
For Careers in Open Source Week here at Opensource.com, I thought I would turn to the people I work with everyday to see how open source has changed their view on things. I…
System administration can be a thankless job. To all of the tireless administrators out there who keep the systems we reply upon up and running, today is the day that we say…
When I began my current job at Algoma University as the systems librarian, I really had no idea what I was getting into. Despite a decade in library information technology (IT…
