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Copacetic.

"Copacetic", by David N. Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science

**Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USENIX Association.**

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Chef

"Converting the Ad-Hoc Configuration of a Heterogeneous Environment to a CFM, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Chef", by Dimitri Aivaliotis, EveryWare AG

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Wednesday morning refereed papers

The best papers are the ones where after they're presented you say "I can't wait to take these back to work!" That's the case with the papers presented in Wednesday morning's session. Chris St. Pierre and Matt Hermanson started off with "Staging Package Deployment via Repository Management". In this paper, they describe how they use a three-level repository scheme to manage the testing and deployment of software packages.

The DevOps Transformation

Keynote Address at the 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '11), by Ben Rockwood, Joyent.

**Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USENIX Association.**

DevOps may be a new term, but it's not a new idea. in this session we'll deconstruct it into its three transformation phases, look back at the often referenced but rarely explained history that influences it, and see how it is a catalyst that is changing the craft of system administration.

LISA '11: Women in Tech Panel

Yesterday's Women in Tech Panel was moderated by Lois Bennett, who was joined by panelists Carolyn Rowland, Máirín Duffy, and Deb Nicholson. Lois started the discussion with the question, “Is there a problem?

GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction

Jesse Robbins started his presentation "GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction" (slides) with this awesome quote:

"You don’t choose the moment,
the moment chooses you.
You only choose how prepared
you are when it does."
-Fire Chief Mike Burtch

LISA 11 Keynote: "The DevOps Transformation"

After a delightfully overdone comedy routine by Tom Limoncelli and Doug Hughes, Ben Rockwood took the stage to deliver his keynote speech titled "The DevOps Transformation." DevOps is a growing movement in IT designed to blur the line between developers and operators. DevOps is a cultural and professional movement, not a tool or product. It is not a title, nor is it a person. Most importantly, it is not just dev & ops, it’s *dev*ops*.

A Sysadmin’s Guide to Navigating the Business World

IT doesn't exist for its own sake, but rather to serve the needs of some external entity. In the work sphere, this means serving some business need of the employing organization. Unfortunately, sysadmins and business leaders often have different perspectives. This can put a strain on IT's relationship with the rest of the organization. Mark Burgess and Carolyn Rowland's training on Tuesday morning was aimed at giving sysadmins the perspective and skills necessary to effectively communicate with business leaders.

Mozilla Adds Extended Support Release Structure to Firefox

I'm sitting in the Mozilla BoF at LISA'11 and they just now announced that beginning with Mozilla 10 (currently in the Aurora status, which is similar to Alpha), not only will plugins become compatible by default, but that upon release, it will be the first "Extended Support Release".

The support term that Mozilla will offer will be"about one year". No new features will be backported from later revisions, but security updates will be added.

Recovering From Linux Hard Drive Disasters

Ever had a hard drive failure? Ever kicked yourself because you didn't keep backups of critical files, or you discovered that your regular nightly backup didn't succeed? If this sounds familiar then Theodore Ts'o training "Recovering From Linux Hard Drive Disasters" should be on your LISA schedule because this tutorial covers in depth details on how to recover from disasters caused by software or hardware failures.

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