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".
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.**
Yesterday's Women in Tech Panel was moderated by Lois Bennett, who was joined by panelists Carolyn Rowland, Máirín Duffy, and Deb Nicholson.
Jesse Robbins started his presentation "GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction" (slides) with this awesome quote:
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*.
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.
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".
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?
The Internet is facing a slowly-unfolding crisis. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) ran out of assignable IP address blocks in April of this year. APNIC ran out of its allocation in April as well. The other regional registries have only a few years' worth of addresses to issue.
During this morning's open remarks, Tom Limoncelli and Doug Hughes, LISA'11 program co-chairs, announced the dates and location for LISA '12. Next year's LISA will be held December 9-14, in San Diego, California, and Carolyn Rowland will be the program chair.