Ben Cotton
Submitted by Marius Ducea on December 2, 2011 - 11:22 am
Tom Limoncelli and Doug Hughes are the LISA’11 program co-chairs, and it was my pleasure to interview them for the USENIX Blog readers:
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on December 1, 2011 - 3:21 pm
If you register for USENIX LISA'11 by 11:59PM (Pacific Time) Friday, December 2, your name will automatically be entered into a drawing for two 30-minute, one-on-one time management coaching classes with Tom Limoncelli to be held at LISA '11.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on November 28, 2011 - 3:12 pm
William LeFebvre has been using Unix since 1983 and attended his first LISA in 1993 (LISA VII) in Monterey. Since then, William has attended every LISA, with the exception of 2007 and 2008. "I have been a participant in most LISAs," he says. "I was on the program committee in 1994, 1996, 1997, 2007, and 2009. I was the coordinator for the network track in 2000 and 2003.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on November 22, 2011 - 3:03 pm
Lee Damon, a founding member of the System Administrators Guild and the League of Professional System Administrators, has attended all but one LISA event since 1989. "The focus on 'Large' was very strong in the first few conferences, but had pretty much fallen by the wayside by 1993-1995," he says. "If I recall correctly, Large was defined as '1GB of disk or 100 users'. By that definition, my cellphone is a large site with well over 32GB of 'disk' available to it."
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on November 22, 2011 - 12:59 pm
Recently I researched and wrote an article for The Linux Foundation on what employers want from a Linux admin. If you read that article and then look at the LISA '11 schedule, you'll see that our schedule nicely aligns with the most in-demand job skills.
From that article:
Besides the skill "Linux," the top 10 skills employers are listing in their wanted ads are:
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on November 22, 2011 - 12:17 pm
Maybe you've heard about this little thing called the "cloud"? If so, you'll be happy to know that LISA '11 has plenty of cloud coverage: Join us on Friday, December 9th, for the CloudStack Build a Cloud Day.
The complete schedule and details are on the Cloudstack event page, but here are some highlights:
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on November 21, 2011 - 1:00 pm
Ten lucky LISA '11 registrants will score a free 1-year subscription to ADMIN Magazine, and one lucky name will be drawn for a free technical session pass to the event. If you'd like to have your name in the drawing, be sure you've registered by Friday, November 25, at 11:59PM Pacific Time. The lucky winners will be notified the week of November 28th.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on November 21, 2011 - 12:20 pm
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on November 17, 2011 - 2:30 pm
Adam Moskowitz has been teaching since 1977. He started with swimming and first aid classes for the American Red Cross, then as a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard University Extension Program, then full-time for six years with Instruction Set, teaching classes in C and UNIX programming and UNIX system administration as well as "train the trainer" for those same classes. He has given tutorials at LISA and presented several talks at LISA and other conferences.
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