Everything Sysadmin: Archives

2013.05.12: I feel pain when articles get inaccurate titles
2013.05.09: WAN Accellerators
2013.05.07: Zeno's Interview Question
2013.05.03: "DRM-free" scares the s*** out of me
2013.05.01: Why Google Glass is so important
2013.04.30: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Computing Skills Boot Camp
2013.04.30: Two questions for LOPSA Board Candidates
2013.04.28: LOPSA-East is less than a week away!
2013.04.19: Balancing Todos and Tickets
2013.04.16: Today in history: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
2013.04.16: Review: Instant Puppet 3
2013.04.15: Today's time management tip
2013.04.11: LOPSA-East (formerly PICC) registration time!
2013.04.11: Get starting with Puppet in 50 pages
2013.04.10: Reminder: LISA '13 Call for Participation deadline (and a request)
2013.04.09: The mental model mismatch
2013.04.08: For-profit universities are a scam
2013.04.08: Bad Tech Job Interview Questions (and How To Answer Them)
2013.04.04: Interview with Chris St. Pierre, UCMS '13 Program Chair
2013.04.02: Running ChromeOS District Wide
2013.04.02: Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication
2013.04.01: My LOPSA-East tutorial: Evil Genius 101
2013.04.01: Tesla accidentally leaks their secret business plan
2013.03.29: Sheeri Cabral's "When I Moved Abroad"
2013.03.29: Boston Area Sysadmins: BBLISA Looking for Lightning Talks!
2013.03.29: Stop. Take 5 minutes to save the internet
2013.03.27: Can you make the speed of light faster?
2013.03.26: How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
2013.03.25: Today is my last day at Google.
2013.03.23: The perfect April Fools gift for the geek you love?
2013.03.22: What does Stack Exchange do when disaster strikes?
2013.03.21: New video: Ganeti: Your Private Virtualization Cloud "the Way Google Does It"
2013.03.20: Google hosted Xen Hackathon, May 16-17, Dublin
2013.03.19: Save up to $197 on LOPSA-East registration, really?
2013.03.18: Last night I had a nightmare...
2013.03.17: Call For Proposals Extended: Open Source Bridge 2013
2013.03.17: Cascadia IT Conference 2013 a big success!
2013.03.16: Registration open for LOPSA-East 2013! (formerly PICC) May 3-4, 2013, New Brunswick, NJ
2013.03.15: The correct RSS feed for this site
2013.03.14: Why oh why is Google canceling "reader"?
2013.03.11: Site Redesign Launched!
2013.03.10: Guidebook for Cascadia IT Conference open to all!
2013.03.09: Registration open for LOPSA-East 2013! (formerly PICC) May 3-4, 2013, NJ
2013.03.05: Issue 34 "Hacker News Monthly" issue
2013.03.04: How to tell if a site stores passwords in clear-text?
2013.02.28: Cascadia IT Conference: Discount extended! Don't miss out!
2013.02.27: A Linux equivalent of DaIotFOS?
2013.02.26: LISA '13 Call for Participation released!
2013.02.25: Wikimedia Foundation's system administration
2013.02.21: Cascadia IT Conference: Discount about to end!
2013.02.21: Are release trains obsolete?
2013.02.20: Reverting in "git"
2013.02.18: Metcalfe's law
2013.02.13: Label those datacenter cables!
2013.02.12: "The Finer Art of Being a Senior Sysadmin"
2013.02.11: Books I've recommended in the last week:
2013.02.07: Registration is now open for Cascadia IT Conference 2013!
2013.02.06: Operational aspects of a system
2013.02.04: Registration is now open for Cascadia IT Conference 2013!
2013.02.04: Ganeti "list" subcommand tips: list output and filtering
2013.02.01: Labeling Machines Is A Safety Precaution
2013.01.28: LOPSA-NJ February 7 meeting is a "Cluster Meeting"
2013.01.24: Bug of the day: getent's surprise
2013.01.24: Cascadia IT Conference 2013 schedule announced!
2013.01.02: Went to Epcot
2013.01.01: Jan 1 reminder:
2012.12.31: All outages are due to a failure to plan
2012.12.14: Review of my LISA '12 half-day tutorial on Time Management for Sysadmins
2012.12.12: Vint Cerf's keynote at LISA '12
2012.12.09: What's your "LISA '12 moment"?
2012.12.06: Book signing at LISA: Taming Information Technology
2012.12.06: Book signing at LISA: Taming Information Technology
2012.12.04: New at LISA: Watch the tutorials via live-streaming!
2012.11.28: My Pre-LISA checklist
2012.11.15: Early-bird discount for LISA'12 ends on Nov 19th!
2012.11.06: Why Romney lost today and how Republicans can win in 2016
2012.11.02: Pimlical on Android... now on Google Play
2012.10.17: Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center
2012.10.12: IPv6 Flashcards
2012.10.10: Mechanical Computer instructional video
2012.10.08: Has the job of a Google SRE changedover the years?
2012.10.03: Homomorphic Encryption Explained
2012.10.02: Book flights to Usenix LISA asap!
2012.10.01: Spiceworks interview: part 2
2012.09.30: Announcement: I'll be speaking at the Australia IPv6 Summit
2012.09.29: Coming to the LOPSA-LAX meeting?
2012.09.26: What makes a sysadmin a "senior sysadmin"?
2012.09.24: DevOps: Google reveals their "DiRT Exercises" (part 3 or 3 in my "disaster preparedness" series)
2012.09.21: Join me at the October LOPSA New Jersey chapter meeting!
2012.09.20: Spiceworks interview
2012.09.19: Join me at the October NYLUG meeting!
2012.09.19: Join me at the October LOPSA Los Angeles chapter meeting!
2012.09.19: New website! http://www.opsreportcard.com
2012.09.17: DevOps: "have more outages" Part 2 of 3: The interview
2012.09.17: Europe officially runs out of IPv4 addresses
2012.09.11: DevOps: To increase reliability you need to have more outages
2012.09.10: AT&T Survey
2012.09.08: MacTech 2012 session listing is up!
2012.09.07: How I would teach a university-level sysadmin degree
2012.09.05: 4 unix commands I abuse every day
2012.09.04: Back To School Sale: "Time Management for Sysadmins" for 50% off!
2012.08.30: Google reveals Goobuntu!
2012.08.28: Android Calendar without Google calendar
2012.08.27: Matthew Sacks' new DevOps book ships!
2012.08.18: OpenFlow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
2012.08.14: Google hiring Ganeti software developers in Munich
2012.08.14: Using Google 2-factor authentication on Linux or FreeBSD
2012.08.12: PICC Conference becomes "LOPSA-East", May 3-4, 2013
2012.08.12: ANNOUNCEMENT: I'll be speaking at MacTech Conference 2012.
2012.08.05: Record tonight's Mars event on NASA-TV
2012.08.04: Link of the week: The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors!
2012.08.02: "IPv6 is now a reality in terms of adoption"
2012.07.27: Dear Mom And Dad
2012.07.27: Sysadmin Appreciate Day
2012.07.21: PCAST: 1,000Mhz for public use
2012.07.13: Arnie, the Doughnut! (NYC)
2012.07.13: Pre-order "Taming Information Technology" because it is awesome
2012.07.06: Final Four Days for HOPE Tickets!
2012.07.01: OpenFlow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
2012.06.26: Half-baked thought of the day: job titles
2012.06.25: Discrimination means missing out on hiring the best sysadmins
2012.06.19: MicroReview: Tarsnap
2012.06.18: When vendors don't follow through
2012.06.13: ProTip: make rsync fail more reliably
2012.06.12: Researching looking for Sysadmins to take survey
2012.06.11: LOPSA Elections
2012.06.11: Reducing latency the Google Way
2012.06.05: The road to intentional, formal, system administration education
2012.06.04: What language should a sysadmin learn?
2012.05.25: Re: My question for LOPSA board candidates
2012.05.25: Today is Towel Day
2012.05.24: Stipend competition to attend 2012 USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit
2012.05.11: Tom @ LOPSA PICC 2012, New Brunswick, NJ, May 11-12, 2012
2012.05.03: Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu May 3, 2012, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
2012.05.03: Structured Speaking
2012.04.30: I'll be speaking at LOPSA-NJ on Thursday
2012.04.26: An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding
2012.04.24: Time Management... now in Russian!
2012.04.22: PICC opening keynote: Bill Cheswick
2012.04.20: The internet needs a bill of rights
2012.04.20: Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) Summit, June 12, 2012
2012.04.13: IPv6 is now the default
2012.04.10: Tom @ LILUG, Tue, April 10, 2012, Woodbury, Long Island, NY
2012.04.07: Tom speaking at LILUG (Long Island) on Tuesday about Ganeti and virtualization
2012.04.05: Mac users: update NOW
2012.04.05: USENIX Announces New Executive Directors: Anne and Casey!
2012.04.04: My question for LOPSA board candidates
2012.04.03: See you at CrabbyAdmins on Wednesday! (April 4)
2012.03.31: RFC 2410: NULL is not a joke (nor an April Fools joke)
2012.03.29: Tom @ LILUG, Tue, April 10, 2012, Woodbury, Long Island, NY
2012.03.28: PICC keynote announced: Rebecca Mercuri on "The Black Swan and Information Security"
2012.03.27: Cascadia IT 2012: A big success!
2012.03.20: Printable version of The Limoncelli Test
2012.03.14: Revamping "The Limoncelli Test" for Cascadia IT 2012 (Seattle, WA)
2012.03.12: Fear of Rebooting
2012.03.07: Using statements of "Undeniable Value"
2012.03.01: Seats still available for my classes at Cascadia IT 2012, Seattle, WA, March 23-2, 2012!
2012.02.29: Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Ralph Loura
2012.02.29: Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Ralph Loura
2012.02.23: Registration is OPEN! East coast LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ
2012.02.14: Usenix SAGE is now Usenix LISA
2012.01.31: Who to trust?
2012.01.28: See all the "Best Picture" Oscar nominated films in 2 days
2012.01.24: What to do about SOPA/PIPA?
2012.01.17: Time Management class at SCALE
2012.01.12: Book Review: 'Pro Puppet" by James Turnbull and Jeffrey McCune
2012.01.11: Tom @ LOPSA-NYC, Wed Jan 11, 2012, NYC, NY
2012.01.11: ACM Queue Programming Challenge starts soon!
2012.01.09: Reminder: RSVP for LOPSA-NYC's Wedneday meeting
2012.01.08: Book-signing at Arisia, Boston, Sunday
2012.01.05: Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu Jan 5, 2012, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
2012.01.05: PICC '12 planning committee needs YOU!
2011.12.31: NYC and NJ LOPSA meeting reminders
2011.12.28: The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
2011.12.28: Why do we use computers?
2011.12.27: Super Wi-Fi is better than just "super"
2011.12.24: Stopping SOPA
2011.12.21: New Years Resolutions and Time Management
2011.12.20: Config Management Rosetta Stone
2011.12.15: Two interesting Python tutorials
2011.12.10: Message from the Program Co-Chairs
2011.12.06: Impromptu talk about Google SRE tonight at 9pm.
2011.12.06: LISA11 Diary: Tue, Dec 6
2011.12.06: LISA11 Diary: Mon, Dec 5
2011.12.06: SysAdvent 2011 has started!
2011.12.06: LISA11 Diary: Sun, Dec 4
2011.12.06: LISA11 Diary: Sat, Dec 3
2011.12.06: Review of T-L-T Tutorial at LISA2011
2011.12.06: Usenix LISA attendees get free Wifi in their hotel rooms!
2011.12.04: Tom @ Usenix LISA 2011, Boston, MA, Dec 4-9, 2011
2011.12.02: Usenix LISA schedule online
2011.12.02: OrgMode for iPhone
2011.12.02: For my birthday I'm giving the gift of time
2011.11.30: Following me on Google Latitude? Please use tal@whatexit.org
2011.11.23: Google booth during LISA, Dec 7-8, 2011
2011.11.22: Usenix LISA hotel discount extended to Nov 28!
2011.11.16: Friday keynote at Usenix LISA: Michael P. Perrone
2011.11.15: CHIMIT Workshop
2011.11.14: Thursday keynote at Usenix LISA: Andy Palmer
2011.11.14: My co-worker featured on CNN!
2011.11.14: Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends today!
2011.11.13: Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends tomorrow!
2011.11.11: Happy Corduroy Appreciation Day to all my readers!
2011.11.10: Tools vs. Automation
2011.11.10: Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends Nov 14! 4 days left!
2011.11.08: SSH Fabric for ssh'ing to many hosts
2011.11.08: Happy Birthday to my co-chair, Doug Hughes!
2011.11.07: Call for Usenix LISA stories and pictures!
2011.11.07: Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends Nov 14! 1 week!
2011.11.06: CHIMIT: REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN!
2011.11.05: DevOps keynote at Usenix LISA: Ben Rockwood
2011.11.03: Futuristic System Administration
2011.11.01: Config Management? yeah, we got that.
2011.10.31: LISA LISA LISA LISA
2011.10.31: Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends Nov 14! 2 weeks!
2011.10.27: LOPSA PICC 2012 Call For Participation
2011.10.27: Review: Apple's iPhone iOS5 "Reminder.app"
2011.10.26: My new LISA Tutorial: 32 Questions
2011.10.25: Automate? Will I lose my job?
2011.10.24: Who's coming to Usenix LISA?
2011.10.23: More... How to ask your boss to pay for you to go to Usenix LISA 2011
2011.10.23: Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends Nov 14
2011.10.22: How to ask your boss to pay for you to go to Usenix LISA 2011.
2011.10.20: Tom @ Triangle InfoSeCon, Raleigh NC, Oct 20, 2011
2011.10.13: Dennis Ritchie
2011.10.08: Tom @ The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, October 8-9, 2011
2011.10.01: LOPSA PICC '12 planning meeting kick-off (NY/NY/PA area)
2011.09.30: Update: I can't make it to LOPSA-NJ meeting next week.
2011.09.28: I'll [NOT] be speaking at LOPSA-NJ in October
2011.09.21: LOPSA Columbus, Ohio Chapter Starting
2011.09.18: Time Management for Sysadmins 50% off Ebook
2011.09.16: python-gflags: version 1.6 released
2011.09.14: Usenix LISA registration is open...
2011.09.11: The 9-11 disaster investigation website
2011.09.09: ServerFault Scalability Conference (and DevDays 2011) Cancelled
2011.09.01: Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu Sept 1, 2011, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
2011.08.30: This week at LOPSA-NJ: Tom Limoncelli will be presenting!
2011.08.24: Call for pizza toppings!
2011.08.09: New sponsor: Scalability from serverfault.com
2011.08.08: I'll be speaking at LOPSA-NJ, Thu Sept 1, 2011, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
2011.08.06: Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Raleigh, and Boston speaking engagements announced
2011.07.25: The Limoncelli Test: 32 Questions for Your Sysadmin Team
2011.07.23: Sysadmin Appreciation Day 2011
2011.07.18: Data? We have a lot at.
2011.06.30: The end of MySpace
2011.06.30: Google+
2011.06.25: Facebook Fatigue
2011.06.23: Happy 99th Birthday, Alan Turing!
2011.06.22: screen gone; moving to tmux
2011.06.21: Your Dial Telephone
2011.06.20: The journey of a thousand miles begins...
2011.06.15: Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic
2011.06.14: Tom @ LOPSA-NYC, 7pm, June 14, 2011 speaking about The Ganeti Project
2011.06.14: Tonight at LOPSA-NYC! Ganeti open source virtualization
2011.06.13: Reminder: I'll be speaking at LOPSA-NYC tomorrow
2011.06.11: http://protolol.com/
2011.06.09: Best IPv6 Media Coverage?
2011.06.09: Last call for Usenix LISA papers!
2011.06.08: What "World IPv6 Day" Means To Sysadmins
2011.05.31: How to send email
2011.05.25: TONIGHT! Mark Burgess speaking at NYC DevOps
2011.05.23: Time and financial management
2011.05.22: Wednesday: NYC DevOps Presents: Mark Burgess / CFEngine
2011.05.19: The CDC has a Zombie Attack Plan
2011.05.18: Mac Malware
2011.05.09: Please put the LISA Button on your web site or blog
2011.05.06: An internal Twitter-like service for your company
2011.05.06: TM4SA now available as a Google eBook
2011.05.04: MIETSPTUL Part 2: Tip for writing Practice and Experience Reports
2011.05.04: Making it easier to submit papers to Usenix LISA
2011.05.04: May the 4th Be With You!
2011.04.29: Tom @ LOPSA PICC in NJ, April 29-30, 2011
2011.04.26: Yes, malware scanners on your servers too!
2011.04.24: PICC Schedule available in "The Conventionist"
2011.04.20: My thoughts on the LOPSA Board election
2011.04.11: Not being attacked? Your network must be down.
2011.04.11: Don't lose $75
2011.04.04: Small is good: Local sysadmin/devops conferences like PICC are a big value
2011.04.03: What should I cut from "Team Time Management"?
2011.04.01: Two April Fools reminders!
2011.04.01: First day of the month!
2011.03.30: First draft of my "Python for Perl Programmers" article
2011.03.30: CHIMIT Call For Papers and other contributions announced!
2011.03.29: Sign up for my new Time Management class now!
2011.03.28: Interview with me on the Mind Of Root podcast
2011.03.26: Overheard at the office: Perl edition
2011.03.24: Taos Women In Technology event next week in San Jose, CA
2011.03.23: PICC "early bird" discount almost over (plus two interviews)
2011.03.22: Free AA_Console for LOPSA_PICC Attendees
2011.03.18: Thought for the day.
2011.03.17: Thanks, NYLUG!
2011.03.16: Tom @ NYLUG, 6:30pm, March 16, 2011
2011.03.16: Any CSS gurus in the house?
2011.03.16: Tonight at NYLUG: Me!
2011.03.16: Don't feed the trolls
2011.03.14: I'll be speaking at NYLUG this Wednesday
2011.03.14: LOPSA PICC Full Program Announced
2011.03.12: Cascadia IT Conference (Seattle)
2011.03.09: Review: AT&T 3G Microcell
2011.03.07: I'll be speaking at NYLUG a week from Wednesday
2011.03.07: Call For Papers: 5th ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of IT December 4-5, 2011 - Boston, MA
2011.03.06: Seattle folks! Still time to register for Cascadia!
2011.03.04: Improving the situation
2011.03.01: Conference Box
2011.02.19: Training classes announced for PICC (NJ-area)
2011.02.17: Why are tax forms in PDF?
2011.02.16: Random technical tips, thoughts and rants
2011.02.16: 1-hour documentary about IBM's Jeopardy!-playing computer Watson
2011.02.14: Casitconf'11 early-bird registration savings extended to the 23rd
2011.02.11: Google Enables Two-Factor Authentication For All
2011.02.10: Cascadia IT Conference - Early Bird Registration ends in 1 week (Feb 16)
2011.02.09: Mind of Root podcast's "book club"
2011.02.08: Todays links: Soft Skills, Ganeti and ConfigMgmt
2011.02.07: Memory tip: How to remember names
2011.02.02: Memory tip: Two ways socks help you remember things
2011.02.01: You did it! Fundraising goal met! ($4500+ raised!)
2011.01.31: Memory tip: Remembering short lists
2011.01.30: Goal at 94%! Your donation can push us over the top!
2011.01.28: 67% of the goal reached! Please help me make it to 100%
2011.01.28: LM fundraising campaign day 2: 12%
2011.01.27: Please read if you live in/near San Francisco
2011.01.24: Video of the week: How to tell people to "go away"
2011.01.19: Calling All Windows Trainers
2011.01.18: TPOSANA 2nd edition now on Kindle!
2011.01.17: Video of the week: "Get boring!"
2011.01.17: Testing is a waste of time
2011.01.12: Don't make your own patch cables.
2011.01.10: Python is better than Perl6
2011.01.08: New time management videos on www.TomOnTime.com
2011.01.05: User Interface Nitpick: Bank Of America edition
2011.01.03: Learn your operating system's internals
2011.01.01: Tom's 2010 Review in review!
2011.01.01: Tom's 2010 In Review: Blog In Review
2011.01.01: Tom's 2010 In Review: Stuff I did
2011.01.01: Tom's 2010 In Review: Personal Trends
2011.01.01: Tom's 2010 in Review: Big Trends
2011.01.01: Tom's 2010 In Review: Speaking And Publishing
2010.12.31: Cascadia IT Conference: Submission deadline extented to Jan 9th
2010.12.30: 2010: The Year in Review
2010.12.24: Happy Hoidays!
2010.12.23: ACM Queue magazine has published my new article! (online)
2010.12.22: Registration open for Cascadia IT Conference
2010.12.20: Professional IT Community Conference - Call for Participation
2010.12.20: Sysadmin Mantras
2010.12.17: Saving energy (and money) at your company
2010.12.07: Collaboration in System Administration
2010.12.04: Time Management and Routines (VIDEO)
2010.12.01: SysAdvent has started!
2010.11.29: O'Reilly "Cyber Monday" sale: 60% off all ebooks and videos!
2010.11.25: ACM Queue magazine adds system administration articles!
2010.11.15: An active technical social life
2010.11.10: LISA papers about robots that correct broken configuration files.
2010.11.09: TPOSANA Reading Group started!
2010.11.05: OpsCamp Silicon Valley
2010.11.01: LOPSA 5th birthday party!
2010.11.01: An open letter to the LISA workshop on Teaching System Administration
2010.10.29: Calling all Pacific NorthWest Sysadmins! Cascadia IT Conference
2010.10.29: Followup to my DevOps post
2010.10.27: DevOps ain't nothing we haven't been doing for a long, long time
2010.10.26: Episode 13: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: The Usenix Staff
2010.10.25: Less expensive Time Management
2010.10.22: Episode 12: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Wednesday is Storage Day!
2010.10.21: Episode 11: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: David N. Blank-Edelman
2010.10.20: Episode 10: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Cloud Computing
2010.10.19: Episode 9: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Puppet vs. CFEngine3
2010.10.18: Episode 8: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Free stuff!
2010.10.18: Would you vote for a SysAdmin for president?
2010.10.17: One day left for Usenix LISA Early Bird Registration!
2010.10.15: Episode 7: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: The Hallway Track
2010.10.15: Yesterday's interview
2010.10.14: Episode 6: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: The Student Discount
2010.10.14: Reminder: Live interview today at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern
2010.10.13: Episode 5: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Wicked cool security papers
2010.10.13: How do you keep system administration interesting?
2010.10.12: Tom @ UStream.com, Oct 14, 2010 2pm US/Eastern, 11am Pacific
2010.10.12: Episode 4: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: My talks!
2010.10.11: Ben Cotton interviews Tom Limoncelli about Usenix LISA 2010
2010.10.11: Review: The Duplicity Backup System
2010.10.08: Episode 3: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: It doesn't conflict with my birthday.
2010.10.07: How to register for LISA?
2010.10.07: Google Forms
2010.10.07: Episode 2: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: The Chuck Yerkes Award
2010.10.06: How to handle cross-training and redundancy in system administration teams?
2010.10.05: Episode 1: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Keynote about IT at the LHC
2010.10.05: NY/NY/PA sysadmins: LOPSA-NJ meeting Thursday: Scott Walters: Compliance, what's the hubbub, bub?
2010.10.05: System Administration Parable: The Waitress and the Water Glass
2010.10.04: Dealing With Distractions: My Not-To-Do list
2010.10.01: A video reminder: you can achieve anything you set your mind to... even flying!
2010.09.28: My new article in Usenix ;login: magazine
2010.09.27: Debugging technique: Time the problem
2010.09.24: CSS Positioning
2010.09.24: New Jersey LOPSA chapter meeting: Oct 7, 2010
2010.09.23: Sysadmins! Need a mentor? Want to be a mentor?
2010.09.22: How to maintain network documentation?
2010.09.20: A powerful VIM command I never knew about until now.
2010.09.15: Multiple-employee discount for attending LISA 2010 -- San Jose, CA, November 7-12, 2010
2010.09.15: The most simple SSH backdoor I could think of.
2010.09.15: Political Power Comes From Speaking with One Voice
2010.09.13: The only place to attend my all-new "Time Management for Teams" class is LISA 2010
2010.09.11: GOP congressional candidate Thomas Marino misreported income
2010.09.11: Google Chrome for Mac with multiple profiles
2010.09.10: Jon Runyan
2010.09.10: To prevent any rumors...
2010.09.10: What is system administration like at Google?
2010.09.08: Remember that LOPSA members save $45 off Usenix LISA registration!
2010.09.07: Sneaky trick for registering at Usenix LISA 2010
2010.09.07: LISA 2010 Registration is... OPEN!
2010.09.04: Ohio LinuxFest 2010 - Registration extended
2010.09.01: xed 2.0.2 released!
2010.09.01: Verizon FIOS: No outage so far!`
2010.08.30: Verizon FIOS Update
2010.08.30: Ohio Linux Fest: you don't have to be from Ohio!
2010.08.25: Exciting news about LISA 2010... soon
2010.08.25: FIOS update
2010.08.25: Non-technical strategies
2010.08.24: More Verizon FIOS pain
2010.08.24: LOPSA providing tutorial slate at Ohio Linux Fest
2010.08.24: Calling in an emergency
2010.08.23: Learning From Successful IPv6 Upgrade Projects
2010.08.22: First of the month technical problems could be billing software bugs
2010.08.19: Ohio LinuxFest 2010 - September 10-12, 2010
2010.08.19: Usenix starts YouTube channel
2010.08.18: New to Mac OS X? Tips for Unix users
2010.08.11: Google Command Line Tool
2010.08.09: How do I get my manager to adopt Puppet or other new thing?
2010.08.07: What college-level math do you (as a sysadmin) use?
2010.08.05: "I do, we do, you do"
2010.08.02: How do I get coworkers to accept my brilliant new thing?
2010.07.31: Google App Inventor
2010.07.30: How important is system administration?
2010.07.29: NYC-area Sysadmins: free beer!
2010.07.29: Book Idea: Distributed Computing Economics... EXPLAINED
2010.07.28: Lists of length 1, 2, 3 and 4 have special meaning
2010.07.28: Certification? Not yet.
2010.07.15: Australia sysadmins! I'm coming to you!
2010.07.15: I'll be speaking at MacTech conference, Nov 3-5, 2010
2010.07.08: Outsourcing: what not to ask
2010.07.08: Outsourcing ain't no lie!
2010.07.04: So that's how they do it!
2010.06.18: Configuration Management Summit, Boston, June 24, 2010
2010.06.12: DebConf coming soon!
2010.06.12: CHIMIT '10 paper deadline soon!
2010.06.09: A support group for people that run LUGs and UGs
2010.06.09: Learning AJAX after ignoring it all these years.
2010.06.04: New Jersey's first hackspace officially opens!
2010.06.04: Dilbert: Dogbert's School of Time Management
2010.06.03: NYC-area sysadmins: let's drink!
2010.06.03: NYC-area sysadmins: let's drink!
2010.06.03: Announcing the 2010 SysAdmin of the Year Awards
2010.06.02: PLUG (Philly Linux Users Group) talk on Emacs Org-Mode tonight!
2010.05.21: Another Ganeti success story
2010.05.21: Your computer room will overheat next weekend
2010.05.13: Self-driving cars
2010.05.13: Thanks for a great conference!
2010.05.04: LOPSA PICC is this weekend!
2010.04.20: LOPSA PICC: Final days before "last minute" price
2010.04.08: More thoughts about submitting papers to Usenix LISA
2010.04.05: I need to be more opportunistic about self-promotion
2010.04.02: Another reason to come to PICC
2010.04.01: Happy April Fools Day!
2010.03.28: Quicken 2010
2010.03.23: Writing papers for Usenix LISA (and other) conferences
2010.03.23: Why are you coming to the conference?
2010.03.20: LOPSA PICC: Complete program announced
2010.03.18: New review of TM4SA
2010.03.15: Motivation for sysadmins to write documentation
2010.03.14: How to "un-send" email.
2010.03.11: End every helpdesk request on a good note
2010.03.08: LOPSA Conference schedule published!
2010.03.07: Tom @ LOPSA PICC in NJ, May 7-8, 2010
2010.03.07: Tom @ Usenix LISA 2010, San Jose, CA, Nov 7-12, 2010
2010.03.07: Countdown to LOPSA PICC!
2010.03.04: Tonight's LOPSA-NJ Chapter meeting
2010.03.03: Zeno Place, San Francisco, CA
2010.03.01: Time management is like juggling 5 balls
2010.03.01: Submit your talk proposals to PICC today!
2010.02.26: LOPSA Regional Sysadmin conference announced!
2010.02.26: Improving your memory (and Katherine Hepburn)
2010.02.24: NJ/NY/PA/DE/CT/RI/MA Regional Sysadmin Conference
2010.02.20: Eye-Fi (something I saw at MacWorld 2010)
2010.02.19: Sneak Peak: www.TomOnTime.com
2010.02.19: LOPSA New Jersey conference registration is open!
2010.02.09: BigFix's 2010 IT Dinosaur Awards Video Contest
2010.02.08: What should I talk about at a conference?
2010.02.08: Tom @ Macworld 2010, Feb 8-13, San Francisco CA Moscone Center
2010.02.07: To all my New Jersey friends:
2010.02.02: New Jersey Sysadmin conference announced!
2010.01.29: See you at MacWorld!
2010.01.28: What should you write your LISA paper about?
2010.01.28: What I want in a mobile task management software
2010.01.26: Making enterprise ShortName service shorter
2010.01.21: Tom @ BayLISA, Thu, Jan 21, Mountain View, CA
2010.01.17: Checklists in Finance and Airlines
2010.01.16: How to kill innovation
2010.01.15: Usenix LISA 2010 Call For Participation
2010.01.12: System Downtime
2010.01.04: The Checklist Manifesto
2009.12.31: Happy New Year!
2009.12.19: Bacteria use IRC
2009.12.18: Survey on professionalism in system administration
2009.12.18: Make Lists. Not Too Much. Mostly Do.
2009.12.17: How to make a product "sysadmin-friendly"?
2009.12.13: New Jersey IT Community Conference planning
2009.12.13: Feeling vindicated
2009.12.12: AT&T
2009.12.09: A "tinyurl" service for your domain
2009.12.03: SysAdvent has begun!
2009.11.25: I'm on StackOverflow podcast this week!
2009.11.19: Can my SLA rule work for networks? Yes.
2009.11.19: Run, run, run, dead.
2009.11.17: a list of dumb things to check
2009.11.13: Time Management Wiki
2009.11.05: Thanks to everyone that attended my talks at LISA 2009!
2009.11.01: Tom @ LISA '09, Nov 1-6, 2009, Baltimore, MD
2009.10.31: Laptop safety: Disable sshd on your laptop before conferences
2009.10.30: My roadmap for LISA
2009.10.29: Google Vendor BoF Thursday night
2009.10.27: Using commercial tools to teach academic subjects
2009.10.19: NJ and VA: Remember to vote!
2009.10.17: The Secret New York Minute
2009.10.17: Interview: Design Patterns for System Administrators Training at LISA 2009
2009.10.15: Email makes me stressed (and how to cope)
2009.10.06: Interview: Time Management for System Administrators Training at LISA 2009
2009.10.02: I can't wait for LISA!
2009.10.01: Support your local user group!
2009.09.29: Why email is bad for time management
2009.09.24: BigFix Announces $5,000 Cash Prize in the System Administrator of the Year 2009 Contest
2009.09.22: The internet is just getting started
2009.09.21: Ohio LinuxFest Registration extended!
2009.09.14: Conference Planning Tips
2009.09.13: UK Government officially apologizes for "appalling" treatment of Alan Turing
2009.09.10: Is your ISP for the birds?
2009.09.09: Syncing multiple Google Apps Calendars to an iPhone (it isn't obvious)
2009.09.09: Thanks to LOPSA-NJ for a great time!
2009.09.03: Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu Sept 3, 2009, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
2009.08.29: My tutorials at LISA 2009
2009.08.26: Nominations open for "Sysadmin of the year"!
2009.08.26: New Moleskine daily planners shipping
2009.08.22: Chrome Zygote solves major Shared Library issue
2009.08.16: How did we write TPOSANA? We ignored people.
2009.08.13: Quote of the week
2009.08.09: I'll be speaking at LOPSA-NJ in September
2009.08.07: LISA '09 Registration is Open!
2009.07.31: Three useful TimeAndDate.com URLs
2009.07.31: Sysadmin Appreciation Day: NYC
2009.07.19: Debian PPC on PowerBook G4: Touchpad and CD-ROM problems
2009.07.05: A beautiful idea about Alan Turing
2009.07.05: Interviews about IPv6 migration
2009.06.17: Netflix Streaming over IPv6
2009.06.15: StackOverflow.com and ServerFault.com
2009.06.11: Improving attendance at Linux Users Groups
2009.06.11: Fixed bug in comments
2009.06.11: Which smartphone should I buy?
2009.05.31: All the songs we play are great
2009.05.28: How do I measure my group's performance?
2009.05.26: Use Nagios to monitor for Dell systems warranty expirations
2009.05.19: Warehouse-Scale Machines: The Datacenter as a Computer
2009.05.12: 'Gorillas in the Mist' or 'Sysadmins at the Keyboard'?
2009.05.06: Now on Kindle: Time Management for System Administrators
2009.05.01: Small Silicon Valley-based startup completes exit strategy
2009.04.21: Oracle buys Sun. Good idea for everything except databases
2009.03.11: April Fools day is coming!
2009.03.01: How did I have such a productive week?
2009.02.13: Queue Inversion Week
2009.01.20: Final slide from my LCA 2009 talk
2009.01.19: Tom @ Linux.Conf.Au 2009, 19-24 Jan, Tasmania, AU
2009.01.17: Off to linux.conf.au 2009 soon
2009.01.17: Tony Hoare apologizes for inventing null pointers
2009.01.11: LOPSA classes at SCALE 7x
2009.01.10: Transforming Art into Science
2009.01.09: Interview with Tom Limoncelli in ComputerWorld
2009.01.08: Google enables IPv6 for most services (but there is a catch!)
2009.01.05: Tom @ MacWorld, Jan 5-9, 2009
2008.12.30: SMS is nearly "free" for telecom carriers
2008.12.09: Gmail adds "Tasks" feature
2008.12.01: Tom interviewed on CuddleTech blog
2008.11.09: Tom @ LISA 2008, San Diego, Nov 9-14, 2008
2008.11.06: Comments working again.
2008.11.03: Peace, Love, and Wiki Collaboration
2008.10.31: System administration needs more PhDs
2008.10.29: Half of Canada's workforce "dragged down" by office negativity
2008.10.25: Time Management for Anarchists
2008.10.10: Tom @ Ohio LinuxFest 2008, Columbus, Ohio, October 10-11, 2008
2008.09.30: First Day of the Month Routine (and a tip about Mailman)
2008.09.29: Ready for LISA 2008 in San Diego!
2008.09.14: The Zipper Machine
2008.09.13: The Linux Penguin
2008.08.25: Amazon's Kindle
2008.08.11: Tom @ SAGE-AU 2008, Aug 11-18, 2008, Adelaide, AU
2008.08.08: GTD+The Cycle
2008.08.07: Time Management Tip: Starting New Big Tasks
2008.08.05: Looking forward to SAGE-AU (Australia)
2008.05.26: Help me with a survey?
2008.05.09: April showers bring May Flowers... but May brings...
2008.04.11: Tom interviewed about Time Management on ITBusiness.ca
2008.04.07: Tom @ IT360, April 7, 2008, Toronto, CA
2008.04.07: Keeping inventory data accurate
2008.04.01: Happy April Fools Day
2008.03.31: Fix Something Annoying
2008.03.25: Do you speak a rare language?
2008.03.19: My apology to Rob Glenn and Stephen Kent
2008.03.18: Are you ready for April Fools Day?
2008.02.19: Programming competition for East African students
2008.02.07: Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Feb 7, 2008, Princeton, NJ
2008.02.06: HostDB 1.002 released!
2008.01.26: Technology marches on
2008.01.13: Setting aside time for big fun
2008.01.03: Women and Latin Americans in Open Source
2007.11.25: How To Make Yourself Do Anything
2007.11.18: Tom @ Unigroup, NYC, Thu, Nov 18, 2007
2007.11.13: LISA 2007
2007.11.11: Tom and Strata @ LISA '07, Nov 11-16, 2007, Dallas
2007.10.14: Tivo: Better than documentation, a video
2007.09.27: Zeitmanagement and ZarzÃ„â€¦dzanie and Ã¦â„¢â€šÃ©â€“â€œÃ§Â®Â¡Ã§Ââ€ Ã¨Â¡â€œ
2007.09.12: First two reviews of TPOSANA2
2007.09.11: TPOSANA2 now on BookPool
2007.08.31: Easier Xen management with Google Ganeti
2007.08.06: Tom @ LOPSA, Aug 6-7, 2007, Cherry Hill/Philly
2007.07.31: Need to jott someting down?
2007.07.27: I appreciate you!
2007.07.24: Tom @ OSCON 2007, Portland, OR
2007.07.10: 2nd edition delayed at the factory
2007.06.18: Pre-order 2nd Edition of TPOSANA now!
2007.05.31: Hardware password recovery
2007.05.06: Privacy 10 years ago vs. Today
2007.04.04: Three Impossible Things
2007.03.27: New book: The Complete April Fools' RFCs
2007.03.19: Insulting your users
2007.03.05: Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting?
2007.03.04: March 2007 LOPSA North Jersey cluster group meeting
2007.02.09: Strata @ SCALE, Los Angeles, Feb 9, 2007
2007.01.15: Time Management and ADD/ADHD
2007.01.15: Tom traveling to Zurich and Dublin, 20-Jan to 3-Feb, 2007
2007.01.07: Apple iPhone leaked! Accidentally shipped to customer via FedEx! Pictures!
2007.01.02: Book Recommendation: What All Network Administrators Know
2007.01.01: Time management diets?
2006.12.20: Disaster Recovery for our Loved Ones
2006.12.05: Sysadmin of the Year 2006: Michael Beck
2006.12.03: Tom + Strata @ LISA '06 in Wash D.C., Dec 3-8, 2006
2006.11.15: Tom @ $GROUPNAME in New Jersey, Nov 15, 2006
2006.11.14: Why I attend the LISA conference
2006.11.14: Happy Birthday, LOPSA!
2006.10.17: Ask Tom: My co-worker has bad time-management skills
2006.09.29: Tom @ LOPSA in Phoenix, Tue, Nov 6-7, 2006
2006.09.29: LOPSA announces "SysAdmin Days" Conference
2006.08.02: Tie your shoes faster
2006.07.27: Sysadmin Appreciation Day and Sysadmin Of The Year
2006.07.26: 2nd Edition of TPOSANA Announced at SAGE-AU, Strata Chalup joins the team
2006.07.08: OOPSLA request
2006.06.26: Tom @ SAGE-AU in Canberra, July 24-28, 2006
2006.06.06: Tom @ SAGE-IE in Dublin, Tue, June 13, 2006
2006.04.20: Anti-spam trick: Grey listing
2006.04.11: Another review of TM4SA
2006.04.11: LISA '06 Call For Papers
2006.03.22: Today's Unix Security Trivia
2006.03.02: The Jifty buzz
2006.02.13: Chapter by chapter view of TMSA
2006.02.13: Tom @ Stanford Linux Users Group, Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Palo Alto, CA
2006.02.10: Compressing logs is good
2006.02.10: Slashdotted and Perlcasted on the same day!
2006.02.04: 2X thin clients
2006.01.25: LISA '06 Call For Papers
2006.01.10: It's about time
2005.12.31: 40-minute Time Management Video
2005.12.29: Tom @ PhillyLinux, Wed, Jan 4, 2006, Philly, PA
2005.12.28: Tom @ BBLISA, Wed, Jan 11, 2006, Cambridge
2005.12.27: Tom @ BayLISA, Thu, Feb 23, 2006, Mt. View, CA
2005.12.20: Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department
2005.12.12: Time Management book reviewed
2005.12.07: SAGE/LOPSA Outstanding Achievement Award
2005.12.01: Watch my Time Management video for free on Google Video
2005.11.19: Time Management -- the first copy!
2005.11.17: O'Reilly blog on Time Management
2005.11.14: Frapper
2005.11.04: Macintosh invents the TAB key!
2005.11.03: Raised Floors not sufficient for datacenters?
2005.11.01: Speaking tour to promote Time Management for System Administrators
2005.10.31: That's the way the cookie crumbles
2005.10.24: Monad, Microsoft's answer to Bash
2005.10.17: Tom @ BLU, Wed, Nov 16, 2005, Boston
2005.10.17: Tom @ Drexel CS, Thu, Nov 10, 2005, Philly
2005.10.17: Tom @ NYCBUG, Wed, Nov 2, 2005, NYC
2005.10.15: Always the friendly sysadmin
2005.10.08: Pre-order Time Management for Sysadmins on Amazon!
2005.10.04: Being Happy
2005.09.30: Destroy CDs and DVDs easily
2005.09.28: Men of SAGE-AU calendar
2005.09.26: Unix/Network sysadmin in London
2005.09.25: Tom @ LISA2005: Dec 4-9, San Diego, CA
2005.08.31: Solaris users: Blastwave.org needs our help!
2005.08.30: Katrina and the waves
2005.08.29: Ethical question: domains
2005.08.17: Christine on Berch on Food
2005.08.12: Run "sed" on your cut&paste buffer
2005.08.08: Heard any good rumors lately?
2005.08.05: LISA Blog
2005.08.02: Don't brag about overextending yourself
2005.07.25: LOTD
2005.07.20: Christine in the news
2005.07.19: IVR that doesn't suck
2005.06.07: Apple's lie revealed
2005.05.22: Solaris package tip
2005.05.14: Laptops and desktops break differently
2005.04.19: Our book mentioned in another book
2005.04.10: Gardening
2005.04.05: Are comments working?
2005.03.27: Two ideas, the blog
2005.03.27: Why does McAfee hate Samba?
2005.03.20: Vendors never call back. Accept it.
2005.03.15: Any human-factors people out there?
2005.03.06: Musical Banner Pages
2005.03.03: An idea for the sequel to "Office Space"
2005.02.26: The value of switching browsers
2005.02.05: I'm dissatisfied with customer satisfaction surveys
2005.01.20: Amiga
2005.01.07: CIO Of The Year JP Rangaswami, and Chicago Theater
2005.01.02: Corporate Blogging
2005.01.02: Sweet Jesus, I can't believe Apple didn't make this the default!
2004.12.29: Thanking the messenger
2004.12.28: Don't forget DHCP
2004.12.14: The right answer
2004.12.13: Executive Voice
2004.12.12: Is the Future of Silicon Valley Solar?
2004.12.07: USER interface
2004.12.05: Buying IP-KVMs make my teeth itch
2004.11.16: LISA 2004 Report: Tuesday
2004.11.15: LISA 2004 Report: Monday
2004.11.15: LISA2004 Report: Sunday
2004.10.28: Site back up
2004.10.17: Tom @ LISA2004: Nov 13-19, Atlanta, GA
2004.10.14: Who's infected?
2004.10.13: Blog+Twiki
2004.10.12: Best. Conference. Evah: LISA
2004.10.12: Introducing our TWiki
2004.10.11: Cox on Better Software
2004.09.27: SANE2004: Sept 27-Oct 1, Amsterdam
2004.09.22: Wanted: Unix/Network sysadmin in London
2004.09.13: NC*SA: Mon, Sept 13, 2004
2004.09.04: Amazon finally discounts the book
2004.08.25: Project Idea: "IT Department In A Box"
2004.08.19: BayLISA: Aug 19, 2004
2004.08.10: Why I attend the LISA conference
2004.07.30: Sysadmin Appreciation Day
2004.07.26: OSCON2004: July 26-30, Portland
2004.07.22: Apple OS X Server: Ready for Prime Time?
2004.07.16: Time Management at OSCon sold out.
2004.07.16: How much support do you provide to unapproved equipment?
2004.07.06: New career, same old stuff
2004.06.04: What do you believe?
2004.05.31: Subversion
2004.05.09: OnLamp's OpenBSD PF Developer Interview
2004.05.02: "The Internet Is Too Secure Already"
2004.04.22: Creator of "make" wins ACM award
2004.04.21: Conducting a Postmortem
2004.04.18: CIO magazine on AT&T Wireless's IT problems
2004.04.03: Tom accepts position at CIBERNET
2004.03.31: Tips for Technical Resumes
2004.03.27: Outsourcing problems not avoided
2004.03.22: New web site up!
2004.03.21: Career change for Chris
2004.03.18: Usenix2004: June 28, Boston
2003.09.30: Tom @ LISA2003: Oct 28, San Diego
2003.09.15: Buy the bear!
2003.07.05: Christine & Eliot Married!
2003.02.11: Tom & Chris @ NordU2003, Feb 11-12, Västerås, Sweden
2002.12.09: Tom @ LISA '12, Dec 9-14, 2012, San Diego, CA, USA
2002.11.08: Tom & Chris @ LISA 2002, Nov 3-8, Philly
2002.10.18: Tom @ Australia IPv6 Summit 2012, Oct 17-18, 2012, Melbourne, AU
2002.10.18: Tom @ MacTech, Oct 17-19, 2012, Los Angeles, CA
2002.10.16: Tom @ LOPSA-LA, Oct 16, 2012, Universal City, CA, USA
2002.10.11: Tom @ NYLUG, Oct 11, 2012, NY, NY
2002.10.04: Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu Oct 4, 2012, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
2002.09.19: Tom @ BayLISA, Sept 19, Palo Alto
2002.09.18: BLUG: Sept 18, Boston
2002.08.07: Christine at Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, Aug 7, 2002
2002.08.05: Tom at SAGE-AU2002: Aug 5-9, Melbourne
2002.07.18: TPoSaNA T-Shirts and Swag
2002.07.10: TPoSaNA Reviewd on SAGEwire
2002.05.30: Christine speaking at SANE 2002, May 27, 2002
2002.05.23: Tom speaking at Unigroup, May 23, 2002
2002.04.08: Chapter-By-Chapter Updates!
2002.03.25: Christine & Eliot Engaged!
2002.03.22: Book hits Amazon Top Ranks!
2002.01.08: Tom at Old Bay SAGE
2001.12.03: Tom Speaks at LISA 2001
2001.12.01: Site Up

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