Tom Limoncelli's EverythingSysadmin Blog: Archives

2022.11.12: Article: "Split Your Overwhelmed Teams"
2022.11.12: Usenix LISA is no more. Here's my retrospective.
2021.10.02: 20 years of The Practice of System and Network Administration!
2021.07.22: Hear Tom on The Software Engineering Daily Podcast
2021.03.25: Updated BP Texas City Animation
2021.03.24: What to give your loved one for April Fools Day?
2020.11.16: Thu, Nov 19 NYCDEVOPS meetup: John Allspaw on "Learning From Incidents"
2020.10.20: Thu, Nov 19 NYCDEVOPS meetup: John Allspaw on "Learning From Incidents"
2020.10.14: Oct 15 NYC DevOps Meetup: "Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering" by Nathen Harvey
2020.09.16: Adarsh Shah on "Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning" (September NYCDEVOPS Meetup)
2020.09.01: Book: Become Ansible by Josh Duffney
2020.08.17: Time management for political sysadmins
2020.03.23: Come work with me at Stack Overflow!
2020.02.22: Get your DevOpsDays NYC tickets now!
2019.12.03: DevOpsDays NYC 2020 Call For Participation!
2019.10.28: November nycdevops meetup: DevSecOps and supply chain attack
2019.08.06: Demo Data as Code
2019.06.04: Next nycdevops meetup: Kubernetes Informers (Wed, June 19)
2019.04.09: April NYC DevOps Meetup: Building a tamper-evident CI/CD system
2019.01.10: DevOpsDays-NYC nearly sold out! Register soon!
2018.12.07: Ericsson/O2 outage root cause announced
2018.11.30: Understanding your competition is a culture
2018.11.09: Taryn's SQL upgrade blog post
2018.10.29: Tom @ Usenix LISA '18, Nashville, TN, Oct 29-31, 2018
2018.10.22: Tom @ DevOps Enterprise Summit, Las Vegas, NV, Oct 22-24, 2018
2018.10.17: Tom @ All Day DevOps, Oct 17 2018
2018.10.02: Google Authenticator tips
2018.09.19: I'll be at All-Day-DevOps: Free registration!
2018.09.19: SREs with Windows experience? (NYC-area)
2018.09.18: Tom @ nycdevops, NYC, Sept 18, 2018
2018.09.15: LISA '18: Save on LISA registration!
2018.09.15: Tom @ nycdevops meetup on Tuesday!
2018.08.30: Financial advice when you get a raise
2018.08.29: Stack Overflow in NYC is hiring Windows SREs
2018.08.21: "Continuous Discussion" Video Podcast today!
2018.06.15: Google has changed GSuite's SPF records
2018.06.01: I'm hiring SREs/sysadmins and more!
2018.05.07: SO (my employer) is hiring a Windows SRE/sysadmin in NY/NJ
2018.05.06: Launched: Stack Overflow for Teams!
2018.05.02: SRECon: Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
2018.04.11: Accelerate NYC Launch Party, Saturday, April 21
2018.04.09: ZFS Users Conference, April 19-20, Norwalk, CT
2018.03.04: Tom @ Usenix SRECon_Americas, March 26-29, Santa Clara, CA
2018.03.04: Tom @ nycdevops Meetup, March 20, NYC
2018.02.28: DevOpsDays New York City 2019: Join the planning committee!
2018.02.27: Male Ally Summit 2018 (NYC)
2018.01.02: DevOpsDays New York City 2018: Register now!
2017.12.21: Save 40-60% on the 3rd edition of TPOSANA
2017.12.12: DevOpsDays New York City 2018 Speakers Announced!
2017.11.29: Quick! Install that Mac printer now!
2017.11.15: Productivity When You Just Can't Even
2017.11.09: November NYC DevOps Meetup: Building a hybrid cloud
2017.11.08: Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
2017.11.07: Registration for NYC DOD 2018 is open!
2017.11.05: MicroReview: Usenix LISA 2017
2017.10.30: Tom @ LISA17, San Francisco, CA, Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2017
2017.10.22: DevOpsDays New York City 2018 Announced!
2017.10.08: Vendor jerks at tech conferences
2017.10.02: Tom @ NYCDEVOPS, Mon, Oct 2, 2017, NYC
2017.09.26: October NYCDevOps: Two meetings! DNSControl and Storing Secrets in the Cloud
2017.09.15: September NYCDevOps: Habitat in Production (Seth Thomas)
2017.08.10: Evidence that Go makes it easy to get up to speed
2017.07.22: Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret
2017.07.17: Four Ways to Make CS and IT Curricula More Immersive
2017.07.16: Still time to RSVP to NYCDevOps...
2017.07.13: Free book: "Expanding Pockets of Greatness"
2017.07.10: Tom's speaking at Red Hat User Group Tuesday in Woodbridge, NJ
2017.07.06: July NYCDevOps: Clos Networks for Datacenters
2017.07.03: Judging books by their covers
2017.06.28: The .feedback scam
2017.06.19: NYC DevOps meeting tomorrow (Tuesday)
2017.06.16: Stackoverflow... but for questions about how to teach CS
2017.06.15: NYC DevOps meeting next week: Measuring real-world DNS performance at Stack Overflow
2017.06.15: 2017 State of DevOps Report
2017.06.12: Tom on the Stack Overflow Podcast this week
2017.05.22: How difficult is it to enable HTTPS on a large website?
2017.05.17: May 2017 NYCDevOps Meeting Notes
2017.05.15: The Blog March: A personal drumbeat of #resistance
2017.05.08: 3 things that made the 3rd edition better for education
2017.04.30: Blog March... GO!
2017.04.27: Why tech conferences should have Tshirts in women's sizes
2017.04.11: DNS as Code
2017.04.10: Review: Tivo BOLT+
2017.04.07: Hollywood doesn't understand software
2017.04.05: New season of Archer starts tonight!
2017.03.13: Tom @ SRECon_Americas, San Francisco, March 13-14, 2017
2017.03.09: Tom speaking at BayLISA meetup, Thu, March 16, 2017
2017.03.09: Tom @ BayLISA, Thu, March 16, 2017
2017.02.14: February NYCDevOps meetup: Tiny Talks CfP
2017.02.13: Tom speaking at NYCDevOps meetup, Feb 21, 2017
2017.02.13: Tom @ NYCDevOps, NY, Feb 21, 2017
2017.02.07: Cascadia IT Conference: Registration is open!
2017.01.29: New North Jersey Meetup, Wed, Feb 1, 2017
2017.01.25: Moving application plists to a new machine on macOS
2017.01.23: How I manage my work and personal GitHub accounts
2017.01.16: RIP John Boris
2017.01.10: How Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack
2017.01.05: NYCDevOps meetup is re-starting!
2017.01.04: Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
2017.01.02: Tom speaking at the new LOPSA-NJ Montclair Meetup
2017.01.01: Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Montclair NJ, Feb 1, 2017
2016.12.19: Notes on implementing flags for flag flips
2016.12.14: InfoQ's interview with the co-authors of TPOSANA 3rd edition
2016.12.12: Gall bladder Removal
2016.12.10: What I learned at LISA '16
2016.12.06: Tom + Christine @ SESA'16, Boston, MA, Dec 6, 2016
2016.12.04: Tom & Chris @ Usenix LISA, Boston, Dec 4-9, 2016
2016.12.04: Tom + Christine @ Usenix LISA '16, Boston, MA, Dec 4-9, 2016
2016.12.03: Solaris being canned.
2016.11.22: TPOSANA on Amazon Lightning Deals today only!
2016.11.14: Stealing the Best Ideas from DevOps
2016.11.03: Do you teach System Administration?
2016.10.29: Pre-Order Kindle edition of 3rd edition of TPOSANA
2016.10.28: Searching random data is not an O(N) problem.
2016.10.27: Usenix LISA '16 Early Bird Registration Deadline is November 10!
2016.10.21: Tom @ PuppetConf'16, San Diego, CA, Oct 21, 2016
2016.10.20: Watch my Punk Rock DevOps talk live on Friday at 2:30pm PT
2016.10.05: DevOps Handbook hitting stores Oct 6!
2016.09.23: Why Google should buy Twitter
2016.09.21: Tom @ VelocityNYC, New York City, Sept 21, 2016
2016.09.15: Discounts on The Practice books until Sept 19!
2016.09.01: TPOSANA launched 15 years ago today!
2016.09.01: Survey: What makes joining a new team difficult/easy?
2016.08.29: USB cables should be "charge-only" by default
2016.08.24: Automating a CI environment for Android Apps
2016.08.17: Tom @ New York SRE Tech Talks, NYC, NY, Aug 17, 2016
2016.08.08: I'll be speaking at NYC SRE Meetup next week (Wed)
2016.07.19: Survey on easy of use for configuration management languages
2016.07.01: "The Martian" made me depressed
2016.06.30: LISA Conversations Episode 11: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel"
2016.06.28: Watch us live today! LISA Conversations Episode 11: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel"
2016.06.24: Reminder: Do your homework for next week's LISA Conversations: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel"
2016.06.23: Save 20% off Velocity NYC registration!
2016.06.15: New appearances announced: VelocityNYC & PuppetConf!
2016.06.03: Next on LISA Conversations: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel"
2016.06.03: NYLUG: Two meetings this month! (Foreman! Unikernels!)
2016.06.02: LISA Conversations Episode 10: Clay Caviness and Edward Eigerman on "Managing Macs at Google Scale"
2016.06.01: An Honest Job Advertisement
2016.05.12: Augeas: Updating of config files without ruining comments and formatting.
2016.05.09: Future directions for Blackbox
2016.05.09: Preview a chapter of our new book in acmqueue magazine!
2016.05.05: 10 git aliases I can't believe you don't have already
2016.05.03: I am Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin
2016.04.28: Have you downloaded the March/April issue of acmqueue yet?
2016.04.22: Server Hardware Support Rant
2016.04.20: CU-Boulder remembers Evi Nemeth, April 26, 2016
2016.04.18: Easily read UTF16-encoded files from Go
2016.04.18: Next on LISA Conversations: kc claffy on "Named Data Networking"
2016.04.15: LISA Conversations Episode 8: Caskey Dickson on "Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What to Do About It"
2016.04.11: Velocity Santa Clara early price ends May 12
2016.04.07: SRE is what DevOps wants to be when it grows up
2016.04.05: Take the 2016 State of DevOps Survey
2016.03.31: "How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves" now in CACM
2016.03.31: Archer starts tonight! (and other important TV news)
2016.03.29: Epidemic of Vacation Shaming Spreads Across America
2016.03.25: Reminder: Do your homework for next week's LISA Conversations: Caskey Dickson on "Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What to Do About It"
2016.03.22: Wasting one million dollars
2016.03.18: Maintain Separate GitHub accounts
2016.03.17: Meaningless Anti-Virus Software Features Are Profitable
2016.03.11: Next on LISA Conversations: Caskey Dickson on "Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What to Do About It"
2016.03.10: LISA Conversations Episode 7: Kris Buytaert on "DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet)"
2016.03.09: How to prepare for April Fools Day
2016.03.09: Tom Reacts to Teens React to Windows 95
2016.03.03: How does Google manage Oncall?
2016.02.26: Reminder: WebCast on how to "Fail Better": TODAY (Friday, Feb 26)
2016.02.25: Test post for people using RSS readers
2016.02.22: Next on LISA Conversations: Kris Buytaert on "DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet)"
2016.02.12: WebCast on how to "Fail Better": Friday, Feb 26
2016.02.11: How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves
2016.02.10: A feast of analogies
2016.02.08: ACM Interviews: Thomas Limoncelli
2016.02.06: LISA Conversations Episode 6: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable Meatfrastructure (LISA15)
2016.01.25: SHA-1 Certs should cost $10,000
2016.01.22: Reminder: Next week's LISA Conversations: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable Meatfrastructure
2016.01.20: Next on LISA Conversations: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable Meatfrastructure
2016.01.15: BNF meets Bowie
2016.01.13: Tom @ BBLISA, Cambridge/Boston, MA, Jan 13, 2016
2016.01.11: NYC SRE Tech talks: A new monthly series
2016.01.06: SHA-1 Deprecation: Pro, Con, or Extend?
2016.01.04: IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday
2016.01.04: Peter Naur, RIP, (1928-2016)
2016.01.02: Best and Worst DevOps songs of 2015
2015.12.16: Ugh.
2015.12.15: We can solve the terrorist encryption problem with this one simple solution!
2015.12.14: How can sysadmins devalue themselves?
2015.12.13: NYC DevOps: Bridget Kromhout and Casey West - Sometimes you feel like a Docker...
2015.12.10: New issue of acmQueue is out!
2015.12.09: 7 signs you're doing devops wrong
2015.12.08: Ever run a Novell network?
2015.12.07: Cascadia IT Conference CFP Reminder
2015.12.06: Tom speaking at BackBayLISA in January (Boston)
2015.11.28: Preview 8 chapters from the next edition of TPOSANA
2015.11.25: Why I don't care that Dell installs Rogue Certificates On Laptops
2015.11.25: We forget how big "big" is
2015.11.22: What JJ Abrams just revealed about Star Wars
2015.11.10: Christine @ OpsCon Milano, Nov 10, 2015
2015.11.10: Christine's keynote at OpsCon Milano 2015
2015.11.05: Book Signing at LISA '15
2015.11.03: Tom @ Usenix LISA 2015, Wash DC, Nov 3-13, 2015
2015.11.02: Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron
2015.10.30: Outsourcing makes sense if you think "software" is a fad
2015.10.29: When explaining to beginners, use simple examples.
2015.10.26: New column in Queue Magazine: Everything Sysadmin
2015.10.23: NEW: USENIX Journal of Education in System Administration
2015.10.21: Get ready for LISA Conversations Episode 4: Sabrina Farmer
2015.10.19: Big discount, 24 hours only!
2015.10.19: Tom @ DevOps Enterprise 2015, San Francisco, Oct 19-21, 2015
2015.10.08: Usenix LISA: Early Bird Pricing ends Oct 15!
2015.10.06: Beyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success
2015.09.29: Can't Make it to PuppetConf? Watch It Live!
2015.09.28: Interview with Tom Limoncelli on InfoQ
2015.09.24: Homework for the weekend: Making Push on Green a Reality
2015.09.20: TV Alerts
2015.09.17: Next LISA Conversations guest: Daniel V. Klein
2015.09.13: Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up
2015.09.12: New reviews of The Practice of Cloud System Administration
2015.09.07: Reorganizing a wiki or documentation system
2015.09.03: CfP: USENIX Container Management Summit (UCMS '15)
2015.09.02: CfP: USENIX Release Engineering Summit (URES '15)
2015.09.01: FreeBSD Journal Reviews TPOSANA
2015.08.28: Advice for people that teach system administration?
2015.08.28: Usenix LISA Conversations: Episode 2 is up!
2015.08.24: LISA Schedule published!
2015.08.20: Tom @ Puppet Camp New Jersey, Morristown, NJ, Aug 20, 2015
2015.08.19: Next week's LISA Conversations guest: Ben Rockwood
2015.08.13: Why are logs called logs?
2015.08.07: Ethical Obligations in Internet Operations - Questionnaire
2015.08.03: Episode 1 of LISA Conversations
2015.07.31: Happy SysAdmin Day! (July 31)
2015.07.27: LISA Conversations premieres on Tuesday!
2015.07.24: Save on The Practice of Cloud System Administration
2015.07.23: SysAdmin Appreciation Day in New York City
2015.07.23: Schyntax: A DSL for specifying recurring events
2015.07.13: Tom @ SF DevOps Meetup, San Francisco, Mon, July 13, 2015
2015.07.13: Usenix Container Management Summit Announced!
2015.07.10: Introducing: LISA Conversations
2015.07.09: Tom @ Bay Area Infracoders, Santa Clara, Thu, July 9, 2015
2015.07.02: Google's "Labs" features are DevOps Third Way
2015.06.30: TOML vs. JSON
2015.06.26: Marriage Equality becomes the law of the land in the US
2015.06.24: If you change the file format, change the file name
2015.06.16: Some of my proposals have been accepted at Usenix LISA '15!
2015.06.14: Thanks, QCon New York!
2015.06.11: Tom @ QCon, NYC, June 8-12, 2015
2015.05.29: See you at QCon NYC next week!
2015.05.20: Design Patterns for being creepy: Playing The Odds
2015.05.15: Tom @ Puppet Camp NYC, NY, May 15, 2015
2015.05.07: Tom @ LOPSA NJ Chapter, near Princeton, NJ, May 7, 2015
2015.05.04: Note to Boeing 787 Dreamliner owners: Reboot every 248 days
2015.05.03: Two NYC-area Puppet-related events
2015.05.03: Backupify: a case study in incompetent marketing
2015.04.22: A tweet about Git
2015.04.08: Usenix LISA has changed a lot in the last 5-10 years
2015.03.31: The Python Time Travel Debugger
2015.03.30: Tom @ DevOpsDays NYC 2015, NY, NY, April 30, 2015
2015.03.27: Usenix LISA 2015 Call For Participation (3 weeks left!)
2015.03.25: The State of DevOps Report
2015.03.24: 2015 DevOps Survey
2015.03.19: Tom @ BayLISA, Mountain View, CA, Thu, March 19, 2015
2015.03.17: Tom @ LSPE, Sunnyvale, CA, Tue, March 17, 2015
2015.03.17: See you tonight at LSPE (Sunnyvale, CA)
2015.03.16: Tom @ Usenix SREcon15, Santa Clara, March 16-17, 2015
2015.03.15: Tom @ NYLUG, NYC, NY, April 15, 2015
2015.03.12: Just announced: I'll be speaking at the LSPE (Sunnyvale) meeting on Tuesday
2015.03.04: Tom @ Crabby Admins, Fulton, Maryland, March 4, 2015
2015.03.03: Hiring a network engineer for SRE team (NYC only)
2015.02.28: Balitmore area folks: Come see me this Wednesday!
2015.02.26: Tom @ Utah State's Partners In Business IT Conference, Feb 26, 2015
2015.02.24: Blackbox now available via "MacPorts"
2015.02.23: Usenix SREcon15: Now with more con!
2015.02.20: Just announced: I'll be speaking at the BayLISA (Mountain View) meeting in March.
2015.02.19: Bill Nye to Headline NECSS 2015
2015.02.18: LOPSA-NJ March meeting: Elastic Search
2015.02.16: New tutorial at Cascadia IT Conference, March 13, Seattle
2015.02.11: Tom @ Bucks County DevOps Meetup, New Hope, PA, Feb 11, 2015
2015.02.09: Bucks County DevOps Meetup this Wednesday!
2015.01.29: 17 minute documentary about Grace Hopper
2015.01.28: How to document a process?
2015.01.28: Australian sysadmins cop brunt of data-retention burden
2015.01.26: Rites of Passage for a modern sysadmin?
2015.01.24: How to move PCs to a corporate standard?
2015.01.14: Tom @ BBLISA, Cambridge/Boston, MA, Jan 14, 2015
2015.01.13: ACM's new Applicative conf, Feb. 25-27, NYC!
2015.01.06: See you at Back Bay LISA next week!
2015.01.05: Fighting Spam Backscatter
2014.12.29: Predictions for 2015 that you can't live without!
2014.12.20: ALERT! Two "git" related security vunerabilities
2014.12.19: Book review and interview on InfoQ
2014.12.10: Interview by Win Treese in InformIT
2014.12.08: Book Excerpt: Capacity Planning
2014.12.01: LOPSA-NJ Meeting: Intro to Chocolatey (THURSDAY)
2014.11.20: Tom @ NLUUG Conference, Nov 20, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2014.11.18: Book Excerpt: Organizing Strategy for Operational Teams
2014.11.13: 20th anniversary of "the big Synopsys downtime"
2014.11.12: TPOCSA is the "eBook Deal of the Day"
2014.11.11: Introducing Bosun, our new open source monitoring & alerting system
2014.11.09: Tom @ Usenix LISA 2014, Seattle WA, Nov 9-14, 2014
2014.11.04: Arrested Devops Episode 23 with Tom Limoncelli
2014.11.03: Book Signing at Usenix LISA next week
2014.10.29: 2015 speaking gigs: Boston, Pennsylvania, Baltimore
2014.10.28: Apple Pay and CurrentC
2014.10.27: Wait, did you mean Wed the 15th or Thu the 16th?
2014.10.24: How to make change when handed a $20... and help democracy
2014.10.22: Katherine Daniels (@beerops) interviews Tom Limoncelli
2014.10.21: Tom @ Denver Devops Meetup, Colorado, October 21, 2014
2014.10.20: See you tomorrow evening at the Denver DevOps Meetup!
2014.10.17: Usenix LISA early registration discount expires soon!
2014.10.16: Results of the PuppetConf 2014 Raffle
2014.10.15: Tutorial: Evil Genius 101
2014.10.14: Come hear me speak in Denver next week!
2014.10.14: Tutorial: How To Not Get Paged
2014.10.13: Interview on SpiceWorks.com: Demystifying DevOps with Tom Limoncelli
2014.10.13: Tutorial: Live Upgrades on Running Systems
2014.10.11: Tutorial: Work Like a Team, not a group of individuals
2014.10.10: Is TPOCSA a DevOps book?
2014.10.10: Calling all students and women!
2014.10.08: Tom @ DevOps NYC, New York City, NY, Oct 8, 2014
2014.10.08: Concerning PICC
2014.10.08: I'm coming to Europe in November!
2014.10.07: Tom speaking at NYC DevOps meetup Wednesday!
2014.10.03: Cleaning Up Stack Exchange's Puppet Environment
2014.10.03: Why women leave tech... because they have good taste
2014.10.01: Tom on DevOps Cafe Podcast
2014.10.01: Apple's livesteam outage was easily preventable: here's how!
2014.09.30: I'll be at Philly Linux User Group tomorrow (Wednesday)
2014.09.20: How the internet has affected what books get published?
2014.09.15: In NYC for Velocity?
2014.09.15: Safari Books Online update
2014.09.15: Brewster Rockit explains network latency.
2014.09.11: Why is TPOCSA called "Volume 2"?
2014.09.08: Configure Appigo Todo Cloud for use with The Cycle
2014.09.05: NYC Book Launch Party for "The Practice of Cloud System Administration"
2014.09.05: The ebook is shipping!
2014.09.04: Tom @ LOPSA NJ Chapter Monthly Meeting, Princeton NJ, Sept 4, 2014
2014.09.03: Stack Exchange is hiring sysadmins (come work with me!)
2014.09.02: Good Reads, Aug 2014
2014.09.01: TPOCSA Book Tour announcement!
2014.08.30: Tom speaking at LOPSA-NJ September meeting (near Princeton/Trenton)
2014.08.29: Save up to 55% off on our new book for a short time
2014.08.28: I'm giving away 1 free ticket to PuppetConf 2014!
2014.08.27: LISA 2014 OMG
2014.08.27: How sysadmins can best understand Burning Man
2014.08.21: Maybe the problem was...
2014.08.15: Simple bucket-ized stats in awk
2014.08.09: New DevOps meetup starting in New Jersey!
2014.08.02: Online course: An Introduction to Operations Management starting soon
2014.08.01: Tom @ PLUG Central, Philadelphia, PA, Wed, Oct 1, 2014
2014.07.29: Honest Life Hacks
2014.07.25: System Administrator Appreciation Day Spotlight: SuperUser.com
2014.07.25: System Administrator Appreciation Day Spotlight: ServerFault.com
2014.07.25: I'm a system administrator one day a year.
2014.07.25: 50% off Time Management for System Administrators
2014.07.25: Special deal for Sysadmin Appreciation Day
2014.07.24: Tom @ CloudAustin Meetup, Austin, TX, Wed, Sept 24, 2014
2014.07.23: Tom @ SpiceWorld, Austin, TX, Sept 23-24, 2014
2014.07.22: Tom will be the October speaker at Philly Linux Users Group (central)
2014.07.19: Tom @ Austin Cloud Meetup
2014.07.16: IPv6 is real... and mentioned on The Cobert Report
2014.07.16: Tom @ PuppetNYC Meetup: Tue, July 22
2014.07.16: Change-Able Operations or "Could DevOps Save Spiderman?"
2014.07.14: ANNOUNCEMENT: Our newest website: the-cloud-book.com
2014.07.14: Tom @ Velocity NYC, Sept 15-17, 2014
2014.07.11: Tom speaking at Puppet NYC Meetup
2014.07.09: Tom @ New Jersey DevOps Meetup, Clifton, NJ, August 8, 2014
2014.07.03: Moving the StackExchange/Serverfault NYC Datacenter
2014.07.02: All chapters available as "rough cuts" on SBO
2014.06.25: Damn you, LinkedIn
2014.06.24: Read the (very) rough draft of our new book!
2014.06.23: Tom @ PuppetNYC Meetup, NYC, Tue, July 22, 2014
2014.06.19: NYC: Day-long Awesome Postmortems workshop!
2014.06.13: bash alias of the day: reader
2014.06.09: Tom @ Puppet Camp NYC, July 8, 2014
2014.06.03: Google SRE University on the east-coast!
2014.06.02: Help me explain our new book
2014.05.31: Good Reads, May 2014
2014.05.28: Comments on NIST Draft SP 800-160
2014.05.24: Product Idea: Real-time re-living the moon landing
2014.05.22: "Ops All The Things" Podcast"
2014.05.15: I'd like to buy an IP-KVM switch, please.
2014.05.14: My 5-year prediction
2014.05.12: Mice, Cheese, DevOps, and Job Satisfaction
2014.05.08: Covered costs: $0. Your responsibility: $X billion.
2014.05.05: Slides from LOPSA-East
2014.05.02: Tom @ LOPSA-East, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2-3, 2014
2014.04.30: Good Reads, April 2014
2014.04.29: Cisco: top of my list of "difficult to upgrade" things
2014.04.25: LOPSA-East: If you fly here, don't take the train.
2014.04.24: Getting the courage to do a lightning-talk (LOPSA-East)
2014.04.23: Reddit AMA about LOPSA-East
2014.04.14: Time Management training at SpiceWorld Austin, 2014
2014.04.14: Interview with LOPSA-East Keynote: Vish Ishaya
2014.04.11: Replace Kathleen Sebelius with a sysadmin!
2014.04.10: LISA CFP Deadline Extended to Fri, 4/18!
2014.04.08: Interview with LOPSA-East Keynote: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
2014.04.04: How to...
2014.04.01: Introducing the Python Time Travel Debugger
2014.04.01: LOPSA-East 2014 is one month away! Register today!
2014.04.01: Velocity Santa Clara best price deals end April 3rd
2014.03.28: Good reads, March 2014
2014.03.26: "Evil Genius 101" at LOPSA-East
2014.03.24: Isn't it time for an "Intro to Time Management"?
2014.03.24: Our newest book: Sneak preview at LOPSA-East
2014.03.21: Pre-announcement
2014.03.20: LISA "call for participation" is open: and boy is it different this year!
2014.03.20: Early Bird Discount Reminder! LOPSA-East SysAdmin Conference, May 2-3 2014, New Brunswick, NJ
2014.03.19: Should RelEng also be responsible for infrastructure?
2014.03.15: Yes, you really can work from HEAD
2014.03.08: Thanks, Cascadia IT 2014!
2014.03.07: Tom @ Cascadia IT Conf, Seattle WA, March 7-8, 2014
2014.02.25: LOPSA-East 2014: Full of DevOps and other great stuff!
2014.02.21: 10% off Cascadia IT registration
2014.02.19: Jumpy, nervous, jittery user interfaces reduce "user trust"
2014.02.18: The FreeBSD Journal: Read it even if you don't use FreeBSD
2014.02.17: Anti-Pattern: "The big project" that never ships
2014.02.17: LOPSA-East schedule published!
2014.02.16: Seattle: CascadiaIT'14 keynote: Æleen Frisch
2014.02.10: How not to use Cron
2014.02.05: Tool Building Versus Automation
2014.02.04: Sysadmins that can't script have a choice.
2014.02.02: Time Management Tip: The Oscars
2014.01.31: Seattle: CascadiaIT'14 hotel discount ends Feb 8!
2014.01.31: LOPSA NJ Chapter: Feb meeting is a dinner meetup
2014.01.26: We're hiring at StackExchange! SRE with Networking focus
2014.01.25: Seattle: CascadiaIT'14 Registration is OPEN
2014.01.25: LOPSA-East: CFP extended to Jan 31!
2014.01.13: LOPSA-East - CFP deadline Jan 22, 2014
2014.01.10: awk. How I missed you.
2014.01.06: DrupalCamp NJ, Princeton, Feb 1, 2014
2014.01.05: bash: Restart bash if old version detected
2014.01.04: SSH debugging sucks
2014.01.02: Tom @ LOPSA NJ Chapter Monthly Meeting, Princeton NJ, Jan 2, 2014
2013.12.31: January LOPSA NJ Chapter Meeting Announcement
2013.12.28: Avoiding the "cost center" mentality.
2013.12.17: How does Bitcoin work?
2013.12.09: Today I applied to get my LOPSA LPR
2013.12.05: Ask Slashdot: Application Security Non-existent, Boss Doesn't Care. What To Do?
2013.12.04: LOPSA-East 2014: Call for Participation
2013.12.02: Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday: Here are the organizations I support (and you should too)
2013.11.30: Deadline for Cascadia IT talk proposals extended to Dec 9:
2013.11.27: Stop monitoring whether or not your service is up!
2013.11.27: Evi Nemeth Update
2013.11.07: Summary of "Evil Genius 101" Tutorial
2013.11.05: How to provide infinite disk storage
2013.11.03: Open office hours at LISA
2013.11.03: "Evil Genius 101" class via livestream
2013.11.03: Tom @ Usenix LISA 2013, Washington DC, Nov 3-8, 2013
2013.11.01: Hospitals are the Mainframe of the medical industry
2013.11.01: Is Cisco finally understanding that SDN is real?
2013.10.30: Improved cycle time? What about this technique from the 1990s?
2013.10.29: Tom @ SpiceWorld, Austin, TX, Oct 29-30, 2013
2013.10.29: Greetings SpiceWorld 2013 Attendees!
2013.10.28: This site now available via IPv6
2013.10.23: Usenix LISA schedule updated
2013.10.21: Interested in doing a lightning talk at LISA?
2013.10.15: Evi Nemeth news...
2013.10.14: Starting a new habit by linking it to an existing one
2013.10.14: LOPSA-East 14: Call for Volunteers
2013.10.12: Glove and Boots mirror my NYC post!
2013.10.11: Wrist-watch cell phones
2013.10.10: Video: Why Attend LISA '13?
2013.10.10: Book signing at LISA
2013.10.09: Seating at my Usenix LISA tutorials is limited.
2013.10.09: IPv6 Flashcards
2013.10.08: Usenix LISA Early Bird deadline is 1 week away!
2013.10.08: Three problems with the DevOps community
2013.10.07: Guest Post: Jennifer Joy's PuppetConf 2013 attendee report
2013.10.05: Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC), October 19, Lancaster, PA
2013.10.03: Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu Oct 3, 2012, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
2013.10.02: Usenix LISA 2013: "Soft Skills" tutorials
2013.09.30: I'll be the speaker at LOPSA NJ Chapter meeting this Thursday.
2013.09.30: Assessing Progress with "DevOps Look-for's"
2013.09.27: How to build a private cloud? Do you run one?
2013.09.26: Women in System Administration
2013.09.25: Where did you learn to debug like that?
2013.09.25: Tom @ ACM Webinar on IPv6 and Security
2013.09.25: ACM Webinar on IPv6 and Security (Today)
2013.09.24: System administrators and programming
2013.09.23: DevOps at LISA
2013.09.23: Grants for Women attending Usenix LISA, Sept 30 deadline
2013.09.22: Usenix LISA 2013: DevOps in every timeslot
2013.09.22: Usenix LISA 2013: Technical Skill-building for Linux/Unix admins
2013.09.22: Usenix LISA 2013 Cloud system administration presentations
2013.09.22: Usenix LISA 2013: Women in Advanced Computing
2013.09.22: Usenix LISA 2013: Learn to code
2013.09.20: Warning sign that your API sucks
2013.09.18: Eiji Toyoda, Promoter of the Toyota Way, Dies at 100
2013.09.11: Tom's guide for Tourists Visiting NYC (special Sept 11th anniversary edition)
2013.09.07: Usenix LISA overlaps election day!
2013.09.05: Google StreetView visits my office... literally!
2013.09.05: LOPSA NYC: Etsy: Feature Flagging your Infrastructure for Fun and Profit
2013.09.04: The team I'm on at Stack Exchange is hiring
2013.09.02: LaTeX dvipdf tip: -dFirstPage/-dLastPage doesn't work
2013.08.30: Velocity NYC: Stack Exchange will be presenting!
2013.08.26: Usenix LISA "Build A Cloud Day", Fri, Nov 8, 2013 in DC (no charge!)
2013.08.25: LOPSA NJ Chapter meeting: IBM Blue Gene /P, Thu, Sept 5, 2013
2013.08.23: Sysadmins/Devops needed for study
2013.08.22: Evi Nemeth's life-raft spotted?
2013.08.21: Puppet Camp DC, Tue, Nov 5, 2013 (free admission!)
2013.08.15: Introducing my new tutorial: Evil Genius 101
2013.08.15: Usenix LISA training schedule published
2013.08.09: Unix/Linux "bash" shell users:
2013.08.08: So your management fails at IT, huh?
2013.08.05: TPOSANA BugHunt Announced!
2013.07.31: The "They know it's a problem"-Syndrome
2013.07.30: Was the search for Evi botched?
2013.07.23: Tom speaking at SpiceWorld conference!
2013.07.14: PuppetConf ticket contest: Winners
2013.07.11: I'm giving away 2 free admissions to PuppetConf 2013!
2013.07.08: Remembering Evi Nemeth: The woman that saved "sudo"
2013.07.04: Evi Nemeth update: stay optimistic
2013.06.27: Evi Nemeth potentially lost at sea
2013.06.15: Velocity 2013 in Santa Clara
2013.06.07: New article in "login magazine": Ganeti: Cluster Virtualization Manager
2013.06.03: The possibility of cross-site configuration management
2013.05.29: Starting my next chapter
2013.05.23: First Google Ganeti Conference: GanetiCon 2013
2013.05.21: TodoPro available for Android (beta)
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: Tom @ LOPSA-East 2013, New Brunswick, NJ, May 3-4, 2013
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: Using Google 2-factor authentication on Linux or FreeBSD
2012.08.14: Google hiring Ganeti software developers in Munich
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: Why do we use computers?
2011.12.28: The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
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 [email protected]
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.
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: Don't feed the trolls
2011.03.16: Tonight at NYLUG: Me!
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: How do you keep system administration interesting?
2010.10.13: Episode 5: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Wicked cool security papers
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!
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