I got the following email from LOPSA (of which I am a member). I’m at a loss for words and am now unsure as to why I am a member of either organization. The whole affair seems completely in contradiction to my opinions of all things *nix… Dear Charles, As you may be aware, LOPSA was sued as a third-party defendant by the USENIX Association in April 2008, as part of a lawsuit brought by Association Headquarters, Inc., against USENIX to recover for services AH provided to LOPSA for which USENIX is allegedly responsible. LOPSA secured legal counsel at the time and has been involved in the pre-trial phase of…
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LISA 2008
No, this isn’t the new version of my wife (although there is a new version out and it’s awesome;). Instead, LISA’08 is the 22nd year of the Large Installation System Administration conference in San Diego California. LISA runs from November 9 to November 14th of 2008 and looks to be a conference those who do mass deployment might not want to miss. The biggee this year is virtualization: ESX, ESX 3i, Xen, etc. But there are alos talks on security, forensics, the Linux Kernel, Performance tools for Solaris and Linux, Perl mods, network performance tuning, wireshark, diskless Linux, SELinux, mass deployment of database servers, disk-to-disk backups for Unix, cfengine, directory…