From jim at well.com Mon Dec 26 11:29:25 2005 From: jim at well.com (jim stockford) Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:29:25 -0800 Subject: [sf-lug] Splunk Camp SysAdmin January 14 Message-ID: > > Splunk, creators of the first IT data search software for > troubleshooting, is sponsoring Camp SysAdmin on January 14th in San > Francisco. As our product runs on Linux, we wanted to invite the > members of the SF-LUG to attend. Attendance is free, but you must > register in advance. > > Thank you! > Diane Hagglund > diane at splunk.com > > BayLISA, USENIX, TechTarget,SysAdmin Magazine and Splunk are hosting > Camp SysAdmin on January 14th and you?re invited to attend. Camp Sys > Admin is a full day devoted to talking about troubleshooting problems > with enterprise applications (especially LAMP and J2EE), VoIP, email > and on-demand. The format of the day will be very interactive, with > sessions that will be moderated by some of the best in the business, > including: > - Ethan Galstad, father of Nagios > - Eric Allman, Chief Science Officer, Sendmail > - Richard Whitehead, Chief Technical Officer, Clarus Systems > - Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, MySQL > > We?ll end the day with a wine party so we can talk more about whatever > was most interesting during the day. As a sponsor of this event, > Splunk will be there talking about splunking with attendees. > > Attendance is free, although space is limited. You can reserve your > spot by registering at: http://www.splunk.com/index.php/camp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1404 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jim at well.com Mon Dec 26 12:39:54 2005 From: jim at well.com (jim stockford) Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:39:54 -0800 Subject: [sf-lug] Splunk Camp SysAdmin January 14 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: sorry i didn't figure this out when i sent the other message: It's in San Francisco on the corner of Mission and 3rd Streets! January 14, 2006 Diablo Grande Wine Gallery 669 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 <------ www.diablogrande.com/winegallery On Dec 26, 2005, at 11:29 AM, jim stockford wrote: > > > > > Splunk, creators of the first IT data search software for > > troubleshooting, is sponsoring Camp SysAdmin on January 14th in San > > Francisco. As our product runs on Linux, we wanted to invite the > > members of the SF-LUG to attend. Attendance is free, but you must > > register in advance. > > > > Thank you! > > Diane Hagglund > > diane at splunk.com > > > > BayLISA, USENIX, TechTarget,SysAdmin Magazine and Splunk are hosting > > Camp SysAdmin on January 14th and you?re invited to attend. Camp Sys > > Admin is a full day devoted to talking about troubleshooting problems > > with enterprise applications (especially LAMP and J2EE), VoIP, email > > and on-demand. The format of the day will be very interactive, with > > sessions that will be moderated by some of the best in the business, > > including: > > - Ethan Galstad, father of Nagios > > - Eric Allman, Chief Science Officer, Sendmail > > - Richard Whitehead, Chief Technical Officer, Clarus Systems > > - Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, MySQL > > > > We?ll end the day with a wine party so we can talk more about > whatever > > was most interesting during the day. As a sponsor of this event, > > Splunk will be there talking about splunking with attendees. > > > > Attendance is free, although space is limited. You can reserve your > > spot by registering at: http://www.splunk.com/index.php/camp > _______________________________________________ > sf-lug mailing list > sf-lug at linuxmafia.com > http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2348 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jim at well.com Sat Dec 31 09:59:09 2005 From: jim at well.com (jim stockford) Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:09 -0800 Subject: [sf-lug] Fwd: Who's Peter Quinn and what bad thing did he do? Message-ID: <24BD5976-7A27-11DA-B9D5-000A95EA5592@well.com> Begin forwarded message: > From: jim stockford > Date: December 31, 2005 9:51:24 AM PST > To: SF-LUG > Subject: Who's Peter Quinn and what bad thing did he do? > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1906388,00.asp > > ...Welcome to the story of Peter Quinn, the soon-to-be former CIO of > Massachusetts. > mistake? He stood up for ODF (OpenDocument Format), an open standard > for office documents, and decided that Massachusetts would adopt ODF > for use by the Commonwealth's executive agencies. > ... > The first time someone in authority in a state government decides to > support a format that Microsoft doesn't approve, he's suddenly hounded > not only within the government but in the press as well. > ... > > (this message also tests that the sf-lug mailing list > is working on the linuxmafia.com host.) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1481 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rick at linuxmafia.com Sat Dec 31 18:35:03 2005 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:35:03 -0800 Subject: [sf-lug] Fwd: Who's Peter Quinn and what bad thing did he do? In-Reply-To: <24BD5976-7A27-11DA-B9D5-000A95EA5592@well.com> References: <24BD5976-7A27-11DA-B9D5-000A95EA5592@well.com> Message-ID: <20060101023502.GB2513@linuxmafia.com> Quoting jim stockford (jim at well.com): >(this message also tests that the sf-lug mailing list >is working on the linuxmafia.com host.) You might have noticed that the machine had ten hours of downtime (5 am to 3 pm), courtesy of the longest storm-induced power outage my household has seen in about five years. More below. First, just a few words about the current situation, since we-all simply popped up on linuxmafia.com like mushrooms in the spring. Jim and a friend are still busy working on restoring the _real_ SF-LUG mailing list and Web site, and I believe are considering hosting options. Meanwhile, I offered to give the mailing list a temporary home on my Mailman-equipped Linux server, linuxmafia.com. (Yr. welcome. Glad to help.) linuxmafia.com (aka "uncle-enzo.linuxmafia.com", for you Neal Stephenson fans) is the antique 1998-era VA Research model 500 2U server[1] in my living room in suburban West Menlo Park just north of Stanford U., connected through home aDSL service provided by Raw Bandwidth Communications (which company I recommend strongly). I am _not_ the listadmin of this temporary mailing list incarnation; Jim is. I'm just the current hardware's bit janitor (sysadmin) and pink-slip owner. ;-> As SF-LUG has already learned somewhat painfully, keeping a group's Internet presence on a machine in someone's residence has its disadvantages. Even for the resident, it's a tradeoff: On the plus side: Bandwidth uptime is exceptional, thanks to Mike Durkin at Raw Bandwidth, who is fanatical about such things. Also, I get complete control of all aspects of my machine including physical custody. And it's pretty cheap for what I get, considering all the other needs simultaneously served by the incoming pipe and 5 routable IPs. (If you want business details, consult http://www.rawbandwidth.com/ and talk to Mike. Not me, please. I'm just a customer.) On the minus side: Effective throughput is merely adequate compared to what's available at your average colo -- enough that I've survived a couple of slashdottings, but with some strain. (I'm spoiled, having gotten used to the T-1 in my old building in S.F.) Also, power outages and other physical-plant issues are _my_ problem. My long-term solution to the power-outage problem is mostly to punt: I've never bothered putting uncle-enzo on a UPS. The software's completely bulletproof and the hardware's disposable. Power outages knock it offline for maybe half an hour a couple of times a year: When the power comes back, all service reliably come back. If I get unlucky and a surge burns out a PSU or hard drive, I can bring the machine back in about an hour on substitute hardware that's ready for that purpose.[3] Back in 2001, you may recall that our {cough} friends at Enron and kin visited upon us an entire summer of rolling blackouts. _That_ created some challenges for uncle-enzo, because all of the journaling filesystems were still pretty beta, and I was at the time still 100% ext2. Because of the power crisis, I did an urgent rebuild onto SGI's XFS filesystem in May 2001[2], thereby fixing the immediate problem. The next full site rebuild after that, in 2003, I switched to ext3 -- except still using ext2 for /usr (normally mounted read-only) and for /tmp and /var/log, for performance reasons. Anyhow, SF-LUG is welcome to use my machine's facilities as long as it wants, but I anticipate that we'll want to move it to SF-LUG's _own_ machine in good time. I just wanted to reassure you that 10 hours of downtime is something of an outlying case, but is within expectation for storm season and nothing to get alarmed about. Because uncle-enzo is _my_ principal home on the Internet, I am motivated (and able) to bring it back up within about a day somewhere, no matter what happens -- root compromise, hard drive failures, whatever. [1] Get a load of these 31337 specs: single-proc PIII/500, 256kB PC100 SDRAM, 2 x 9GB SCSI-2 HDs. Go, me! [2] See: "XFS Conversion" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Filesystems/ . [3] In fact, I really should swap in a slightly better machine and two less ridiculously small and old hard drives, that is waiting. I just haven't had time to do the swaparound. -- Cheers, Rick Moen "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." rick at linuxmafia.com -- Elizabeth Tudor