[Tech] LISA 2005 - Day 2

System down at work back home.

Tutorial
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S8 - Issues in UNIX Infrastructure Design
by Lee Damon
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S8 links:
NIKOLA Disk Layout Plan
19th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '05)
LISA'05 Wiki: Home Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems Administration and Infrastructure Architecture: Home
Bootstrapping an Infrastructure
Syslog-ng faq
Products :: BalaBit IT KFT ::
Cfengine - an adaptive configuration engine
NIKOLA
Nagios: Home
Condor Project Homepage
Sun N1 Grid Engine 6
PBS Professional 7.0
OpenPBS
Logging with syslog-ng
OpenAFS
The Berkeley Automounter Suite of Utilities
LPRng Web Page
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goals: know the questions to ask about considerations for planning UNIX infrastructures. A philosphy class, not to teach answers, but questions.

Lunch: conference provided...mexican...bad mexican

Over lunch checked out the grounds. This place is kind of like a cross between fantasy island and something from a bad 70s movie. Found a large shopping complex behind the property and a small creek with ducks.

Trip to Fry's Electronics...geek world.

Spent some time in Scripps Medical Center with a friend attending the conference (minor pool accident). The ER, late at night was...interesting. A woman told me the gov't is trying to kill me and that she is tired of all the 'reptile alien bullshit.'

This conference has not had a dull moment.