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Coming Soon - SysAdmin Network 1st Birthday
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Matt Simmons Jan 18.

TONIGHT in London: E14 sneak peek

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Virtualization – okay, what’s the catch?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Thomas Stensitzki Mar. 30, 2009.

 

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Translated slightly loosely for readability: While universities can be a great place to build your technical knowledge, real-world experience and free courses on the web can give you a foundation for what the market really needs and for innovating…
February 24
Nice tip! I'll also suggest that anyone who does join should consider putting you down as the person who referred them: http://campus.acm.org/public/mgm/
January 27
January 21, 2010 from 4pm to 5pm
Presenter: Dr. Masha Petrova, author of www.SuccessfulUnemploymentToolkit.com Time: 21st January - 4pm GMT (11 a.m. EST, 10 CST, 9 MST, 8 PST) So you got laid off. As did thousands of other highly qualified scientists, engineers and technical prof…
January 21
Great post, Jason. So can you tell us -- what exactly >did< happen in this case? Please, give us all the gory details! What was the end effect, and was there anything that could be done to fix it?
January 20
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January 18
Looks like we made 500 users! Awesome! Congratulations Elizabeth and Michael (and all you other sysadmins!)
January 18
January 18
So, in reference to the digest email that was sent out the other day: "Do you want more advice on solutions? (Like the Wikis in the Workplace thread)" That's always good. I like to hear what other people are using and how they're using it. So far t…
January 14
Wow! Okay, I retract my vote for a gerbil cannon. Plus, after a while, the area pet stores are bound to get suspicious after you keep buying out all of their rodents.
January 14
And there I had you down as the peaceful kind :-). Failing the gerbil cannon, there's always the Rapid Fire 20!
January 14
I vote for buying a gerbil cannon.
January 13
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On February 6th, the SysAdmin Network will celebrate its first birthday…. And a busy year it’s been! We've had: Favorite hardware competition A series of webinars (recordings available): 10 Ways to Increase Your Value as a Technical Professional -…
January 13
December 4, 2009
Our Father, who art in Redmond, Bill be thy name.....
December 3, 2009

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Exchange, Active Directory, virtualization, new products
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SysAdmin Network – what’s it all about?

There is no shortage of sites offering technical advice and news to Sys Admins, so why a social network?

It is true, there are plenty of technical sites (eg. Microsoft TechNet, TechTarget sites like SearchStorage and SearchSecurity), but in contrast to the Linux community, Microsoft-centric sites tend to leave me… Continue

Posted on February 24, 2009 at 4:13pm — 2 Comments

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At 4:40pm on January 18, 2010, Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
Indeed. I feel like I'm doing some kind of bombing run when I make these greeting rounds. Just call me The Carpet Bomber of Friendliness.
At 5:52am on December 4, 2009, Chinny Chukwudozie said…
Thanks for the welcome Elizabeth. I enjoy the site already and i believe it'll only get better.
At 10:20am on October 17, 2009, Matt Simmons said…
Ah..

For next year, the Large Installation part of LISA is pretty much a misnomer. From what they tell me, large installations are represented, but so are medium and small. In fact, I'm attending a workshop called microLISA specifically for small infrastructures.

If you'd like, I can get you in touch with the right USENIX people who could probably get you the demographics for the event.

Let me know if you're interested!

--Matt
At 4:47am on October 17, 2009, Matt Simmons said…
Elizabeth, it looks like you're RSVP'd to LISA in Baltimore! Are you really going to be there?
At 3:20pm on July 21, 2009, Andrew Hale said…
Elizabeth, first off thanks for the comment. I've gotten some good advice from other admins (a few are on here). I've got a plan, now it's just taking everything one more step at a time. Unfortunately, I'm at a brink where if I bag one more bag of groceries or make one more Baconator, I'll snap!

Second, and most of all, Thank you for creating a site like this. I've been wanting to be a SysAdmin for going on 4 years and I've been rather surprised at how few sites there are for such a techie job. At first it was just a couple Networking sections on various PC and IT forums. Between ServerFault, PlanetSysAdmin aggregator, and this awesome site you and Michael have made, it's awesome. Not just great for a SysAdmin-in-training like myself, but for those in the trenches and livin' the life.

Thank you for the site, and Thank you for the warm welcome.

(P.S. - I do have IT related photos, but my last 2 jobs have very modest IT needs.)
At 10:41pm on April 15, 2009, milt mallory said…
Well, we're not completely happy with what we have for monitoring like most folks I suspect. Zenoss just got moved from the back burner toward the front, so I might comment on our early experience (mostly good) comparing it to (our particular) Nagios setup.

Milt...
At 2:01pm on April 9, 2009, Stéphane Gauthier said…
Hi everybody! first of all, my english is not to bad, but i'm french first, so maybe you gonna have fun to read me :). I'm in IT since 1998, i work for Telebec (Bell Alliant) and i managed different network for different client, i have a long experience with echange since the version 5.5 and i deal mostly with Windows Platform, si i hope you gonna help me with my day to day issue :P

Have a good day everybody!

Stef
At 5:29pm on March 31, 2009, Everson Vargas da Luz said…
Certo, obrigado pela recepção.
At 2:47pm on March 6, 2009, Constantin Visan said…
Many Thanks Elizabeth
At 10:53pm on March 5, 2009, Matthew Boswell said…
haha thanks! the site looks good.should make for a great community
 
 
 

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