Tom Limoncelli's EverythingSysadmin Blog
2003–2025
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July 2025
2022 3
November 2022
2021 8
October 2021
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2020 14
November 2020
October 2020
- Thu, Nov 19 NYCDEVOPS meetup: John Allspaw on "Learning From Incidents"
- Oct 15 NYC DevOps Meetup: "Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering" by Nathen Harvey
- October 2020
September 2020
- Adarsh Shah on "Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning" (September NYCDEVOPS Meetup)
- Book: Become Ansible by Josh Duffney
- September 2020
August 2020
March 2020
February 2020
2019 12
December 2019
October 2019
August 2019
June 2019
April 2019
January 2019
2018 38
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
- Tom @ Usenix LISA '18, Nashville, TN, Oct 29-31, 2018
- Tom @ DevOps Enterprise Summit, Las Vegas, NV, Oct 22-24, 2018
- Tom @ All Day DevOps, Oct 17 2018
- Google Authenticator tips
- October 2018
September 2018
- SREs with Windows experience? (NYC-area)
- I'll be at All-Day-DevOps: Free registration!
- Tom @ nycdevops, NYC, Sept 18, 2018
- Tom @ nycdevops meetup on Tuesday!
- LISA '18: Save on LISA registration!
- September 2018
August 2018
- Financial advice when you get a raise
- Stack Overflow in NYC is hiring Windows SREs
- "Continuous Discussion" Video Podcast today!
- August 2018
June 2018
May 2018
- SO (my employer) is hiring a Windows SRE/sysadmin in NY/NJ
- Launched: Stack Overflow for Teams!
- SRECon: Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
- May 2018
April 2018
- Accelerate NYC Launch Party, Saturday, April 21
- ZFS Users Conference, April 19-20, Norwalk, CT
- April 2018
March 2018
- Tom @ nycdevops Meetup, March 20, NYC
- Tom @ Usenix SRECon_Americas, March 26-29, Santa Clara, CA
- March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
2017 66
December 2017
- Save 40-60% on the 3rd edition of TPOSANA
- DevOpsDays New York City 2018 Speakers Announced!
- December 2017
November 2017
- Quick! Install that Mac printer now!
- Productivity When You Just Can't Even
- November NYC DevOps Meetup: Building a hybrid cloud
- Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
- Registration for NYC DOD 2018 is open!
- MicroReview: Usenix LISA 2017
- November 2017
October 2017
- Tom @ LISA17, San Francisco, CA, Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2017
- DevOpsDays New York City 2018 Announced!
- Vendor jerks at tech conferences
- Tom @ NYCDEVOPS, Mon, Oct 2, 2017, NYC
- October 2017
September 2017
- October NYCDevOps: Two meetings! DNSControl and Storing Secrets in the Cloud
- September NYCDevOps: Habitat in Production (Seth Thomas)
- September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
- Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret
- Four Ways to Make CS and IT Curricula More Immersive
- Still time to RSVP to NYCDevOps...
- Free book: "Expanding Pockets of Greatness"
- Tom's speaking at Red Hat User Group Tuesday in Woodbridge, NJ
- July NYCDevOps: Clos Networks for Datacenters
- Judging books by their covers
- July 2017
June 2017
- The .feedback scam
- NYC DevOps meeting tomorrow (Tuesday)
- Stackoverflow... but for questions about how to teach CS
- 2017 State of DevOps Report
- NYC DevOps meeting next week: Measuring real-world DNS performance at Stack Overflow
- Tom on the Stack Overflow Podcast this week
- June 2017
May 2017
- How difficult is it to enable HTTPS on a large website?
- May 2017 NYCDevOps Meeting Notes
- The Blog March: A personal drumbeat of #resistance
- 3 things that made the 3rd edition better for education
- May 2017
April 2017
- Blog March... GO!
- Why tech conferences should have Tshirts in women's sizes
- DNS as Code
- Review: Tivo BOLT+
- Hollywood doesn't understand software
- New season of Archer starts tonight!
- April 2017
March 2017
- Tom @ SRECon_Americas, San Francisco, March 13-14, 2017
- Tom @ BayLISA, Thu, March 16, 2017
- Tom speaking at BayLISA meetup, Thu, March 16, 2017
- March 2017
February 2017
- February NYCDevOps meetup: Tiny Talks CfP
- Tom @ NYCDevOps, NY, Feb 21, 2017
- Tom speaking at NYCDevOps meetup, Feb 21, 2017
- Cascadia IT Conference: Registration is open!
- February 2017
January 2017
- New North Jersey Meetup, Wed, Feb 1, 2017
- Moving application plists to a new machine on macOS
- How I manage my work and personal GitHub accounts
- RIP John Boris
- How Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack
- NYCDevOps meetup is re-starting!
- Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
- Tom speaking at the new LOPSA-NJ Montclair Meetup
- Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Montclair NJ, Feb 1, 2017
- January 2017
2016 93
December 2016
- Notes on implementing flags for flag flips
- InfoQ's interview with the co-authors of TPOSANA 3rd edition
- Gall bladder Removal
- What I learned at LISA '16
- Tom + Christine @ SESA'16, Boston, MA, Dec 6, 2016
- Tom + Christine @ Usenix LISA '16, Boston, MA, Dec 4-9, 2016
- Tom & Chris @ Usenix LISA, Boston, Dec 4-9, 2016
- Solaris being canned.
- December 2016
November 2016
- TPOSANA on Amazon Lightning Deals today only!
- Stealing the Best Ideas from DevOps
- Do you teach System Administration?
- November 2016
October 2016
- Pre-Order Kindle edition of 3rd edition of TPOSANA
- Searching random data is not an O(N) problem.
- Usenix LISA '16 Early Bird Registration Deadline is November 10!
- Tom @ PuppetConf'16, San Diego, CA, Oct 21, 2016
- Watch my Punk Rock DevOps talk live on Friday at 2:30pm PT
- DevOps Handbook hitting stores Oct 6!
- October 2016
September 2016
- Why Google should buy Twitter
- Tom @ VelocityNYC, New York City, Sept 21, 2016
- Discounts on The Practice books until Sept 19!
- Survey: What makes joining a new team difficult/easy?
- TPOSANA launched 15 years ago today!
- September 2016
August 2016
- USB cables should be "charge-only" by default
- Automating a CI environment for Android Apps
- Tom @ New York SRE Tech Talks, NYC, NY, Aug 17, 2016
- I'll be speaking at NYC SRE Meetup next week (Wed)
- August 2016
July 2016
- Survey on easy of use for configuration management languages
- "The Martian" made me depressed
- July 2016
June 2016
- LISA Conversations Episode 11: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel"
- Watch us live today! LISA Conversations Episode 11: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel"
- Reminder: Do your homework for next week's LISA Conversations: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel"
- Save 20% off Velocity NYC registration!
- New appearances announced: VelocityNYC & PuppetConf!
- NYLUG: Two meetings this month! (Foreman! Unikernels!)
- Next on LISA Conversations: Russell Pavlicek on "Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel"
- LISA Conversations Episode 10: Clay Caviness and Edward Eigerman on "Managing Macs at Google Scale"
- An Honest Job Advertisement
- June 2016
May 2016
- Augeas: Updating of config files without ruining comments and formatting.
- Preview a chapter of our new book in acmqueue magazine!
- Future directions for Blackbox
- 10 git aliases I can't believe you don't have already
- I am Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin
- May 2016
April 2016
- Have you downloaded the March/April issue of acmqueue yet?
- Server Hardware Support Rant
- CU-Boulder remembers Evi Nemeth, April 26, 2016
- Next on LISA Conversations: kc claffy on "Named Data Networking"
- Easily read UTF16-encoded files from Go
- LISA Conversations Episode 8: Caskey Dickson on "Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What to Do About It"
- Velocity Santa Clara early price ends May 12
- SRE is what DevOps wants to be when it grows up
- Take the 2016 State of DevOps Survey
- April 2016
March 2016
- Archer starts tonight! (and other important TV news)
- "How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves" now in CACM
- Epidemic of Vacation Shaming Spreads Across America
- 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"
- Wasting one million dollars
- Maintain Separate GitHub accounts
- Meaningless Anti-Virus Software Features Are Profitable
- Next on LISA Conversations: Caskey Dickson on "Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What to Do About It"
- LISA Conversations Episode 7: Kris Buytaert on "DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet)"
- Tom Reacts to Teens React to Windows 95
- How to prepare for April Fools Day
- How does Google manage Oncall?
- March 2016
February 2016
- Reminder: WebCast on how to "Fail Better": TODAY (Friday, Feb 26)
- Test post for people using RSS readers
- Next on LISA Conversations: Kris Buytaert on "DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet)"
- WebCast on how to "Fail Better": Friday, Feb 26
- How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves
- A feast of analogies
- ACM Interviews: Thomas Limoncelli
- LISA Conversations Episode 6: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable Meatfrastructure (LISA15)
- February 2016
January 2016
- SHA-1 Certs should cost $10,000
- Reminder: Next week's LISA Conversations: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable Meatfrastructure
- Next on LISA Conversations: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable Meatfrastructure
- BNF meets Bowie
- Tom @ BBLISA, Cambridge/Boston, MA, Jan 13, 2016
- NYC SRE Tech talks: A new monthly series
- SHA-1 Deprecation: Pro, Con, or Extend?
- Peter Naur, RIP, (1928-2016)
- IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday
- Best and Worst DevOps songs of 2015
- January 2016
2015 115
December 2015
- Ugh
- We can solve the terrorist encryption problem with this one simple solution!
- How can sysadmins devalue themselves?
- NYC DevOps: Bridget Kromhout and Casey West - Sometimes you feel like a Docker...
- New issue of acmQueue is out!
- 7 signs you're doing devops wrong
- Ever run a Novell network?
- Cascadia IT Conference CFP Reminder
- Tom speaking at BackBayLISA in January (Boston)
- December 2015
November 2015
- Preview 8 chapters from the next edition of TPOSANA
- We forget how big "big" is
- Why I don't care that Dell installs Rogue Certificates On Laptops
- What JJ Abrams just revealed about Star Wars
- Christine's keynote at OpsCon Milano 2015
- Christine @ OpsCon Milano, Nov 10, 2015
- Book Signing at LISA '15
- Tom @ Usenix LISA 2015, Wash DC, Nov 3-13, 2015
- Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron
- November 2015
October 2015
- Outsourcing makes sense if you think "software" is a fad
- When explaining to beginners, use simple examples.
- New column in Queue Magazine: Everything Sysadmin
- NEW: USENIX Journal of Education in System Administration
- Get ready for LISA Conversations Episode 4: Sabrina Farmer
- Tom @ DevOps Enterprise 2015, San Francisco, Oct 19-21, 2015
- Big discount, 24 hours only!
- Usenix LISA: Early Bird Pricing ends Oct 15!
- Beyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success
- October 2015
September 2015
- Can't Make it to PuppetConf? Watch It Live!
- Interview with Tom Limoncelli on InfoQ
- Homework for the weekend: Making Push on Green a Reality
- TV Alerts
- Next LISA Conversations guest: Daniel V. Klein
- Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up
- New reviews of The Practice of Cloud System Administration
- Reorganizing a wiki or documentation system
- CfP: USENIX Container Management Summit (UCMS '15)
- CfP: USENIX Release Engineering Summit (URES '15)
- FreeBSD Journal Reviews TPOSANA
- September 2015
August 2015
- Usenix LISA Conversations: Episode 2 is up!
- Advice for people that teach system administration?
- LISA Schedule published!
- Tom @ Puppet Camp New Jersey, Morristown, NJ, Aug 20, 2015
- Next week's LISA Conversations guest: Ben Rockwood
- Why are logs called logs?
- Ethical Obligations in Internet Operations - Questionnaire
- Episode 1 of LISA Conversations
- August 2015
July 2015
- Happy SysAdmin Day! (July 31)
- LISA Conversations premieres on Tuesday!
- Save on The Practice of Cloud System Administration
- Schyntax: A DSL for specifying recurring events
- SysAdmin Appreciation Day in New York City
- Usenix Container Management Summit Announced!
- Tom @ SF DevOps Meetup, San Francisco, Mon, July 13, 2015
- Introducing: LISA Conversations
- Tom @ Bay Area Infracoders, Santa Clara, Thu, July 9, 2015
- Google's "Labs" features are DevOps Third Way
- July 2015
June 2015
- TOML vs. JSON
- Marriage Equality becomes the law of the land in the US
- If you change the file format, change the file name
- Some of my proposals have been accepted at Usenix LISA '15!
- Thanks, QCon New York!
- Tom @ QCon, NYC, June 8-12, 2015
- June 2015
May 2015
- See you at QCon NYC next week!
- Design Patterns for being creepy: Playing The Odds
- Tom @ Puppet Camp NYC, NY, May 15, 2015
- Tom @ LOPSA NJ Chapter, near Princeton, NJ, May 7, 2015
- Note to Boeing 787 Dreamliner owners: Reboot every 248 days
- Backupify: a case study in incompetent marketing
- Two NYC-area Puppet-related events
- May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
- The Python Time Travel Debugger
- Tom @ DevOpsDays NYC 2015, NY, NY, April 30, 2015
- Usenix LISA 2015 Call For Participation (3 weeks left!)
- The State of DevOps Report
- 2015 DevOps Survey
- Tom @ BayLISA, Mountain View, CA, Thu, March 19, 2015
- See you tonight at LSPE (Sunnyvale, CA)
- Tom @ LSPE, Sunnyvale, CA, Tue, March 17, 2015
- Tom @ Usenix SREcon15, Santa Clara, March 16-17, 2015
- Tom @ NYLUG, NYC, NY, April 15, 2015
- Just announced: I'll be speaking at the LSPE (Sunnyvale) meeting on Tuesday
- Tom @ Crabby Admins, Fulton, Maryland, March 4, 2015
- Hiring a network engineer for SRE team (NYC only)
- March 2015
February 2015
- Balitmore area folks: Come see me this Wednesday!
- Tom @ Utah State's Partners In Business IT Conference, Feb 26, 2015
- Blackbox now available via "MacPorts"
- Usenix SREcon15: Now with more con!
- Just announced: I'll be speaking at the BayLISA (Mountain View) meeting in March.
- Bill Nye to Headline NECSS 2015
- LOPSA-NJ March meeting: Elastic Search
- New tutorial at Cascadia IT Conference, March 13, Seattle
- Tom @ Bucks County DevOps Meetup, New Hope, PA, Feb 11, 2015
- Bucks County DevOps Meetup this Wednesday!
- February 2015
January 2015
- 17 minute documentary about Grace Hopper
- Australian sysadmins cop brunt of data-retention burden
- How to document a process?
- Rites of Passage for a modern sysadmin?
- How to move PCs to a corporate standard?
- Tom @ BBLISA, Cambridge/Boston, MA, Jan 14, 2015
- ACM's new Applicative conf, Feb. 25-27, NYC!
- See you at Back Bay LISA next week!
- Fighting Spam Backscatter
- January 2015
2014 158
December 2014
- Predictions for 2015 that you can't live without!
- ALERT! Two "git" related security vunerabilities
- Book review and interview on InfoQ
- Interview by Win Treese in InformIT
- Book Excerpt: Capacity Planning
- LOPSA-NJ Meeting: Intro to Chocolatey (THURSDAY)
- December 2014
November 2014
- Tom @ NLUUG Conference, Nov 20, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Book Excerpt: Organizing Strategy for Operational Teams
- 20th anniversary of "the big Synopsys downtime"
- TPOCSA is the "eBook Deal of the Day"
- Introducing Bosun, our new open source monitoring & alerting system
- Tom @ Usenix LISA 2014, Seattle WA, Nov 9-14, 2014
- Arrested Devops Episode 23 with Tom Limoncelli
- Book Signing at Usenix LISA next week
- November 2014
October 2014
- 2015 speaking gigs: Boston, Pennsylvania, Baltimore
- Apple Pay and CurrentC
- Wait, did you mean Wed the 15th or Thu the 16th?
- How to make change when handed a $20... and help democracy
- Katherine Daniels (@beerops) interviews Tom Limoncelli
- Tom @ Denver Devops Meetup, Colorado, October 21, 2014
- See you tomorrow evening at the Denver DevOps Meetup!
- Usenix LISA early registration discount expires soon!
- Results of the PuppetConf 2014 Raffle
- Tutorial: Evil Genius 101
- Tutorial: How To Not Get Paged
- Come hear me speak in Denver next week!
- Tutorial: Live Upgrades on Running Systems
- Interview on SpiceWorks.com: Demystifying DevOps with Tom Limoncelli
- Tutorial: Work Like a Team, not a group of individuals
- Calling all students and women!
- Is TPOCSA a DevOps book?
- I'm coming to Europe in November!
- Concerning PICC
- Tom @ DevOps NYC, New York City, NY, Oct 8, 2014
- Tom speaking at NYC DevOps meetup Wednesday!
- Why women leave tech... because they have good taste
- Cleaning Up Stack Exchange's Puppet Environment
- Apple's livesteam outage was easily preventable: here's how!
- Tom on DevOps Cafe Podcast
- October 2014
September 2014
- I'll be at Philly Linux User Group tomorrow (Wednesday)
- How the internet has affected what books get published?
- Brewster Rockit explains network latency.
- Safari Books Online update
- In NYC for Velocity?
- Why is TPOCSA called "Volume 2"?
- Configure Appigo Todo Cloud for use with The Cycle
- The ebook is shipping!
- NYC Book Launch Party for "The Practice of Cloud System Administration"
- Tom @ LOPSA NJ Chapter Monthly Meeting, Princeton NJ, Sept 4, 2014
- Stack Exchange is hiring sysadmins (come work with me!)
- Good Reads, Aug 2014
- TPOCSA Book Tour announcement!
- September 2014
August 2014
- Tom speaking at LOPSA-NJ September meeting (near Princeton/Trenton)
- Save up to 55% off on our new book for a short time
- I'm giving away 1 free ticket to PuppetConf 2014!
- How sysadmins can best understand Burning Man
- LISA 2014 OMG
- Maybe the problem was...
- Simple bucket-ized stats in awk
- New DevOps meetup starting in New Jersey!
- Online course: An Introduction to Operations Management starting soon
- Tom @ PLUG Central, Philadelphia, PA, Wed, Oct 1, 2014
- August 2014
July 2014
- Honest Life Hacks
- Special deal for Sysadmin Appreciation Day
- 50% off Time Management for System Administrators
- I'm a system administrator one day a year.
- System Administrator Appreciation Day Spotlight: ServerFault.com
- System Administrator Appreciation Day Spotlight: SuperUser.com
- Tom @ CloudAustin Meetup, Austin, TX, Wed, Sept 24, 2014
- Tom @ SpiceWorld, Austin, TX, Sept 23-24, 2014
- Tom will be the October speaker at Philly Linux Users Group (central)
- Tom @ Austin Cloud Meetup
- Change-Able Operations or "Could DevOps Save Spiderman?"
- Tom @ PuppetNYC Meetup: Tue, July 22
- IPv6 is real... and mentioned on The Cobert Report
- Tom @ Velocity NYC, Sept 15-17, 2014
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Our newest website: the-cloud-book.com
- Tom speaking at Puppet NYC Meetup
- Tom @ New Jersey DevOps Meetup, Clifton, NJ, August 8, 2014
- Moving the StackExchange/Serverfault NYC Datacenter
- All chapters available as "rough cuts" on SBO
- July 2014
June 2014
- Damn you, LinkedIn
- Read the (very) rough draft of our new book!
- Tom @ PuppetNYC Meetup, NYC, Tue, July 22, 2014
- NYC: Day-long Awesome Postmortems workshop!
- bash alias of the day: reader
- Tom @ Puppet Camp NYC, July 8, 2014
- Google SRE University on the east-coast!
- Help me explain our new book
- June 2014
May 2014
- Good Reads, May 2014
- Comments on NIST Draft SP 800-160
- Product Idea: Real-time re-living the moon landing
- "Ops All The Things" Podcast"
- I'd like to buy an IP-KVM switch, please.
- My 5-year prediction
- Mice, Cheese, DevOps, and Job Satisfaction
- Covered costs: $0. Your responsibility: $X billion.
- Slides from LOPSA-East
- Tom @ LOPSA-East, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2-3, 2014
- May 2014
April 2014
- Good Reads, April 2014
- Cisco: top of my list of "difficult to upgrade" things
- LOPSA-East: If you fly here, don't take the train.
- Getting the courage to do a lightning-talk (LOPSA-East)
- Reddit AMA about LOPSA-East
- Interview with LOPSA-East Keynote: Vish Ishaya
- Time Management training at SpiceWorld Austin, 2014
- Replace Kathleen Sebelius with a sysadmin!
- LISA CFP Deadline Extended to Fri, 4/18!
- Interview with LOPSA-East Keynote: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
- How to...
- Velocity Santa Clara best price deals end April 3rd
- LOPSA-East 2014 is one month away! Register today!
- Introducing the Python Time Travel Debugger
- April 2014
March 2014
- Good reads, March 2014
- "Evil Genius 101" at LOPSA-East
- Our newest book: Sneak preview at LOPSA-East
- Isn't it time for an "Intro to Time Management"?
- Pre-announcement
- Early Bird Discount Reminder! LOPSA-East SysAdmin Conference, May 2-3 2014, New Brunswick, NJ
- LISA "call for participation" is open: and boy is it different this year!
- Should RelEng also be responsible for infrastructure?
- Yes, you really can work from HEAD
- Thanks, Cascadia IT 2014!
- Tom @ Cascadia IT Conf, Seattle WA, March 7-8, 2014
- March 2014
February 2014
- LOPSA-East 2014: Full of DevOps and other great stuff!
- 10% off Cascadia IT registration
- Jumpy, nervous, jittery user interfaces reduce "user trust"
- The FreeBSD Journal: Read it even if you don't use FreeBSD
- LOPSA-East schedule published!
- Anti-Pattern: "The big project" that never ships
- Seattle: CascadiaIT'14 keynote: Æleen Frisch
- How not to use Cron
- Tool Building Versus Automation
- Sysadmins that can't script have a choice.
- Time Management Tip: The Oscars
- February 2014
January 2014
- LOPSA NJ Chapter: Feb meeting is a dinner meetup
- Seattle: CascadiaIT'14 hotel discount ends Feb 8!
- We're hiring at StackExchange! SRE with Networking focus
- LOPSA-East: CFP extended to Jan 31!
- Seattle: CascadiaIT'14 Registration is OPEN
- LOPSA-East - CFP deadline Jan 22, 2014
- awk. How I missed you.
- DrupalCamp NJ, Princeton, Feb 1, 2014
- bash: Restart bash if old version detected
- SSH debugging sucks
- Tom @ LOPSA NJ Chapter Monthly Meeting, Princeton NJ, Jan 2, 2014
- January 2014
2013 165
December 2013
- January LOPSA NJ Chapter Meeting Announcement
- Avoiding the "cost center" mentality.
- How does Bitcoin work?
- Today I applied to get my LOPSA LPR
- Ask Slashdot: Application Security Non-existent, Boss Doesn't Care. What To Do?
- LOPSA-East 2014: Call for Participation
- Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday: Here are the organizations I support (and you should too)
- December 2013
November 2013
- Deadline for Cascadia IT talk proposals extended to Dec 9:
- Evi Nemeth Update
- Stop monitoring whether or not your service is up!
- Summary of "Evil Genius 101" Tutorial
- How to provide infinite disk storage
- Tom @ Usenix LISA 2013, Washington DC, Nov 3-8, 2013
- "Evil Genius 101" class via livestream
- Open office hours at LISA
- Is Cisco finally understanding that SDN is real?
- Hospitals are the Mainframe of the medical industry
- November 2013
October 2013
- Improved cycle time? What about this technique from the 1990s?
- Greetings SpiceWorld 2013 Attendees!
- Tom @ SpiceWorld, Austin, TX, Oct 29-30, 2013
- This site now available via IPv6
- Usenix LISA schedule updated
- Interested in doing a lightning talk at LISA?
- Evi Nemeth news...
- LOPSA-East 14: Call for Volunteers
- Starting a new habit by linking it to an existing one
- Glove and Boots mirror my NYC post!
- Wrist-watch cell phones
- Book signing at LISA
- Video: Why Attend LISA '13?
- IPv6 Flashcards
- Seating at my Usenix LISA tutorials is limited.
- Three problems with the DevOps community
- Usenix LISA Early Bird deadline is 1 week away!
- Guest Post: Jennifer Joy's PuppetConf 2013 attendee report
- Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC), October 19, Lancaster, PA
- Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu Oct 3, 2012, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
- Usenix LISA 2013: "Soft Skills" tutorials
- October 2013
September 2013
- I'll be the speaker at LOPSA NJ Chapter meeting this Thursday.
- How to build a private cloud? Do you run one?
- Women in System Administration
- ACM Webinar on IPv6 and Security (Today)
- Tom @ ACM Webinar on IPv6 and Security
- Where did you learn to debug like that?
- System administrators and programming
- Grants for Women attending Usenix LISA, Sept 30 deadline
- DevOps at LISA
- Usenix LISA 2013: Learn to code
- Usenix LISA 2013: Women in Advanced Computing
- Usenix LISA 2013 Cloud system administration presentations
- Usenix LISA 2013: Technical Skill-building for Linux/Unix admins
- Usenix LISA 2013: DevOps in every timeslot
- Warning sign that your API sucks
- Eiji Toyoda, Promoter of the Toyota Way, Dies at 100
- Tom's guide for Tourists Visiting NYC (special Sept 11th anniversary edition)
- Usenix LISA overlaps election day!
- LOPSA NYC: Etsy: Feature Flagging your Infrastructure for Fun and Profit
- Google StreetView visits my office... literally!
- The team I'm on at Stack Exchange is hiring
- LaTeX dvipdf tip: -dFirstPage/-dLastPage doesn't work
- Assessing Progress with "DevOps Look-for's"
- September 2013
August 2013
- Velocity NYC: Stack Exchange will be presenting!
- Usenix LISA "Build A Cloud Day", Fri, Nov 8, 2013 in DC (no charge!)
- LOPSA NJ Chapter meeting: IBM Blue Gene /P, Thu, Sept 5, 2013
- Sysadmins/Devops needed for study
- Evi Nemeth's life-raft spotted?
- Puppet Camp DC, Tue, Nov 5, 2013 (free admission!)
- Usenix LISA training schedule published
- Introducing my new tutorial: Evil Genius 101
- Unix/Linux "bash" shell users:
- TPOSANA BugHunt Announced!
- So your management fails at IT, huh?
- August 2013
July 2013
- The "They know it's a problem"-Syndrome
- Was the search for Evi botched?
- Tom speaking at SpiceWorld conference!
- PuppetConf ticket contest: Winners
- I'm giving away 2 free admissions to PuppetConf 2013!
- Remembering Evi Nemeth: The woman that saved "sudo"
- Evi Nemeth update: stay optimistic
- July 2013
June 2013
- Evi Nemeth potentially lost at sea
- Velocity 2013 in Santa Clara
- New article in "login magazine": Ganeti: Cluster Virtualization Manager
- The possibility of cross-site configuration management
- June 2013
May 2013
- Starting my next chapter
- First Google Ganeti Conference: GanetiCon 2013
- TodoPro available for Android (beta)
- I feel pain when articles get inaccurate titles
- WAN Accellerators
- Zeno's Interview Question
- "DRM-free" scares the s*** out of me
- Tom @ LOPSA-East 2013, New Brunswick, NJ, May 3-4, 2013
- Why Google Glass is so important
- May 2013
April 2013
- Two questions for LOPSA Board Candidates
- Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Computing Skills Boot Camp
- LOPSA-East is less than a week away!
- Balancing Todos and Tickets
- Review: Instant Puppet 3
- Today in history: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- Today's time management tip
- Get starting with Puppet in 50 pages
- LOPSA-East (formerly PICC) registration time!
- Reminder: LISA '13 Call for Participation deadline (and a request)
- The mental model mismatch
- Bad Tech Job Interview Questions (and How To Answer Them)
- For-profit universities are a scam
- Interview with Chris St. Pierre, UCMS '13 Program Chair
- Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication
- Running ChromeOS District Wide
- Tesla accidentally leaks their secret business plan
- My LOPSA-East tutorial: Evil Genius 101
- April 2013
March 2013
- Stop. Take 5 minutes to save the internet
- Boston Area Sysadmins: BBLISA Looking for Lightning Talks!
- Sheeri Cabral's "When I Moved Abroad"
- Can you make the speed of light faster?
- How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
- Today is my last day at Google.
- The perfect April Fools gift for the geek you love?
- What does Stack Exchange do when disaster strikes?
- New video: Ganeti: Your Private Virtualization Cloud "the Way Google Does It"
- Google hosted Xen Hackathon, May 16-17, Dublin
- Save up to $197 on LOPSA-East registration, really?
- Last night I had a nightmare...
- Cascadia IT Conference 2013 a big success!
- Call For Proposals Extended: Open Source Bridge 2013
- Registration open for LOPSA-East 2013! (formerly PICC) May 3-4, 2013, New Brunswick, NJ
- The correct RSS feed for this site
- Why oh why is Google canceling "reader"?
- Site Redesign Launched!
- Guidebook for Cascadia IT Conference open to all!
- Registration open for LOPSA-East 2013! (formerly PICC) May 3-4, 2013, NJ
- Issue 34 "Hacker News Monthly" issue
- How to tell if a site stores passwords in clear-text?
- March 2013
February 2013
- Cascadia IT Conference: Discount extended! Don't miss out!
- A Linux equivalent of DaIotFOS?
- LISA '13 Call for Participation released!
- Wikimedia Foundation's system administration
- Are release trains obsolete?
- Cascadia IT Conference: Discount about to end!
- Reverting in "git"
- Metcalfe's law
- Label those datacenter cables!
- "The Finer Art of Being a Senior Sysadmin"
- Books I've recommended in the last week:
- Registration is now open for Cascadia IT Conference 2013!
- Operational aspects of a system
- Ganeti "list" subcommand tips: list output and filtering
- Registration is now open for Cascadia IT Conference 2013!
- Labeling Machines Is A Safety Precaution
- February 2013
January 2013
2012 118
December 2012
- All outages are due to a failure to plan
- Review of my LISA '12 half-day tutorial on Time Management for Sysadmins
- Vint Cerf's keynote at LISA '12
- What's your "LISA '12 moment"?
- Book signing at LISA: Taming Information Technology
- Book signing at LISA: Taming Information Technology
- New at LISA: Watch the tutorials via live-streaming!
- December 2012
November 2012
- My Pre-LISA checklist
- Early-bird discount for LISA'12 ends on Nov 19th!
- Why Romney lost today and how Republicans can win in 2016
- Pimlical on Android... now on Google Play
- November 2012
October 2012
- Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center
- IPv6 Flashcards
- Mechanical Computer instructional video
- Has the job of a Google SRE changedover the years?
- Homomorphic Encryption Explained
- Book flights to Usenix LISA asap!
- Spiceworks interview: part 2
- October 2012
September 2012
- Announcement: I'll be speaking at the Australia IPv6 Summit
- Coming to the LOPSA-LAX meeting?
- What makes a sysadmin a "senior sysadmin"?
- DevOps: Google reveals their "DiRT Exercises" (part 3 or 3 in my "disaster preparedness" series)
- Join me at the October LOPSA New Jersey chapter meeting!
- Spiceworks interview
- New website! http://www.opsreportcard.com
- Join me at the October LOPSA Los Angeles chapter meeting!
- Join me at the October NYLUG meeting!
- Europe officially runs out of IPv4 addresses
- DevOps: "have more outages" Part 2 of 3: The interview
- DevOps: To increase reliability you need to have more outages
- AT&T Survey
- MacTech 2012 session listing is up!
- How I would teach a university-level sysadmin degree
- Back To School Sale: "Time Management for Sysadmins" for 50% off!
- 4 unix commands I abuse every day
- September 2012
August 2012
- Google reveals Goobuntu!
- Android Calendar without Google calendar
- Matthew Sacks' new DevOps book ships!
- OpenFlow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
- Google hiring Ganeti software developers in Munich
- Using Google 2-factor authentication on Linux or FreeBSD
- ANNOUNCEMENT: I'll be speaking at MacTech Conference 2012.
- PICC Conference becomes "LOPSA-East", May 3-4, 2013
- Record tonight's Mars event on NASA-TV
- Link of the week: The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors!
- "IPv6 is now a reality in terms of adoption"
- August 2012
July 2012
- Sysadmin Appreciate Day
- Dear Mom And Dad
- PCAST: 1,000Mhz for public use
- Pre-order "Taming Information Technology" because it is awesome
- Arnie, the Doughnut! (NYC)
- Final Four Days for HOPE Tickets!
- OpenFlow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
- July 2012
June 2012
- Half-baked thought of the day: job titles
- Discrimination means missing out on hiring the best sysadmins
- MicroReview: Tarsnap
- When vendors don't follow through
- ProTip: make rsync fail more reliably
- Researching looking for Sysadmins to take survey
- Reducing latency the Google Way
- LOPSA Elections
- The road to intentional, formal, system administration education
- What language should a sysadmin learn?
- June 2012
May 2012
- Today is Towel Day
- Re: My question for LOPSA board candidates
- Stipend competition to attend 2012 USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit
- Tom @ LOPSA PICC 2012, New Brunswick, NJ, May 11-12, 2012
- Structured Speaking
- Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu May 3, 2012, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
- May 2012
April 2012
- I'll be speaking at LOPSA-NJ on Thursday
- An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding
- Time Management... now in Russian!
- PICC opening keynote: Bill Cheswick
- Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) Summit, June 12, 2012
- The internet needs a bill of rights
- IPv6 is now the default
- Tom @ LILUG, Tue, April 10, 2012, Woodbury, Long Island, NY
- Tom speaking at LILUG (Long Island) on Tuesday about Ganeti and virtualization
- USENIX Announces New Executive Directors: Anne and Casey!
- Mac users: update NOW
- My question for LOPSA board candidates
- See you at CrabbyAdmins on Wednesday! (April 4)
- April 2012
March 2012
- RFC 2410: NULL is not a joke (nor an April Fools joke)
- Tom @ LILUG, Tue, April 10, 2012, Woodbury, Long Island, NY
- PICC keynote announced: Rebecca Mercuri on "The Black Swan and Information Security"
- Cascadia IT 2012: A big success!
- Printable version of The Limoncelli Test
- Revamping "The Limoncelli Test" for Cascadia IT 2012 (Seattle, WA)
- Fear of Rebooting
- Using statements of "Undeniable Value"
- Seats still available for my classes at Cascadia IT 2012, Seattle, WA, March 23-2, 2012!
- March 2012
February 2012
- Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Ralph Loura
- Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Ralph Loura
- Registration is OPEN! East coast LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ
- Usenix SAGE is now Usenix LISA
- February 2012
January 2012
- Who to trust?
- See all the "Best Picture" Oscar nominated films in 2 days
- What to do about SOPA/PIPA?
- Time Management class at SCALE
- Book Review: 'Pro Puppet" by James Turnbull and Jeffrey McCune
- ACM Queue Programming Challenge starts soon!
- Tom @ LOPSA-NYC, Wed Jan 11, 2012, NYC, NY
- Reminder: RSVP for LOPSA-NYC's Wedneday meeting
- Book-signing at Arisia, Boston, Sunday
- PICC '12 planning committee needs YOU!
- Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu Jan 5, 2012, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
- January 2012
2011 177
December 2011
- NYC and NJ LOPSA meeting reminders
- The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
- Why do we use computers?
- Super Wi-Fi is better than just "super"
- Stopping SOPA
- New Years Resolutions and Time Management
- Config Management Rosetta Stone
- Two interesting Python tutorials
- Message from the Program Co-Chairs
- Usenix LISA attendees get free Wifi in their hotel rooms!
- Review of T-L-T Tutorial at LISA2011
- LISA11 Diary: Sat, Dec 3
- LISA11 Diary: Sun, Dec 4
- SysAdvent 2011 has started!
- LISA11 Diary: Mon, Dec 5
- LISA11 Diary: Tue, Dec 6
- Impromptu talk about Google SRE tonight at 9pm.
- Tom @ Usenix LISA 2011, Boston, MA, Dec 4-9, 2011
- For my birthday I'm giving the gift of time
- OrgMode for iPhone
- Usenix LISA schedule online
- December 2011
November 2011
- Following me on Google Latitude? Please use [email protected]
- Google booth during LISA, Dec 7-8, 2011
- Usenix LISA hotel discount extended to Nov 28!
- Friday keynote at Usenix LISA: Michael P. Perrone
- CHIMIT Workshop
- Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends today!
- My co-worker featured on CNN!
- Thursday keynote at Usenix LISA: Andy Palmer
- Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends tomorrow!
- Happy Corduroy Appreciation Day to all my readers!
- Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends Nov 14! 4 days left!
- Tools vs. Automation
- Happy Birthday to my co-chair, Doug Hughes!
- SSH Fabric for ssh'ing to many hosts
- Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends Nov 14! 1 week!
- Call for Usenix LISA stories and pictures!
- CHIMIT: REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN!
- DevOps keynote at Usenix LISA: Ben Rockwood
- Futuristic System Administration
- Config Management? yeah, we got that.
- November 2011
October 2011
- Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends Nov 14! 2 weeks!
- LISA LISA LISA LISA
- Review: Apple's iPhone iOS5 "Reminder.app"
- LOPSA PICC 2012 Call For Participation
- My new LISA Tutorial: 32 Questions
- Automate? Will I lose my job?
- Who's coming to Usenix LISA?
- Usenix LISA early-bird discount ends Nov 14
- More... How to ask your boss to pay for you to go to Usenix LISA 2011
- How to ask your boss to pay for you to go to Usenix LISA 2011.
- Tom @ Triangle InfoSeCon, Raleigh NC, Oct 20, 2011
- Dennis Ritchie
- Tom @ The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, October 8-9, 2011
- LOPSA PICC '12 planning meeting kick-off (NY/NY/PA area)
- October 2011
September 2011
- Update: I can't make it to LOPSA-NJ meeting next week.
- I'll [NOT] be speaking at LOPSA-NJ in October
- LOPSA Columbus, Ohio Chapter Starting
- Time Management for Sysadmins 50% off Ebook
- python-gflags: version 1.6 released
- Usenix LISA registration is open...
- The 9-11 disaster investigation website
- ServerFault Scalability Conference (and DevDays 2011) Cancelled
- Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu Sept 1, 2011, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
- September 2011
August 2011
- This week at LOPSA-NJ: Tom Limoncelli will be presenting!
- Call for pizza toppings!
- New sponsor: Scalability from serverfault.com
- I'll be speaking at LOPSA-NJ, Thu Sept 1, 2011, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
- Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Raleigh, and Boston speaking engagements announced
- August 2011
July 2011
- The Limoncelli Test: 32 Questions for Your Sysadmin Team
- Sysadmin Appreciation Day 2011
- Data? We have a lot.
- July 2011
June 2011
- Google+
- The end of MySpace
- Facebook Fatigue
- Happy 99th Birthday, Alan Turing!
- screen gone; moving to tmux
- Your Dial Telephone
- The journey of a thousand miles begins...
- Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic
- Tonight at LOPSA-NYC! Ganeti open source virtualization
- Tom @ LOPSA-NYC, 7pm, June 14, 2011 speaking about The Ganeti Project
- Reminder: I'll be speaking at LOPSA-NYC tomorrow
- http://protolol.com/
- Last call for Usenix LISA papers!
- Best IPv6 Media Coverage?
- What "World IPv6 Day" Means To Sysadmins
- June 2011
May 2011
- How to send email
- TONIGHT! Mark Burgess speaking at NYC DevOps
- Time and financial management
- Wednesday: NYC DevOps Presents: Mark Burgess / CFEngine
- The CDC has a Zombie Attack Plan
- Mac Malware
- Please put the LISA Button on your web site or blog
- TM4SA now available as a Google eBook
- An internal Twitter-like service for your company
- May the 4th Be With You!
- Making it easier to submit papers to Usenix LISA
- MIETSPTUL Part 2: Tip for writing Practice and Experience Reports
- May 2011
April 2011
- Tom @ LOPSA PICC in NJ, April 29-30, 2011
- Yes, malware scanners on your servers too!
- PICC Schedule available in "The Conventionist"
- My thoughts on the LOPSA Board election
- Don't lose $75
- Not being attacked? Your network must be down.
- Small is good: Local sysadmin/devops conferences like PICC are a big value
- What should I cut from "Team Time Management"?
- First day of the month!
- Two April Fools reminders!
- April 2011
March 2011
- CHIMIT Call For Papers and other contributions announced!
- First draft of my "Python for Perl Programmers" article
- Sign up for my new Time Management class now!
- Interview with me on the Mind Of Root podcast
- Overheard at the office: Perl edition
- Taos Women In Technology event next week in San Jose, CA
- PICC "early bird" discount almost over (plus two interviews)
- Free AA_Console for LOPSA_PICC Attendees
- Thought for the day.
- Thanks, NYLUG!
- Tonight at NYLUG: Me!
- Don't feed the trolls
- Any CSS gurus in the house?
- Tom @ NYLUG, 6:30pm, March 16, 2011
- LOPSA PICC Full Program Announced
- I'll be speaking at NYLUG this Wednesday
- Cascadia IT Conference (Seattle)
- Review: AT&T 3G Microcell
- Call For Papers: 5th ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of IT December 4-5, 2011 - Boston, MA
- I'll be speaking at NYLUG a week from Wednesday
- Seattle folks! Still time to register for Cascadia!
- Improving the situation
- Conference Box
- March 2011
February 2011
- Training classes announced for PICC (NJ-area)
- Why are tax forms in PDF?
- 1-hour documentary about IBM's Jeopardy!-playing computer Watson
- Random technical tips, thoughts and rants
- Casitconf'11 early-bird registration savings extended to the 23rd
- Google Enables Two-Factor Authentication For All
- Cascadia IT Conference - Early Bird Registration ends in 1 week (Feb 16)
- Mind of Root podcast's "book club"
- Todays links: Soft Skills, Ganeti and ConfigMgmt
- Memory tip: How to remember names
- Memory tip: Two ways socks help you remember things
- You did it! Fundraising goal met! ($4500+ raised!)
- February 2011
January 2011
- Memory tip: Remembering short lists
- Goal at 94%! Your donation can push us over the top!
- LM fundraising campaign day 2: 12%
- 67% of the goal reached! Please help me make it to 100%
- Please read if you live in/near San Francisco
- Video of the week: How to tell people to "go away"
- Calling All Windows Trainers
- TPOSANA 2nd edition now on Kindle!
- Testing is a waste of time
- Video of the week: "Get boring!"
- Don't make your own patch cables.
- Python is better than Perl6
- New time management videos on www.TomOnTime.com
- User Interface Nitpick: Bank Of America edition
- Learn your operating system's internals
- Tom's 2010 In Review: Speaking And Publishing
- Tom's 2010 in Review: Big Trends
- Tom's 2010 In Review: Personal Trends
- Tom's 2010 In Review: Stuff I did
- Tom's 2010 In Review: Blog In Review
- Tom's 2010 Review in review!
- January 2011
2010 172
December 2010
- Cascadia IT Conference: Submission deadline extented to Jan 9th
- 2010: The Year in Review
- Happy Hoidays!
- ACM Queue magazine has published my new article! (online)
- Registration open for Cascadia IT Conference
- Sysadmin Mantras
- Professional IT Community Conference - Call for Participation
- Saving energy (and money) at your company
- Collaboration in System Administration
- Time Management and Routines (VIDEO)
- SysAdvent has started!
- December 2010
November 2010
- O'Reilly "Cyber Monday" sale: 60% off all ebooks and videos!
- ACM Queue magazine adds system administration articles!
- An active technical social life
- LISA papers about robots that correct broken configuration files.
- TPOSANA Reading Group started!
- OpsCamp Silicon Valley
- An open letter to the LISA workshop on Teaching System Administration
- LOPSA 5th birthday party!
- November 2010
October 2010
- Followup to my DevOps post
- Calling all Pacific NorthWest Sysadmins! Cascadia IT Conference
- DevOps ain't nothing we haven't been doing for a long, long time
- Episode 13: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: The Usenix Staff
- Less expensive Time Management
- Episode 12: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Wednesday is Storage Day!
- Episode 11: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: David N. Blank-Edelman
- Episode 10: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Cloud Computing
- Episode 9: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Puppet vs. CFEngine3
- Would you vote for a SysAdmin for president?
- Episode 8: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Free stuff!
- One day left for Usenix LISA Early Bird Registration!
- Yesterday's interview
- Episode 7: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: The Hallway Track
- Reminder: Live interview today at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern
- Episode 6: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: The Student Discount
- Episode 5: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Wicked cool security papers
- How do you keep system administration interesting?
- Episode 4: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: My talks!
- Tom @ UStream.com, Oct 14, 2010 2pm US/Eastern, 11am Pacific
- Review: The Duplicity Backup System
- Ben Cotton interviews Tom Limoncelli about Usenix LISA 2010
- Episode 3: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: It doesn't conflict with my birthday.
- Episode 2: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: The Chuck Yerkes Award
- Google Forms
- How to register for LISA?
- How to handle cross-training and redundancy in system administration teams?
- System Administration Parable: The Waitress and the Water Glass
- NY/NY/PA sysadmins: LOPSA-NJ meeting Thursday: Scott Walters: Compliance, what's the hubbub, bub?
- Episode 1: Why I'm excited about Usenix LISA: Keynote about IT at the LHC
- Dealing With Distractions: My Not-To-Do list
- A video reminder: you can achieve anything you set your mind to... even flying!
- October 2010
September 2010
- My new article in Usenix ;login: magazine
- Debugging technique: Time the problem
- New Jersey LOPSA chapter meeting: Oct 7, 2010
- CSS Positioning
- Sysadmins! Need a mentor? Want to be a mentor?
- How to maintain network documentation?
- A powerful VIM command I never knew about until now.
- Political Power Comes From Speaking with One Voice
- The most simple SSH backdoor I could think of.
- Multiple-employee discount for attending LISA 2010 -- San Jose, CA, November 7-12, 2010
- The only place to attend my all-new "Time Management for Teams" class is LISA 2010
- Google Chrome for Mac with multiple profiles
- GOP congressional candidate Thomas Marino misreported income
- What is system administration like at Google?
- To prevent any rumors...
- Jon Runyan
- Remember that LOPSA members save $45 off Usenix LISA registration!
- LISA 2010 Registration is... OPEN!
- Sneaky trick for registering at Usenix LISA 2010
- Ohio LinuxFest 2010 - Registration extended
- Verizon FIOS: No outage so far!`
- xed 2.0.2 released!
- September 2010
August 2010
- Ohio Linux Fest: you don't have to be from Ohio!
- Verizon FIOS Update
- Non-technical strategies
- FIOS update
- Exciting news about LISA 2010... soon
- Calling in an emergency
- LOPSA providing tutorial slate at Ohio Linux Fest
- More Verizon FIOS pain
- Learning From Successful IPv6 Upgrade Projects
- First of the month technical problems could be billing software bugs
- Usenix starts YouTube channel
- Ohio LinuxFest 2010 - September 10-12, 2010
- New to Mac OS X? Tips for Unix users
- Google Command Line Tool
- How do I get my manager to adopt Puppet or other new thing?
- What college-level math do you (as a sysadmin) use?
- "I do, we do, you do"
- How do I get coworkers to accept my brilliant new thing?
- August 2010
July 2010
- Google App Inventor
- How important is system administration?
- Book Idea: Distributed Computing Economics... EXPLAINED
- NYC-area Sysadmins: free beer!
- Certification? Not yet.
- Lists of length 1, 2, 3 and 4 have special meaning
- I'll be speaking at MacTech conference, Nov 3-5, 2010
- Australia sysadmins! I'm coming to you!
- Outsourcing ain't no lie!
- Outsourcing: what not to ask
- So that's how they do it!
- July 2010
June 2010
- Configuration Management Summit, Boston, June 24, 2010
- CHIMIT '10 paper deadline soon!
- DebConf coming soon!
- Learning AJAX after ignoring it all these years.
- A support group for people that run LUGs and UGs
- Dilbert: Dogbert's School of Time Management
- New Jersey's first hackspace officially opens!
- Announcing the 2010 SysAdmin of the Year Awards
- NYC-area sysadmins: let's drink!
- NYC-area sysadmins: let's drink!
- PLUG (Philly Linux Users Group) talk on Emacs Org-Mode tonight!
- June 2010
May 2010
- Your computer room will overheat next weekend
- Another Ganeti success story
- Thanks for a great conference!
- Self-driving cars
- LOPSA PICC is this weekend!
- May 2010
April 2010
- LOPSA PICC: Final days before "last minute" price
- More thoughts about submitting papers to Usenix LISA
- I need to be more opportunistic about self-promotion
- Another reason to come to PICC
- Happy April Fools Day!
- April 2010
March 2010
- Quicken 2010
- Why are you coming to the conference?
- Writing papers for Usenix LISA (and other) conferences
- LOPSA PICC: Complete program announced
- New review of TM4SA
- Motivation for sysadmins to write documentation
- How to "un-send" email.
- End every helpdesk request on a good note
- LOPSA Conference schedule published!
- Countdown to LOPSA PICC!
- Tom @ Usenix LISA 2010, San Jose, CA, Nov 7-12, 2010
- Tom @ LOPSA PICC in NJ, May 7-8, 2010
- Tonight's LOPSA-NJ Chapter meeting
- Zeno Place, San Francisco, CA
- Submit your talk proposals to PICC today!
- Time management is like juggling 5 balls
- March 2010
February 2010
- Improving your memory (and Katherine Hepburn)
- LOPSA Regional Sysadmin conference announced!
- NJ/NY/PA/DE/CT/RI/MA Regional Sysadmin Conference
- Eye-Fi (something I saw at MacWorld 2010)
- LOPSA New Jersey conference registration is open!
- Sneak Peak: www.TomOnTime.com
- BigFix's 2010 IT Dinosaur Awards Video Contest
- Tom @ Macworld 2010, Feb 8-13, San Francisco CA Moscone Center
- What should I talk about at a conference?
- To all my New Jersey friends:
- New Jersey Sysadmin conference announced!
- February 2010
January 2010
- See you at MacWorld!
- What I want in a mobile task management software
- What should you write your LISA paper about?
- Making enterprise ShortName service shorter
- Tom @ BayLISA, Thu, Jan 21, Mountain View, CA
- Checklists in Finance and Airlines
- How to kill innovation
- Usenix LISA 2010 Call For Participation
- System Downtime
- The Checklist Manifesto
- January 2010
2009 88
December 2009
- Happy New Year!
- Bacteria use IRC
- Make Lists. Not Too Much. Mostly Do.
- Survey on professionalism in system administration
- How to make a product "sysadmin-friendly"?
- Feeling vindicated
- New Jersey IT Community Conference planning
- Att
- A "tinyurl" service for your domain
- SysAdvent has begun!
- December 2009
November 2009
- I'm on StackOverflow podcast this week!
- Run, run, run, dead.
- Can my SLA rule work for networks? Yes.
- Time Management Wiki
- Thanks to everyone that attended my talks at LISA 2009!
- a list of dumb things to check
- Tom @ LISA '09, Nov 1-6, 2009, Baltimore, MD
- November 2009
October 2009
- Laptop safety: Disable sshd on your laptop before conferences
- My roadmap for LISA
- Google Vendor BoF Thursday night
- Using commercial tools to teach academic subjects
- NJ and VA: Remember to vote!
- Interview: Design Patterns for System Administrators Training at LISA 2009
- The Secret New York Minute
- Email makes me stressed (and how to cope)
- Interview: Time Management for System Administrators Training at LISA 2009
- I can't wait for LISA!
- Support your local user group!
- October 2009
September 2009
- Why email is bad for time management
- BigFix Announces $5,000 Cash Prize in the System Administrator of the Year 2009 Contest
- The internet is just getting started
- Ohio LinuxFest Registration extended!
- Conference Planning Tips
- UK Government officially apologizes for "appalling" treatment of Alan Turing
- Is your ISP for the birds?
- Thanks to LOPSA-NJ for a great time!
- Syncing multiple Google Apps Calendars to an iPhone (it isn't obvious)
- Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Thu Sept 3, 2009, Lawrenceville, NJ (near Princeton)
- September 2009
August 2009
- My tutorials at LISA 2009
- New Moleskine daily planners shipping
- Nominations open for "Sysadmin of the year"!
- Chrome Zygote solves major Shared Library issue
- How did we write TPOSANA? We ignored people.
- Quote of the week
- I'll be speaking at LOPSA-NJ in September
- LISA '09 Registration is Open!
- August 2009
July 2009
- Sysadmin Appreciation Day: NYC
- Three useful TimeAndDate.com URLs
- Debian PPC on PowerBook G4: Touchpad and CD-ROM problems
- Interviews about IPv6 migration
- A beautiful idea about Alan Turing
- July 2009
June 2009
- Netflix Streaming over IPv6
- StackOverflow.com and ServerFault.com
- Which smartphone should I buy?
- Fixed bug in comments
- Improving attendance at Linux Users Groups
- June 2009
May 2009
- All the songs we play are great
- How do I measure my group's performance?
- Use Nagios to monitor for Dell systems warranty expirations
- Warehouse-Scale Machines: The Datacenter as a Computer
- 'Gorillas in the Mist' or 'Sysadmins at the Keyboard'?
- Now on Kindle: Time Management for System Administrators
- Small Silicon Valley-based startup completes exit strategy
- May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
- Final slide from my LCA 2009 talk
- Tom @ Linux.Conf.Au 2009, 19-24 Jan, Tasmania, AU
- Tony Hoare apologizes for inventing null pointers
- Off to linux.conf.au 2009 soon
- LOPSA classes at SCALE 7x
- Transforming Art into Science
- Interview with Tom Limoncelli in ComputerWorld
- Google enables IPv6 for most services (but there is a catch!)
- Tom @ MacWorld, Jan 5-9, 2009
- January 2009
2008 45
December 2008
- SMS is nearly "free" for telecom carriers
- Gmail adds "Tasks" feature
- Tom interviewed on CuddleTech blog
- December 2008
November 2008
- Tom @ LISA 2008, San Diego, Nov 9-14, 2008
- Comments working again.
- Peace, Love, and Wiki Collaboration
- November 2008
October 2008
- System administration needs more PhDs
- Half of Canada's workforce "dragged down" by office negativity
- Time Management for Anarchists
- Tom @ Ohio LinuxFest 2008, Columbus, Ohio, October 10-11, 2008
- October 2008
September 2008
- First Day of the Month Routine (and a tip about Mailman)
- Ready for LISA 2008 in San Diego!
- The Zipper Machine
- The Linux Penguin
- September 2008
August 2008
- Amazon's Kindle
- Tom @ SAGE-AU 2008, Aug 11-18, 2008, Adelaide, AU
- GTD+The Cycle
- Time Management Tip: Starting New Big Tasks
- Looking forward to SAGE-AU (Australia)
- August 2008
May 2008
April 2008
- Tom interviewed about Time Management on ITBusiness.ca
- Keeping inventory data accurate
- Tom @ IT360, April 7, 2008, Toronto, CA
- Happy April Fools Day
- April 2008
March 2008
- Fix Something Annoying
- Do you speak a rare language?
- My apology to Rob Glenn and Stephen Kent
- Are you ready for April Fools Day?
- March 2008
February 2008
- Programming competition for East African students
- Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Feb 7, 2008, Princeton, NJ
- HostDB 1.002 released!
- February 2008
January 2008
2007 39
November 2007
- How To Make Yourself Do Anything
- Tom @ Unigroup, NYC, Thu, Nov 18, 2007
- LISA 2007
- Tom and Strata @ LISA '07, Nov 11-16, 2007, Dallas
- November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
- Zeitmanagement and ZarzÄ…dzanie and 時間管ç†術
- First two reviews of TPOSANA2
- TPOSANA2 now on BookPool
- September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
- Need to jott someting down?
- I appreciate you!
- Tom @ OSCON 2007, Portland, OR
- 2nd edition delayed at the factory
- July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
- New book: The Complete April Fools' RFCs
- Insulting your users
- Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting?
- March 2007 LOPSA North Jersey cluster group meeting
- March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
2006 38
December 2006
- Disaster Recovery for our Loved Ones
- Sysadmin of the Year 2006: Michael Beck
- Tom + Strata @ LISA '06 in Wash D.C., Dec 3-8, 2006
- December 2006
November 2006
- Tom @ $GROUPNAME in New Jersey, Nov 15, 2006
- Happy Birthday, LOPSA!
- Why I attend the LISA conference
- November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
- Sysadmin Appreciation Day and Sysadmin Of The Year
- 2nd Edition of TPOSANA Announced at SAGE-AU, Strata Chalup joins the team
- OOPSLA request
- July 2006
June 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
- Tom @ Stanford Linux Users Group, Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Palo Alto, CA
- Chapter by chapter view of TMSA
- Slashdotted and Perlcasted on the same day!
- Compressing logs is good
- 2X thin clients
- February 2006
January 2006
2005 67
December 2005
- 40-minute Time Management Video
- Tom @ PhillyLinux, Wed, Jan 4, 2006, Philly, PA
- Tom @ BBLISA, Wed, Jan 11, 2006, Cambridge
- Tom @ BayLISA, Thu, Feb 23, 2006, Mt. View, CA
- Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department
- Time Management book reviewed
- SAGE/LOPSA Outstanding Achievement Award
- Watch my Time Management video for free on Google Video
- December 2005
November 2005
- Time Management -- the first copy!
- O'Reilly blog on Time Management
- Frapper
- Macintosh invents the TAB key!
- Raised Floors not sufficient for datacenters?
- Speaking tour to promote Time Management for System Administrators
- November 2005
October 2005
- That's the way the cookie crumbles
- Monad, Microsoft's answer to Bash
- Tom @ NYCBUG, Wed, Nov 2, 2005, NYC
- Tom @ Drexel CS, Thu, Nov 10, 2005, Philly
- Tom @ BLU, Wed, Nov 16, 2005, Boston
- Always the friendly sysadmin
- Pre-order Time Management for Sysadmins on Amazon!
- Being Happy
- October 2005
September 2005
- Destroy CDs and DVDs easily
- Men of SAGE-AU calendar
- Unix/Network sysadmin in London
- Tom @ LISA2005: Dec 4-9, San Diego, CA
- September 2005
August 2005
- Solaris users: Blastwave.org needs our help!
- Katrina and the waves
- Ethical question: domains
- Christine on Berch on Food
- Run "sed" on your cut&paste buffer
- Heard any good rumors lately?
- LISA Blog
- Don't brag about overextending yourself
- August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
- Why does McAfee hate Samba?
- Two ideas, the blog
- Vendors never call back. Accept it.
- Any human-factors people out there?
- Musical Banner Pages
- An idea for the sequel to "Office Space"
- March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
2004 53
December 2004
- Thanking the messenger
- Don't forget DHCP
- Executive Voice
- Is the Future of Silicon Valley Solar?
- USER interface
- Buying IP-KVMs make my teeth itch
- The right answer
- December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
- Site back up
- Tom @ LISA2004: Nov 13-19, Atlanta, GA
- Who's infected?
- Blog+Twiki
- Introducing our TWiki
- Best. Conference. Evah: LISA
- Cox on Better Software
- October 2004
September 2004
- SANE2004: Sept 27-Oct 1, Amsterdam
- Wanted: Unix/Network sysadmin in London
- NC*SA: Mon, Sept 13, 2004
- Amazon finally discounts the book
- September 2004
August 2004
- Project Idea: "IT Department In A Box"
- BayLISA: Aug 19, 2004
- Why I attend the LISA conference
- August 2004
July 2004
- Sysadmin Appreciation Day
- OSCON2004: July 26-30, Portland
- Apple OS X Server: Ready for Prime Time?
- How much support do you provide to unapproved equipment?
- Time Management at OSCon sold out.
- New career, same old stuff
- July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
- Creator of "make" wins ACM award
- Conducting a Postmortem
- CIO magazine on AT&T Wireless's IT problems
- Tom accepts position at CIBERNET
- April 2004