From lgj at usenix.org Wed Nov 1 15:56:13 2006 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:56:13 -0800 Subject: Top 5 Reasons to Attend LISA '06 Message-ID: <4549341D.9060802@usenix.org> Top 5 Reasons to Attend LISA '06 LISA '06 is just around the corner. New programs are still being added. Take a look at a few of the reasons to attend: # 1. Top-notch Training Highly respected experts provide you with new information and skills you can take back to work to tomorrow. This year's program includes: * Gerald Carter on Ethereal and the Art of Debugging Networks * Richard Bejtlich on TCP/IP Weapons * Theodore Ts'o on Bzr, Hg, and Git, Oh My! Distributed Source Code Management Systems * Rik Farrow on Firewalls and Internet Security for Mac OS X * David N. Blank-Edelman on Over the Edge System Administration * And more . . . The full training program can be found at: http://www.usenix.org/lisa06/training/ # 2. Invited Talks Industry luminaries discuss timely and important topics such as: * Keynote: "Hollywood's Secret War on Your NOC," by Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing and former Director of European Affairs for the EFF * "Corporate Security: A Hacker Perspective," by Mark "Simple Nomad" Loveless, Vernier Networks, Inc. * "Everything You Know About Monitoring is Wrong" by Mazda Marvasti, Integrien * And more . . . # 3. You'll See It Here First Cutting-edge practices and new or developing work are presented in the refereed papers track and Work-in Progress Reports (WiPs). # 4. Get Answers to Your Toughest Questions in Guru Is In and Hit the Ground Running Sessions Check out the full technical program at: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/tech/ # 5. Mingle with Industry Leaders The "hallway track," evening events, and the Vendor Exhibition offer additional opportunities to network with peers to gain that all-important insider IT knowledge. Take a look at the entire list of activities at: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/activities.html Don't miss this opportunity to benefit from peer interaction on the topics that mean the most to you. For complete program information and to register, see: http://www.usenix.org/lisa06/progb For a behind-the-scenes look at the conference and a sneak preview of some of the cool new things happening this year, visit the LISA '06 blog at: http://lisa.usenix.org/blogs/lisa06/ The Early Bird Registration Discount Deadline is almost upon us: Register by Friday, November 10, and save up to $300! Bringing 5 or more people from the same organization? Take advantage of the Multiple Employee Discount. For more details, see: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/registration/ We're pleased to bring LISA to Washington, D.C., and look forward to seeing you there. William LeFebvre LISA '06 Program Chair lisa06chair at usenix.org ----------------------------------------------------------- LISA '06: 20th Large Installation System Administration Conference http://www.usenix.org/lisa06/proga December 3-8, 2006, Washington, D.C. Early Bird Registration Deadline: November 10, 2006 Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE ----------------------------------------------------------- From bill at wards.net Sun Nov 5 02:30:26 2006 From: bill at wards.net (Bill Ward) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 02:30:26 -0800 Subject: PenLUG meeting THIS WEEK on Thursday Nov 9 - David Weekly, speaker Message-ID: <3d2fe1780611050230n620c0649p4f7a64bf2256497a@mail.gmail.com> Remember, due to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, we are moving to the second Thursday for November and December. So our next meeting is this week, on Thursday November 9!! You are invited. RSVP is not required, but so we can get an idea of how many people to expect please send mail to rsvp at penlug.org to let us know if you are planning to attend. For full details about the group, as well as directions to the meeting, visit www.penlug.org. Free pizza, hors d'ouvres and soft drinks, courtesy of Open Country, will be provided. Free review copies of books from O'Reilly, Prentice-Hall, APress, and/or other publishers, will be given out as door prizes. Be on time for the eary bird drawing. Date: Thursday, November 9th, 2006 Time: meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM Location: Twin Pines Park, 1225 Ralston Ave, Belmont, CA 94002 Speaker: David Weekly Topic: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: or How Silicon Valley Got Its Groove Back. To some, the bubble in Silicon Valley feels a little bit like a terrifying repeat of the dot-communism of the late 90's. But in reality the Valley is more closely mirroring its roots of the 70's with more garage hackery and late-night codeathons than blowout parties and IPOs. The tools for building useful products have become so cheap and easy that people are running services for hundreds of thousands of users as hobbies. Lower costs mean less capital requirements; a boon for smaller investors and a bane for VCs. Steep Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and a skittish public market have dried up IPOs for early liquidity events and the relatively small number of large acquirers mean that most of the "easy exit" money is gone. At the same time, increasing customer sophistication and the proliferation of payment solutions make it easier than ever to drive revenues from customers and build a real business. These trends represent steps towards a healthy and sustainable ecosystem of hackery in Silicon Valley, leveraging college students, Open Source, and low-cost hosting to blitz the Internet with an astounding array of low-cost, high-impact ideas. David Weekly is the founder and CEO of PBwiki, the world's largest wiki host, with over 120,000 groups on board. He graduated as a President Scholar from Stanford in 2000 with a BS in Computer Science and has worked for such institutions as Harvard Physics, MIT Lincoln Labs, Stanford Graphics, atWeb, Legato, and There.com. David wrote the first layman's level description of MP3 in early 1997, reverse engineered the Napster protocol in an evening, and was a finalist in the ACM International Programming Competition. David lives in a Hillsborough mansion with five others and throws periodic all-night hackathons called SuperHappyDevHouse there. He is also the Executive Director of the non-profit Online Policy Group, which provides free, donation-supported colocation services to other non-profits (including PenLUG). From elections at baylisa.org Wed Nov 8 19:42:44 2006 From: elections at baylisa.org (BayLISA Election Staff) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:42:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: BayLISA Elections : How To Vote! Message-ID: <200611090342.kA93gio8008625@www.baylisa.org> Hi all, As mentioned in the last email, we are now sending out details of how to vote in the upcoming BayLISA board elections. Voting methods ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are two methods for recording your vote. 1) Turn up to the november general meeting and vote in person As usual, a table will be setup at the november meeting, with a ballot box and some helpful people sitting behind it. The November general meeting is Thursday, November 16th. You need only give the folks at the ballot table your name and have them verify that you're a member, and then you can drop your vote in the ballot box. 2) Send an email ballot to vote at baylisa.org Note : THIS IS NOT ANONYMOUS OR SECRET. Well, inasmuch as somebody will count the vote and verify you are who you say you are, so they can concievably connect name with vote. Really though, thats not going to happen. For next year we'll have a better online voting mechanism, but it takes much review to do that right and this way at least theres some method for folks to vote online if they choose. It will help greatly if you can email vote at baylisa.org from the email address we have on-file in your member record. If for whatever reason this isn't possible, we'll attempt to sort out who you are manually based on whatever email address you send from. The membership isn't large enough for this to be a difficult task. EXTRA BONUS !! You can start voting by email right away, and voting will continue up to the end of the November general meeting. EXTRA SUPER BONUS!! You can even just reply to this email, and it will be sent to vote@, vote early vote often. etc... (assuming I got the reply-to header correct) Candidates ~~~~~~~~~~ So far, we have four candidates who have expressed an interest, and there are two seats up for grabs. The candidates are : o Bruce Coston o Rob Markovic o Heather Stern o James 'Mikey' Turner As always there is a 'write in' entry on the ballot. In other words you can really vote for anyone you like. The only caveat is they have to be a member to take their seat if elected. You should vote for up to two candidates. The two candidates with the largest total votes will win. Thanks, Election Staff From ahorn at deorth.org Tue Nov 14 20:51:22 2006 From: ahorn at deorth.org (Alan Horn) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:51:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: Meeting (and election!) reminder Message-ID: Folks, Just a reminder, the November general meeting of BayLISA will be held in the usual Yahoo room (Bldg E, classroom 9, directions at the end of the email). The topic is "Open Source IT Monitoring Tools", and speaker is Thomas Stocking. It should be a very interesting session. Also, november is VOTING time, so if you want to vote for one of our four candidates for board, you can come to the meeting, or send an email vote to vote at baylisa.org. The candidates are : Bruce Coston Rob Markovic Heather Stern James Turner The candidate statements we've received are attached below : James 'Mikey' Turner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To the President, Board, and Membership of BayLISA, I present myself as a candidate for the Board of Directors. My platform for this election is a very simple one - no politics. Entirely too much time is wasted in organizations like BayLISA over silly political drama. It is my goal to minimize such, thereby maximizing the amount of time we can spend listening, learning, and eating pizza. Pizza > Drama. I am currently a System Administration intern at Yahoo! Inc., hopefully moving to full-time in December. I've been using various flavors of Unix since the early '90s, and I love what I do. The fact that I get paid to do it still makes me giggle. I will bring energy, enthusiasm, and a distinct lack of drama to the position if I'm elected. I can't wait to see what we can accomplish together for ourselves and for BayLISA. :) Rob Markovic ~~~~~~~~~~~~ To whom it may concern, Rob Markovic here, technical geek of many trades, would like to participate on the board of BayLISA, as I find the group interesting and useful, as well as the chance to make it even better. Until then, Finally, directions to the Yahoo meeting : Follow the directions detailed at http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/address.cfm However, ignore the last two steps. Instead of turning first right into Yahoo bldg D, turn first LEFT into Yahoo bldg E. A guard will let you into the lobby and direct you to classroom 9. Cheers, Al From star at starshine.org Wed Nov 15 08:44:55 2006 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:44:55 -0800 Subject: Meeting (and election!) reminder In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061115164455.GA22710@starshine.org> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:51:22PM -0800, Alan Horn wrote: > > Folks, > > Just a reminder, the November general meeting of BayLISA will be held in > the usual Yahoo room (Bldg E, classroom 9, directions at the end of the > email). The topic is "Open Source IT Monitoring Tools", and speaker is > Thomas Stocking. It should be a very interesting session. > > Also, november is VOTING time, so if you want to vote for one of our four > candidates for board, you can come to the meeting, or send an email vote > to vote at baylisa.org. > > The candidates are : > > Bruce Coston > Rob Markovic > Heather Stern > James Turner > Heather Stern ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (as announced on mic at a previous general meeting) I've been deeply involved with the BayLISA board for some years now, just plugging along, making things work. Like our web description for the board says, you know, all those boring things that we don't always want to do at work either, but make the cool things happen. If elected I won't run away. . . . . . I'm also this month's EC, and I look forward to seeing you all there! . | . Heather Stern | (408) 374-7623 land --->*<--- star at starshine.org - * - (408) 761-4912 cell ' | ` BayLISA Board | From mark at marksportal.net Wed Nov 15 22:10:47 2006 From: mark at marksportal.net (Mark Stenstadvold) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:10:47 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? Message-ID: <455C00E7.9070308@marksportal.net> I've been tasked to find a handheld label maker and a desktop label maker, both with the capabilities of printing labels for cables. I'm currently looking at the Dymo and K-Sun lines. Does anyone have any experience with these lines and can comment on them? Do you have any suggestions for any other label maker? What sort of labels do you use for labeling cables? Thanks! --Mark. From dsmith at FinancialEngines.com Thu Nov 16 06:23:32 2006 From: dsmith at FinancialEngines.com (David Smith) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:23:32 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? Message-ID: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F320@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> Brother PTouch 1400 works great. We set it to auto-scale font, with a rotate repeat. It produces a label like: +---------+ | HBA1 | | HBA1 | | HBA1 | | HBA1 | | | | | +---------+ Which you can wrap around the cable. Make sure you by flexible tape; otherwise it comes off after a few days http://tinyurl.com/ux5kh We keep them in all our colo spaces. -----Original Message----- From: owner-baylisa at baylisa.org [mailto:owner-baylisa at baylisa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Stenstadvold Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:11 PM To: baylisa at baylisa.org Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? I've been tasked to find a handheld label maker and a desktop label maker, both with the capabilities of printing labels for cables. I'm currently looking at the Dymo and K-Sun lines. Does anyone have any experience with these lines and can comment on them? Do you have any suggestions for any other label maker? What sort of labels do you use for labeling cables? Thanks! --Mark. From star at starshine.org Thu Nov 16 11:10:57 2006 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:10:57 -0800 Subject: BayLISA Meeting: Tonight, Thurs Nov 16, Network Monitoring Message-ID: <20061116191057.GA25868@starshine.org> That's right folks, the meeting is tonight, Third Thursday of the Month, for BayLISA's monthly sysadmin gathering. With much thanks to our sponsors, we will have pizza, and expect to have sodas. Anyone who brings cookies will be greeted with much glee, especially if they're chocolate. Other snacks *may* also be present but I can't say for sure. When? Show up at 7PM... Well, we never do quite get started on time, but if you show up too late, you miss most of the pizza and all of the announcements. In addition to the usual, we've got Elections this month. Voting materials will be handed out to paid up members - or you can check if your vote already got in. (Thanks, Alan, for offering electronic vote as a method this time around.) Members not quite paid up can talk to the Treasurer :) Thomas Stocking will be entertaining us on the history and development of monitoring tools in the open source networking world. He's got years of experience and a wide realm of it too, and will bring anecdotes of what really did or didn't really work. CHEAP PLUGS Anyone who's interested in offering us a Short But Cool presentation in December should chat with next month's EC, Rick. It's common but not required, many of us go to dinner afterwards. I expect to have a lot of fun; see you there. . | . Heather Stern | (408) 374-7623 land --->*<--- star at starshine.org - * - (408) 761-4912 cell ' | ` | From star at starshine.org Thu Nov 16 11:20:51 2006 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:20:51 -0800 Subject: BayLISA @ Yahoo Building E Message-ID: <20061116192051.GB25868@starshine.org> ALmost forgot to mention that little tidbit. With so many extra BayLISA events, I figured it might be a good idea to clear up the mystery... Again, Yahoo! campus, Bldg E. The one with the ordinary parking lot. Mathilda Exit off 101 ought to get you there easily. -* Heather Stern * BayLISA Board * 408 761 4912 *- From michael at halligan.org Thu Nov 16 12:18:08 2006 From: michael at halligan.org (Michael T. Halligan) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:18:08 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? In-Reply-To: <455C00E7.9070308@marksportal.net> References: <455C00E7.9070308@marksportal.net> Message-ID: <455CC780.2090809@halligan.org> I utilize a guy named Dirk for this. Mark Stenstadvold wrote: > I've been tasked to find a handheld label maker and a desktop label > maker, both with the capabilities of printing labels for cables. I'm > currently looking at the Dymo and K-Sun lines. > > Does anyone have any experience with these lines and can comment on > them? Do you have any suggestions for any other label maker? What > sort of labels do you use for labeling cables? > > > Thanks! > --Mark. From iennae at gmail.com Thu Nov 16 12:58:13 2006 From: iennae at gmail.com (Jennifer Davis) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:58:13 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? In-Reply-To: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F320@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> References: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F320@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> Message-ID: David, Thanks for the recommendation! Those look perfect and I've just picked up 2 for our datacenter. -- Jennifer Davis From neil at askneil.com Thu Nov 16 14:20:54 2006 From: neil at askneil.com (Neil Katin) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:20:54 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? In-Reply-To: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F320@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> References: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F320@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> Message-ID: <455CE446.4000105@askneil.com> The PT-1400 is a very nice printer. You may want to consider the PT-1650, which is very similar but can also connect to a computer (instead of being standalone only). Its $160 list instead of $100. Neil David Smith wrote: > Brother PTouch 1400 works great. We set it to auto-scale font, with a > rotate repeat. It produces a label like: > > +---------+ > | HBA1 | > | HBA1 | > | HBA1 | > | HBA1 | > | | > | | > +---------+ > > Which you can wrap around the cable. > > > Make sure you by flexible tape; otherwise it comes off after a few days > > http://tinyurl.com/ux5kh > > We keep them in all our colo spaces. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-baylisa at baylisa.org [mailto:owner-baylisa at baylisa.org] On > Behalf Of Mark Stenstadvold > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:11 PM > To: baylisa at baylisa.org > Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? > > I've been tasked to find a handheld label maker and a desktop label > maker, both with the capabilities of printing labels for cables. I'm > currently looking at the Dymo and K-Sun lines. > > Does anyone have any experience with these lines and can comment on > them? Do you have any suggestions for any other label maker? What sort > > of labels do you use for labeling cables? > > > Thanks! > --Mark. > > From mark at marksportal.net Thu Nov 16 15:05:07 2006 From: mark at marksportal.net (Mark Stenstadvold) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:05:07 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? In-Reply-To: <455CE446.4000105@askneil.com> References: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F320@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> <455CE446.4000105@askneil.com> Message-ID: <455CEEA3.1060502@marksportal.net> Neil Katin wrote: > The PT-1400 is a very nice printer. You may want to > consider the PT-1650, which is very similar but can > also connect to a computer (instead of being standalone > only). Ah...the PT-1650 is exactly what I'm looking for! So according to David I need to use the Flexible ID Tape for cables? What size generally works for CAT5 cables? I'm guessing I'll need the 3/4" or 1". Also, is it easy to change out the labels? For example, use the Flexible ID tape for cables and another type of tape for systems. I don't think I need a 1" label on a system, though I suppose 3/4" would work in both cases. --Mark. From dsmith at FinancialEngines.com Thu Nov 16 15:21:06 2006 From: dsmith at FinancialEngines.com (David Smith) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:21:06 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? Message-ID: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F3A8@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> We use 3/4" for everything. Flexible ID for cables. Normal for systems. Our standard is to label both ends of the cable with the hostname. It is fairly easy to remove the labels, but not simple. Usually the first add/move/change I just put the new label over the old one. We use a dedicated ptouch printer for system labels (template with backend DB). The hand-held one is just for cables. Cheers, Dave -----Original Message----- From: owner-baylisa at baylisa.org [mailto:owner-baylisa at baylisa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Stenstadvold Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:05 PM To: baylisa at baylisa.org Subject: Re: Suggestions on a Label Maker? Neil Katin wrote: > The PT-1400 is a very nice printer. You may want to > consider the PT-1650, which is very similar but can > also connect to a computer (instead of being standalone > only). Ah...the PT-1650 is exactly what I'm looking for! So according to David I need to use the Flexible ID Tape for cables? What size generally works for CAT5 cables? I'm guessing I'll need the 3/4" or 1". Also, is it easy to change out the labels? For example, use the Flexible ID tape for cables and another type of tape for systems. I don't think I need a 1" label on a system, though I suppose 3/4" would work in both cases. --Mark. From mark at marksportal.net Fri Nov 17 09:47:01 2006 From: mark at marksportal.net (Mark Stenstadvold) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:47:01 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? In-Reply-To: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F3A8@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> References: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F3A8@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> Message-ID: <455DF595.3040602@marksportal.net> David Smith wrote: > We use 3/4" for everything. > Flexible ID for cables. > Normal for systems. > Thanks for the info/suggestions Dave! --Mark. From michael at halligan.org Fri Nov 17 11:00:50 2006 From: michael at halligan.org (Michael T. Halligan) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:00:50 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? In-Reply-To: <455CE446.4000105@askneil.com> References: <17D60EFECB2C044097D6C4336DD8ED75C4F320@INF-EXCH-SJC-01.fngn.com> <455CE446.4000105@askneil.com> Message-ID: <455E06E2.1020508@halligan.org> Neil Katin wrote: > > The PT-1400 is a very nice printer. You may want to > consider the PT-1650, which is very similar but can > also connect to a computer (instead of being standalone > only). > > Its $160 list instead of $100. > > Neil > > David Smith wrote: >> Brother PTouch 1400 works great. We set it to auto-scale font, with a >> rotate repeat. It produces a label like: >> >> +---------+ >> | HBA1 | >> | HBA1 | >> | HBA1 | >> | HBA1 | >> | | >> | | >> +---------+ >> >> Which you can wrap around the cable. >> >> >> Make sure you by flexible tape; otherwise it comes off after a few days >> >> http://tinyurl.com/ux5kh >> >> We keep them in all our colo spaces. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-baylisa at baylisa.org [mailto:owner-baylisa at baylisa.org] On >> Behalf Of Mark Stenstadvold >> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:11 PM >> To: baylisa at baylisa.org >> Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? >> >> I've been tasked to find a handheld label maker and a desktop label >> maker, both with the capabilities of printing labels for cables. I'm >> currently looking at the Dymo and K-Sun lines. >> >> Does anyone have any experience with these lines and can comment on >> them? Do you have any suggestions for any other label maker? What sort >> >> of labels do you use for labeling cables? >> >> >> Thanks! >> --Mark. >> >> Shopping around it looks like you can find the PT-1650 for around $115. From star at starshine.org Sun Nov 19 09:17:04 2006 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:17:04 -0800 Subject: Suggestions on a Label Maker? In-Reply-To: <455C00E7.9070308@marksportal.net> References: <455C00E7.9070308@marksportal.net> Message-ID: <20061119171704.GA10922@starshine.org> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:10:47PM -0800, Mark Stenstadvold wrote: > I've been tasked to find a handheld label maker and a desktop label > maker, both with the capabilities of printing labels for cables. I'm > currently looking at the Dymo and K-Sun lines. > > Does anyone have any experience with these lines and can comment on > them? Do you have any suggestions for any other label maker? What sort > of labels do you use for labeling cables? > > Thanks! > --Mark. I have to admit that while I happily own a small Dymo of the sort that prints flat-ink labels (not the daisywheel kind) for general purpose, that on light colored "made to length" cables I darn near as always use a Sharpie. When I am labelling cable instead of flat edges with the Dymo Tag I use the paper tape rather than glossy, make sure it's completely debubbled as I go. If I think the environment will be nasty to it I can seal it in with a straight length of the right kind of packing tape - but the kind of nasty environments that paper labels don't like, electrical stuff tends not to like either. Though it can be noted that I write things in sharpie much more neatly than some of my colleagues. Specifically I write the length it was measured to, and the purpose it was for, which might be a hostname, but might be something like "Dealers Room run". Label both ends; if it's long enough that there's a notable middle, and this being especially true of draggly cords behind racks, label the middle. When labelling really fast and a lot of cables are the same, I color tag them with patterns, like archers do their arrows. white white red. ah here's the other end of that.. saves changing the label when the generic cord's purpose changes again. . | . Heather Stern | (408) 374-7623 land --->*<--- star at starshine.org - * - (408) 761-4912 cell ' | ` | From nicole at unixgirl.com Mon Nov 20 16:18:20 2006 From: nicole at unixgirl.com (Nicole) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:18:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: Looking to hire a Debian Linux guru to help a FreeBSD geek get jumpstarted for a project. Message-ID: <311304.40981.qm@web51804.mail.yahoo.com> Hello. I thought about posting this on Baylisa-jobs but it's not really a job. I am mostly a freeBSD admin and I need to get a debian linux server setup for a special project ASAP. Most of it is basic stuff, but I am having some issues. I need to get this done really soon, so I am willing to pay anyone who could help me remotly via phone or skype and email etc. Or hey if your just a great Linux enthusiest willing to help, that's great too :) 1) I wanted to use a 3ware card but debian seems to be the only linux that doesn't have the driver built in and no way to add it during an install. This server needs uptime and as I understand it, the software raid cannot do a hotswap. 2) Help setting up and tunning IPtables. I am mostly used to IPFW. (yea yea old school) Some special tunning to make sure what goes in one port/IP goes out via that port and won't try to send everything out via the default IP/port. 3) Tunning the kernel. 4) Making sure is as secure as possible. Should be easy since it will not have many services. Basic seal of a Linux Geek approval. That's it really. If you are available, please let me know when and how much you might charge for your time. Thanks! Nicole From jimd at starshine.org Thu Nov 30 00:54:08 2006 From: jimd at starshine.org (Jim Dennis) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:54:08 -0800 Subject: Looking to hire a Debian Linux guru to help a FreeBSD geek get jumpstarted for a project. In-Reply-To: <311304.40981.qm@web51804.mail.yahoo.com> References: <311304.40981.qm@web51804.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20061130085407.GB27538@starshine.org> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 04:18:20PM -0800, Nicole wrote: > Hello. > I thought about posting this on Baylisa-jobs but it's not really a > job. > I am mostly a freeBSD admin and I need to get a debian linux server > setup for a special project ASAP. Most of it is basic stuff, but I am > having some issues. I need to get this done really soon, so I am > willing to pay anyone who could help me remotly via phone or skype and > email etc. Or hey if your just a great Linux enthusiest willing to > help, that's great too :) Where are you located? Perhaps we could get together in person, knock most of this out some evening and you could just treat me to dinner. > 1) I wanted to use a 3ware card but debian seems to be the only linux > that doesn't have the driver built in and no way to add it during an > install. This server needs uptime and as I understand it, the software > raid cannot do a hotswap. I think the md drivers under Linux can tolerate hotswapping so long as the underlying hardware can handle it. However, it might take a little extra work. I do know that the mdadm tools are capable of maintaining pools of hot spares and that different RAID sets can share the same pools. > 2) Help setting up and tunning IPtables. I am mostly used to IPFW. > (yea yea old school) Some special tunning to make sure what goes in one > port/IP goes out via that port and won't try to send everything out via > the default IP/port. That would be a policy based routing decision under Linux. Routing policies are different then filtering policies under Linux and are managed with a different tool (the ip command from the iproute2 package). > 3) Tunning the kernel. I presume you mean "tuning" and this, of course, raises a host of questions about just what you are trying to tune for. Keep in mind that "tuning" is not magic. There are tradeoffs for each knob you can twiddle (otherwise the developers wouldn't put those knobs there, they'd just optimize their code; right?) > 4) Making sure is as secure as possible. Should be easy since it will > not have many services. Basic seal of a Linux Geek approval. I'm sure you know the basics. However running Bastille, and installing the chkrootkit and rkhunter packages to spot check your system integrity doesn't hurt. Something like samhain can also help; but you want to keep the checksum database relatively minimal or your system will be spending far too many cycles computing checksum signatures rather than providing the services that you've set it up for. > That's it really. > If you are available, please let me know when and how much you might > charge for your time. > Thanks! > Nicole For only a few hours on some evening ... just dinner and some good company. Other than that it would be negotiable. My cell phone is: 650-279-4059 ... give me a call if you like. -- Jim Dennis From bill at wards.net Thu Nov 30 10:32:19 2006 From: bill at wards.net (Bill Ward) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:32:19 -0800 Subject: Upcoming events on baylisa site Message-ID: <3d2fe1780611301032k291f2acdrd593d1a674a37df1@mail.gmail.com> I'm very confused by the upcoming events on the baylisa.org site. I'm setting up my Google Calendar and wanted to get BayLISA meetings in there, but I can't find the info about the next general meeting. There are two "Upcoming Events" links on the homepage, one of which links to a page talking about last September's meeting, and the other redirects to baylisa.info and shows an empty calendar.... -- Help bring back the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/