The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey November 29, 2015

2015 Nov 29

LISA 15 Report The LISA 2015 conference was held this year at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park, off Connecticut Avenue in north east DC. It's 15 miles from home, but the best driving time I had was Wednesday (Veteran's Day) morning, which took half an hour, and the worst was a bit over 1.5 hours, coming home in weeknight traffic, in the rain. It's a nice venue, though I've never stayed there, only attended events. Saturday night was badge pickup and opening reception. I attended that mostly to do a handoff of the give-away items for the LOPSA general business…

Brian Bilbrey November 22, 2015

2015 Nov 22

This last week, we saw a brand new play, Poe, staged at the Reynolds Tavern by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company. An excellent show, good food, and a wonderful evening. How can I tell that a new play is wonderful? It leaves me wanting to know more about the subject, and in awe of the actors plying their trade. The 1747 Pub in the basement of the Reynolds tavern is a great place for the work, too. Only two more nights, this week, so go if you can! We also had Linda and Mike over to supper and a game of…

Brian Bilbrey November 15, 2015

2015 Nov 15

This last week was a blast at LISA 15, the annual USENIX all things system administration conference. I averaged 12 hour days over the 6 day run, so I'm still decompressing a bit. More of a report on that in a day or few. Nothing else of particular importance going on in our part of the world just now. Terrorists killing random innocents for kicks seems to be increasing the world suck factor by a billion elsewhere at the moment, though. That makes me sad. Condolences to those who suffered loss in Paris, Beruit, and everywhere else in the world…

Brian Bilbrey November 8, 2015

LISA15

The LISA 15 conference is in full swing. I was up at 0600, and on the road at 0630. People to see and things to do before two half-day tutorials today: Go for SysAdmins, and Software Testing for Sysadmin Programs. Both were interesting and potentially useful and applicable to my work. Tomorrow, I'm doing the System Internals course, but if there is too much overlap with Ted Ts'o's course from last year, then I'll bail at midday and attend the Systemd tutorial in the afternoon. Tuesday I've got a couple more tutorials on tap, followed by three days of conference…

Brian Bilbrey November 1, 2015

Central Time

Me, I'd set every clock to UTC, and just work with it. Marcia would, however, balk at the idea. Yep. DST is over for the "year" but they A) paid back the hour without interest, as usual, and B) are going to steal it back again in just a few months. Sigh. Fun: We went over to see the Annapolis Shakespeare Company production of As You Like It on Friday evening. It was a blast. I've seen two or three productions of As You Like It over the decades, but they've generally been fairly traditional stagings. Not that I'm knocking…