LOPSA is offering the following classes at OLFU in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, September 10th

* IPv6 essentials and deployment Strategies
* Black Magic: Linux Troubleshooting and System Administration
* Application Acceleration and Tiered Storage and Archiving
* Monitoring and Nagios
* Introduction to Automating System Administration with Cfengine
* Data Centers: Planning, Expanding, Managing

A full class schedule can be found at http://www.ohiolinux.org/olfu.html

LOPSA instructors return for the fourth year to Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, Ohio on Friday September
10th - teaching 6 out of 11 classes at Ohio Linux Fest University.

Date: Thursday September 2nd 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 7:20 PM - Social Time
7:20 PM - 7:30 PM - LOPSA-NJ Business and Announcements
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Main Presentation

This month we have two speakers and two different talks. Both speakers have had there talks accepted by LISA and have agreed to have them heard first here at LOPSA-NJ.

Derek will give a dress rehearsal for his LISA talk, described below:

"iSCSI SANs Don't Have To Suck"

We have created a iSCSI SAN architecture which permits maintenance of network components without any downtime, thus improving our ability to maintain the SAN beyond iSCSI's mediocre reputation. During development of this architecture we learned three important lessons, which have enabled us to create an architecture that allows for stability, as well as zero-downtime upgrades and maintenance.

Are you going to be at the Trenton Computer Festival (TCF)? If you are stop by and say hi at the LOPSA table. It will be manned by the LOPSA-NJ members. They will be answering questions about LOPSA and the LOPSA Professional IT Community Conference. You will also be able to register for the conference at the table as well.

Lopsa is proud to be a sponsor and have a booth at the 10th annual LinuxFest Northwest conference this year. There are great talks including sessions by LOPSA members Ski Kacoroski and Leon Towns-von Stauber.

"What's the biggest problem in system administration?"

Date: Thursday March 4 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 7:20 PM - Social Time
7:20 PM - 7:25 PM - LOPSA-NJ Business and Announcements
7:25 PM - 7:30 PM - LOPSA-NJ Professional IT Community Conference (PICC) News
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Main Presentation

This month's meeting will be less technical, more philosophical.

What's the biggest problem facing system administrators? Is it the vendors? The managers? The tools? Is it us? (nah, it couldn't be us! Must be the tools). Scaling? The inconsistant syntax of Perl? It probably isn't any one thing.

As sysadmin I worked in state of continuous disaster recovery for three years; I did this in countries that I had never before visited, and in situations that could be extremely stressful. I'd like to pass on what I've learned from my mistakes and my successes to a wider audience.

When I first started working as a sysadmin, I had enlisted in the United States Air Force as a Computer Systems Operator (3C0X1). It happened that I was assigned to the 1st Combat Communications Squadron (1CBCS) in Germany. Over the next three years I would participate in 30 exercises and several real-world missions. What a way to start a career.

LOPSA continues its partnership with the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) with the return of SCaLE, four high-quality half-day tutorials for system administrators of all skill and experience levels. The SCALE University classes will be held on Friday, February 19th. 2010.

The SCaLE University Pass includes a full day of training (two classes of your choice) and full access to all three days of SCaLE. To register, visit the SCaLE registration page, select the "SCALE 8X Full Access Pass" and then the "SCALE University Pass," which will include a $60 discount on your total charge.

LOPSA-NJ: December Meeting Pre-holiday post-LISA party, and earth-shattering announcement! With special invited guests.

Date: Thursday Dec 3rd 2009
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Agenda:
7:00 - 8:00: Pre-holiday Party! Bring a simple not-messy food/snack to share, talk about what you learned at LISA, or what you missed f you didn't go. If you'd like to geek out, bring your favorite screen saver on a thumb drive.

8:00 - 8:15: Earth-shattering ANNOUNCEMENT
8:15 - 8:45: Participatory Activity with Special Guests
8:45 - 9:00: Summary and Future Plans
9:00 - ?: Departure for LOPSA After Dark optional session

Your UMI is back with his first meeting announcement:

Scalable Internet Architectures
Theo Schlossnagle, OmniTI
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 11
Math Building, Room 3206
University of Maryland, College Park

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This will be an abbreviated version of Theo's Velocity 2009 talk:

We will dive into traditional web architectures and discuss what
makes them go. Looking at real-life architectures, we'll analyze
weak points and discuss what will happen to them under the intense
pressure of a prolonged exposure on Digg, the NYTimes or even MSN
(or when traffic jumps from 15Mbits/second to over 1Gbit/second
inside 30 seconds).

Join us at the seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest on September 26, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Columbus and the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio LinuxFest is a conference for the Free and Open Source software communities. Featuring talks by authoritative speakers, a large expo, tutorials, and more, the Ohio LinuxFest welcomes Free and Open Source Source professionals and enthusiasts of all ages and from all places to join us as we celebrate 40 years of unix.