The author of the O'Reilly book _Automating System Administration with
Perl_ is giving a talk at MIT tonight.
-Tom
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Subject: [BBLISA] Reminder: THIS WEDNESDAY Jan 2010 talk/mtg "I Got My
Jet Pack an I'm Still Not Happy"
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:22:10 -0500
From: John P. Rouillard <[email protected]>
Our speaker is David Blank-Edelman. David is the Director of
Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer and
Information Science and the author of the O'Reilly book Automating
System Administration with Perl (the second edition of the Otter
Book). He has spent the last 25 years as a system/network
administrator in large multi-platform environments, including Brandeis
University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media
Laboratory. He was the program chair of the LISA 2005 conference, one
of the LISA 2006 Invited Talks co-chairs and the grateful recipient of
the 2009 SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award.
The meeting is on Wednesday, January 13 at 7PM in room E51-149 on the
MIT campus in Cambridge (http://www.bblisa.org/directions.html). It is
a short walk from the Kendall Square T station on the red line for
those without cars.
The subject for the talk is:
"I Got My Jet Pack an I'm Still Not Happy"
Systems administration needs help. Over the last
twenty-five years or so I've watched the tools we've used
just barely be able to keep up with the challenges of our
field. New advancements in user interfaces get promised,
offered, adopted and then shed with nothing but temporary
relief. In this "from the trenches" talk we'll look some
of the challenges that have thwarted our best
efforts. I'll also show you some of my puny attempts to
poke at the beast from new directions and see if I can
enlist your expertise in the battle.
I have never failed to be entertained by one of David's talks, so I
hope to see you at what promises to be an entertaining and thought
provoking presentation.
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-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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