On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Tom Perrine <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there any areas where LOPSA should be speaking out?
** The Terry Childs case in SF. Technically he was abiding by the town's rule against giving the root password to unauthorized people; the state couldn't list anyone "authorized" except the major, and they wouldn't let him give it to the major. (the transcript of that session was fun to read; I wish I could find the link again) http://blogs.computerworld.com/14592/good_news_for_jailed_sf_net_admin_terry_childs ** The AWS / EC2 outage: That companies should be careful when they decide what "zone diversity" means to them. http://justinsb.posterous.com/aws-down-why-the-sky-is-falling ** The outsourcing of the state of North Carolina's IT department (I don't know much about this, but I've heard rumors that it is misguided and won't save money) ** The "if the US government shuts down the transparency websites will be halted temporarily" -- Good opportunity to talk about how IT is critical in today's information eco systems. Tom -- Sign up for my new class "Advanced Time Mgmt: Team Efficiency" at PICC! April 29-30, New Jersey, LOPSA PICC: www.picconf.org Dec 4-9, Boston, Usenix LISA, www.usenix.org/event/lisa11 Dec 4-5, Boston, ACM CHIMIT, chimit.acm.org "Call for papers and talk proposals" open at LISA and CHIMIT! _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
