[lugip] [Reminder] LOPSA-NJ Meeting Thursday Oct 1st @ 7pm: Almost 30 Points of Failure or...how I spent 3 days of my summer vacation de-installing Vista and vmware while trying to establish a stable Ubuntu 9.04 environment

[William Bilancio]

LOPSA-NJ: Almost 30 Points of Failure*or...how I spent 3 days of my summer
vacation de-installing Vista and vmware while trying to establish a stable
Ubuntu 9.04 environment*Date: Thursday Oct 1st 2009
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 Lawrence Headquarters Branch
of the Mercer County Library
2751 Brunswick Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ, 08648
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*Almost 30 Points of Failure*

*or...how I spent 3 days of my summer vacation de-installing Vista and
vmware while trying to establish a stable Ubuntu 9.04 environment*

by Pamela L. Howell, Esoteric Resources, Incorporated

Come join a lively participatory discussion!

There once was a cascading chain of failures surrounding the forced
installation of an operating system, which someone 'fixed' by adding
virtualization software. It began with a lack of understanding of the end
user's system requirements. The special installation needs of the her huge
RAID disk array/partition tables made the problems infinitely more complex
at every step. Sadly, some failures of our open source tool kits to
anticipate/correctly handle the issues didn't make this emergency repair
project any easier. Our saga involved too many system administrators of
varying skill sets trying to help, none of whom had responsibility for the
problem or the machine itself, which made matters inexorably worse.

Bio:
Pamela L. Howell is a senior-level IT consultant in the system
administration, security, and programming fields from Central NJ. She's also
been a UNIX geek since she went in to her dad's office at Bell Labs and
printed Snoopy calendars on his Multics box in the early 70s, but more
officially since she learned SVR4 Rel3 at the labs herself 1988-90. Avidly
interested in technology of all sorts, freedom of information, hacking,
vintage computing, and kitten wrangling, she is also a great network nexus
for people looking to make new contacts. Pam owns and has worked for
Esoteric Resources, Incorporated since 1988.

"LOPSA-NJ is an organization for system administrators in New Jersey formed
to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of system
administration. LOPSA-NJ is not affiliated with a particular hardware or
software vendor or company. Everyone is invited!"
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