Episode 001
It is my extreme pleasure to announce the SysAdministrivia Podcast’s inaugural podcast! We welcome feedback on this podcast, either here or at the official podcast email, podcast@sysadministrivia.com. Thanks for taking the time to listen to it!
SysAdministrivia Podcast Episode 001
Episode Notes
In this episode Matt Simmons and Brandon Burton give an intro on why they are launching Sys Administrivia, their vision for the micropodcast format, and an overview of what the show will cover.
Community News
- MySQL Swap Insanity
- PuppetLabs acquires the Marionette Collective
- Rsyslog supports HDFS
- Sysadmins take note
- CVE-2010-3301
Corporate News
Recent and Upcoming Events
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Tom Limoncelli
- Blog
- Time Management for System Administrators
- The Practice of System and Network Administration
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Tool of the week
OSPI: Open source tool for performing Windows deployments, package installation, and licensing management.
Fraid the podcast isnt available via iTunes in the UK. Says its not on the UK store
Congrats guys!
2 thoughts: Twitter Feed Email update list/subscriptions
Chris
and fix your “About” page :p
Also, an RSS feed would be nice for us non-iCrack users (Android ftw!)
Matt and Chris:
Thanks for the suggestions! There are tons of things we are going to be adding in as the podcast matures.
As for iTunes, it’s definitely on the list. We aren’t on the American iTunes yet, but for now, you can download the mp3 from the link in the article. We’ll get iTunes integration as soon as possible.
Chris: The about page is fixed, thanks! Also, expect a twitter feed soon, and we’ll work on the mailing list.
Thanks again for the suggestions!
Skip that, found it! And off we go… w00t, Android ftw!
Thanks for all the feed back, we definitely have a lot planned, including episodes already in the pipeline.
Feedback on design, topics, etc is always appreciated
First off, great show. Love the length, love the content. The “good evening” bit felt a bit forced (I’m guessing you’d at least chatted a bit before recording?), but then again I do quite like more informal chats than meetings, so I may just be a bit odd in that respect. It certainly didn’t put me off
After that though the whole show was pretty awesome. Concise, slick.
I’ll definitely be coming back for more!
Ultimately I’d love to hear stuff on tools, software and methodology you guys use at work – and not necessarily to do with actual sysadmin’ing, but the “crap” part of being a sysadmin, like educating or dealing with managers or demands (for example – first thing thats come to my head, may not be the best example, but I hope it sort of gets the idea cross?).
Not so much feedback but discussion, and I apologise if I mis-understood the Drobo section (I’ll admit that I’ve not use RAID 6 for many years) but aside from software RAID I’ve not had to teardown an array to grow it for quite a long time. Even an online conversion of RAID types is reasonable to expect in some instances (naturally reasonable conversions).
As for BeyondRAID, from a superficial look at things it sounds very much like ZFS with some additional voodoo on top. Very cool, and possibly you may be able to roll your own drobo with Nexenta or Solaris, with a little extra work
You’re link to OPSI is wrong. The features page is at http://www.opsi.org/opsi/features/.
Wow, great podcast. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of opsi before?! I’ve done tons of research into WDS, SCCM, wpkg, imaging solutions, etc and never once ran into an opsi recommendation.
I can’t wait for this vm instance to finish downloading so I can take it for a test drive.
Everything else was awesome, too. Keep up the good work!
Hi Matt,
This was a great podcast. You guys are awesome for doing this and I imagine it takes a lot time to make a podcast this good. Can’t wait for the next one!
Great stuff guys! Very interesting and short enough to listen to on the way to work. I’ve been using Evernote since it came out to take notes on everything SysAdmin. I have hundreds of notes which I refer to often. It’s unbeatable for searching information too. And, it runs well under wine on Linux too!
Can’t wait for the next installment.
Cheers z0mbix