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It is trite to say that society is more than ever dependent on technology. But consider this... I work in New York City. Experts claim NYC has a 3-day food supply. That is, if all the bridges and tunnels were... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

This post should appear at 9am on Friday... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

Matt at the Standalone-Sysadmin Blog announced that Etsy has offered to buy the first $x of beer at the NYC Sysadmin Appreciation Day event on Friday (tomorrow). "x" is a lot. We need your help to drink it all. At... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

I don't have the time or expertise to write such a book, so I'm giving this idea away in hopes that someone else writes it. I incredibly impressed by the now classic paper "Distributed Computing Economics" by Jim Gray). (Sadly... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

We are sysadmins. We love numbers. They mean a lot to us. They are specific and clean. We also like a lot of details. When someone asks what operating system we use, we rattle off all fifty we can think... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

At PICC I may have sounded like I thought there was an urgent need to create a sysadmin certification program. While I did talk about what I thought it would/could/should look like, I don't think this is a good time... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

I'll be keynoting SAGE-AU's conference in Hobart, Taz, AU the August 9-13, 2010.  I'll also be teaching 3 half-day classes.  Be there or be square!  ... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

I don't have a lot of time to post today, so this will be short.Come to MacTech.  Not just because I'll be teaching my time management stuff, but because its gonna be awesome.http://www.mactech.com/conference/about"MacTech Conference for IT Pros and Apple developers... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

Here are two good questions to ask your management when they outsource your IT job. I assure you that your management will have a big public Q&A meeting with all the affected employees. By "good questions" I mean "Good, if... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

A lot of people have been talking about the post Dave Rodenbaugh recently wrote on his lessonsoffailure.com blog, The Outsourcing Low Cost Lie. I flat out disagree with what he is saying. His examples are so full of failure that... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com

Oh that's how they get such amazing speed on a web server! http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/seda-sosp01.pdfIn the future, all servers will work like this.Well worth reading.... Tom Limoncelli http://EverythingSysadmin.com