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BayLISA Monthly Technical Talk & General Meeting

Please RSVP to rsvp@baylisa.org so that we can get an idea of how many will be attending. This event is open to the general public. You do not need to be a member to attend. -------- Where: Apple Computer, Town Hall Auditorium Addr: Four Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA http://www.baylisa.org/locations/current.html -------- Date: Thursday, 19 August 2004 Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm PST

"Where the heck is my flying car?" Tom Limoncelli

It's 2004 and we still don't have moving side-walks or flying cars, and computers aren't nearly as cool as they were on The Jetsons. Where did we go wrong and what can we do to solve the problem? Tom will talk about recent epiphanies he's had about "best practices" in system administration, mostly brought about by his recent experience visiting some of the largest and smallest networks in the world. (And he has a lot to say about Apple OS X Server.) He's also working on a new book about time management for sysadmins, and will be treating us to some excerpts!

Tom Limoncelli is Director of IT Services at Cibernet Corp. Co-author of "The Practice of System And Network Administration", which has become "standard equipment" for employees at OSDN/Slashdot, Google, and many other companies. He was previously at Lumeta, Bell Labs/Lucent, and is a frequent speaker at Usenix/LISA conferences. This is his second BayLISA appearance. -------- BayLISA meets every month on the 3rd Thursday of the month. A short period of announcements of general interest to the sysadmin community is presented, followed by a technical talk. Anyone may make an announcement; typical are upcoming presentations, user group meetings, employment offers, etc.

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