Wow! It took me long enough to get back to this. I started to write this on May 19th and just got it finished. I’ll blame being involved in too much :) Day 4 - started later, 10:00 - much easier to get to. As it’s a long weekend and a Saturday, the traffic was light getting down here and there was parking on the street instead of the parking structure.
Day 3 - New toys, short(er) presentations Opening keynote/opening session Dan has gotten quite informal with this and it goes pretty fast. The keynote started late (people still registering), so it was brief and just welcomed everyone, mentioned some evening activities (including the BSDcert beta tonight), what to after the conference on Sunday, and the fact that pgcon is on next week. First session - Coverity Code audit and testing software.
Day 2 - much quieter. No interruptions from work, just my own distractions from filming the talks. Morning: Bacula - network aware backups It’s amazing that I have never seen Dan’s talk before, given how long I’ve known him. I always skipped it as “I know this stuff,” so it was interesting to go over it from a fresh point of view. I’m now going to implement it internally on my home network.
This was originally the About page for the site. A few things have changed over time, as I have adapted to meet the changes. You should see the original from the first web page. What is ovSAGE? ovSAGE is a recognized local affiliate of the System Administrator’s Guild (SAGE) and the League of Professional Systems Administrators (LOPSA), founded in 1998 in Ottawa, Ontario. We are primarily a group of system administrators from around the National Capital region that meet once a month to be social, get a heads up on new ideas, technology, and to have a little fun.
Day 1 is completed - so far so good. Other than some difficulties with the room wiring, causing me to miss most of the morning session on VOIP, things went well. Maybe I can get a copy of the slides to go over. On the plus side, the wireless networking was flawless after I took a shortcut to solve the room jack issue. I did manage to take a photo of the presenter and a shot of the room on my PDA, so that will get posted eventually.