Happy new year to all!

Meeting delayed 1 week: Now January 27

It’s 2005 and we should try something new for ovSAGE. We should have a training session during the meetings, a Q&A, maybe a vendor visit, or a hardware presenation. This doesn’t have to be every meeting, but we are supposed to be about forwarding the profession.

It’s a bit late to do anything like this for January, so how about next month? Anyone have a pet project they want to get going? Some technology they want to implement? Lets get a few show and tell sessions on the go and get a few contributions up on the site. We ahe a forum, and we have postings. I can create new areas as we want them, and if someone want to start a discussion group, we can have that as well. I will be reviving the Mailman list for February, so we will have a mailing list available again.

No wild and crazy topics, maybe a view to what should be done in the new year? Things to cover, training? vendor visits? Special topics and presentations? Come one, come all… step right up and suggest some new and exciting things for the local system administrators. If you don’t play, you can never win. Anyone can contribute their $0.02. That’s right, Big Top System Administration. Only a few virtual front row seats available.

Just a reminder that the exam will be happening Saturday Dec 11, 2004. Seatings at 11:00 and 13:00.

May you live in interesting times is certainly the thing for this week.

Bell cut off my provider last week for a day and a half, today there is a network flood that causes my DSL modem to lock up, and I walked on the power bar where I had plugged in while I was moving the server into a rack. I’m surprised anything survived.

At least this constituted some activity on the site. If anyone was actually trying to view/post/comment, my apologies.

We have to have the exams shipped in from Toronto, so anyone who has not signed up by Monday night may not have an exam to write on. I will send a confirmation email to everyone who is scheduled to write.