Archive for January, 2008

March 2008 UUASC LA

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

So i wanted to let everyone know I’ll be speaking at the March meeting of UUASC Los Angeles. 

I’ll be covering the following:

1) Update on the Los Angeles city WiFI project.
2) Unveiling of OpenSrcLearn.org and my work at Roosevelt High School
3) A demo of the back end technology I covered at my previous presentations

3.A) Auto provisioning a client system with Ubuntu
3.B) Network Access Control  (using PacketFence)
3.C) DD-WRT on the WRT54GL tied in to back end infrastructure (Directory Services/RADIUS/OpenVPN)

I may even throw in some high availability magic as well.

I think that should fill 2 hours. :)
                  

I plan to blog about the various things above throughout the month of February. 

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Yikes

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Dreamhost makes a 7.5 millon dollar mistake

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/

I can’t believe the yahoos they let build commerce systems these days. Good grief!

If this had happened on the commerce systems that I coded/supported and it was my mistake, I certainly wouldn’t be blogging about it? Why? Cause I would have been fired and then sued into oblivion. Commerce is serious business for serious coders.

Not some 2 bit guy who thinks he is a hot shot coder/admin. Those are the kind of people you want to keep as far away from production as possible.  (Yes I am talking to you Josh Jones).

Ugh. This sort of stuff makes me sick.

Dreamhost should immediately terminate Josh and I strongly encourage customers of dreamhost to sue the organization and the developer who made this horribly evil and unforgivable mistake.

And yes I take commerce very seriously.

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