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[ad_1] Happy System Administration Appreciation Day! The job ain’t easy. There are constantly systems to update, bugs to fix, users to please, and on and on. A sysadmin’s job might even entail fixing the printer (sorry). To celebrate the hard work our sysadmins do for us, keeping our machines up and running, we’ve collected five horror stories that prove just how scary /…

[ad_1] linux.conf.au, otherwise known as LCA, is one of the world’s longest-running open source events. LCA has been held in a different city around Australia and New Zealand almost every year since 1999. Despite the name, linux.conf.au is a generalist open source conference. LCA hasn’t been just about Linux for a long time. Rather, the conference…

[ad_1] One of the biggest challenges for any system administrator or developer is keeping up with the pace of change. Whether you’re fresh out of school, or a veteran greybeard with many years of experience under your belt, the same conundrum applies: the skills you had yesterday aren’t always an exact match for the solutions…

[ad_1] When developing applications for science there are times when you need to move beyond the desktop, but a fast, single node system may also suffice. In my time as a researcher and scientific software developer I have had the opportunity to work on a vast array of different systems, from old systems churning through…