LISA 2006

I'm now at LISA in DC, back from FOSS.in and India. I only got a couple of days home before I headed here, and it's taken some time to adjust. I somehow managed to travel for 33 hours last Wednesday (from 2:30am in Bangalore until 11:30pm in Nashville, which is 11.5 hours later than Bangalore's).

We had two configuration management workshops this year; I chaired the first one with Narayan Desai of Argonne Nat'l Labs, which was theoretically focused more on tools and practice, and Paul Anderson and Sanjai Narain chaired the second one, which focused on configuration validation, most of it around network configurations rather than systems.

One of the best parts of the conference so far has been that Cory Doctorow did the keynote, and he's already blogged about the best paper this year, which is about protecting your RFIDs from unauthorized access.

The rest of the conference, for me, is going to different talks, hopefully learning a bit but usually half listening and half hacking and surfing in the back of the room.

I am also now confirmed at LinuxConf Australia in January, so I've got yet more travel lined up already.

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 | Tags: sysadmin, industry, travel