The ShowThis week I talked to Nathen Harvey from Opscode about the Chef configuration management software.LinksOpscode Home PageOverview of Chef - Great diagram showing the various componentsChefConf - April 24-26, 2013Food F

Episode 5 - Shawn Lukaschuk on dealing with a PCI audit

Nov 7th, 2012

The ShowOne of the more painful tasks I’ve had to deal with in IT has been undergoing an audit, and the PCI ones always seemed to be the worst. Shawn Lukaschuk is a PCI assessor who is well familiar with the issues that come up.Links

Episode 4 - Eric Sorenson of Puppet Labs

Oct 28th, 2012

The ShowThis week I talked to Eric Sorenson of Puppet Labs about the Puppet configuration management software.LinksPuppet Labs Home PagePuppet DocumentationLearning Puppet Series - A good place to startThe Puppet Forge - A pl

Episode 3 - Ross Brunson of the Linux Professional Institute

Oct 8th, 2012

The ShowThis week I talked with Ross Brunson, the Director of Member Services for the Linux Professional InstituteLinksLinux Professional InstituteLPI certificationsHow the LPI figures out what to put on the examLPI Mailing L

Episode 2 - Secure Sockets Layer

Sep 23rd, 2012

The ShowThis week I talked to Sean Cody who is a local Unix administrator with a strong interest in security, especially Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). We got on Skype and talked about various issues to do with SSL, such as trust and proper c

Episode 1 - Network and systems management

Sep 14th, 2012

The ShowThis week I talked to Aaron Paxson, a seasoned IT professional. Aaron looks after a global network including both network elements and servers, and I thought that it would be interesting to talk network and systems management. We a

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