A few days ago techtarget published a short interview about the OSU Open Source Lab, where I worked while studying at OSU:
“Lance Albertson, architect and systems administrator at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, uses a sys admin staff of 18-21-year-old undergrads to manage servers for some high-profile, open-source projects (Linux Master Kernel, Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, and Drupal to name a few). In this Q&A, Albertson talks about the challenges of using young sys admins and the lab’s plans to move from Cfengine to Puppet for systems management.”
(via slashdot).
I must say, the work I’ve seen student sys admins do at the OSL is outstanding, and I’ve met some of the sharpest people there I’ve ever worked with. Glad to hear they are still going strong.
Thanks for the link, Justin!
If you are an American expat, or something along those lines, and are in the mood for some Christmas music, you might have already taken a look at “iTunes Radio”, and had a hard time to find any, because even the ones carrying Christmas in their name don’t quite cut it…
A good trick is to go for the Adult Contemporary section:
… and select a soft rock station, such as “Soft Rock from St. Louis”, which is what we listened to today. These stations have a tendency to switch to Christmas music during the season, and should serve all your Christmas music needs, even if there’s no way you can receive it on your local radio tuner.
Have fun, and happy holidays.
While stumbling across the net, I found this, The New Yorker’s Thanksgiving cover from 2006:
The illustration feels a little sad, though I am not sure what I am sadder about: That they can watch football and I don’t 
Or that digital distractions take away from the traditional family gathering called Thanksgiving.
(via YayEveryDay)
In response to the birthdays I mentioned in my last post, Google has two topical logos today.
The American site, google.com, honors Sesame Street:
… while google.de remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Quite the contrast.
