Fran Fabrizio's Home Page

Welcome to my UAB CIS web site. I am the system administrator for the deparment and I oversee the IT staff. I am also an instructor, and just because I really didn't want any free time at all, I am also in the process of getting a master's degree from the department with specializations in Bioinformatics and Parallel and Distributed Computing.

On this page I will list information about the courses I have taught, the talks I have presented and miscellaneous tech notes. If you have any questions or would like to contact me, I can be reached at fran [at] cis (dot) uab (dot) edu.

Thanks for visiting!

LocationDateTalk
EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2009 February 25, 2009 Talk abstract is here.

At the invitation of Yahoo/Zimbra, discussing the UAB CIS deployment of Zimbra Collaboration Platform.

UAB CIS February 27, 2008 A talk on Virtualization, again as part of the UAB ACM IT Lecture Series.
UAB CIS November 2, 2007 AJAX the Great: The Origin and Development of the Dynamic Web [PDF]

I was invited by the UAB ACM Student Chapter to speak as part of their IT Lecture Series. This talk presents a history of the development of dynamic web technologies, culminating in the technology du jour, AJAX.

Thomas Jefferson HS for Science & Technology, Alexandria, VA May 18, 2007 Careers in System Administration [PPT]
Photos [MOV]

I was particularly excited to get a chance to return to my high school and give a talk about careers in system administration to the current crop of excellent students studying in TJHSST's Computer Systems Lab.

October 18, 2005 I presented LDAP Applied, a 45 minute talk, at the inaugural O'Reilly European Open Source Convention.

Slides for LDAP Applied in OpenOffice or PDF formats.

Wednesday, August 3, 2005 I presented a slightly different version of the talk, with added coverage for Bacula, at the 2005 Open Source Conference. The talk is titled Open Source Data Backup, or: How To Sleep Better At Night. You can also download the slides [OOffice].
July 29, 2004 I presented Amanda for Data Backup: or, How to Sleep Better at Night at the 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Conference. This talk is part of the Linux track and will take place on Thursday, July 29th, 10:45-11:30am.

Download the presentation notes (OpenOffice Impress format).

Sample amanda.conf
Sample chg-scsi.conf
Some notes I made during my setup process

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