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Life in the Trenches: a Sysadmin Speaks

Posted by michael on from the they-can-speak? dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A senior systems administrator at a big ISP in Australia offers a no-nonsense view about his line of work, the pros and the cons, ths ups and the downs."

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  1. Re:Crap... by rde · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're being a little harsh, methinks. For a start, he didn't say he was logging in to fix anything; he may just have been keeping an eye on the system. Irrespective of the number of minions one has, this can only be a good thing.
    Having said that, logging in from a cyber cafe? Speaking as a former sysadmin of one of those self-same cafes, this made me shudder. Even if he's using something secure, I've often found keystroke loggers on machines (amongst other stuff), and he's risking some serious compromising.

    "strong experienced based opinions" is crap
    That's your strong, experience-based opinion, is it?