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The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators

maffstephens writes "Have you noticed how difficult it's become to develop software? Not because software is more complex, but because there seems to be an army of administrators standing in your way - sys admins, network admins, database admins, runtime admins - the list is endless. They should be there to help us, to make our lives easier, but the reality is often very different. This thought-provoking article from Software Reality is all about the emerging culture of spiteful, dog-in-the-manger prevention amongst corporate IT administrators. Software development has become so inefficient as a result, it's no wonder so many companies are outsourcing."

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  2. Well done. by Krapangor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Blame outsourcing on IT admins, not on Bush.

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    Owner of a Mensa membership card.
  3. Why ever hire Americans? by Adolph_Hitler · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why? American's are lazy. American's want more money. American's do not respect their jobs or their boss and constantly want raises or to move up the ladder. Americans are too damn ambitious and threatening. The best workers are workers who will do whatever you say whenever you say it, exactly as you say it. People who will work practically for free and work as many hours as you ask without question. The ideal worker is loyal to you and your company. American workers with their damn unions and lack of ability to be loyal to the company is why companies wont hire them. Fact is Americans are just not good workers, and the truth is we are lazy. When did the American white male ever work hard in the entire history of the USA? According to American history, most white males were bosses. The problem today is that we don't need any more bosses. We need more slave labor.

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    1. Re:Why ever hire Americans? by tjstork · · Score: -1, Flamebait


      Sorry, but slavish attention to a company is a lie and anyone that believes in company loyalty is a lie. If you want to go and be loyal to your company or the state, go right ahead Adolph, but I seem to remember that the last time we lazy Americans took on the hard working Germans we flattened country, kicked your ass, and then sat back and the watched the Russians deservedly rape all of your women.

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    2. Re:Why ever hire Americans? by Adolph_Hitler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Bullshit, American's were always Lazy. When was slavery used to build up Germany? Or the Soviet Union? You didn't even build up your own country! Everyone else built it for you and you claimed credit. I admit Americans do come up with the best ideas, they just are too lazy to use them. You invented electronics and you let the Japanese companies like Sony out work you. You invent the car and you let every country including Germany make better cars than you? You invent the computer and then you let India and China out work you and make better products? Thats lazy.

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    3. Re:Why ever hire Americans? by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      I beg to differ. The Americans all want to be chiefs, and so they bring the Indians in to do all the work!

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  4. Think For Yourself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
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  5. Re:Developers by darkov · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since I've never been a sysadmin, I can safely say all SAs morons who have a God complex. They get a couple of passwords and they think they rule the earth.

    Now I agree that developers should have their own database, network, servers or whatever - anything else is madness, but quite often SAs don't do their job and are too arrogant to take direction, especially from a developer. Like when the production database running your call-centre stops because it has run out of log space. I tell the SA that we need more disk space immediately. He says he has to look into it, blah blah blah. Or when they get things wrong: the training system has this parameter set wrong. Please fix it I have X students staring at the ceiling. SA: oh well the manual said that this blah blah blah. They can't get through their heads that developers generally know more about the systems they develop on than them.

    They're supposed to enable work, not stop it, but they act like little Hitlers: no access for you!

  6. no http server on port 80? by jlusk4 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Tell me you're not one of those [vulgar pejorative] sysadmins who block outgoing access on port 8000 and port 8080. Some academic websites with good sources run on those ports, maybe because their sysadmins won't let them run on port 80, too.

    And, as this reply suggests, why don't you give them root access on a test machine?

    John.

  7. Re:Preaching to the choir by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    oooooo! A flaming moron! How cool!

  8. Re:We need more planning and less coding. by einer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Developers don't need root access. Simple.

    For what? Give me one good reason why.


    strace for one.

    I'm sure there are others. You're attitude reminds me of a school principal who employs a zero tolerance policy out of sheer laziness.

    On my dev box, I am root. You cannot predict my every need. To assume so is either supremely arrogant, or stupid.

  9. No, it's your fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So basically it isn't that there are a lot fo whiny programmers that can't do thier job now that they have lost the ping-pong table, it is ll the evil sysadmins fault that thye can't do any work. Makes perfect sence, of course so does firing all the overpaid whiny developers and sending thier jobs overseas.