The Oft Frustrating Job of a Sysadmin

I_Love_Pocky! writes "Sysadmin Co. is a hilarious site built by some sysadmins at an ISP to help them vent their frustrations with dealing with non-tech types. This site is gives a hilarious picture of the daily frustrations of dealing with the inept. I am interested to see if these stories strike a chord with other admins out there."

Comments

Re:Another story; and programmers vs. techs

[rhaig]

man, you're right down there with the ranks of them.

no, a developer doesn't need to be able to install software. and they shouldn't be doing development on their workstations anyway (at least in my line, unix admin). Windows developers are a whole other animal, and their machines need to be locked down with special care... too easy to fuck them up.

and no, it's not a troll.

let the luser install software in his home directory... let them install stuff in designated local space, but don't give them admin on the box or you're screwed.

I've seen too many times where a developer does development on his workstation and then the code doesn't work in QA, and IT is called in because it's a library issue. Oh yeah, the luser says... I reinstalled my box with this cool new leet linux distro... What? no, you cna't have root... it's MY workstation!!

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