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Managing Young Sys Admins At Oregon State Open Source Lab
mstansberry writes "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."
Hey, wondering if you liked it when I gave you the bone hard and fast last night. I was the one in the sombrero...
What the fuck are you talking about? The best developers I've ever worked with were damn fine system administrators, and vice versa.
Talented developers hate chaos. Rather, much like good sysadmins, they like control and predictability, and exhibit extreme care.
"Chaos" is what leads to fucked up software, as well as fucked up hardware and networks. That's why the top sysadmins and developers shun it.
The only developers I know who embrace chaos and uncertainty are architects and Indian outsourcing firms. Architects, because they can't actually program with a fuck (hence being "architects"), and unnecessary complexity and confusion is what allows them to justify the stupidly unnecessary "architecture" they seek to impose. Indian outsourcing firms, since any good Indian developers are already in America or Europe, and the ones that remain are too oblivious to the chaos because they have no fucking clue what they're doing.
troubles 07 those
You mean like reading and posting to slashdot in the middle of the workday?