Confessions of a SysAdmin

Mr.Fork writes "Scott Merrill from CrunchGear has a confession. He really, really hates computers. He writes: 'No, really, I hate them. I love the communications they facilitate, I love the conveniences they provide to my life, and I love the escapism they sometimes afford; but I actually hate the computers themselves. Computers are fragile, unintuitive things — a hodge-podge of brittle hardware and opaque, restrictive software.' Does his editorial speak to all of us in similar IT-related fields? Do we all silently hate the complexities and idiosyncrasies computers have, like error messages and UI designs that make no sense to the common user, which make our tech professions miserable?"

Comments

Re:Macs?

[Prikolist]

I tried Mac. I tried Linux. Hated them as much as Windows. I'm a sysadmin too. And the software is just as counter-intuitive, buggy, opaque etc. regardless of the system.
And I'm sorry, but installing stuff on Linux is not the cute story in the blog but an archaic pain of entering lines upon lines of commands into a terminal. Neither is uninstalling - I tried removing Firefox and had to click through more things that cleaning registry and folders on Windows would have. Oh, and it took down the UI with it.

Re:Yes.

[dov_0]

I actually hate the concept that it is easier to add yet another layer of abstraction to make things 'easier' for the lazy idiots who can't be bothered to apply themselves to learning how to use something properly (most computer users - inc. most Ubuntu users.) Most of the problems in computing actually come from these added and unnecessary layers of abstraction. This added layer results in MacOS and Ubuntu, operating systems designed for idiots to goo and ga at and watch kittens fall over on youtube with, which brings me to my next hate.

I really, really hate 'autoconfig' systems which cannot be hand configured or disabled easily. Cannot stand them. At least put in a 'would you like to hand configure this?' option and don't do it through a f***ing gui. Give us a text file to play with and a man page. Or a really good gui. CUPS is probably one of the best examples of good autoconfig design. Most of the time, I plug in a printer and it just works. For the other occasions, I can configure it myself. Auto video config for X is one of the worst examples. Try and do your own config with xorg.conf. It will be overwritten with crap the next time you log in. Mine was with Ubuntu anyway.

Please mod this sexist post down

[FoolishOwl]

Violence against women isn't funny. Whoever modded this "funny" should be ashamed of themselves.