administration is really the janitor of the new economy.
That about sums it up. We get to change things that burn out, clean up other people's messes, and occasionally distribute LART (though I'm not sure what sort of LART a janitor would pack. Talk amongst yourselves:).
OTOH, I'm sure they don't have to deal with stupid questions about their profession.
It all started in school when I was taking a Basic programming class and we were doing our work off of a networked DEC VAX. The instructor noticed that I was getting around pretty well on it and was helping classmates when they had trouble with the command line. The admin for that box was going to a new job, so my instructor asked if I would be interested in the position, and that was my first networking job.
From then on, I worked mostly in development but did some Unix networking things, but not really full-time Adminning. A couple things would happen (suicidal daemons, file shares going out, etc.) and I'd sometimes get called to fix it. Somehow, because of my RTFM-ing and fixing problems, I would get transferred to Networking or just have Networking added to my tasks.
(Not counting contracts) In a collective decade, I have only taken 2 full-time jobs where the job description was Systems Administration. I have taken 6 development jobs and 5 of them ended up with me going into networking.
This is usually what happens: One of those development jobs started with me being hired to create a licensing program/database that played nicely with their WinNT & PH-UX servers. The PH-UX box got sick one day. The IT manager had come up to me and said, "We've noticed that you've got some Unix Admin experience on your CV. The PH-UX box is buggered up and $person doesn't know how to get it going again." So I help sort out the problem. This happens a few more times, then next thing you know, I am moved over to Networking. From the quiet solitude of development, into the depths of babysitting lusers.
Don't get me wrong, I like doing Unix Systems Administration (even with all the headaches). But with the above happening far too many times, I have a feeling that I am forever trapped into SysAdminning and will never be a full-time developer. 8^)
I'm also thinking, "Great. Now I have to figure out how to configure Yet Another Bootloader."
One problem with Linux is that you often get 50 different development projects that all end up trying to do the same thing. Don't get me wrong, choice is good. but fer cryin' out loud do we *really* need 20 or so different boot-loaders? Why not just improve on something existing that is proven and people are more familiar with. It's not like you can't get the sources for Lilo.
Most towns have only 1 cable provider and they're
all running the same channels, so you can't really
pick and choose because cable is kinda monolithic.
There are 1,000s of search engines, so if one annoys you with adverts,
you can go with another one or even build your own if so inclined.
I totally agree about Dell Inspirons being total crap. After my workplace had 6 of them with the hinge problem and then 3 more bugger up on the power switch, ALL of the Dells were returned. Dell lost quite a bit O'business there.
OTOH, The -best- technical support I *ever* had came from the folks of 3Ware. It was nice talking to a tech-support person who knew what they were saying and getting questions answered, instead of someone just reading you a book, then e-mailing you answers to your questions via email 5 days later. I even got passed to a Real Live Engineer when the tech support person was stumped on a question. Kudos to them!
What'll happen if.NET stuff has workable copy protection? It'll flop.
Don't worry. Young & poor geeks will still be able to pirate MS products.
The copy protection for.NET works about as good and has as much thought
put into it as can be expected from MS.:)
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That doesn't mean some bunch of smart upstarts aren't going to come up with something that might make their distro as mighty as RedHat. Mandrake wasn't paid much attention until the past couple of years.
I use Progeny Debian on my laptop and have never a *nix work so flawlessly, and able to detect *everything* on my old CTX 700E. I hope someone else keeps up the work they've been doing because, IMHO, Progeny Debian is a great distro.
It's a pretty rare bird that doesn't use httpd on a domain name. Sure, people may use a domain only for mail, ftp, etc. But not often. Besides, most people running ftp will have a webpage for instructions and rules. No it doesn't make you a domain squatter if you don't run httpd, just rare.
Go over to ebay and check out the multitudes of people auctioning domains and how much they are asking for them. I dunno about you, but IMHO, domain names were made to make computing services easier to find and use, not something that should be held for ransom.
Rip offs like this makes me wish that every DNS was shut off and everyone had to type in IP addresses.
Arrgghh! And whilst I'm ranting, IMHO, when people register names, they should have a funtional website up within 3 months or lose their registration so we can cut back on the domain squatting.
Of course, if you do that, J Random DomainSquatter will just have all of his domains point to 1 place.
Screw it! Let's just shut off DNS.
Sorry... Just a bad day dealing with $registration_company.
I don't want any of their crap, and I don't want to see and ads for their crap.
Marketing is not about selling people the things they want. Marketing is about convincing people to buy things that they don't need!
I think the -exact- thing every fscking time I get some telemarketer calling me up to 1 - 3 times a day or whenever I have to put in more filters to keep spammers from overloading a server.
I have never, and will never, buy anything from a telemarketer or spammer (fax & email). I don't know anyone who has either. Apparantly, they must be making money off of some people, otherwise they couldn't:
Pay people to phone you
Pay for a big-arsed phone system that blocks caller ID information AND automatically dials your phone# for the telemarketers.
Pay your credit card co.(or whoever) for your phone# and email address.
Be bothered doing it.
And since that's the case, I have a solution. Cut off the source of their income! Let's find the idiots who actually buy from spammers/telemarketers and kill them!:P
I think that you might need a RAID (or RAIM- M == memory:) for RAM in case one of those dimms decides to die on you. Buggered up platters can be rescued in some cases, but if RAM dies, there's no recovery.
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administration is really the janitor of the new economy.
That about sums it up. We get to change things that burn out, clean up other people's messes, and occasionally distribute LART (though I'm not sure what sort of LART a janitor would pack. Talk amongst yourselves:).
OTOH, I'm sure they don't have to deal with stupid questions about their profession.
It all started in school when I was taking a Basic programming class and we were doing our work off of a networked DEC VAX. The instructor noticed that I was getting around pretty well on it and was helping classmates when they had trouble with the command line. The admin for that box was going to a new job, so my instructor asked if I would be interested in the position, and that was my first networking job.
From then on, I worked mostly in development but did some Unix networking things, but not really full-time Adminning. A couple things would happen (suicidal daemons, file shares going out, etc.) and I'd sometimes get called to fix it. Somehow, because of my RTFM-ing and fixing problems, I would get transferred to Networking or just have Networking added to my tasks.
(Not counting contracts) In a collective decade, I have only taken 2 full-time jobs where the job description was Systems Administration. I have taken 6 development jobs and 5 of them ended up with me going into networking.
This is usually what happens: One of those development jobs started with me being hired to create a licensing program/database that played nicely with their WinNT & PH-UX servers. The PH-UX box got sick one day. The IT manager had come up to me and said, "We've noticed that you've got some Unix Admin experience on your CV. The PH-UX box is buggered up and $person doesn't know how to get it going again." So I help sort out the problem. This happens a few more times, then next thing you know, I am moved over to Networking. From the quiet solitude of development, into the depths of babysitting lusers.
Don't get me wrong, I like doing Unix Systems Administration (even with all the headaches). But with the above happening far too many times, I have a feeling that I am forever trapped into SysAdminning and will never be a full-time developer. 8^)
\(^_^)/ --Arggh! Trapped again!
I think you put this in the wrong thread. I'm almost certain that it belongs here.
?8^)
But, dammit, I *still* can't pull up MSN on lynx. :)
I hope it can pull up MSN.
:P
Why do we need yet another bootloader?
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Me too!
[/aol]
I'm also thinking, "Great. Now I have to figure out how to configure Yet Another Bootloader."
One problem with Linux is that you often get 50 different development projects that all end up trying to do the same thing. Don't get me wrong, choice is good. but fer cryin' out loud do we *really* need 20 or so different boot-loaders? Why not just improve on something existing that is proven and people are more familiar with. It's not like you can't get the sources for Lilo.
But, I digress....
Most towns have only 1 cable provider and they're
all running the same channels, so you can't really
pick and choose because cable is kinda monolithic.
There are 1,000s of search engines, so if one annoys you with adverts,
you can go with another one or even build your own if so inclined.
Need some more evidence for further anti-trust cases against M$? The justice system better LART M$ before they start getting more obnoxious.
I was surprised that NPR was giving XP a positive review of XP.
NPR Announcer:This edition of NPR was underwritten by Microsoft. Where do you want to go today?
:P
I totally agree about Dell Inspirons being total crap. After my workplace had 6 of them with the hinge problem and then 3 more bugger up on the power switch, ALL of the Dells were returned. Dell lost quite a bit O'business there.
OTOH, The -best- technical support I *ever* had came from the folks of 3Ware. It was nice talking to a tech-support person who knew what they were saying and getting questions answered, instead of someone just reading you a book, then e-mailing you answers to your questions via email 5 days later. I even got passed to a Real Live Engineer when the tech support person was stumped on a question. Kudos to them!
Sun -does- discontinue parts, but there's loads of places where you can get parts for old Sun boxen.
Like here or here. These are just 2 of *many* places you can get old Sun parts.
What'll happen if .NET stuff has workable copy protection? It'll flop.
.NET works about as good and has as much thought
:)
Don't worry. Young & poor geeks will still be able to pirate MS products.
The copy protection for
put into it as can be expected from MS.
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That doesn't mean some bunch of smart upstarts aren't going to come up with something that might make their distro as mighty as RedHat. Mandrake wasn't paid much attention until the past couple of years.
I don't think so. Every time you look around, there's a new distro out.
I use Progeny Debian on my laptop and have never a *nix work so flawlessly, and able to detect *everything* on my old CTX 700E. I hope someone else keeps up the work they've been doing because, IMHO, Progeny Debian is a great distro.
It's a pretty rare bird that doesn't use httpd on
a domain name. Sure, people may use a domain only
for mail, ftp, etc. But not often. Besides, most people
running ftp will have a webpage for instructions
and rules. No it doesn't make you a domain squatter
if you don't run httpd, just rare.
Go over to ebay and check out the multitudes of people
auctioning domains and how much they are asking for them.
I dunno about you, but IMHO, domain names were made
to make computing services easier to find and use, not
something that should be held for ransom.
Interesting. What tangled web the marketing schemes weave. I wish I had mod points to give you.
Rip offs like this makes me wish that every DNS was shut off and everyone had to type in IP addresses.
Arrgghh! And whilst I'm ranting, IMHO, when people register names, they should have a funtional website up within 3 months or lose their registration so we can cut back on the domain squatting.
Of course, if you do that, J Random DomainSquatter will just have all of his domains point to 1 place.
Screw it! Let's just shut off DNS.
Sorry... Just a bad day dealing with $registration_company.
You Takeda Prize.
\(^_^)/
Marketing is not about selling people the things they want. Marketing is about convincing people to buy things that they don't need!
I think the -exact- thing every fscking time I get some telemarketer calling me up to 1 - 3 times a day or whenever I have to put in more filters to keep spammers from overloading a server.
I have never, and will never, buy anything from a telemarketer or spammer (fax & email). I don't know anyone who has either. Apparantly, they must be making money off of some people, otherwise they couldn't:
Pay people to phone you
Pay for a big-arsed phone system that blocks caller ID information AND automatically dials your phone# for the telemarketers.
Pay your credit card co.(or whoever) for your phone# and email address.
Be bothered doing it.
:P
And since that's the case, I have a solution. Cut off the source of their income! Let's find the idiots who actually buy from spammers/telemarketers and kill them!
But i digress.....
ITYM JonKatz. :)
Interception of computer trespasser communications (House 105, Senate 217)-
:)
Allows ISP's, universities, network administrators to authorize surveillance without judicial order.
Actually, this has been going on for a long time. You just never knew.
I think that you might need a RAID (or RAIM- M == memory :) for RAM in case one of those dimms decides to die on you. Buggered up platters can be rescued in some cases, but if RAM dies, there's no recovery.
How about just putting one button on cell phones and have everybody learn morse code. :)