Are you still recovering from dealing with that fscking submit program? I know I am. . .
Your fellow honours student, in case you've forgotten . . .
Hi, Rob M., I knew it was you I was replying to.:-)
And no, I'm not recovering from submit -- I'm still providing support for it, because the department still hasn't hired anyone to take over, 12 months after I left...
... in pursuit of a career. I can only wonder at what sort of job Robert Elz could get in Industry, if he was motivated by money. His resume would be unique. It seems he is content to perform a public service, which not everyone is grateful for, on a salary that an Australian university can afford to pay him. You've got to admire that.
I worked with him in the same department for a year and a half, as another technical staff member, and never actually met him. Lots of emails, though. He doesn't keep the same hours a normal person would, so you might take a week or so before his business hours syncronize with yours. (Which is great, because if a departmental system is down in the middle of the night, sometimes he's there to fix it.)
You're most unlikely to find him in the office during business hours at the moment, because the Australian Cricket team is touring England, and the matches are televised late at night. So he's probably in his office at night, with a TV.
I believe you'll find that he wrote disk quota systems used on unix-like OSes all over the world, and he has been particularly involved in BSD.
As far as I'm concerned, he's a model of personal efficiency, and I wouldn't have anyone else in charge of DNS in Australia. Maybe he needs some more help if he has too much work to do. But DNS administration seems to have been a large part of his life for years, and if I were in his position, I would be reluctant to completely hand over control to someone else -- especially if I had concerns about the body who would assume control.
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Hi, Rob M., I knew it was you I was replying to. :-)
And no, I'm not recovering from submit -- I'm still providing support for it, because the department still hasn't hired anyone to take over, 12 months after I left...
You're most unlikely to find him in the office during business hours at the moment, because the Australian Cricket team is touring England, and the matches are televised late at night. So he's probably in his office at night, with a TV.
I believe you'll find that he wrote disk quota systems used on unix-like OSes all over the world, and he has been particularly involved in BSD.
As far as I'm concerned, he's a model of personal efficiency, and I wouldn't have anyone else in charge of DNS in Australia. Maybe he needs some more help if he has too much work to do. But DNS administration seems to have been a large part of his life for years, and if I were in his position, I would be reluctant to completely hand over control to someone else -- especially if I had concerns about the body who would assume control.