On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 11:04, Ian Blenke wrote:
> > More than that, you're turning into a sysadmin :)
> >
> > And the best part about learning all of the OpenSource apps and their
> > configurations: they're not going anywhere. They'll be there 15 years
> > from now, and someone will ask how you know it so well.
> >
> > Sysadmins aren't afraid of the software. They just know it. And it's not
> > knowing _how_ to configure something that makes it appear effortless to
>
> Well put! Except I'd say that you are not afraid, and know how, because the
> instructions on how to install and configure it are written and you just have
> to read it. Since you know how a system works you can also get around
> incomplete docs.
I wonder what that makes you if you only embark on configuration
adventures if you feel a new software package will increase your network's
flexibility, reliability, redundancy, or featureset in the pursuit of some
architectural change and not merely for the sake of installing said
package and moving on to something else?
:)
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