On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:49 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: > On 4/21/10 10:31 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Personally I'd like to see the masses catered for. > > There's your problem. The masses are stump stupid. Ever was it so. It is no > accident that 'exceptional' means not typical. Exceptional does not include > the > masses. If the best we shoot for is to appease and placate the masses we're > doomed. There was nothing ordinary about Robert Frost, for example. I'll take > Robert Frost's worst day over YouTube's best. There was nothing ordinary about Henri Toivonen either, you'll find plenty of him on youtube. Anyway, my taste in poetry is more along the lines of Kipling and Benny Hill (: > > We need to allow that mediocrity is just that, and set our expectations > higher. > Why is an absentee admin acceptable today? The concept is absurd. You are > good > at what you do or you are a failure. Nowhere in the literature of Unix > administration is it written "This is hard - let's do it wrong". Unacceptable. I've never said that the easy way is the best way. In fact I regularly berate people for trying to convince me of this. I used to teach that it was find to use shortcuts once you'd done it the hard way and understood what that button actually does. Look at the webmin project for example, or puppet, rrd... none of these are hard to use, and automate tedious admin stuff by telling me that there's something wrong. That can make me - to some extent - an absentee admin. > > These asshat whiners need to show some pride. They're barely fit to admin > Windows let alone Unix. > > dp Alienating those 'asshat whiners' will revert them to being windows admins, and our career prospects dwindle ever further.
They have an alternative, don't forget that. All you have to do is cover Texas and Greenland with server farms and it's a done deal. Oh, except for bing. That's still on linux isn't it. Steve -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz Skype: sholdowa
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