On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:56:58PM -0400, Richard Congdon <richard at pikachu.harvard.edu> wrote: > > You do not shoot FOR sysadminning. Sysadminning is something you > > run away from. At speed. > It was not always thus. My first job ('84) was as a unix sysadmin, and I have > never enjoyed a job so much. It probably helped that there was no one (to > my knowledge) trying to run things 24/7. If something broke on the > off-hours, it could always wait until the next day. In the Golden Age, which we now call "Before Microsoft", things were better. They were not perfect, mind, but they were better. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp