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Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] day in life of solaris 11 admin
From:       "James Dickens" <jamesd.wi () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-08-28 18:08:33
Message-ID: cd09bdd10608281108i66981ba9haa8fe1a4cf2a7109 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 8/28/06, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I created this blog entry
> > http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/08/day-in-life-of-solaris-11-admin.html
> >
> > it gives a look at the day of an OpenSolaris admin, in the future, if
> > you are bored, or need an anwser to "why use opensolaris for a server
> > OS rather than Linux." So enjoy feedback and comments are always
> > welcome.
> >
>
> I recall a Star Trek episode ( STNG in fact ) in which the venerable Scotty
> tells the engineer of the new Enterprise that star ship captains always
> expect a miracle and they want it right away.  Never tell a captain how
> long it will _really_ take to do a job or they lose all respect for you.
>
> At a customer site and inside most corporate america trenches today you
> will find that the work ethic is fairly perverted.  The IT manager will
> never remember the time that you saved them money or time or when you
> were in the server room for 36 hours straight because some sales wonk
> needed all of his data restored from tapes going back 2 years.  Or far
> worse, you were stuck working on a Microsoft Exchange server migration
> because the impossibly stupid grey haired management felt it was the best
> way to go despite the fact that your existing email system has worked
> flawlessly for seven years.
>
> No Sir.
>
> You pull off the kind of miracles that you describe and you will be
> absolutely crucified the first time that you can't recover the data
> from the lost floppy under the desk of some saleswonk because you
> were awake for forty hours straight trying to get Microsoft support
> to resurrect the Exchange server.
>
you know I did debate putting a time delay before the emails went off
in the entry.

"In 8 hours, emails telling them I solved all their problems. "  but I
decided against it, since email timers are not a new opensolaris
feature.


James


> Real life experience is talking here.
>
>
> Dennis Clarke
>
>
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