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December 5, 2005
Top Ten SysAdmin Truths
The Blog 'The Search for A Good Story has Top 10 System Administrator Truths.
While it's been a while since I've been a SA, he's dead on right. I was often told I was one of the best people they ever worked with and I was the most knowledgable and helpful person they've ever worked with.
I'm probably not the most knowledgale about everything, but I'm pretty sharp. However I talked to them, not at them, and usually find that helped any issue.
The only one I have a bit of an issue with is #1. While sometimes the 'have you done this...' question gets blown off the other one of 'I didn't do anything' isn't more a lie, just less of a thought. People don't realize that sometimes even the tiniest thing can tank a computer.
When I was still heavily working as deskside the phenomenon that was new then was e-Mail (we're talking '94 - '98 time frame) and the idea that opening a note and launching an attachment could destroy your computer was still relatively new.
So opening that note from your sister <> my computer stopped working. But, in fact, it was.
Posted by trekkie at December 5, 2005 9:21 AM
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