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Re: Novice sysadmins
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 11:04:54 -0800
In a message written on Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:51:32AM -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote:
What professional engineers you mentioned do can kill people. I have yet to hear of anyone dying from a sysadmin or netadmin screwing up. (Other than dropping something heavy onto someone, using a fork lift incompetently, or building an unsafe raised floor.).
Some of the folks on this list run networks that carry 911 phone calls. A call not going through may well result in fatalities. I'm personally torn, I think the "Professional Engineer" things are 75% racket, and 25% good, but I also think the 'net continues to miss out on the 25% good and could seriously use some of it. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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- Re: Novice sysadmins Sam Oduor (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Miles Fidelman (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Tim Pozar (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Rich Kulawiec (Dec 06)
- RE: Novice sysadmins Keith Medcalf (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Filip Hruska (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Nate Metheny (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Seth Mattinen (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Michael Thomas (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Stephen Satchell (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Leo Bicknell (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Harald Koch (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Chuck Anderson (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins William Herrin (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Sam Oduor (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Miles Fidelman (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Jason Hellenthal (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins (was: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider) Leo Bicknell (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins (was: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider) amuse (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Miles Fidelman (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins (was: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider) William Herrin (Dec 05)