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Re: Novice sysadmins


From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 18:39:19 -0700


On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net> 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.).


Military networks.  Aviation.  Hospitals.  SCADA.  The list goes on.



--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra


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