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Posted by michael on Wednesday January 01, @08:57AM
from the they-can-speak? dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "A senior systems administrator at a big ISP in Australia offers a no-nonsense view (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/27/1040511172494.html) about his line of work, the pros and the cons, ths ups and the downs."
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/12/31/2318236.shtml?tid=99 (http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/12/31/2318236.shtml?tid=99)
Wow, that article just about said it all, except I think programming plays a nice role in it as well.
I personally think that the better you can program (as a sysadmin), then the better you can administer your systems.
He said a lot of great points about knowing what and what does not work and how to represent newer, potential changes to a company without scaring people or disrupting their work; this is all stuff I will remember.
Well, great article with an honest guy.
Talk to you later.
He briefly mentioned that he is a developer for the Debian Linux Project. Since software development is a bit out of the scope of the article, he probably elected to not elaborate further. I too feel that programming skills make system administration tasks easier. Not only do they make thing easier, but they usually help in implementing better solutions.
Peter