Those are probably applicable to you guys, but let's not leave out the guys that live in that realm just above desktop support, as well. Even...and I cringe at this just from my own painful memories of the past...a Windows peer-to-peer workgroup can benefit greatly from the attention of a competent system administrator.
(There was a time when I always used to tell trainees: "Learn how network printing works. It's filled with a bunch of boring...sticky little details. When it's done right, it's completely thankless and the effort is virtually unnoticed. But it's one of the most poorly understood services of a computer network that _everyone_ has to use. If you _only_ learn how network printing works, inside and out...and understand exactly under what circumstances it breaks down and how to fix it when it does...you will still have earned your paycheck." I don't think I would give the same advice today. In fact, I haven't thought about what would be the "if you learn nothing else, learn this" topic of today's systems, if there even is a single topic of that type. TCP/IP networking maybe? ...including DHCP and DNS protocols, etc.... ) On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:45, Tom Perrine <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Mark McCullough <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2011 Jan 08, at 15:09, David R. Linn wrote: >> >>> Pesonally, I find it far more difficult to explanation what a system >>> administrator is than what a league of such professionals is. >> >> "I keep big computers working. Not your desktops that you would use at >> home, but the kind of systems that would be used to generate your bills, or >> take your orders, or run the web pages you go to." > > Think about the Internet. Then think about the people who make it > work. They are system administrators, network administrators, etc. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
