My old boss used to refer to the network (tongue in cheek) as a computer version of telephony "dial tone". Dial tone: People just expect it.
Similarly, I see being a sysadmin as the SYSTEMS version of providing that dial tone. Specifically: When the telecommunications people do their jobs properly, the person in the room with the phone should be able to just pick up the phone, and get dial tone. And when that person presses the buttons, the call should go through, and s/he should be able to then talk. I see systems administrators as the people behind the scenes, making the computer *systems* "just WORK". Dial tone. And that's a *LOT*, including ALL the things that sysadmins do: security, performance, data integrity, reliability. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
