On May 4, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
TCP/IP voodoo makes SCSI voodoo look like childs play.
Yes, but knowing the fundamentals stops you from going mental and at least attempt to think at the right end of the problem, knowing very little makes you stumble in the dark.
There's an old, old alt.sysadmin.recovery* maxim:
"down, not across"...err...well there IS that, but there's also:
"Three things that have lead more sysadmins to heavy drink than anything else are the Grasshopper, the Bat, and the Crab"
...referring to the engravings on the covers of O'Reilly's manuals for DNS, Sendmail, and TCP/IP networking, respectively...
TCP issues are one of the few things I've ever seen my boss swear aloud about.
*a.s.r is a Usenet venting place for cynical, tired and overworked systems administrators. Simon Travaglia's BOFH series got it's start on a.s.r...
<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/sysadmin-recovery>
-- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Phar macy Information Technology Group
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