begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:18:23PM -0700: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Brad Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM > Subject: Terry Childs Coverage > To: Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It would be interesting to hear reactions about this from > the folks on kplug > [snip] > http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/coverage-of-terry-childs.html > > This eemed to me a mail list story given the number of > system admins who hang around here. > > Comments?
The more information that comes out, the worse the City looks; the suggestion of sacking all of SF's IT management (and I'd go a little higher than that as well) seems to make a lot of sense. Terry sounds like an irascible sort of person, but part of a manager's job is learning how to handle such people. It looks like he was a good administrator, in that he was protective of his users (The System Must Stay Up) and probably overworked. And it looks like the management was more interested in turf wars and politics than keeping the system working, so he assumed the responsibility. Then someone tried twisting his arm, and he didn't kowtow properly. Hijinks ensue. -- Someone's head needs to go on a stick, and it isn't the sysadmin's. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
