From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 14:24:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03E5151C9 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26132; Wed, 5 May 1999 15:23:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.37.19990505144305.04514e30@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.37 (Beta) Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 14:44:22 -0600 To: Jamie Bowden , Mike Avery From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199905051756.NAA14044@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Administrators get less credit than programmers, which is sad, because they have to be programmers PLUS. Problem-solving, people management, networking, and hardware skills are also required. --Brett Glass At 02:49 PM 5/5/99 -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote: >On Wed, 5 May 1999, Mike Avery wrote: > >:I started out as a programmer and systems analyst. And sold out and >:moved into system administration. And all along, I harbored feelings > >Sold out? I take offense. I -ENJOY- doing Systems Administration. It's >a very necessary and challenging job. Last time I looked, the perfect >self correcting software and hardware hadn't yet been invented/written, so >someone's got to do it. > >Jamie Bowden > >-- > >If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. > -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message