From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
An urge to 'Let's tinker' is both a good and bad thing for a SysAdmin to have.
Keith> Did he say he was a studly-cap SysAdmin?
Did I? And ok, I'll just spell it out. Systems Administrator. Happy now?
(NB: the word "he" when I wrote it refered to Alexander. The word "I" when John writes it refers to John. Whether that is a cause or effect of confusion, I am not sure.) "Call no man happy until he is dead." -- Aeschylus, Herodotus, or Solon? With due regard to that perspective, I am happy now, and happy before. I now am quite sure that John is, and Alexander is not, a SysAdmin. That was my guess.
Keith> I missed that. I took him to be talking about Keith> his own computer. If there aren't too many Keith> users paying the bills, then the Linux Way is Keith> to tinker.
Sure, absolutely. No arguement there. But if you are doing SysAdmin type work, then IMNSHO it's pointless to obsess over things like this.
No argument there, and none here. My last message was intended to point out that your different context makes the truth you chose to express less relevant to Alexander's obsession. -- Keith PS: I just thought of "Damn Small Linux". I know nothing about it, but it might be a good phrase for the tight-code-obsessed to Google.