[Gllug] Sysadmin appreciation day

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Tue Jul 30 23:26:37 UTC 2002


On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Simon Stewart said:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:01:39AM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> I got bought a drink even though I'm not a sysadmin. It seems people
>> think I am one regardless of my official job.
> 
> Not quite sure what you do, Nix, but I assume it involves sitting in

Theoretically it's software development.

In practice...

> front of a computer doing something which makes everything work, but
> which is incomprehensible to the normal users. cf. sysadmin.

... er, yep, guess I must be a demisysadmin then. ;}

>> I wonder why that is. ;}
> 
> You spend your working hours whiling away the time on mailing lists
> and not appearing to do anything else :P

I wish. The bloody firewall at work rarely allows anything worthwhile in
or out: port 80 only, through a thoroughly dysfunctional proxy (and I
despise web archives of mailing lists). Email goes via Exchange Sewer
(which is a pile of busted shit) and MessageLabs (which isn't, although
I don't like the potential censorship implications of having such a
large mail- filtering node).

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                                        -- 1i, personal communication

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