[Gllug] IT disaster in British public authority caused by operator

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:14:27PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Nix writes:
> 
> >If the machines wouldn't boot, and crashed instead, and were too aged to
> >do netbooting, there may be no possibility of that :(
> 
> "Too aged to do netbooting" is very aged indeed, and even in .gov.uk, I'd
> be very surprised to find machines like that

But less surprised to find staff like that.  I would not be at all
surprised if their IT staff lacked the skills, the knowlege and the
confidence to automate their network properly.

It's depressing but IT staff below a certain skill-level are actively
suspicious of automation and only trust things that are done manually
and interactively.

-- 
Bruce

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards, apart from
ostriches if you punch them hard enough.
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