The stinking on-call pager weighs only 3 ounces or so. Why do I feel 100 pounds lighter when I get shed of it?
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I’ll be at work then, handing off the stinking on-call pager to the next sad sack sysadmin professional in the barrel rotation.
I think our work group is overstaffed by a huge margin; the silver lining is that there are more candidates for the stinking on-call pager, which limits my exposure.
That’s a Good ThingTM.
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One more time before my emeritus years, I’d dearly love to work with a small group (3-5) of sysadmins who work hard, play hard, and just get stuff done by helping each other out.
This is contrasted to bloated staffs, each member of which gets tasks assigned from a sort of job jar, without [...]
December 10, 2007 – 8:42 pm
I worked like a trooper today, generalizing a several-year-old script which creates metadevices and metadevice mirrors for Solaris Volume Manager. It’s not rocket science, every admin has one, and it was time to make mine more generally useful. To that end, I rearranged my previous script, and abstracted out a set of shell [...]
September 29, 2007 – 3:54 pm
I’m still pondering the fine points of WordPress 2.3 tagging. Or maybe I’ve not progressed to where I’m even entitled to contemplate the fine points.
If I have any regrets about my many years in information technology, it’s that I’m not as fluent in web apps, and the coding thereof, as I’d [...]
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