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4. One of my friends works in a software development house who has an NT
server farm that needs to have close to 100% uptime and operationality.
Needless to say, they have top-of-the-class admins, and also make use of
scripting, the command line, command automation, etc. a lot. Most NT sys
admins don't know anything about the NT command line, much less about
scripting and automation.

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Welcome to the real world with *real* MS sysadmins. Those who script,
automate, write code, know a thing or two about security and the underlying
technology. You know... professionals.

Please, please, do not tag those other "MCSE wannabes" with "Systems
Administrator" title. People that hardly know how to administer couple servers
and dozen workstations in my world are hardly called "operators" (and the same
stands in Linux world)

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"operators". It's been a long time since I saw this word used anywhere. In
fact, I think the first and only time I saw it so far was in the story "The
Bastard Operator from Hell". (which is a highly recommended read).

But we need a common word for both sys-admins and "operators".

    -- Shlomi Fish and Guy Teverovsky
    -- Linux-IL: "Re: Cost-Efficiency of Unix and Windows Admins" ( http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg41179.html )

 <rindolf>  What should I do now?
 <rindolf>  I'll work on Text-Qantor.
 <rindolf>  It's so great not to have a job.
     <Zuu>  yeah, if someone else pays for the food it sure is :D
     <Zuu>  also, i dont really understand much of what you just told me
            :P
         *  Zuu puts a stick into the Text-Qantor
 <rindolf>  Zuu: Qantor == Qantor ain't no TeX/Troff oh really.
 <rindolf>  It's a typesetting system I'm working on.
         *  Zuu hates the name
     <Zuu>  it makes me kinda mad actually :/
 <rindolf>  Zuu: :-)
 <rindolf>  Zuu: maybe it will grow on you.
 <rindolf>  Zuu: some people I know named a browser suckass.
     <Zuu>  :(
 <rindolf>  I refused to work on it.
     <Zuu>  see that's a name!
 <rindolf>  Zuu: heh.
     <Zuu>  i didnt mean that btw :)
     <Zuu>  suckass is kinda... unkind
 <rindolf>  OK, now I should write an
            http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/XSLT/
            transformation.
 <rindolf>  I'll start from something I already have.
     <Zuu>  But the "X ain't no <something related>" is just a lame naming
            convention imho
     <Zuu>  yeah, work on some XSLT facts :D
 <rindolf>  Zuu: just call it Qantor then.
 <rindolf>  Without the mnemonics.
     <Zuu>  but anyone interrested will learn that it's an abbreviation
     <Zuu>  just by the fact that it's recursive makes me want to kill
            myself a little bit more :P
 <rindolf>  Zuu: do me a break and kill yourself.
     <Zuu>  :>
 <rindolf>  Less Zuus - more grass for evil reindeers like me to feed on.

    -- What is Qantor?
    -- ##programming, Freenode