Being a Mac user, a lot of people expect me to loathe everything Microsoft. Also, having come from a Unix background, equally as many people expect me to loathe everything Microsoft. I’ll be honest – I have no great fondness for them, but I’m also practical enough to recognise that the chances of them falling over [...]
July 31 is System Administrator Appreciation day. Since most backup administrators are either system administrators or come from system administration roles, and since I started out in system administration, I think this is a great day.
Remember: system administrators often work tirelessly in the background, without getting noticed. In fact many system administrators often don’t get [...]
Everyone makes mistakes. That’s part of being human. Indeed, I’d suggest that anyone who expects you to never make mistakes in your job may perhaps be either demented or live at right angles to reality.
I believe the best, the most realistic and useful thing we can aim for is to never make the same mistake [...]