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Zhoro has grazed violently the windows administrator topic, and I think that I should add a few things…

Looks like there is a wide and really wrong misconception about what is a system or a network administrator. People are speaking about linux administrators, about windows administrators, and someone will probably say something about DOS administrators…

To put it this way – admin isn’t a profession like the plumber or electrician, it’s a diagnosis. Doesn’t matter what sotware or hardware you use. The admin is the person, that solves problems for no time, can think of a problem in 4 in the morning, and to get up and fix it, to explain to his boss, that something is a sheer nonsense, and snouldn’t be done. He/she (long live all female administrators!) knows what to do, how to do it, and why is doing it. And when something new is needed, the admin knows enough to find the best solution, to document it, and implement it, with the right tools.

The admin does it’s job. And likes it.

Here in the picture comes a group of pseudo-administrators, from some ISPs, or some companies, people, that ‘know computers’, and got pulled into it, or heard that there are a lot of money in this, and through some meaningless certifications and other similar methods got the job. In LUG-BG you can see postings from such people all the time, from people, that have no idea for the most basic things (about which they can read at at least 10 places, in understandable language), and are looking for someone to do their job. People with lusers’ mentality (not user, there is a difference in the IQ), who don’t have the ability to understand a scheme bigger than their own machine, and don’t have the ability to learn or solve their problems.

Thanks to the god of networks and servers, that the administration didn’t get the fame of the programming, and there isn’t the idiot mob that has no idea what to do with their future, that wants to become administrators… Everyone sees the kind of programmers we have now, I woudn’t give most of them to write a ‘Hello world’ program.

So, where do the windows admins fit? Imagine a crowd of brainwashed people with lower-than-average IQ. In that crowd, there are some smart people, that know a lot more things, aren’t brainwashed, and are reals admins, and in most cases don’t call themselves windows administrators, but administrators of a domain controller or some equal shit (and get sincere condolences). So this crowd has no creative abilities, and can’t design anything, that isn’t in their crappy documentation, and for everything a bit more complicated they find something similar, and with the help of the mother corporation try to apply it. In most cases, after a few severed arms, they’re able to sharpen a pencil with a dull axe. And feel happy, when after a lot of hard work they get a solution that’s mostly stable, something that the real admin can do with 3 times less equipment, 5 times less fetch, and it will be really stable.

Ladies and gentlemen future system and network administrators, it’s your choice which group you’ll choose. I can only recommend to you to read books (and not only), which aren’t advertising, to be cynical and paranoid as much as possible, and mostly – just do your job.

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