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Re: Novice sysadmins
From: Chuck Anderson <cra () WPI EDU>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 14:58:37 -0500
On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 02:18:07PM -0500, Harald Koch wrote:
On 6 December 2017 at 13:51, Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net> wrote:What professional engineers you mentioned do can kill people. I have yet to hear of anyone dying from a sysadmin or netadmin screwing up.Oh c'mon. Now you're being deliberately obtuse. I work IT for a hospital. Everything I do has the potential to affect patient safety, and we do have documented cases of patients dying from IT mishaps. Perhaps do your research before spouting off more of these unsubstantiated claims?
Like the famous case of the Therac-25 machine. Programmers, not sysadmins, but same idea.
Current thread:
- Re: Novice sysadmins, (continued)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Tim Pozar (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Rich Kulawiec (Dec 06)
- RE: Novice sysadmins Keith Medcalf (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Filip Hruska (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Nate Metheny (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Seth Mattinen (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Michael Thomas (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Stephen Satchell (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Leo Bicknell (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Harald Koch (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Chuck Anderson (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins William Herrin (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Sam Oduor (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Miles Fidelman (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Jason Hellenthal (Dec 06)
- Re: Novice sysadmins (was: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider) Leo Bicknell (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins (was: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider) amuse (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Miles Fidelman (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins (was: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider) William Herrin (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins (was: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider) bzs (Dec 06)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider John Levine (Dec 05)