Re: LISA 2005 attendees?

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Thats because we are a dying bread.  Every young whipper snapper thinks
> that ssh or telnet is good enough.  They don't realize that problems can
> occur before the tcp/ip stack is operational.  They also don't realize
> how much it sucks to drive into downtown Atlanta at 4pm on a Friday to
> attach to the serial console of a Cisco switch because it has issues.
> Parking sucks too.  I made that trip once and that was it!

Hey - I beg to differ - age has nothing to do with it. I setup remote
console servers at a company where the machine room was next door to my
office using conserver+cycaldes. I'm 23.

One of the first thing I do at every company I've been at is setup
console servers. Everything should be able to be done remotely and
reliably. When I get called at 4am I don't want to have to drive
anywhere - that's a pain for me, and more downtime for the company.

Age has nothing to do with it. If you don't understand how and when
technology can fail, you're a poor and/or inexperienced admin. Short and
simple. I've seen plenty of 50 year olds make that mistake.

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Phil Dibowitz
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