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[Ivan Trundle]

On 15/05/2007, at 10:04 AM, Stilgherrian wrote:

>>> This is also in the context of the REALITY of the Internet today,
>>> not the
>>> idealism of the Internet from 20 years ago back when everyone was
>>> an anally
>>> retentive systems administrator... ;)
>>
>> Those were the days. Retentive sys admins were gods. How they have
>> fallen.
>
> They may have fallen, but many of them still wander around with the  
> attitude
> that they ARE gods and the sole source of wisdom. I seem to recall  
> that's
> also part of the definition of a psychopath... ;)
>

I think that this is actually a fair comment - there was great  
utility of having a god in this area: it meant that boundaries were  
set, and things either worked, or could be blamed on the sysadmin.  
Nowadays, it's not quite open-slather, but it is harder to see how a  
degree of professional competency is the overriding principle in many  
systems.

Now that the gods are no longer worshipped, a state of anarchy is  
creeping in. Finding the person responsible for making autocratic  
decisions in a distributed system (such as many networks that exist  
today - and I don't mean just the wires and equipment) is becoming  
more difficult, and finding someone who actually has wisdom (and can  
prevail over the masses) is harder still.

iT