At 01:19 PM 8/5/97 -0700, Kenneth Whittaker wrote:
Incidentally, CEO's are almost as bad as a sledgehammer. I had a call where a proud CEO walked into the "sysadmin territory" of his company and tried to show his business buddies how he could rip drives our of his nifty little filer and it would stay up. It was hilarious.
Heh. I had something like that, only it wasn't even a CEO. 'twas a new sysadmin. I had been telling him about this really neat concept of RAID and HOT SPARES (he came from an academic environment, where saving money was more important than redundancy, so he'd never gotten to play with raid before).
He was very impressed, and when we hired another junior sysadmin, he started to tell the junior guy all about RAID and HOT SPARES. He'd forgotten (or missed) the step where you have to tell a software raid system when you're gonna hot swap something. Oops.
Amy