RE: [fc] Yet another piece of FUD :/

["Matt.Wilkie" <Matt.Wilkie@gov.yk.ca>]

>The problem is tat for 'admins' (which is what this guy was 
>supposedly), wizards shouldn't be relied on. They need to know 
>what's going on in the system. 

The problem is that the word 'admin' can mean a generic "knows 
more than the average joe" or it can mean "in depth knowledge
of the system and how it works".

I became a Dos/Windows system administrator simply because 
I was willing to poke around and learn a few more things than
the majority of the people around me. Because I knew what an
autoexec.bat and a config.sys were, I was suddenly a SysAdmin.
When I look back, I shudder at my ignorance and bravado, but
I got away with it (and got paid for it). Sure I crashed or locked
up systems a lot, but heck, that's "normal". Nobody else knew 
any better. Niether did I for that matter. I like to think I'm a
real admin now. ;-)

Now I'm learning Linux, and it'll be awhile before I adopt the
title "administrator". :)

cheers,

-matt
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