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Article #624206Re: Computers, anyone?
From: nob... Scott
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:25
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:25
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On 27 Jun 2018 17:42:54 -0300, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote: >Even people who might be expected to know how something works are >content to whap a software package into a server and never know >exactly what it's doing or what they've done. Voodoo administration. I actually get paid for something like that, but it involves expensive industry specific software with all kinds of DRM that's deliberately dense and not made to be understood. It's scary that I can keep things working without really understanding how, and scarier still that this meager knowledge is somehow valuable enough to earn me a living wage. I can't tell if my job's at risk because I can't explain what I do, or if I'm safe because nobody else can figure it out either. My ISP recently had the opposite problem. A yound admin wrote some custom scripts to get specific web server behavior, and unsurprisingly broke some other things. 500s popping up where no 500s had any business happening. I pointed out that the desired behavior was built into the base web server and just needed to be turned on in the config file. Surprise, it works fine that way. I mean, it's Apache...if what you want to do isn't already in there, you need to think harder about what you want to do.
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