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Who's the Greater? The Developer, The SysAdmin, The NetAdmin or some other I.T. Guy?

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  • A Albert Dadze

    This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

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    Marcus J Smith
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    Albert Dadze wrote:

    I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

    I would like to believe that the developer is greater when it comes to the development but not necessarily the administration because many developers dont understand sh*t about computers and just know how to turn it on and make up code that doesnt work. The problem is that many people work in IT that dont know what they're doing so they just go about their day trying to pretend that they do and usually end up screwing stuff up. I do agree though that limiting developers access sucks but if it werent for malicious developers then they probably wouldnt need to tie their/our hands.


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    • A Albert Dadze

      This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

      AlbertDadze

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      El Corazon
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      Albert Dadze wrote:

      So who on your pick is the greater?

      The one man shop. He is developer, sys admin, net admin and all other IT guys. Go Rex go! :-D

      _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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        Albert Dadze wrote:

        So who on your pick is the greater?

        The one man shop. He is developer, sys admin, net admin and all other IT guys. Go Rex go! :-D

        _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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        Man! man!! man!!! I never mean you become an all-rounder of an I.T. guy, I mean you gain colorful insight into other areas of I.T. I am beginning to wonder, if u ever written a database app, or ever used Active Directory as a security model or ever a linux system app. Get some books Man, it is important as a developer to have fundamental knowledge of every other IT concerns.

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        • A Albert Dadze

          This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

          AlbertDadze

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          Albert Dadze wrote:

          So who on your pick is the greater?

          Me. Woe betide he who stands in my way. :rolleyes:

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          • A Albert Dadze

            This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

            AlbertDadze

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            Albert Dadze wrote:

            So who on your pick is the greater?

            Bob. Always.

            Constantly "Saving the day" should be taken as a sign of organizational dysfunction rather than individual skill - Ryan Roberts[^]

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            • A Albert Dadze

              This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

              AlbertDadze

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              brianwelsch
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              If we're going to compare things that way, I'll throw the manufacturer in the mix, and say they are greatest. Without computers to code on, developers couldn't gloat their superiority over sys admins. ;P

              BW


              Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand.
              Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.
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                If we're going to compare things that way, I'll throw the manufacturer in the mix, and say they are greatest. Without computers to code on, developers couldn't gloat their superiority over sys admins. ;P

                BW


                Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand.
                Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.
                -- Neil Peart

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                What about the minimum wage worker who does all of the production and preproduction work.


                God Bless, Jason

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                It would not affect me or my family one iota. My wife and I are in charge of when the tv is on, and what it displays. I do not need any external input for that.

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                • A Albert Dadze

                  This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

                  AlbertDadze

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                  Marc Clifton
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                  Coder - the guy who shouldn't even be touching a computer Programmer - the guy who shouldn't be writing code Developer - the guy who thinks he's a programmer but isn't Guru - the guy who invented admin rights to control the top three sysadmin - a manager position, created by a manager, to control the guru netadmin - a manager position, created by a manager, to control everyone else Ultimately, the whole system fails and is replaced by the sneakernet. Or, nowadays, USB memory sticks. Marc

                  Thyme In The Country
                  Interacx

                  People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                  There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                  People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                  • A Albert Dadze

                    This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

                    AlbertDadze

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                    chuck norris duh!!

                    "there is no spoon" {me}

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                    • L lost in transition

                      What about the minimum wage worker who does all of the production and preproduction work.


                      God Bless, Jason

                      DavidCrow wrote:

                      It would not affect me or my family one iota. My wife and I are in charge of when the tv is on, and what it displays. I do not need any external input for that.

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                      Now you're talking! We can't forget those folks, or the people that build their tools, etc...

                      BW


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                      Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.
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                      • A Albert Dadze

                        This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

                        AlbertDadze

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                        Joe Woodbury
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                        In my experience if you care one iota for a stable network, you keep the developers as far away from server and network administration as you can. Furthermore, at any given site, a company's developers create a tiny fraction of the software that has to run on the network. Why are developers so arrogant as a group that they believe they understand the full complexity of the network they are dealing with (and understand ALL the other projects going on as well)?

                        Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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                          chuck norris duh!!

                          "there is no spoon" {me}

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                          Vikram A Punathambekar
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                          :laugh: 5'd. :laugh:

                          Cheers, Vıkram.


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                            chuck norris duh!!

                            "there is no spoon" {me}

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                            Vikram A Punathambekar
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                            Who else can paste pictures in Notepad? :rolleyes:

                            Cheers, Vıkram.


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                            • A Albert Dadze

                              Man! man!! man!!! I never mean you become an all-rounder of an I.T. guy, I mean you gain colorful insight into other areas of I.T. I am beginning to wonder, if u ever written a database app, or ever used Active Directory as a security model or ever a linux system app. Get some books Man, it is important as a developer to have fundamental knowledge of every other IT concerns.

                              AlbertDadze

                              Visit Christ Embassy Healing school

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                              Albert Dadze wrote:

                              I am beginning to wonder

                              you really do NOT want my resume. :) Honest. :)

                              Albert Dadze wrote:

                              Get some books Man, it is important as a developer to have fundamental knowledge of every other IT concerns

                              I do, and I have. However, regardless of my prior experience before here, I was actually referring to another member here who is an independant contractor. I was a one-man shop for a small-company, never independant contracting unless you count about a handful of forays into that realm, but who knows what the future holds. Anyhow, he and other independants here give me hope I could make the break again. I think my direction would still be R&D though, I would miss the quest for new software technologies too much. :)

                              _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                Coder - the guy who shouldn't even be touching a computer Programmer - the guy who shouldn't be writing code Developer - the guy who thinks he's a programmer but isn't Guru - the guy who invented admin rights to control the top three sysadmin - a manager position, created by a manager, to control the guru netadmin - a manager position, created by a manager, to control everyone else Ultimately, the whole system fails and is replaced by the sneakernet. Or, nowadays, USB memory sticks. Marc

                                Thyme In The Country
                                Interacx

                                People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                                There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                                People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                                Marc Clifton wrote:

                                Or, nowadays, USB memory sticks.

                                about to be blocked here. :) CD sneakernet will remain though.... ironically. :laugh:

                                _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                • A Albert Dadze

                                  This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

                                  AlbertDadze

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                                  John M Drescher
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                                  Since I perform all the duties of all of the above I am not sure what to say.

                                  John

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                                  • E El Corazon

                                    Marc Clifton wrote:

                                    Or, nowadays, USB memory sticks.

                                    about to be blocked here. :) CD sneakernet will remain though.... ironically. :laugh:

                                    _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                    Lemmie guess. Someone's having a conniption over the fact that you can't write protect a USB stick.

                                    -- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                                    • A Albert Dadze

                                      This is inspired by John Simmons' Message on Admin Rights. It is time to communicate something. I thought the developers wrote the apps on any OS that sysadmins and netadmins configure.:cool::cool: I thought they are even taught by developers, how to go around those stuff as how to configure, install and administer their various server apps, but from the article by John subjected Admin Rights?, developers are walking on fallowed grounds, begging to have access to the OS features developed by developers, how strange.:confused: Remember, the programmer cum developer are creators as in creative, sysadmins, netadmins are administrators, they use what has been created to achieve a general purpose. So who on your pick is the greater? I go for the developer cos development (i mean software) allows you to know all the stuff about database admin, sys admin, net admin, and even electrical engineering as in programming circuits (remember the machine language on some strange processor). So who on your pick is the greater?

                                      AlbertDadze

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                                      Chris Meech
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                                      Apologies for the analogy, but .... Letting your developers have Admin rights is akin to letting the brick layers inpsect and signoff on the electrical for a house that's going up. Not a good idea. :)

                                      Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]

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                                        Lemmie guess. Someone's having a conniption over the fact that you can't write protect a USB stick.

                                        -- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                                        El Corazon
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                                        dan neely wrote:

                                        Someone's having a conniption over the fact that you can't write protect a USB stick.

                                        nope, strictly form a bring software/data in/out. I asked about the CD issue, they honestly hadn't even thought about that, especially based the expressions. I am sure CDs and floppies will follow, we'll all have thin-station machines with no read-write capability shortly there-after. Silly me. Then they can replace my network computer with a internet appliance picture frame and I'd probably gain some processing power. ;)

                                        _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                        • E El Corazon

                                          Albert Dadze wrote:

                                          I am beginning to wonder

                                          you really do NOT want my resume. :) Honest. :)

                                          Albert Dadze wrote:

                                          Get some books Man, it is important as a developer to have fundamental knowledge of every other IT concerns

                                          I do, and I have. However, regardless of my prior experience before here, I was actually referring to another member here who is an independant contractor. I was a one-man shop for a small-company, never independant contracting unless you count about a handful of forays into that realm, but who knows what the future holds. Anyhow, he and other independants here give me hope I could make the break again. I think my direction would still be R&D though, I would miss the quest for new software technologies too much. :)

                                          _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                          Albert Dadze
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                                          El Corazon wrote:

                                          you really do NOT want my resume. Honest.

                                          Alright Man, to be honest, I hope you don't consider my statement as an insult, just trying to express some points.

                                          AlbertDadze

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