Re: Dogs, trolls, and neighborly free/open source

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On 08/05/2010 11:23 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> No, the part I don't understand is why you can't ignore any request
>> where you are unwilling or unable to help.  If everyone did, there would
>> only be one or two messages on this thread instead of the current mess.
>>
> +1

The first job I did sysadmin work, a couple weeks after I started, my
managers asked me if I'd be willing to pick up for a consultant rolling
off, and I agreed. The next year, in addition to my ...late... wife, I was
sleeping with Aeleen Frisch's Essential System Administration. The next
year, when the division had grown from 4 teams to 27, and they brought in
the corporate sysadmins to take the load off us, I was told there were
exactly *two* teams whose servers looked right... and mine was one. The
others ran the gamut to files all over, including in root, and everyone
having the root password....

But I was willing to learn. I object to someone who isn't, coming in to
mooch, and giving me at least as mch to wade through as this thread.
Further, if we either ignored them, or did their jobs for them, we'd be
inundated by folks who got a job they weren't qualified for, and aren't
interested in learning how to do it, but just mooch off of others.

I'll do their job for me if they pay me. This isn't writing code, mostly,
that they're asking for, but how to run and configure.

        mark

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