Re: LISA...how good

[joshua geller <cae.retix.com">joshua]

tom writes:

>   Sysadmins usually work in isolation.  There may be one per department,
>   one per area, etc.  If you are the sysadmin for a bunch of chemists at
>   a medical research company, there is no one you can turn to and ask for
>   technical opinions or even talk about better ways to manage your time,
>   do major overhauls, etc.  The nearest thing you have is Usenet, which
>   many sysadmins don't have access to.  

I currently (and usually) have a process up on IRC on a private channel.
of the dozen or so habitues of this channel, I'd guess ten are sysadmins.
when faced with a knotty problem, it's a good bet that one of the other
channel members has solved it before.

this, btw, is one of the few reasonable uses I have found for IRC.

josh