On Thursday 28 October 2004 00:39, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday, 28 October 2004 06.22, Allen wrote:
I'm sure you know that admins rarely have a GUI for everything.
Admins rarely work directly on the servers, I have yet to see an admin that didn't work from a desktop workstation, and it's possible to do command line stuff from X. Virtual terminals are *so* much nicer
Command line administration is good to know, but there's no need to be a masochist
Haha, I'm not THAT much of a Masochist. There are some things I don't even WANT too do with a VC. Like Using Vim as a useradd tool with /etc/passwd. I've seen a Free BSD user do that in a book and I was horrified. So you see, there is human in me :) When I use my laptop, I only drop to a VC too check Root mail, that's about it. I use Enlightenment and WindowMaker on it for GUI stuff, and sometimes Gnome and Kde. *Shutter* I just got an image in my head of that dude on BSD adding users with Vi. *Cringe* They say Free BSD admins "prefer it this way". Must be the same ones who install the entire system from floppy, ;)
and XMMS playing my play list.
do admins have sound cards? Most servers don't
I know an admin who has a sound card in his workstation ;) I know Servers don't really have a use for them.... But then again, wouldn't it be good for debug sounds or something similar? I'm not really sure because my experience in servers is minimal at best.