[ale] venting about an old sysadmin - WAS: Using OS X as a thin client

[Marvin, International Martian of Mystery]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:00 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Jerald Sheets wrote:
> > 
> > Hey...  I'm a sysadmin.  I see your unkind and ungentle and raise you  
> > a devious and unforgiving.  :D
> > 
> 
> throw in a "spiteful" and a heavy portion of distrust and you could have
> the sysadmins that wrongly thought my using a LiveCD to fix a huge comma
> delimited text file was grounds for my getting written up.  even after
> showing them that Excel and Access choked on the file (several hundred
> meg worth), they didn't drop the matter.
> 
> one even said, "i could have written a program to do that in FoxPro(?)"

But this begs the question:  are windows "sysadmins" REALLY "sysadmins",
or are they just the guys who re-install the OS every few months?