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

[Scott Castaline]

Marvin, International Martian of Mystery wrote:
> 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?
> 
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Isn't that the M$ way? Reboot then reinstall?