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

[John Heim]

From: "Marvin, International Martian of Mystery" 
<marvin.higginbottom at gmail.com>
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:00 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
>> 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?

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
"The two basic principles of Windows system administration: For minor 
problems, reboot.  For major problems, reinstall."

Preston, I would like to know what objection the Windows sysadmins had to 
using a live CD. Why would they have a problem with that?