goofballs

I will be the first to admit that systems administration is a protection racket: pay us, or something *bad* will happen to your network. Of course, the fact that bad things do happen to servers and networks -- worse, if you host a site on the internet you invite all sorts of badness from bored teenagers to Chinese government-funded hacker farms -- keeps us systems administrators out of jail for extorting money (our salaries) from companies for protection. As if that's not bad enough, us systems administrators are notorious for erecting barriers between developers and their masters, dumb management, and critical production systems that the systems administrators are tasked with maintaining. QA, regression testing, staging and peer review are just some of the tools in the "stymy development" tool box systems administrators use to slow down the development cycle from "pretty fast" to "reckless, stupid abandon". Developers, who know in their hearts that th...