On Sun, July 20, 2008 12:43 pm, SJS wrote: > begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:18:23PM -0700: >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Brad Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM >> Subject: Terry Childs Coverage >> To: Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> It would be interesting to hear reactions about this from >> the folks on kplug >> > [snip] >> http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/coverage-of-terry-childs.html >> >> This eemed to me a mail list story given the number of >> system admins who hang around here. >> >> Comments? > > The more information that comes out, the worse the City looks; the > suggestion of sacking all of SF's IT management (and I'd go a little > higher than that as well) seems to make a lot of sense. Terry sounds > like an irascible sort of person, but part of a manager's job is > learning how to handle such people. > > It looks like he was a good administrator, in that he was protective of > his users (The System Must Stay Up) and probably overworked. And it > looks like the management was more interested in turf wars and politics > than keeping the system working, so he assumed the responsibility. > > Then someone tried twisting his arm, and he didn't kowtow properly. > > Hijinks ensue. >
Is he the guy who brought SF down? No time to read it. Sysadmins who mess up systems are the moral equivalent of doctors who kill patients. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
