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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 02:10:26 JST silverwizard

   My church is the kind of church where people test their home made life sized BB8 models after the service to make sure the magnets hold the head on when the body is rolling.

   I am still somehow the local DNS and email expert

   these skills are considered lost art, and are way too young to have that distinction

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     Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas (steevmi1@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 02:48:00 JST Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas

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     @silverwizard I've lost track of the number of times that I've noted my good fortune for having cut my sysadmin teeth in a time when you did everything -- I've worked places where I ran phone and voicemail, networks, storage, DNS, e-mail, and all the major UNIX servers (HPUX, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, DG-UX, Ultrix, IRIX, and a couple of others in there as well). I'm not an expert in any of this by any means, but I know a little (or more) about a lot of things.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 02:48:09 JST silverwizard

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     • Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas
     @steevmi1 I started sysadminning in 2012, after the cloud move started, but I'm a weirdo throwback
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     Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas (steevmi1@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 03:00:13 JST Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas

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     @silverwizard I started back in 1992 or thereabouts, working for a company that made a Microsoft Office software suite for UNIX (and later Linux) systems, so we had a couple of everything floating around plus a large suite of Sun Microsystems kit for infrastructure. I kept being in places where I did a little of everything until I moved to a global pharma company in 2007, at which point UNIX had been long dead and IT was increasingly specialized and I was servers with occasional storage.

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