Industry Best Practice is another way of saying “Follow the Herd”

Cardiff’s new half-metre telescope is now operational. It’s even on twitter.

And while we are talking telescopes; SETI’s new radio telescopes just made first light.

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When we discuss a piece of monitoring software that you would like writing and I tell you that we can collect any data that you want, but you have to tell me what you want reports on up-front so that the data can be collected. If you then send me those requirements 24 hours before you need the report generating my response will not be “right away Sir. I’ll magically collect all those data you didn’t tell me you needed.”, My response will be pithy and anglo-saxon.

Love and Hugs,
Huw

SysAdmin, Tech

Seth Godin deserves a pat on his shiny, bald head for this. I got lucky when I landed my first job at MPC. But I’d also spent a year immersing myself in Linux on my own time. Like the man said: luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Of course, you could still get run over by a bus.

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