[Technical] Linux at a Sydney school

[Con Zymaris]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:14:08PM +1100, Clark, Ian C wrote:
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> > [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Con Zymaris
> > And just to add humour into the mix, here's an example of one 
> > of these clever managers from 'the departments' that Ian mentioned:
> > 
> >  http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127
> > 
> > (site seems slow at the moment...)
> > 
> > Read the whole thing and laugh while crying...
> 
> Tuttle is a town about the same size as Cobram.
> 
> So, you're not making fun of an IT Department at all, Con, but this
> bloke, Jerry Taylor, who is the town council manager:
> http://tinyurl.com/feewp
> 
> >From the exchange of emails, he doesn't seem to be able to get in touch
> with any employee who knows anything about computers - and in fact, he
> might not have one in a council for a town of 5000. His whole
> organization has only four computers for him, the Mayor, the councillors
> and employees.
> 
> So actually, his only mistake might have been getting some bloke down
> from Oklahoma City who hosted or put in a Linux webserver for customers
> who clearly couldn't cope with it, then ran. 
> 
> I cannot imagine Jerry even knowing how to ask "I want Centos, the
> binary equivalent of Red Hat Enterprise Server, without the licensing
> fees, please!"
> 

You certainly like to pick arguments, huh? ;-)

Tuttle may be small, but Taylor is still a clueless manager who is trying
to manage IT, badly, and I've met many like him in my travels over the
years. Who hasn't?

Which is my point. 

There are enough managers out there who are essentially clueless on the
technologies that they are managing, that vendors can sweet talk them into
crap platforms and crap solutions, often at taxpayer expense. 

_As_ a taxpayer, I take offence and thus my annoyance at the wasted $100
million from the Victorian government alone, each Microsoft software
refresh cycle.

And for those who couldn't get through to that URL beforehand, to decide 
for themselves if Taylor should be managing their IT:

 http://www.cybersource.com.au/users/conz/centos.html


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