Digital Economy Bill

[pctech]

What you guys don't know about your chosen profession or subject probably isn't worth knowing.

When I started working at my current employer there was a chap who was just about to retire and was the head of a team that looked after the servers in a rather large server room.

These servers provided a lot of mission critical services to the organisation and its customers and part of my (and my colleagues') job then was to provide out of hours cover for these servers (restarting them if they fell over and doing anything else we were asked by an on-call tech person)

There must have been in excess of 300 servers in there so in order that I knew what I had to do I asked for a guided tour and he was kind enough to oblige,

The guy knew exactly what CPU each server had, how much RAM, the OS and the services it provided, all off the top of his head.

Now I don't think there's anyone in the organisation with such knowledge and hardware and software have changed around rather a lot since then.

[Rik]

Knowledge is regarded as disposable nowadays - till things go wrong.

[Glenn]

It seems to be taught that way too

[Rik]

We live in myopic times.

[pctech]

Very true