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- Subject: Re: On Systems Administrators who are Programmers (was: Re: [SLUG] composite multiple images command in imagemagick)
- From: "Lindsay Holmwood" <lindsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:06:53 +1000
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2008/7/1 Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 2008/6/17 Rick Welykochy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Leave programming in the large to analysts.
>
> I still have to disagree with you.
<snip>
>
> (Despite the two weeks I've had to think of more examples, I can only
> think of one in the public eye. I do not consider that to weaken my
> argument though -- if anything, just one example shows that it is both
> possible and likely that more examples of excellent sysadmin-written
> software exists.)
Cobbler, Func, collectd, Nagios, Ganglia. Any of the package
management systems to a certain degree.
Otherwise +1.
I could not have put this better myself.
Lindsay
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