On 03/10/2008 11:33 AM, "Dan Shoop" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> I have a server admin guy working for me a few days a week. He comes
>>> with far more server experience than I ever had. In watching him,
>>> I'd
>>> say he tries to make it all too complicated- and there have been a
>>> few
>>> things that I got done in minutes that he had spent hours with.
>>
>> That is something that it's very easy to do, especially as you get
>> more
>> experience...making it harder than it should be
>
>
> The phrase is "complex solutions for trivial non-problems."
>
> I'd note, however, that in many cases a more experienced sysadmin may
> purposefully choose what may appear at first glance to be a more
> complicated way to configure something but is in actuality easier or
> more feature-rich a method. A common example is DNS configuration.
> It's actually far easier for an experienced sysadmin to hand edit some
> files than use a GUI and often gives them additional options. Even
> when the task could have been performed with a GUI the experienced
> sysadmin may choose the "by-hand" method b/c thats they way they're
> used to doing it and know it works and can see exactly what they're
> getting.
I tend to see people going "I know Linux/Solaris/AIX, so I will make this
work like <thing I know>, rather than figuring out how <thing I don't know>
works so that I can use it properly". Seems to be based on the inability to
admit that in <thing they don't know> , they're back to being a n00b.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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