On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:14:52PM -0800, Greywolf wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 collver@softhome.net wrote:
> 
> # I have heard others say that in the future there will be no operating
> # system to speak of, and that hardware would be used through well-defined
> # object interfaces.  If that eliminates the need for system administration,
> # bring it on!  I'm not smart enough to see where BSD fits into this, other
> # than being well established and inherently flexible.
> 
> No systems administration?  Eliminated completely?
> 
> ...you realise you've just taken away many people's bread and butter
> if you do that, don't you?

Well, that's a matter of philosophy.  My bread and butter is in systems
administration.  Here are some ideas:

1) The computers are not there so that system administrators can have jobs.
The computers and the system administrators are there so that work can get
done.

2) Any task that may be automated probably should be automated.  In a way it
is demeaning to make a person do what a tool could do better.  As a whole,
it is also less profitable.

Ben