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IT Maxims
NWC Readers chime in on tech-centric Truisms
October 9, 2004
2 Min Read
John Karr : Networks always go down on a Friday.
David Montgomery : If you can't do it from a command line interface, It probably isn't worth doing. (original). The correllary to this is: If it doesn't ship with a CLI don't buy it.
Jim Van Sickle : It's not a problem until it happens twice.
Warwick Learning : The Friday Afternoon Rule - "Don't touch ANYTHING."
Shaun Jennings : You are not a true IT professional unless one of your rooms is filled with old computer parts that you know you will need someday but never use.
Ken Neenan : There are 10 kinds of people: Those who understand Binary and those who don't.
Tom Stuckel : Patch panel cable guides are never big enough, and your fingers are going to hurt after tracing that bad patch.
Brent Short : Hardware vendor's SE in response to problems with a NIC "Whenever you have software controlling hardware, you're gonna' have problems"
Jim Kiley : No matter how many times you save the company tons of money in recovered data or uptime, the time you get caught playing Quake always shows up during salary review. Robert McClellan : You are not a true IT professional until you have installed Windows 1.0 on a 10mhz XT box
John Crighton : We have a name for IT professionals who have not experienced a catastrophic loss of data.................................................inexperienced.
Davis Conley :
The longer it takes to make a precautionary backup the less likely you are to need it, but only if you actually take the time to make it.
The longer it takes a system to reboot the more likely the problem you're working on will require a reboot after each step.
It takes a clueless user to find a sys admin's most petty mistakes.
Gary Brick : Better to buy a Macintosh and be thought a fool, than a Windows machine and remove all doubt. (source unknown) Donald Boyd : You're not a IT pro untill you've experience "the blue screen of death".
Roy Harvey :
Fast, cheap, correct. Pick two, then hope you get at least one.
You can make a system fool proof, but you can't make it damn-fool proof.
Daniel Petcher : Anything named ____Works, doesn't.
Jonathan W. Logan : Enterprise IT ISN'T Michael Johnson : Constants aren't. Variables don't
Ralph M. DeFrangesco : You can always tell the difference between real Systems Administrators and wanna-bees. When a system goes down, real SA's are seen running to the Data Center while everyone else is seen leaving!
Rick Wegner :
You can't have shIT without IT.
IT happens
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