I have just learned that, beginning in 3 days, my employees will no longer be able to receive their work email. Apparently Google is dropping support for Gmail accounts being able to fetch mail from outside accounts. At all. And they announced this change less than 60 days ago. (The announcement was in the basement, stairs, leopard, etc.) What I want to accomplish is simple: When email ...
I admit I know nothing about him apart from the linked wiki page elsewhere. But nothing I read there seems to indicate he can be a good admin.
What you state he wants to achieve is what ignorant managers sometimes say they want without understanding how silly it is. I was in IT twenty years ago already, while still being green and unbearded, and even then this would have been an extremely bad and dumb idea.
I hold the (possibly mistaken) belief that someone who can program everything from a web browser to a screensaver can, if they so choose, be a good sysadmin.
I also believe programmers usually don’t choose to be good sysadmins, viewing such work as an annoyance to spend as little effort on as they can get away with, which is what it looks like jwz has done here. Someone with his experience should be self-aware enough to understand who is to blame when that’s what they’re doing.
I admit I know nothing about him apart from the linked wiki page elsewhere. But nothing I read there seems to indicate he can be a good admin.
What you state he wants to achieve is what ignorant managers sometimes say they want without understanding how silly it is. I was in IT twenty years ago already, while still being green and unbearded, and even then this would have been an extremely bad and dumb idea.
I hold the (possibly mistaken) belief that someone who can program everything from a web browser to a screensaver can, if they so choose, be a good sysadmin.
I also believe programmers usually don’t choose to be good sysadmins, viewing such work as an annoyance to spend as little effort on as they can get away with, which is what it looks like jwz has done here. Someone with his experience should be self-aware enough to understand who is to blame when that’s what they’re doing.