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Old 26th February 2013
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Originally Posted by J65nko View Post
I feel like in the MS world there are two kinds of people and sub-organizations: system admin and developer. Seems to me like MS, the whole company, is a developer culture somehow and not at all a sys admin culture. This isn't their first screw up, right? Remember when their servers got hacked and somebody pulled their source code.

Seems like in the Unix world, there isn't as strong a division between development and admin. Perhaps because admin is actually pleasant enough for a developer to not instantly lose interest in, on the one hand, and the sysadmin's are allowed some development since they're not considered to be such a separate kind of life form. Or perhaps it's that there's a culture of Unix everyone more or less agrees on that includes a set of guidelines for how systems should be administrated and that ordinary users and developers are expected to learn the more important of these rules.

These are gross generalizations of course. Still, isn't it an odd idea that you'd put data of any importance on a server MS controls (hotmail notwithstanding)?
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