Dear Friend:
Miquel van Smoorenburg
It starts out innocently enough. A terminal won't work. You swap it
out. Someone can't access a favorite application. A permission was
changed? Without your knowledge? The suddenly an ls kicks up a screen
full of garbage.
By now your phone is ringing continously, and you know what comes
next.
The system crashes!
Sound familiar? Sound possible? If you answered yes to either
question - or if you're just the curious type - read on.
Sys Admin is the first and only magazine written for you in your role
as administrator of a UNIX system. Wheteher you support 1 user or 5000,
[SNIP]
.... this was the text I received today in a snail-mail spam letter
from a magazine called "Sys.Admin". At first I thought they wanted
to sell me the collected stories of Simon the BOFH, but it turned out
to be just spam. Has anyone ever seen this magazine? What's your
opinion about it?
The only positive side of the letter was that it was printed in
a fixed-width font with <80 chars per line :|
Mike.
Simon Cozens
>Sys Admin is the first and only magazine written for you in your role
>as administrator of a UNIX system. Wheteher you support 1 user or 5000,
I have a feeling that is the newsletter formerly known as Root.
I am not going to pass comment, judge for yourself:
http://www.samag.com/
--
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
Tony Finch
>
>Never heard of the newsletter, but SysAdmin has been around for
>several years, at least. Granted they definitely seem to be geared
>towards the novice/intermediate sysadmin and not the advanced, but
>occasionally they have an interesting article or two. Best of all,
>they pay sysadmins to write stuff for them (aka easy cash). :}
Sounds too much like documentation to me.
Tony.
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Bill Cole
(Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote:
> .... this was the text I received today in a snail-mail spam letter
> from a magazine called "Sys.Admin". At first I thought they wanted
> to sell me the collected stories of Simon the BOFH, but it turned out
> to be just spam. Has anyone ever seen this magazine? What's your
> opinion about it?
Quite good actually. I've been a subscriber for a year and might renew
(the pimp bought the subscription, after my former boss (not PH) twisted
their corporate arm VERY hard. The team also got the official Slowaris
admin guide. He was unable to offer us trips to LISA.) The maga is usually
good, and occasionally useful. They seem to have a clued editorial staff.
Note that they did not send you e-mail spam.
--
Bill Cole, Geek at large
I'm casually looking for a new job
See: http://sc1.scconsult.com/~bill/resume.html for a resume and more
5094th at Freenix!!!
Bill Cole
<a...@oceanwave.com> wrote:
> simon> I have a feeling that is the newsletter formerly known as Root.
>
> Never heard of the newsletter, but SysAdmin has been around for
> several years, at least. Granted they definitely seem to be geared
> towards the novice/intermediate sysadmin and not the advanced, but
> occasionally they have an interesting article or two. Best of all,
> they pay sysadmins to write stuff for them (aka easy cash). :}
Maybe it says too much about me that I find that they are about evenly
split between the "anyone who knows to get the mag should already know
that" articles, the "articles I have to read because I'm sure that 5% will
be new and 1% will be useful," the "who the hell really does that crap in
a production environment" articles, and "Hmm, this is interesting"
articles.
So maybe not aimed low so much as widely spread.
Andy Davidson
>>Sys Admin is the first and only magazine written for you in your role
>>as administrator of a UNIX system. Wheteher you support 1 user or 5000,
>I have a feeling that is the newsletter formerly known as Root.
When I first heard of it, I asked my newsagent to get me a copy. He tried
for weeks, and he couldn't get one, despite the fact that it is listed
in the wholesaler's magazine as "get-able."
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Andy Davidson <an...@nosignal.org.uk>
Sean Purdy
I used to get it from a little newsagent in the middle of Oxford Street.
(North side, about halfway down). Haven't seen it for a bit though.
I'll check next time I'm there.
Sean