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This really should be a "duh" for any system administrator. If not, time to find a new job :)
Not really. In the future there will be a whole crop of system administrators who don't ever deal with hardware and data center issues thanks to cloud computing. There will still be plenty to do and plenty to worry about.
Air conditioning shuts down on the weekend? THAT'S NOT HOW BUILDING HEAT REGULATION WORKS.
You clearly have not leased space in a building owned and run by accountants. • 4:00pm? Shut it off. Leave the blowers going at least. (Had negotiate life support systems until 6pm in the next lease.) • Long weekend? Shut it off. • Compressor that drives the thermostat system fails? Get a cheap household unit from Harbor Freight. (Thunderously loud, ran nearly 24 hours a day, for a while anyway.) • One of the two mai…
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You clearly have not leased space in a building owned and run by accountants. • 4:00pm? Shut it off. Leave the blowers going at least. (Had negotiate life support systems until 6pm in the next lease.) • Long weekend? Shut it off. • Compressor that drives the thermostat system fails? Get a cheap household unit from Harbor Freight. (Thunderously loud, ran nearly 24 hours a day, for a while anyway.) • One of the two mai…
Is it really cheaper to turn AC off and then recool the building compared to keeping AC running?
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Unless you work in a large organization, the "system adminstrator" often isn't actually a System Administrator
That doesn't make sense. The larger the organization, the more often they have large system administrator teams. In fact, most large organizations have compliance requirements, which often map people with proper skills to proper titles and responsibilities in order to get the correct liability protection. I can not imagine Google allowing some junior programmer to setup a little closet and run servers in there withou…