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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A long time ago when I handed off my duties when leaving, my replacement (in house) was absolutely astonished at how little I was doing. I had taken the global fleet of bar/retail/hotel/restaurant/office printers (minus properties in China) from around 30% of total being OOS to less than 3% in 18 months. Everything from giant plotters to the fry cooks' line printers.

What my replacement didn't see was the 3 months I spent not sleeping. Worth every second.

Automate the living fuck out of everything (that's ok to automate) & read reports / logs.

[edit] A love letter to Bash, Korn (pdksh) & Cron [dbl edit] And Tail. [tpl edit] and I guess all of /var

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Any shell is the duct tape of computers.

The best engineers can do anything with duct tape.