i should have titled the thread *nix guy rant.

all i say is, if it wasn't for bad software, bad hardware, and n00b users, i would have nothing to do. i would not have a job. there is only so much tweaking one can do of a perfect system.

here's an example. there used to be 4 guys in our support dept. we used to have the network go down a lot. hub's freeze. reset. crash. that generated work. 4 guys were employed.

over the years, we invested in better cabling. better switches. no more network infrastructure problems. no more need to have 4 guys. the dept. is down to 2 guys. once we fully go into directory services land and have the same vendor products communicating with one another (windows on the clients/windows of the back end!) we are going to remove a lot of the problems we have now and probably there will only need to be 1 guy in the dept.