[68636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Mon Mar 15 10:23:09 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:22:32 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4055C8DA.8080805@templin.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Pete Templin wrote:
>
> Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Pete Templin wrote:
>>
>>> There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulting - I don't do
>>> Windows, and I'm getting overrun by Linux corrosion slowly. I route,
>>> I switch, I help with securing networks. And I do wear a lot of hats
>>> at my day job, but I remind them that they hired a specialist, and
>>> promised lots of server support all along the way. Granted, the
>>> Windows guy is overloaded and the UNIX/Linux guy would snore in front
>>> of his PHB...
>>
>>
>> If you are in Nebraska I can help you with the Unemploy^WWorkforce
>> Development paperwork.
>
>
> I didn't suggest saying "I'm not gonna do it". I just suggested "You
> hired me to deploy dynamic routing on your statically-routed network.
> What prompted you to think that I could configure site-wide anti-virus
> services such that no one ever reports a virus leak from our enterprise,
> without training, time to test and develop such a critical solution, or
> both?"
It turns out that they can hire people with all kinds of certifications
that say thye can do all of that for a lot less than what they are
paying a "specialist".
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