Angelic Eye for the Gendered-Species Individual ([info]rysmiel) wrote,
@ 2008-07-09 12:05:00
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more mutterings
+: what a wonderful modern age we live in, particularly with reference to communications technology.

+: friends.

-: missing most friends most of the time as an inevitable consequence of the size of the planet we live on.

-: poor impulse control combined with wonderful modern communications technology leads to sleep-shortness and not getting so much house-cleaning done as I had intended.

+: raccoon wandering around behind the office yesterday.

+: meeting with $boss2 and $sysadmin about needing more disk space.

-: $sysadmin still insistent that we clean up existing disks some more before he will give us another actual disk; this less than entirely useful because a) we have not permissions to clean up accounts for people who have long since left, and b) the amount of extra space we need really is more than this can possibly retrieve.

+: single-city cultural victory to the Sumerians last night.

+: patisserie open this morning.

-: $programmer not yet in because of car issues.

-: Principal development server still down because of power source issues.

+: Third part of The Third Ether feels ready to go.

-: hardware for transferring stuff from writing laptop to anywhere else is in Britain with [info]papersky.


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[info]redbird
2008-07-08 05:10 pm UTC (link)
Sysadmin has been in the field too long: disk space is cheap these days, enough so that it's probably not worth using up your and your team's paid time to postpone buying another disk even if the other factors weren't there. It might also be worth pointing out to him that he is the sysadmin, that not cleaning up these accounts is because of a permissions problem, and that permissions problems are his job to fix.

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[info]rysmiel
2008-07-08 05:16 pm UTC (link)
His position is that throwing more new disks at the problem is not addressing the complexity and disorganisation of the existing space, and will make it harder to manage and harder for him to provide reasonable services for the existing users long term; and we do have a couple of places where the accumulated layers of code and work and so on have become pretty impenetrable and generally Cthulhoid. Nonetheless, that the groups and people responsible for all this did not clean up their own messes behind them is not IMO justification for making so doing my team's responsibility.

Edited at 2008-07-08 05:16 pm UTC

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