On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:49:13PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> AV scanning is an embarrasingly parallel problem, of course it
> scales. You might need a few more el cheapo pc engines thats all.
It's curious - but farming it out and still keeping mail delivery to
a reasonable time has not shown to have much success.
You must be doing something wrong, it is one of the best scaling
problems, both in theory and practice.
> I'll quote a former manager who shall remain nameless for
his own
> safety, when we had similar arguments long ago...
>
> "They aren't paid to learn, they are paid to answer the phone"
>
> Think about it with a business hat on 8)
I think about it with a sysadmin hat on. And I work in
academia. There are those of us who give a crap about educating and
making better users out of what we have.
I make a point to not enable-users to pick up bad habits.
Viewing the world of the internet as something that someone else will
protect you from is one of those bad habits.
To quote a fictional character of the magical persuasion: CONSTANT
VIGILANCE!
:)
Please let the poor physicians and other acedemic staff do their job
instead of updating their workstations. You have been hired as a
sysadmin to make their life easier and protect them from the evil.
While I'm not fond of a policy state, I'd prefer the police watching
over the villains than teaching me kung fu ;)
(or having me buy a gun, which is the sad analogon ...)
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Axel.Thimm(a)physik.fu-berlin.de