Re: Senate action today

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 02:16:54 GMT, "D.J. Osborn"
<dj_osborn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Jon Porter" <jporter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> "D.J. Osborn" <dj_osborn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:lxlrf.35729$BZ5.19869@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> "GBinNC" <GBinNC@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:56:22 GMT, "D.J. Osborn" <dj_osborn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>You wrote on more than one occasion about your "consulting" business.
>>>>>For
>>>>>example, on 12-22-02, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>"I can't begin to tell you how much money I
>>>>>earned working for hours and hours helping businesses recover from
>>>>>disasters -- when if they had had a current backup it could have been
>>>>>done in no time at all."
>>>>>
>>>>>Clearly, you repaired their computers.
>>>>
>>>> They didn't BREAK their computers, David.
>>>
>>> Their computers didn't function properly. I'm confident that many people
>>> would consider an improperly-functioning computer to be broken
>>
>> Such work is considered administration, not PC repair. I just finished
>> earning a college degree in that sort of thing, and the faculty of the
>> Computer Science department refers to the work of handling, storing,
>> backing up, recovery, and manipulation of data and computer systems as
>> administration. PC repair is a different degree track that involves
>> correcting hardware issues but not administrative work.
>> --
>
>
>That's a fascinating claim, but the people who maintain our computers at
>work (hardware or software) aren't called administrators.

I am. And I do exactly that.

Tom
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