Linux Admin Asked Savvy Scientist For IT Help And The Boffin Blew It
The Register, Monday, October 21st, 2024
In science, every day is about testing hypotheses. Such as: 'plugging this thing in here is OK, right?'
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This week's main character we'll Regomize as "Igor" because he used to work in a lab back in the day. The lab was full of networked computers, but none of the boffins - for Igor was a boffin - knew much of how the software side of it all worked.
What Igor did know how to do was put together the custom cables and RJ45 connectors that linked it all up. Thus it came to be that when one of the network admins needed a hand adding some new Linux boxes to the network, Igor was recruited to handle the physical stuff while the admin worked magic at the keyboard.