I just finished writing a massive comment on Ed Bott’s blog in response to this post and the first 3 comments that followed it. The comment is between 2 and 3 times the length of Ed’s original post, and quite probably way more than he was asking for when he decided to comment on the recent virus troubles he mentions. When I finished writing the comment, I was so utterly pleased with the way I made some of my points and outlined several of the problems faced by Systems Administrators in today’s world that I decided to post it here as well, since it more than qualifies as its own blog entry (from hell?). In order to understand it, please read Ed’s post (it’s short) that I linked to above first. Here goes:

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