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Old 10-07-2008, 11:54 AM   #2639
Undertoad
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System administration is generally local -- only because somebody has to locally install the things that let people work remotely.

Nowadays "integrated lights out" is all the rage -- things that let you *really* run a computer from anywhere on the Internet. At my previous job, we became remote sysadmins as much as possible, but there's a limit where somebody actually has to be on site -- to change out disk drives, diagnose hardware problems, that sort of thing.
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