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Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget to Do

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 7, 2007

“Out of the plethora of chores that we do each day, which ones
make up the top seven activities of forgetful system
administrators? To begin, you might ask yourselves if the answer is
quantitative or qualitative. Let’s think about it for a minute.

“You could look at the number of times you forget something. If
you did that, you might get a list of things like forgetting to set
your alarm clock or showing up to work with unmatched socks. We
need something scarier, like forgetting to turn off remote access
through a VPN to an employee that just left the company…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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