Incoherent Ramblings of a Staffer
By: Charles Rumford
Issue date: 12/1/06 Section: Entertainment
Originally published: 12/1/06 at 9:52 AM EST
Last update: 12/1/06 at 9:52 AM EST
Originally published: 12/1/06 at 9:52 AM EST
Last update: 12/1/06 at 9:52 AM EST
Even as I write this ramble of doom, I'm using a computer. I help administrate servers and workstations at work, and as part of my job at The Triangle is to manage our server and the computers that are used to produce the paper that you see in front of you. Some people think that just because I am essentially a computer guru, I wouldn't hate computers, but they are half of my bane of existence. Yes, half - a whole 50 percent of all of my hate. There are other things, but they don't make up half of what computers bring to my life.
Computers bring easy to our lives. They make communication instantaneous; they bring the world's information to our fingertips at a moment's notice (when you can remember what you want to search for - but that's another ramble). But what people don't think about is that pain and agony that people go through to make the end-user's life easier, and sometimes the non-end-users. For example: servers. Servers, to me, were designed to centralize information so that it is easier for users to get to their information. But what happens when something goes wrong? I get a phone call from a server at 3:24 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Yes, early in the morning. Then there are the phone calls right when you fall asleep that just tick you off because after them, you never fall asleep.
So, if I was taught how to do everything without a computer, then I think that I would be a little happier, but then I would be complaining about my lack of patience. So I guess it's a round robin.
Computers bring easy to our lives. They make communication instantaneous; they bring the world's information to our fingertips at a moment's notice (when you can remember what you want to search for - but that's another ramble). But what people don't think about is that pain and agony that people go through to make the end-user's life easier, and sometimes the non-end-users. For example: servers. Servers, to me, were designed to centralize information so that it is easier for users to get to their information. But what happens when something goes wrong? I get a phone call from a server at 3:24 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Yes, early in the morning. Then there are the phone calls right when you fall asleep that just tick you off because after them, you never fall asleep.
So, if I was taught how to do everything without a computer, then I think that I would be a little happier, but then I would be complaining about my lack of patience. So I guess it's a round robin.
