Andrew Sullivan

Something about sleeping like a baby.

So what I'm hearing is probably from his perspective, you are a very challenging support person.

Yeah.

Except it can't get any worse than mine.

So I still got that going for me.

I'm doing good.

I'm learning all kinds of stuff over here.

I thought I was a little worried about you.

No, I'm also having slightly, I'm having flashbacks to way back when, when I was a storage slash Unix slash VMware administrator and fighting those fights of, you know, having mixed mode and what that means for, oh, well, the last time somebody touched this, it was with a Linux system, right?

Which means that it's now owned by Linux, which means that trying to read permission or trying to do these things on the Windows side isn't going to work.

And it was a three-year-long battle at the customer that I worked at to finally get to having either Windows or NTFS, right, or the Unix-style permission sets configured correctly.

Well, and more importantly, it became transparent to the end users, right?

They stopped having to think about it and instead just used, right, accessed things the way that they needed to access them.

And, you know, I most commonly use my Windows desktop, but occasionally I access it from Linux, and once everything is configured correctly and all that mixed-mode wonkiness – wonkiness is a bad word – but all the quirks that are introduced, right, when you're using it that way are –

mitigated, right?

And then it works the way that they expect.

Yeah, I mean, that being said, I can see where it's enticing, right?

Particularly if we're talking about somebody who has multiple responsibilities, right?

The proverbial wears multiple hats of, you know, I want to put as little thought into this as possible so that way I can just get going and up and running.

And I mean, I've seen things like I saw a customer who had deployed everything into a single volume.