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  • October 18, 2013 at 7:52 am

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    OCTom (10/18/2013)

    george sibbald (10/16/2013)

    I avoid it as if I do I get asked to fix their PCs, and I know nothing about them. Trying to explain to the uninitiated that a DBA is something different is impossible.

    Exactly! If they know you work in I.T. at all, they think you know everything about all technology. :crazy:

    And I bet I'm not the only one who's getting tired of the hilarious question 'do you just tell people to switch it off and on again?

    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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