I’ve worked in IT for nearly 10 years now. First as a help desk operator, then a Linux sysadmin, and now a Drupal developer/webmaster. In that time, I’ve run into a handful of really perplexing problems. ”Perplexing” meaning after hours (usually, days) of troubleshooting, I can’t figure out why the system is suddenly unstable.
You know those type of problems, right?
The kind that’s so perplexing that you’re sure it’s gotta be a hardware problem, even though your years of admin experience tells you it’s almost never (like 99.999% of the time) a hardware issue. But you’ve looked at (seemingly) all the possible software causes.
I was just reminded of this recently, and I’m here to remind you: It’s never a hardware problem. It’s always a software problem.
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Hi, I'm Greg. I'm a cofounder of Killer Aces Media. We publish community blogs like