Seriously! The term is becoming useless when it's just a synonym for 'sysadmin' or 'random linux cruft'

Thanks! You are completely right. Just basic sysadmin stuff. It's titled that way simply a) I thought I'd see if I could hang with the term and b) the "source" of these commands (including myself) are from developers who specialize in rails ops work (so we do write app code, but specialize on the server side)