"The key is to evolve your skills with the demand", its been a far road from editing the config.sys file to understanding VLAN tagging.
Also, one thing I am surprised not on there is virtualization, I think you need a broad set of skills to manage a vmware environment, on the technical side you need to know different OS's, SAN, VLANs, IO etc. Also you need to be able to manage a political minefield where everyone things they should have a high priorty, and justify budgets from different groups using those resources.
And this is why I thank god I just up AND DID Web Development and didn't shit my money down the toilet on a CS degree. So yes -- Why are you paying for college?
For most Software Development, the "University of Google" is a far more cost and time effective education.
Specializing in Web development is OK, not knocking that, but doesn't school also teach you about stuff you don't want to learn.
Back in the day I didn't want to do Unix, but I was forced to write C programs on Unix box. Learned vi (and a little bit of edlin), how to grep and pipe, processes and spawning.
Saves the day cause I understand how some of the stuff works.
On ESXi someone tried to delete a folder that contained a running VM, I don't think there is anything on google on bringing that back, but knew it was still running, knew about file handles, VMDK was still there and was able to recover the VM. Would have been gone if they rebooted the host.
Hardware class tought me about boot sectors and was able to recover a physical hard disk.
Being forced to telnet to port 80 and 25 taught me about protocols.
Yeah it was 4 years, but sure makes it easier to figure out stuff, pretty sure I am at a higher pay grade then other Sr Level Engineers in my company.
Maybe you can spin up a web page faster then me, I would higher you, but they would trust me to go and talk to the different departments, come up with the requirements and schedule. No I am not a PM.
So is this the start of Patent Armageddon we were told was coming.
See Apple, Nokia, and HTC lob patent nukes at each other is pretty interesting. Need to start stockpiling my old POTS phones. Maybe the owner of tone dialing will get into the fray as well.
I wonder if tapping out people's phone number via pulse dialing on my landline still works or did someone patent that too and is requesting royalties.
Couple years ago I worked on a High Performance Cluster in Seattle. One of the things I did was create a modified version of Red Hat 7.3 that ran entirely in memory so I could ssh into a node and tar, dump, fdisk etc the hard drive.
Late last year I visited the site again and my former coworkers told me they still use that method, but in slightly different manner, they permanently run it in memory instead of using it to prepare the hard drive. So recently I redid the project it with CentOS 5.4 and got it to run entirely in memory on various types of hardware. No X though.
I took the CentOS 5.4 Live CD and made a custom bootable DVD with stuff I want in it and I did get it to run on various pieces of hardware with different hardware specs from a Laptop w/ wireless to a Desktop with an old video card.
It is an interesting project and it really a great way to learn how Linux works, from how it boots up, to initrd, how ldd works, and identifying hardware and getting firmware to load. My point is that I would not deny this opportunity to learn a lot of details of Linux from your students.
If you know your stuff, I'd love to work with you.
But I've seen hotshots cut down to size and have been forced to bail Freshouts.
I keep my skills sharp and take a holistic view of the workplace environment. I know when to ask, what to ask and how to ask. Basically what I'm saying is that there are some skills not developed untill you put in a couple of years and you still need to keep up with technology to stay relevant.
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"The key is to evolve your skills with the demand", its been a far road from editing the config.sys file to understanding VLAN tagging.
Also, one thing I am surprised not on there is virtualization, I think you need a broad set of skills to manage a vmware environment, on the technical side you need to know different OS's, SAN, VLANs, IO etc. Also you need to be able to manage a political minefield where everyone things they should have a high priorty, and justify budgets from different groups using those resources.
And this is why I thank god I just up AND DID Web Development and didn't shit my money down the toilet on a CS degree.
So yes -- Why are you paying for college?
For most Software Development, the "University of Google" is a far more cost and time effective education.
Specializing in Web development is OK, not knocking that, but doesn't school also teach you about stuff you don't want to learn.
Back in the day I didn't want to do Unix, but I was forced to write C programs on Unix box. Learned vi (and a little bit of edlin), how to grep and pipe, processes and spawning.
Saves the day cause I understand how some of the stuff works.
On ESXi someone tried to delete a folder that contained a running VM, I don't think there is anything on google on bringing that back, but knew it was still running, knew about file handles, VMDK was still there and was able to recover the VM. Would have been gone if they rebooted the host.
Hardware class tought me about boot sectors and was able to recover a physical hard disk.
Being forced to telnet to port 80 and 25 taught me about protocols.
Yeah it was 4 years, but sure makes it easier to figure out stuff, pretty sure I am at a higher pay grade then other Sr Level Engineers in my company.
Maybe you can spin up a web page faster then me, I would higher you, but they would trust me to go and talk to the different departments, come up with the requirements and schedule. No I am not a PM.
Wonder if we are going to run out of credit card numbers.
These virtual credit cards are the reverse of NAT.
So is this the start of Patent Armageddon we were told was coming.
See Apple, Nokia, and HTC lob patent nukes at each other is pretty interesting. Need to start stockpiling my old POTS phones. Maybe the owner of tone dialing will get into the fray as well.
I wonder if tapping out people's phone number via pulse dialing on my landline still works or did someone patent that too and is requesting royalties.
Couple years ago I worked on a High Performance Cluster in Seattle. One of the things I did was create a modified version of Red Hat 7.3 that ran entirely in memory so I could ssh into a node and tar, dump, fdisk etc the hard drive. Late last year I visited the site again and my former coworkers told me they still use that method, but in slightly different manner, they permanently run it in memory instead of using it to prepare the hard drive. So recently I redid the project it with CentOS 5.4 and got it to run entirely in memory on various types of hardware. No X though. I took the CentOS 5.4 Live CD and made a custom bootable DVD with stuff I want in it and I did get it to run on various pieces of hardware with different hardware specs from a Laptop w/ wireless to a Desktop with an old video card. It is an interesting project and it really a great way to learn how Linux works, from how it boots up, to initrd, how ldd works, and identifying hardware and getting firmware to load. My point is that I would not deny this opportunity to learn a lot of details of Linux from your students.
Like Fisher Plaza in Seattle
If you know your stuff, I'd love to work with you. But I've seen hotshots cut down to size and have been forced to bail Freshouts. I keep my skills sharp and take a holistic view of the workplace environment. I know when to ask, what to ask and how to ask. Basically what I'm saying is that there are some skills not developed untill you put in a couple of years and you still need to keep up with technology to stay relevant.