I fired an MCSE. The moron was useless. Knew a lot of buzz, but useless. Tell me, can you build a RAID from scratch using incomplete documentation. How do you fine tune and diagnose oplock contention problems between SAMBA and NFS? Have you ever automated a logon script using TCL?
Unix sysadmins are trained, not taught. It's like trying to become a carpenter, a fireman, or an actor. You can't wake up one day and be a Unix admin, you have to start with the basics and gain experience by trying new things. There are 1001 people out there who mistake a read through of "Unix for Dummies" as a genuine understanding of the operating system.
That said, there is nothing that says that with enough time, talent, and patience you can't be a unix admin. I started off hacking my own linux boxes out of spare parts. I helped out a few friends at their jobs with odd projects, and the experience I gained helped me land a few part time gigs until I could get my foot in the door of a real job with bennies, being a sysadmin. Its been 3 years, and man did I pay my dues.
A few other tips, learn TCL. If you find yourself doing the same sequence of commands over and over, just write a script to do it. Over time that has saved me man-years of work.
I'll have you know I personally ripped out a Microshit network and replaced it with Linux. Of course, I run a pretty ghetto shop, so we have the new rackmounts shipped blank.
The worst part is that management was behind me all the way.
Screw Mars, Colonize the moon
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Hey, no matter what planet you are going to, you are going to be living in a bubble for months at a time. I'd be a bit more comfortable debugging them bubbles where I'm six days from help, instead of six months.
Besides there are manufacturing processes (IE steel) that could benefit from the Moon's exposure to the vacuum of space. From the moon we could build spacecraft to other places that would be to complex to assemble in orbit, and too big to launch from Earth.
Well this is still cheating, but use as non-intrusive a vehicle as you can. What immediately comes to mind is my electric scooter. One still has reasonable freedom to move, they just sort of "surf" throughout the word, hitting a throttle, brake, and lean into the turns.
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I fired an MCSE. The moron was useless. Knew a lot of buzz, but useless. Tell me, can you build a RAID from scratch using incomplete documentation. How do you fine tune and diagnose oplock contention problems between SAMBA and NFS? Have you ever automated a logon script using TCL?
Make me feel like a slacker, it took me till I was 26 to get Senior Admin.
I took roughly the same path, with some lucky breaks in between.
Unix sysadmins are trained, not taught. It's like trying to become a carpenter, a fireman, or an actor. You can't wake up one day and be a Unix admin, you have to start with the basics and gain experience by trying new things. There are 1001 people out there who mistake a read through of "Unix for Dummies" as a genuine understanding of the operating system.
That said, there is nothing that says that with enough time, talent, and patience you can't be a unix admin. I started off hacking my own linux boxes out of spare parts. I helped out a few friends at their jobs with odd projects, and the experience I gained helped me land a few part time gigs until I could get my foot in the door of a real job with bennies, being a sysadmin. Its been 3 years, and man did I pay my dues.
A few other tips, learn TCL. If you find yourself doing the same sequence of commands over and over, just write a script to do it. Over time that has saved me man-years of work.
I'll have you know I personally ripped out a Microshit network and replaced it with Linux. Of course, I run a pretty ghetto shop, so we have the new rackmounts shipped blank.
The worst part is that management was behind me all the way.
Besides there are manufacturing processes (IE steel) that could benefit from the Moon's exposure to the vacuum of space. From the moon we could build spacecraft to other places that would be to complex to assemble in orbit, and too big to launch from Earth.
Well this is still cheating, but use as non-intrusive a vehicle as you can. What immediately comes to mind is my electric scooter. One still has reasonable freedom to move, they just sort of "surf" throughout the word, hitting a throttle, brake, and lean into the turns.
Maybe that's what "Web Surfing" is really about?