or (heaven forbid) get the source code and recompile it - anything you have to buy will have binaries for the different Unices - and there's this neat new tool called 'the C++ compiler', which (when combined with a little thing called 'make') means that even a Microsoft NT Admin could recompile most of the OpenSource stuff.
Amen 2names - and let's have a moment of silence for the $DISPLAY variable shall we?
I TOTALLY have to disagree - as a UNIX Admin who has to support all three of the big three on a daily basis - the CLOSEST analagy you can get is that they are all cars, the are DEFINATELY not the same model... Admittedly, you can install all the tools you want to make a SystemV-based system work like a BSD based system - but if you don't stay familiar with all of the different tools and locations and file systems and tuning parameters ---- well basically your a Windows Admin.
On the OTHER hand, I have to agree that some Unices are better at different tasks - and that if you're an admin worth your salt you should be able to adapt to all three. Your scripts should be written to work on multiple platforms, your.bashrc aught to for the OS type - then run appropriately, and you aught to know the different between ndd -set/dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat xxxxxand no -o tcp_recvspace xxxxx (not to mention the difference between/sbin/rc3.d and/etc/rc.net).
This is where we run into our problem as admins who have taken the time to learn about what we're actually doing, as opposed to admins who know how to launch SAM or SMIT and click the buttons (not that the GUI tools are bad all the time mind you, just that you aught to understand what is going on behind the scenes.....)
anyway, enough ranting - I think it's worth having multiple varieties of OS - but it's not easy, and you do have to send your admins to training - but with tools like Veritas you can make many of the day to day tasks for your UNIX Operators much easier - leaving your Admins to deal with interesting problems, and read/.
toph -- the opinionated Go away or I'll replace you with a VERY small shell script! Do not anger the Sys Admin, for they are subtle and quick to anger
I use a split keyboard at home, and have a standard Microsoft Wheel mouse a the office. (If I could just figure a way to get all of the stuff I like on the same PC w/o toting them all over the earth). Point being, I love my MS split keyboard, except that they have taken the arrow keys on the new board and shaped them into a pretty little diamond for complete inaccesability. I usually just use the number pad to get around this faux pax. And I have to say that I will be on the system for hours at a time using MS-this-or-that, which usually requires me to be using the mouse, and I never have any problems. I tried several different options while I was sitting here, and I can't find any way to hold/use the mouse and need to move my arm at all. most of the time I just move my wrist and get where I need to be. (Course the wheel on the mouse makes scrolling easier).
Oh, and as a side note, when I got the split keyboard I wasn't all that great at typing. It never really caused me any problems, and now my keystrokes on a regular, plain, old, straight, no perks keyboard (read laptop) have improved. My fingers are now aware of the places they can, and cannot, reach.
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or (heaven forbid) get the source code and recompile it - anything you have to buy will have binaries for the different Unices - and there's this neat new tool called 'the C++ compiler', which (when combined with a little thing called 'make') means that even a Microsoft NT Admin could recompile most of the OpenSource stuff.
Amen 2names - and let's have a moment of silence for the $DISPLAY variable shall we?
I TOTALLY have to disagree - as a UNIX Admin who has to support all three of the big three on a daily basis - the CLOSEST analagy you can get is that they are all cars, the are DEFINATELY not the same model... Admittedly, you can install all the tools you want to make a SystemV-based system work like a BSD based system - but if you don't stay familiar with all of the different tools and locations and file systems and tuning parameters ---- well basically your a Windows Admin.
.bashrc aught to for the OS type - then run appropriately, and you aught to know the different between ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat xxxxxand no -o tcp_recvspace xxxxx (not to mention the difference between /sbin/rc3.d and /etc/rc.net).
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On the OTHER hand, I have to agree that some Unices are better at different tasks - and that if you're an admin worth your salt you should be able to adapt to all three. Your scripts should be written to work on multiple platforms, your
This is where we run into our problem as admins who have taken the time to learn about what we're actually doing, as opposed to admins who know how to launch SAM or SMIT and click the buttons (not that the GUI tools are bad all the time mind you, just that you aught to understand what is going on behind the scenes.....)
anyway, enough ranting - I think it's worth having multiple varieties of OS - but it's not easy, and you do have to send your admins to training - but with tools like Veritas you can make many of the day to day tasks for your UNIX Operators much easier - leaving your Admins to deal with interesting problems, and read
toph -- the opinionated
Go away or I'll replace you with a VERY small shell script!
Do not anger the Sys Admin, for they are subtle and quick to anger
I use a split keyboard at home, and have a standard Microsoft Wheel mouse a the office. (If I could just figure a way to get all of the stuff I like on the same PC w/o toting them all over the earth). Point being, I love my MS split keyboard, except that they have taken the arrow keys on the new board and shaped them into a pretty little diamond for complete inaccesability. I usually just use the number pad to get around this faux pax. And I have to say that I will be on the system for hours at a time using MS-this-or-that, which usually requires me to be using the mouse, and I never have any problems. I tried several different options while I was sitting here, and I can't find any way to hold/use the mouse and need to move my arm at all. most of the time I just move my wrist and get where I need to be. (Course the wheel on the mouse makes scrolling easier).
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Oh, and as a side note, when I got the split keyboard I wasn't all that great at typing. It never really caused me any problems, and now my keystrokes on a regular, plain, old, straight, no perks keyboard (read laptop) have improved. My fingers are now aware of the places they can, and cannot, reach.
toph
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