The normal growing path for support people, at least from what I've seen is higher level support, growing into sysadmin, or for some rare cases - moving into programming. But for this you need a complany that has all of those and that offers such mobility - like most ISPs, hosting companies, etc. Probably the best option is not a really big company, as there it's easier to learn the trade, to see almost everything in action (as opposed to the big ones, where you'll probably be stuck with only a part of the stuff they're using/supporting, and not a lot of things help more than a broad view).
A thing that should help is to have a project of your own that you can show, like a hosting machine for your friends (or just for you) that's co-located somewhere and that runs some basic services as mail, dns, web and that can be used do assess your skills.
You have to be kidding. I carried just my laptop on one bag with a shoulder strap, and had a lot of pains in the shoulder for the duration. For most of the techies using just one shoulder to carry all the stuff can be murderous, and this still doesn't solve the problem with the space (I haven't seen such big briefcases myself).
The backpack is probably the best choice, most techiesh use it instead of anything else, last year I met Larry Lessig at an event here, and he was also using backpack, as was RMS and some other people. I myself switched to a samsonite backpack two years ago and I'm still happy with it (I was able to put in it my laptop, a DV camera, 20m of VGA cable amd some extra clothes, just in case).
For the love of god (of the servers) don't put lemon in your drinks. It helps you consume more thatn you're used to, and then it suddenly hits you like the famous piece of lemon tied to a golden brick... Especially bock beer with lemon is really deadly.
Okay, I resisted this far, but now it's unstopable, here's a shameless plug.
An idea for secure/reliable social network. It's based on PKC and PGP/GPG style web-of-trust, and in the next few weeks after the first desing phase, I intend to start coding on it...
When i first saw the article, I thought - finally, the third volume. There were some rummors that Gary Wright, that was co-author in TCP/IP Illustrated Vol.2, was going to finish UNP vol.3....
I'd love to get this third edition, though... I was used to read UNPv1 before going to bed...:)
I've been doing traceroutes , and about 30 mins ago i saw the following:
4 faste0-0-rtr13.Sofia.0rbitel.net (195.24.32.13) 6 ms
5 Orbitel-BTCNET.btc-net.bg (212.39.66.137) 8 ms
6 S5-1-0.PASAR2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.248.85) 44 ms
7 P0-0.PASBB2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.128.81) 1002 ms
8 P13-0.PASCR2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.169) 2619 ms
9 P11-0.PASCR1.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.97) 2674 ms
and so on... looks like a lot of things moved in opentransit... Here's the trace from the other direction:
8 P3-0.NYKCR3.New-york.opentransit.net (193.251.248.110) 13 ms
9 P11-0.NYKCR2.New-york.opentransit.net (193.251.241.217) 16 ms 10 P4-0.PASCR1.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.133) 100 ms 11 P12-0.PASCR2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.98) 100 ms 12 P7-0.PASBB2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.170) 100 ms 13 P8-0-0.PASAR2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.128.82) 2682 ms 14 Btc.GW.opentransit.net (193.251.248.86) 2701 ms
Let's hope they'll sort it out in the next 3-4 days.
Ok.... I remember the days when i got my first linux , (1996),slakware 2.3 with kernel 1.2.8,and everyting....And I still can't find distibution that is this well fitted for router. I mean, ok, I'm great debian fan, I use it on all of my servers, but the combination of a SysV init and no daemons - only sshd and some routing/firewalling on slackware takes a lot less space than on any other distro, and you don't need any packaging system or sth. else...
I say - let's help them a bit:)
....And it's called 'BOFH'. Just go, read, and enjoy... You even can try
some of it on some people that annoy you... It does wonders for your
health:) You smille a lot more, laugh a lot more, you live a lot better....
And you don't even need to hate users:) You can think of it as 'The way it
goes'....:)))
Why the hell do we need alternative system? And why does everybody think that *.GTLD-SERVERS.NET are controled by NSI ? AFAIK, all these machines are put in some good places in the Internet toplogy (read: with many fast connections) , and help share the database... And, even if you don't agree that NSI!=Internic , RIPE does use GTLD-SERVERS, or at least,they're mentioned there - someone tried to ask A.Root-servers.net about some 2-letter domain ? This idea is stupid, at least...Why don't we reinvent the TCP ? Or UDP ? If someone doesn't like NSI, there are a lot of other registrats ( if that's the problem ), and, let's face it, _we need_ something like the old Internic and ARIN/APNIC/RIPE.....The anarchy is no good in the Internet, not on this level - such 'pirate DNS' would help breaking the net into the smaller nets it was before......
Yes, there is perfect backward compatibility - there is space in the IPv6 address space, where the adresses are mapped IPv4 addresses - it was something like ff00:0000...:xxxx:xxxx , where xxxx:xxxx is the IPv4 address in HEX ( like 128.0.0.1 will be 1000:0001 ( or sth like that:) )
Are we really ready ? Do we have working IPv6 implementations for Cisco IOS,Linux,Win xx ? As far as I know, FreeBSD and some others have good implementations, Linux's implementations is still buggy, Windows doesn't have anything ( except for some non-microsoft TCP/IP stacks,that have some support), and last time I checked, cisco didn't have stable support for IPv6 ( somebody tried it and said that he doesn't want his router crashing this often... )
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The normal growing path for support people, at least from what I've seen is higher level support, growing into sysadmin, or for some rare cases - moving into programming. But for this you need a complany that has all of those and that offers such mobility - like most ISPs, hosting companies, etc. Probably the best option is not a really big company, as there it's easier to learn the trade, to see almost everything in action (as opposed to the big ones, where you'll probably be stuck with only a part of the stuff they're using/supporting, and not a lot of things help more than a broad view).
A thing that should help is to have a project of your own that you can show, like a hosting machine for your friends (or just for you) that's co-located somewhere and that runs some basic services as mail, dns, web and that can be used do assess your skills.
You have to be kidding. I carried just my laptop on one bag with a shoulder strap, and had a lot of pains in the shoulder for the duration. For most of the techies using just one shoulder to carry all the stuff can be murderous, and this still doesn't solve the problem with the space (I haven't seen such big briefcases myself).
The backpack is probably the best choice, most techiesh use it instead of anything else, last year I met Larry Lessig at an event here, and he was also using backpack, as was RMS and some other people. I myself switched to a samsonite backpack two years ago and I'm still happy with it (I was able to put in it my laptop, a DV camera, 20m of VGA cable amd some extra clothes, just in case).
For the love of god (of the servers) don't put lemon in your drinks. It helps you consume more thatn you're used to, and then it suddenly hits you like the famous piece of lemon tied to a golden brick ... Especially bock beer with lemon is really deadly.
A better idea, make the encoding configurable for all protocols, so I won't have to support this patch to be able to read messages in cyrillic...
Okay, I resisted this far, but now it's unstopable, here's a shameless plug.
An idea for secure/reliable social network. It's based on PKC and PGP/GPG style web-of-trust, and in the next few weeks after the first desing phase, I intend to start coding on it...
When i first saw the article, I thought - finally, the third volume. There were some rummors that Gary Wright, that was co-author in TCP/IP Illustrated Vol.2, was going to finish UNP vol.3....
... :)
I'd love to get this third edition, though... I was used to read UNPv1 before going to bed
I've been doing traceroutes , and about 30 mins ago i saw the following:
4 faste0-0-rtr13.Sofia.0rbitel.net (195.24.32.13) 6 ms
5 Orbitel-BTCNET.btc-net.bg (212.39.66.137) 8 ms
6 S5-1-0.PASAR2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.248.85) 44 ms
7 P0-0.PASBB2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.128.81) 1002 ms
8 P13-0.PASCR2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.169) 2619 ms
9 P11-0.PASCR1.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.97) 2674 ms
and so on... looks like a lot of things moved in opentransit... Here's the trace from the other direction:
8 P3-0.NYKCR3.New-york.opentransit.net (193.251.248.110) 13 ms
9 P11-0.NYKCR2.New-york.opentransit.net (193.251.241.217) 16 ms
10 P4-0.PASCR1.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.133) 100 ms
11 P12-0.PASCR2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.98) 100 ms
12 P7-0.PASBB2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.241.170) 100 ms
13 P8-0-0.PASAR2.Pastourelle.opentransit.net (193.251.128.82) 2682 ms
14 Btc.GW.opentransit.net (193.251.248.86) 2701 ms
Let's hope they'll sort it out in the next 3-4 days.
Ok.... I remember the days when i got my first linux , (1996) ,slakware 2.3 with kernel 1.2.8 ,and everyting....And I still can't find distibution that is this well fitted for router. I mean, ok, I'm great debian fan, I use it on all of my servers, but the combination of a SysV init and no daemons - only sshd and some routing/firewalling on slackware takes a lot less space than on any other distro, and you don't need any packaging system or sth. else...
I say - let's help them a bit :)
some of it on some people that annoy you
health
And you don't even need to hate users
goes'
( moderate this - sociophatic -10 )...
Why the hell do we need alternative system? And why does everybody think that *.GTLD-SERVERS.NET are .....The anarchy is no good in the Internet, not on this level - such 'pirate DNS' would
controled by NSI ? AFAIK, all these machines are put in some good places in the Internet toplogy (read: with many
fast connections) , and help share the database... And, even if you don't agree that NSI!=Internic , RIPE does use GTLD-SERVERS,
or at least,they're mentioned there - someone tried to ask A.Root-servers.net about some 2-letter domain ?
This idea is stupid, at least...Why don't we reinvent the TCP ? Or UDP ?
If someone doesn't like NSI, there are a lot of other registrats ( if that's the problem ), and, let's face it, _we need_ something
like the old Internic and ARIN/APNIC/RIPE
help breaking the net into the smaller nets it was before......
Yes, there is perfect backward compatibility - there is space in the IPv6 address space, where the adresses are :xxxx:xxxx , where xxxx:xxxx is the IPv4 address in HEX ( :) )
mapped IPv4 addresses - it was something like ff00:0000...
like 128.0.0.1 will be 1000:0001 ( or sth like that
Are we really ready ? Do we have working IPv6 implementations for Cisco IOS,Linux,Win xx ? As far as I know, FreeBSD and some ... )
others have good implementations, Linux's implementations is still buggy, Windows doesn't have anything ( except for some non-microsoft
TCP/IP stacks,that have some support), and last time I checked, cisco didn't have stable support for IPv6 ( somebody tried it and said
that he doesn't want his router crashing this often