User: mikecap

It's simple

On: Blizzard Seeks to Block User Rights, Privacy

Wow Glider = Cheating, therefore Blizz should do what it can to keep it out of the mix.

Re:Plant them?

On: Nanotech Pinball and Miniature Engines

Stuff like this DOES happen:

http://www.free-market.net/spotlight/fbi2/

Best6 fake name

On: RadioShack Stops Being Nosy

I always used:

"Raymond D. O'Shack", you can call me Ray!!

Ha ha

How I became an admin

On: How Did You Become a UNIX Administrator?

Here's the short story...

I graduated with a BA in History and quickly realized that it's really hard to get the good jobs in History! :) So I started looking around for any work related to computers. I had computers from age 12 (go 4K TRS-80!), and had some clue as to how they work. I found a job with a small company that had a network of Macs and began to learn how all of this LAN stuff worked. This was also about the time of the Internet's rise in popularity, so I was able to use my LAN experience to beg another job with a company that sold a unix-based (mostly SCO) app to Doctors. In two years there I learned a ton, and eventually felt ready to look for a higher paying position. I now admin about 75 unix boxes of various types (and about 100 windows boxes as well, you have to take the bad with the good) for a major University's Physics Dept. It's great to see the looks on the Prof's faces when I tell them I have a BA in History!

So the moral of this short story is: Get any job working near computers to pad your resume, and then keep looking for new opportunities!