Yes, but if that was the choice, shouldn't they have stuck with the one that runs on the cpu that the industry expects to dominate for the next 10 years instead of the one that's on the way out the door?
This strikes me as the second major move towards a Windows-only shop. The first being acquiring Compaq. "Let Intel make the cpu's, let MS make the OS, and we'll sell boxes and service." Too bad.
We start to see some of the indirect effects of the DMCA. The choices for secur
ity experts and developers will be to A) not publish their works, leaving them f
or a more malicious hacker to discover, or B) publish, just NEVER enter the US a
gain. Either way research and development as well as security and technical con
ferences will start to leave US locations, favoring those countries that won't a
rrest their participants.
Other countries will leap ahead in encryption abilities, while the US rests on i
ts DMCA laurels. Brings back memories of the smaller, more efficient, more reli
able cars from Japan and Europe in the 60's and 70's that caught Detroit by surp
rise. Took them 10 or 15 years to catch up.
Unfortunately, as long as there is money to be had from lobbyists, there will al
ways be legislative sand for our politicians to stick their heads in.
"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."
I tend to start with lower level questions and work up until I find out where the candidate's knowledge reaches (or that it surpasses my own:) I start with things like "name the fields in the password file" and "how do you tell how much disk space is being used?", then progress to networking: "how do you determine the number of network interfaces and their IP addresses" and "what is a default route, how do you determine it and how do you set it".
If they're still going strong, I'll get into volume management, system tuning, bare-metal restore, and troubleshooting scenarios. So far, I've only had to interview for admin positions for one OS (Solaris, AIX, HPUX) but if a candidate is strong in one OS, I'll usually give them some leeway towards being able to apply that knowledge to the new commands and syntax without much difficulty.
If there's time left over, I'll ask about scripting (emphasizing perl and ksh) and/or other programming skills (can't be a sysadmin if you don't script!:)
One big edge is their support structure and organization. They have the ability to provide 7x24 support as well as multiple levels of response time and immediate technical accessibility (go straight to level 2, do not pass level 1, do not get asked if your server is plugged in...:)
Another is their background in the enterprise computing world. They have experience and knowledge of computing design, architecture, implementation, expected behaviors, and ongoing support and maintenance that many other Linux players don't have.
(just my 2cents; got change for a $3 )
1) War on Drugs
We should take all of the drugs in this country and put them in a lockbox. Only Nancy Reagan and myself would have a key.
2) Minority Religions
I invented Paganism
3) Why give a tax cut
We should take all the people who don't think there should be a tax cut and put them in a lockbox.
4) Electoral Reform
I invented campaign violations, so I don't think they should be reformed.
5) Intellectual Property
I think all intellectual property should be put into a virtual lockbox, which I will invent.
6) Encryption
I haven't gotten around to inventing Encryption yet, what with all of the lockboxes I've had to keep track of. But I will.
7) Rising Political Protests
I haven't seen any political protests in the last several months because I have spent a large percentage of my free time in a lockbox. It helps me think of new ways to use lockboxes.
8) Asteroid Defenses
We should just encase the earth in a giant lockbox that nothing can penetrate. That way we can keep it open when everything is okay, and close it when there is a threat from an asteroid or from aliens that want to steal the contents of our other lockboxes.
9) The Future of the Country and of Humanity
The future of humanity depends on the strength of our lockboxes and on a number of things that I haven't invented yet. It also depends on things that I have invented but haven't revealed because they are in a lockbox and I misplaced the key. But as soon as I find the key, humanity's salvation will be unlocked!
Probably because Samba, The Gimp, Emacs, and others are released under the GPL. Kinda makes sense to include it in the book if that's the license for the software...
I couldn't get the automatic proxy configuration to work (tried "http://wwwproxy.host.net:port"), but the manual proxies for ftp & http seemed to work ok ("wwwproxy.host.net", "port")... My biggest disappointment is that after many moons of open source, worldwide development, I STILL can't access the streaming audio & video sites under Linux that I can in Windows #$!#$!@%@!@$
One of Iridium's press releases stated that if a "White Knight" was found that they had drawn up a plan for restructuring in the coming year. They also stated that the same plan had steps for de-orbiting the satellites, a process that they expect to take 6 or 7 months. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000306/tc/teleco ms_iridium_4.html
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Yes, but if that was the choice, shouldn't they have stuck with the one that runs on the cpu that the industry expects to dominate for the next 10 years instead of the one that's on the way out the door?
This strikes me as the second major move towards a Windows-only shop. The first being acquiring Compaq. "Let Intel make the cpu's, let MS make the OS, and we'll sell boxes and service." Too bad.
We start to see some of the indirect effects of the DMCA. The choices for secur ity experts and developers will be to A) not publish their works, leaving them f or a more malicious hacker to discover, or B) publish, just NEVER enter the US a gain. Either way research and development as well as security and technical con ferences will start to leave US locations, favoring those countries that won't a rrest their participants.
Other countries will leap ahead in encryption abilities, while the US rests on i ts DMCA laurels. Brings back memories of the smaller, more efficient, more reli able cars from Japan and Europe in the 60's and 70's that caught Detroit by surp rise. Took them 10 or 15 years to catch up.
Unfortunately, as long as there is money to be had from lobbyists, there will al ways be legislative sand for our politicians to stick their heads in.
"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."
I tend to start with lower level questions and work up until I find out where the candidate's knowledge reaches (or that it surpasses my own :) I start with things like "name the fields in the password file" and "how do you tell how much disk space is being used?", then progress to networking: "how do you determine the number of network interfaces and their IP addresses" and "what is a default route, how do you determine it and how do you set it".
:)
If they're still going strong, I'll get into volume management, system tuning, bare-metal restore, and troubleshooting scenarios. So far, I've only had to interview for admin positions for one OS (Solaris, AIX, HPUX) but if a candidate is strong in one OS, I'll usually give them some leeway towards being able to apply that knowledge to the new commands and syntax without much difficulty.
If there's time left over, I'll ask about scripting (emphasizing perl and ksh) and/or other programming skills (can't be a sysadmin if you don't script!
One big edge is their support structure and organization. They have the ability to provide 7x24 support as well as multiple levels of response time and immediate technical accessibility (go straight to level 2, do not pass level 1, do not get asked if your server is plugged in... :)
Another is their background in the enterprise computing world. They have experience and knowledge of computing design, architecture, implementation, expected behaviors, and ongoing support and maintenance that many other Linux players don't have.
(just my 2cents; got change for a $3 )
1) War on Drugs
We should take all of the drugs in this country and put them in a lockbox. Only Nancy Reagan and myself would have a key.
2) Minority Religions
I invented Paganism
3) Why give a tax cut
We should take all the people who don't think there should be a tax cut and put them in a lockbox.
4) Electoral Reform
I invented campaign violations, so I don't think they should be reformed.
5) Intellectual Property
I think all intellectual property should be put into a virtual lockbox, which I will invent.
6) Encryption
I haven't gotten around to inventing Encryption yet, what with all of the lockboxes I've had to keep track of. But I will.
7) Rising Political Protests
I haven't seen any political protests in the last several months because I have spent a large percentage of my free time in a lockbox. It helps me think of new ways to use lockboxes.
8) Asteroid Defenses
We should just encase the earth in a giant lockbox that nothing can penetrate. That way we can keep it open when everything is okay, and close it when there is a threat from an asteroid or from aliens that want to steal the contents of our other lockboxes.
9) The Future of the Country and of Humanity
The future of humanity depends on the strength of our lockboxes and on a number of things that I haven't invented yet. It also depends on things that I have invented but haven't revealed because they are in a lockbox and I misplaced the key. But as soon as I find the key, humanity's salvation will be unlocked!
And thus was my faith in the merging of poetry and humor restored.
(no guess, by the way... Anyone?)
Probably because Samba, The Gimp, Emacs, and others are released under the GPL. Kinda makes sense to include it in the book if that's the license for the software...
I couldn't get the automatic proxy configuration to work (tried "http://wwwproxy.host.net:port"), but the manual proxies for ftp & http seemed to work ok ("wwwproxy.host.net", "port")... My biggest disappointment is that after many moons of open source, worldwide development, I STILL can't access the streaming audio & video sites under Linux that I can in Windows #$!#$!@%@!@$
One of Iridium's press releases stated that if a "White Knight" was found that they had drawn up a plan for restructuring in the coming year. They also stated that the same plan had steps for de-orbiting the satellites, a process that they expect to take 6 or 7 months. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000306/tc/teleco ms_iridium_4.html