It's the old "What do you tell your barber" bit... There's just no way to properly convey the fact that you are a god in terms that they understand. "Computer Administrator" is about the best you can do, but if you're a *nix sysadmin, you're probably going to have to live with the fact that the closest approximation to your position in their experience is the CompUSA/BestBuy salesman and/or the helpdesk at their ISP.
Others have pointed out the xset command to refresh the core font cache, but this only affects new applications, so in a typical (i.e. real world setup) X session, applications like the KDE and GNOME panel, if affected by the font change would have to be restarted. How does one do this? Either by killing the proc and having it respawn or, more likely for a non-power user, restart X!
To be fair, RedHat does make freely available the actual update packages and are mirrored to all the other redhat mirrors.
What you're really paying for (or if you're not paying for it and you're using one 'demo' account and floating a whole lot of systems between it) is the email notification, web based remote managment of the updating, and the automatic RPM depenedency resolution, which for a huge update (say after you install a machine) save a *lot* of time.
Mind you it's just a 5 day course. Personally, as an RHCE, I'd like there to be an "Enterprise level" certification; I don't think a regular RHCE could just jump right into the Enterprise product line and utilize every new feature. There's a lot of stuff in the course that is just not encountered if you admin a small number of boxen, such as fail-over clustering with pirahna.
However, if the course is over $2800, I'd hate to see what the cert would cost.
About the hardest hit (albiet delayed a few years) in this economic downturn is the state governments. For a lot of public universities there is a hiring freeze, and people are fearing for their own jobs. I doubt that you'll find *any* IT openings at a public university right now (I've got a lost job, and many frustrating conversations with department heads to prove it).
As far as private universities, they are economically governed by their endowments which may or may not come from donations. If that's the case, they are in the same boat as well, as people nowadays rarely have the money to live comfortably (like it was 1999) much less give it away to a private uni.
What I *really* hate is the dichotomy of the usual requirement of a bachelor's degree (in CS usually) for work as a sysadmin in a decent org/compnay but the complete irrelevance of everything in college for the actual job.
Internships are a good example
I would like to hear from *anyone* who's had a real IT internship, not a programming or project managing position. The closest I saw was my internship at IBM's Global Services Houston office where I was with the Infrastructure Group. They had to pull a few strings to get me in as well. And for what? While I was there, they didn't even let me *touch* a UNIX machine for anything remotely admin. They had me writing perl for Tivoli (the most god-awful overengineered system management product) and redesigning their internal web page.
I'm just frustrated that college and internships are so finely focused on the programmer, there's almost nothing for a junior sysadmin with his RHCE looking to learn a few things before being thrusted into a shit job market.
I'm graduated, and the best I could get was a local job in a podunk city in the bible belt admining a whopping 3 RH machines and windows boxes part time. And no, I can't move away to some tech-Mecca like VA,DC or Austin.
I know there are two GTA's before GTA3, but I've never seen them (PS2 is my first game console after my 8bit NES) until recently. I saw the headline and the story and I automatically assumed they meant GTA3! Damn, what a disappointment, I would have liked to see the hi-res GTA3 without buying what I've already bought for the PS2. Oh well, guess it's a good time to check out where it all came from:-).
I'm just waiting for the first implementation of an epilepsy net virus that when encoded into light will cause people to fall down to the floor, shake vigorously and foam at the mouth.
I'm about to get a 12" Powerbook (please, no flames, just bear with me) and it BT enabled. I'm also going to probably get a Tungsten T for my wife. I'm in the US and I'm currently using a Nokia 3300 on the Cingular vanilla network. What is the *cheapest* option to get a bluetooth enabled phone working on either the Cingular vanilla US network, or another network? I'd like to use this phone as a wireless modem for my laptop/palm, I don't care about color, camera, etc. on the phone.
I ask this because it's seems that current BT phones are prohibitavely expensive due to all the extra features. Is this just a pipe dream?
Great anime, btw! I was just reminded too much of Kubrick/Speilberg's AI. Not the story, but the world it was set in. I'm sure others could build links between this and I, Robot, but still... the quality of the film is spectacular! It's so good, I don't even care that I've essentially seen this before:-)
Yeah, my experience *exactly* (wrt RHCE). I took it a little less than a year ago and I was the only one of 16 that didn't take the week-long course and showed up on exam day (see my other post in this topic on why:-) and some were there for their *third* try. Jesus tap-dancing Christ! That's a lot of money down the toilet for whomever sent those poor sods there...
Likewise, I wouldn't want them anywhere near my babies!
Hmm, it looks like I'll be about a year too late! I took and passed (almost aced) my RHCE 7.2 last March, maxing out my credit card to take the RH302 (Exam only). I sure wish something like this was around; I could have used the help seeing as I was (still am) in college...
On the plus side, I now have a kick-ass full time job admining RH boxen, and I'm only just going to graduate in May BSCS (Acronym pun intended:-)
One thing I can say is that there won't be any such thing as a "Paper RHCE", so long as the format does not change, no matter how much discount they give. They can make the exam free, it's still as hard as it is if you pay $750-$3000.
Yes, this set up does have its place, but what really gets me is that Sun puts the same code that runs the big, fast SF15k on it's UltraSparc Workstations (Uniproc).
All that overhead in the kernel (which I don't think is as modular as linux, therefore has a lot of useless code loaded) makes them near worthless. With the low-end workstation market cornered by Lintel, and the high-end falling due to price/performance ratios of the same, Sun is most definitely on a sinking ship.
It may not sink all the way, but it won't be where they'd like.
Not to defend the idiocy of comparing the Desktop (Ximian) to the Mail Client (Evolution), I feel that it was made due to a situation that was present about a year ago. Before redhat 7.3, you could not get Ximian Evolution without having Ximian's gnome rpms or without compiling from source. The former screwed up much of the automatic update mechanisms of certain distros and the latter delved the user into dependency hell, usually requiring a.01 increase in a library version number. When distros started to include Evolution as a standalone, many users just ditched Ximian entirely, as for many, Evolution was the *only* reason to go with them. Just a thought...
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I think he means over smb, not some KDE-only HTTP based servlet. Integrating an smb-based share on the fly is very difficult, as is dynamic mounting of SMB shares from other computers, as you'd probably need to be root, and even then, setting smbmount suid is bad security practice... See the difficulty?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but American Football was born in the universities of the 1900's or thereabouts (maybe before). It corresponds to the academic calendar nicely
What a coincidence, I was just kicking myself last week for not enrolling in the new "Anime: From Akira to Princess Mononoke" class that fulfills one of our Non-Western General electives. It's an irregular course, which is all that we can expect here in Po-Dunk Oklahoma (OU)./me goes back to kicking/me
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It's the old "What do you tell your barber" bit... There's just no way to properly convey the fact that you are a god in terms that they understand. "Computer Administrator" is about the best you can do, but if you're a *nix sysadmin, you're probably going to have to live with the fact that the closest approximation to your position in their experience is the CompUSA/BestBuy salesman and/or the helpdesk at their ISP.
Depressing, no?
My eyes!!! It hurts, please Taco, take the red hot poker out of my eyes!!!! No more!
Others have pointed out the xset command to refresh the core font cache, but this only affects new applications, so in a typical (i.e. real world setup) X session, applications like the KDE and GNOME panel, if affected by the font change would have to be restarted. How does one do this? Either by killing the proc and having it respawn or, more likely for a non-power user, restart X!
To be fair, RedHat does make freely available the actual update packages and are mirrored to all the other redhat mirrors.
What you're really paying for (or if you're not paying for it and you're using one 'demo' account and floating a whole lot of systems between it) is the email notification, web based remote managment of the updating, and the automatic RPM depenedency resolution, which for a huge update (say after you install a machine) save a *lot* of time.
Redhat has training for RH-Enterprise AS here
Mind you it's just a 5 day course. Personally, as an RHCE, I'd like there to be an "Enterprise level" certification; I don't think a regular RHCE could just jump right into the Enterprise product line and utilize every new feature. There's a lot of stuff in the course that is just not encountered if you admin a small number of boxen, such as fail-over clustering with pirahna.
However, if the course is over $2800, I'd hate to see what the cert would cost.
About the hardest hit (albiet delayed a few years) in this economic downturn is the state governments. For a lot of public universities there is a hiring freeze, and people are fearing for their own jobs. I doubt that you'll find *any* IT openings at a public university right now (I've got a lost job, and many frustrating conversations with department heads to prove it).
As far as private universities, they are economically governed by their endowments which may or may not come from donations. If that's the case, they are in the same boat as well, as people nowadays rarely have the money to live comfortably (like it was 1999) much less give it away to a private uni.
Not happening anytime soon...
What I *really* hate is the dichotomy of the usual requirement of a bachelor's degree (in CS usually) for work as a sysadmin in a decent org/compnay but the complete irrelevance of everything in college for the actual job.
Internships are a good example
I would like to hear from *anyone* who's had a real IT internship, not a programming or project managing position. The closest I saw was my internship at IBM's Global Services Houston office where I was with the Infrastructure Group. They had to pull a few strings to get me in as well. And for what? While I was there, they didn't even let me *touch* a UNIX machine for anything remotely admin. They had me writing perl for Tivoli (the most god-awful overengineered system management product) and redesigning their internal web page.
I'm just frustrated that college and internships are so finely focused on the programmer, there's almost nothing for a junior sysadmin with his RHCE looking to learn a few things before being thrusted into a shit job market.
I'm graduated, and the best I could get was a local job in a podunk city in the bible belt admining a whopping 3 RH machines and windows boxes part time. And no, I can't move away to some tech-Mecca like VA,DC or Austin.
rrr
I know there are two GTA's before GTA3, but I've never seen them (PS2 is my first game console after my 8bit NES) until recently. I saw the headline and the story and I automatically assumed they meant GTA3! Damn, what a disappointment, I would have liked to see the hi-res GTA3 without buying what I've already bought for the PS2. Oh well, guess it's a good time to check out where it all came from :-).
I'm just waiting for the first implementation of an epilepsy net virus that when encoded into light will cause people to fall down to the floor, shake vigorously and foam at the mouth.
I'm about to get a 12" Powerbook (please, no flames, just bear with me) and it BT enabled. I'm also going to probably get a Tungsten T for my wife. I'm in the US and I'm currently using a Nokia 3300 on the Cingular vanilla network. What is the *cheapest* option to get a bluetooth enabled phone working on either the Cingular vanilla US network, or another network? I'd like to use this phone as a wireless modem for my laptop/palm, I don't care about color, camera, etc. on the phone.
I ask this because it's seems that current BT phones are prohibitavely expensive due to all the extra features. Is this just a pipe dream?
TIA
Sorry, this is off topic and you don't have your email posted. Did you grow up in South Texas, Rio Grande Valley?
>mmm, freshly baked Athlon
Bet it doesn't taste as good as a freshly baked Apple!
Is it me or is there something wrong with the comment system? There aren't any comments for the past two stories...
Great anime, btw! I was just reminded too much of Kubrick/Speilberg's AI. Not the story, but the world it was set in. I'm sure others could build links between this and I, Robot, but still... the quality of the film is spectacular! It's so good, I don't even care that I've essentially seen this before :-)
Don't be smacking that thing around here... sicko
Yeah, my experience *exactly* (wrt RHCE). I took it a little less than a year ago and I was the only one of 16 that didn't take the week-long course and showed up on exam day (see my other post in this topic on why :-) and some were there for their *third* try. Jesus tap-dancing Christ! That's a lot of money down the toilet for whomever sent those poor sods there...
Likewise, I wouldn't want them anywhere near my babies!
Hmm, it looks like I'll be about a year too late! I took and passed (almost aced) my RHCE 7.2 last March, maxing out my credit card to take the RH302 (Exam only). I sure wish something like this was around; I could have used the help seeing as I was (still am) in college...
:-)
On the plus side, I now have a kick-ass full time job admining RH boxen, and I'm only just going to graduate in May BSCS (Acronym pun intended
One thing I can say is that there won't be any such thing as a "Paper RHCE", so long as the format does not change, no matter how much discount they give. They can make the exam free, it's still as hard as it is if you pay $750-$3000.
Yes, this set up does have its place, but what really gets me is that Sun puts the same code that runs the big, fast SF15k on it's UltraSparc Workstations (Uniproc).
All that overhead in the kernel (which I don't think is as modular as linux, therefore has a lot of useless code loaded) makes them near worthless. With the low-end workstation market cornered by Lintel, and the high-end falling due to price/performance ratios of the same, Sun is most definitely on a sinking ship.
It may not sink all the way, but it won't be where they'd like.
Not to defend the idiocy of comparing the Desktop (Ximian) to the Mail Client (Evolution), I feel that it was made due to a situation that was present about a year ago. Before redhat 7.3, you could not get Ximian Evolution without having Ximian's gnome rpms or without compiling from source. The former screwed up much of the automatic update mechanisms of certain distros and the latter delved the user into dependency hell, usually requiring a .01 increase in a library version number. When distros started to include Evolution as a standalone, many users just ditched Ximian entirely, as for many, Evolution was the *only* reason to go with them. Just a thought...
I think he means over smb, not some KDE-only HTTP based servlet. Integrating an smb-based share on the fly is very difficult, as is dynamic mounting of SMB shares from other computers, as you'd probably need to be root, and even then, setting smbmount suid is bad security practice... See the difficulty?
Cheers
Correct me if I'm wrong, but American Football was born in the universities of the 1900's or thereabouts (maybe before). It corresponds to the academic calendar nicely
What a coincidence, I was just kicking myself last week for not enrolling in the new "Anime: From Akira to Princess Mononoke" class that fulfills one of our Non-Western General electives. It's an irregular course, which is all that we can expect here in Po-Dunk Oklahoma (OU). /me goes back to kicking /me
IBM, AMD Become Part of UnitedLinux
This should have been somewhere on Slashdot...
For fsck's sake, not again
Sheesh
That was reviewed on /. more than once, but
here's
the link to the story