That's my title... self-granted after my manager chose to delineate the role I have from the role of "The Systems Administrator", who looks after the Unix/Linux/Oracle side of things. We both do Network Administration, and both cross over into each other's areas (much to his chagrin), but my title much more accurately describes my role in the organisation.
Of course, they're about to change all this and make both of us "System Administrator", and merge our responsibilites. They claim to be about to spend money on us for training and such, but we'll see!
On that point - in Australia it is illegal to have a loaded handgun at any location other than the firing line of an approved shooting range... so yes, if someone breaks into your house and you pull your handgun out of the safe, load it and shoot the home invader/terrorist, you will quite likely lose your shooter's license, be heavily fined and probably go to jail for murder/manslaughter if you're a good shot.
To show you how warped the law is, you may have a loaded rifle or shotgun at home, and you could get away with blowing away the bad guy in that situation. I love Australia.
If your skills are right up there like you've said, I would venture to say that your best bet will be to create your own company and contract your services. I think you'll find the tone changes a whole lot when people are paying for specific projects to be completed and you're able to blitz the other firms who have done work for the company in the past.
If you're just an employee, you'll almost never get the respect due to you because too many companies see their IT staff more as the "hired help" than highly qualified professionals.
I'm almost thirty years old, and with over six years experience in the industry but no formal qualifications, I'm actually finding it hard to compete in the job market with the teenagers and just-twenty-somethings who have been toying with systems and programming for as long as I have, and are leaving high school with more experience and more skills than I have now.
The advantage they have over me is that they usually don't have a wife and two kids to support, and so will work for less than I could afford to, and so are more attractive to an employer from that perspective.
This difficulty that I'm having is a good thing - it's a wake up call to me to get certified, get qualified, get any piece of paper that I can wave in the air to get a little bit in front of these "kids", because if you don't have a Piece Of Paper (tm), it can be difficult.
More power to ya though, mate! Get out there and use all the skills you have to the best of your abilities! Get in there early and go hard so when you're my age and trying to support the wife and two kids you've done most of the hard work already and it's not such an issue!
Besides LRP and Freesco, how about digital cameras? Let's see - Panasonic manufactures the only digital camera that can store hundreds of thousands of images on a single floppy. Sounds pretty cool to me! Of course, you have to have a compatible drive in your computer to read the disk, so Panasonic makes sales in both areas.
At the end of last year at a Microsoft Direct Access briefing (yes, I'm a member, yes I sell and support Microsoft products, yes I make money out of it - cope with it), they had a video intro type thing for Windows 2000 Professional in which they had a female actress kicking the crap out of a guy in a penguin suit with her saying, "Still using Linux, sissy?", plus other little gems of class and character that show Microsoft for who they really are.
The point they have completely missed is that people are not "still" using Linux, more and more people are just starting to use Linux because it's a more and more attractive option.
If the browser compatibility of their web page is anything to go by, lets pray their ability at porting apps is superior to their web design.
Did anyone else notice the everything-is-left-justified effect on that press release page under Netscape? Wouldn't it be interesting if nobody has drawn attention to it yet because most of the people are actually using IE, which displays that page properly!
Of course, the obvious conclusion to draw is that they are devoted to IE compatibility only, and don't give a flying rat's shiny little bum about Netscape compatibility.
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That's my title ... self-granted after my manager chose to delineate the role I have from the role of "The Systems Administrator", who looks after the Unix/Linux/Oracle side of things. We both do Network Administration, and both cross over into each other's areas (much to his chagrin), but my title much more accurately describes my role in the organisation.
Of course, they're about to change all this and make both of us "System Administrator", and merge our responsibilites. They claim to be about to spend money on us for training and such, but we'll see!
Awwww, come on, it's been a DAY already! That's like, MONTHS in the real world!
According to ARIA figures, blank CD sales are now about 450 million units a year globally.
We go through several hundred CD-R's a year for entirely legitimate use. Attributing blank CD sales to piracy is moronic.
On that point - in Australia it is illegal to have a loaded handgun at any location other than the firing line of an approved shooting range ... so yes, if someone breaks into your house and you pull your handgun out of the safe, load it and shoot the home invader/terrorist, you will quite likely lose your shooter's license, be heavily fined and probably go to jail for murder/manslaughter if you're a good shot.
To show you how warped the law is, you may have a loaded rifle or shotgun at home, and you could get away with blowing away the bad guy in that situation. I love Australia.
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If your skills are right up there like you've said, I would venture to say that your best bet will be to create your own company and contract your services. I think you'll find the tone changes a whole lot when people are paying for specific projects to be completed and you're able to blitz the other firms who have done work for the company in the past.
If you're just an employee, you'll almost never get the respect due to you because too many companies see their IT staff more as the "hired help" than highly qualified professionals.
I'm almost thirty years old, and with over six years experience in the industry but no formal qualifications, I'm actually finding it hard to compete in the job market with the teenagers and just-twenty-somethings who have been toying with systems and programming for as long as I have, and are leaving high school with more experience and more skills than I have now.
The advantage they have over me is that they usually don't have a wife and two kids to support, and so will work for less than I could afford to, and so are more attractive to an employer from that perspective.
This difficulty that I'm having is a good thing - it's a wake up call to me to get certified, get qualified, get any piece of paper that I can wave in the air to get a little bit in front of these "kids", because if you don't have a Piece Of Paper (tm), it can be difficult.
More power to ya though, mate! Get out there and use all the skills you have to the best of your abilities! Get in there early and go hard so when you're my age and trying to support the wife and two kids you've done most of the hard work already and it's not such an issue!
Cheers!
Besides LRP and Freesco, how about digital cameras? Let's see - Panasonic manufactures the only digital camera that can store hundreds of thousands of images on a single floppy. Sounds pretty cool to me! Of course, you have to have a compatible drive in your computer to read the disk, so Panasonic makes sales in both areas.
At the end of last year at a Microsoft Direct Access briefing (yes, I'm a member, yes I sell and support Microsoft products, yes I make money out of it - cope with it), they had a video intro type thing for Windows 2000 Professional in which they had a female actress kicking the crap out of a guy in a penguin suit with her saying, "Still using Linux, sissy?", plus other little gems of class and character that show Microsoft for who they really are.
The point they have completely missed is that people are not "still" using Linux, more and more people are just starting to use Linux because it's a more and more attractive option.
I'd like to see how the Yanks feel about this.
If the browser compatibility of their web page is anything to go by, lets pray their ability at porting apps is superior to their web design. Did anyone else notice the everything-is-left-justified effect on that press release page under Netscape? Wouldn't it be interesting if nobody has drawn attention to it yet because most of the people are actually using IE, which displays that page properly! Of course, the obvious conclusion to draw is that they are devoted to IE compatibility only, and don't give a flying rat's shiny little bum about Netscape compatibility.
if Linux is to standardise, RPM seems to be one of the most easy to use formats at this point