$50/hr, no upper limit
however....they much prefer instead that I bill them as straight time and leave a bit earlier one or two days. Unofficial comp time.
If I understand this correctly, he's saying that becuase its open source it can't be secure?
My experience with software as programmer and system admin is that the user community drives security. As a sys admin, its my job to use products with the appropriate level of security available and in place. This being true of all similiar folks, natural selection of processes and software overall, IMHO, will drive towards higher levels of security and quality.
Along with this, I believe many of the programmers involved in open source are also consumers and also familiar with standards. Security standards are well documented and even specd out in some cases.
I'd also like to agree with the original poster about existing 'closed source' software and OS. Many holes have been and will continue to be found in existing OSs. Open source just speeds the recovery along vs closed system based on risk/income.
Finding suitable mentors is tough, but is possible.
I found the easiest way to get a mentor is to volunteer for grunt work. Get involved at any lvl with someone doing the work you want to do.
I was able to get involved in database "programming" by working on my off hours with my MIS department at another job. It payed off. I was given several small programming projects after that.
Same goes for my previous and current job. I stepped in to lend a hand, however small, and picked up tons. I'm no master coder, but I've had the opportunity to do C, Pascal, CL, RPG, and various shell scripting over the last several years.
Also, become your own mentor. After discovering the internet, my ego wouldn't let me go without creating a web page. Since no one I knew had a clue about the net, I dug in and learned html, and all the tcp usage I could. Became my organizations Internet and bulletin board "guru".
The biggest key, as others have mentioned, is to learn learn learn, and don't wait until you can schedule yourself in a class to start.
I didn't take my first unix related class until after I'd been doing some unix admin.
There is no doubt that the feedback to these questions was 'edited' before leaving the SCO house. And I'll grant that a lot of the replies were buzzword and marketing phrase heavy, but what did we really expect?
For the most part the answers appear to at least somewhat upfront if not always definite.
The tone of the response seems to be one of */linux OS are somewhat inferior and nonstandard products. SCO comes across as the more reliable, concerned and wiser older brother of OSs... wanting to pander to the whims of the community at least in appearance. They appear to want to go along with the movement, but I didn't see mention of specific contributions they will actually make to the linux kernels, drivers, etc.
But this type of behavior is fairly consistent among large corporations, imho. IBM, Microsoft, and others have always pushed their own standards and/or tried to take over up and coming standards. All the while pushing their proprietary tools/apps/hardware.
And in all fairness, wouldn't we all be tempted. Let us hope that their software engineers come out (some of them probably already do) and contribute some help to linux through work or donation of SCO code that they can open source.
Ha! Your comment gave me a laugh. I'm hoping that you were just sticking that out there for flame bait.
If not, vi, ed, emacs all in the editor family of application. vi is a favorite of many folks I know.
As for the QuickC compile, you'd probably do better to download one of the free distros of gcc out on the net. I'm sure many folks could point out their favorites.
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$50/hr, no upper limit
however....they much prefer instead that I bill them as straight time and leave a bit earlier one or two days. Unofficial comp time.
..if this were a sig, it might be funny
If I understand this correctly, he's saying that becuase its open source it can't be secure?
My experience with software as programmer and system admin is that the user community drives security. As a sys admin, its my job to use products with the appropriate level of security available and in place. This being true of all similiar folks, natural selection of processes and software overall, IMHO, will drive towards higher levels of security and quality.
Along with this, I believe many of the programmers involved in open source are also consumers and also familiar with standards. Security standards are well documented and even specd out in some cases.
I'd also like to agree with the original poster about existing 'closed source' software and OS. Many holes have been and will continue to be found in existing OSs. Open source just speeds the recovery along vs closed system based on risk/income.
Rant done,
TJ
Finding suitable mentors is tough, but is possible.
I found the easiest way to get a mentor is to volunteer for grunt work. Get involved at any lvl with someone doing the work you want to do.
I was able to get involved in database "programming" by working on my off hours with my MIS department at another job. It payed off. I was given several small programming projects after that.
Same goes for my previous and current job. I stepped in to lend a hand, however small, and picked up tons. I'm no master coder, but I've had the opportunity to do C, Pascal, CL, RPG, and various shell scripting over the last several years.
Also, become your own mentor. After discovering the internet, my ego wouldn't let me go without creating a web page. Since no one I knew had a clue about the net, I dug in and learned html, and all the tcp usage I could. Became my organizations Internet and bulletin board "guru".
The biggest key, as others have mentioned, is to learn learn learn, and don't wait until you can schedule yourself in a class to start.
I didn't take my first unix related class until after I'd been doing some unix admin.
Rant over, you may now stop laughing.
There is no doubt that the feedback to these questions was 'edited' before leaving the SCO house. And I'll grant that a lot of the replies were buzzword and marketing phrase heavy, but what did we really expect?
... wanting to pander to the whims of the community at least in appearance. They appear to want to go along with the movement, but I didn't see mention of specific contributions they will actually make to the linux kernels, drivers, etc.
For the most part the answers appear to at least somewhat upfront if not always definite.
The tone of the response seems to be one of */linux OS are somewhat inferior and nonstandard products. SCO comes across as the more reliable, concerned and wiser older brother of OSs
But this type of behavior is fairly consistent among large corporations, imho. IBM, Microsoft, and others have always pushed their own standards and/or tried to take over up and coming standards. All the while pushing their proprietary tools/apps/hardware.
And in all fairness, wouldn't we all be tempted.
Let us hope that their software engineers come out (some of them probably already do) and contribute some help to linux through work or donation of SCO code that they can open source.
Just my little bit of thought and blabber....
Ha!
Your comment gave me a laugh. I'm hoping that you were just sticking that out there for flame bait.
If not, vi, ed, emacs all in the editor family of application. vi is a favorite of many folks I know.
As for the QuickC compile, you'd probably do better to download one of the free distros of gcc out on the net. I'm sure many folks could point out their favorites.
Tojo