*Groan* look sunw, if you are going to open source solaris, then do it already. Please stop issuing dozens of press releases, month after month, about what you may someday sort-of do.
Become an Registered Nurse, and you will get a job right away. Or, for that matter, get a commercial drivers license.
I.T. is about the only career field with no practically no such thing as entry-level, and no clear career path. It's all about having the exact right experience, in the exact right products and technologies - not too much, not too little, no experience in the "wrong" products/technologies - and every job has a completely different list of products and technologies. Good luck.
I found it on careerbuilder.com. Ad is for a "Systems Mgt Specialist" in Denver, CO - Just in case you want to apply. Please understand, these skills are the required minimums for one job.
REQUIREMENTS Skills Required: MVS(Expert) VM(Expert) zOS(Expert) z VM(Expert) JES2(Expert) JCL(Expert) General PC(Expert) LAN/WAN TCP/IP(Expert) Tivoli(Expert) Tivoli Workload Scheduler(Expert) Tivoli System Automation(Expert) HMC for Mainframe(Expert) Tivoli Event Console(Expert) eESM(Expert) AIX(Good) Linux(Go od) OS/2(Good) SUN Solaris(Good) UNIX(Good) Windows 2000(Good) SUSE Linux(Good) Red Hat Linux(Good) Lotus 123(Good) Lotus Freelance(Good) Lotus WordPro(Good) Microsoft Excel(Good) Microsoft PowerPoint(Good) Microsoft Project(Good) Microsoft Word(Good) Security(Good)
DB2(Basic) Firewall(Basic) MQ Series(Basic) PeopleSoft(Basic) SAP R/3(Basic) Seibel(Basic) Websphere(Basic)
AS/400(Exposure) C(Exposure) C++(Exposure) HT ML(Exposure) Oracle(Exposure) Perl(Exposure) Vi sual Basic(Exposure) Visual C++(Exposure)
Years of Experience Required.Minimum of 5 years managed operations experience Education Requirements.BS in CS or CIS . . ..
Go over to dice.com, or whatever, and take a look. There are *far* fewer ads for OSS pros. Usually, the OSS stuff is thrown in as an extra (along with 30 other skills needed for an $18/hr job), not the primary job. OSS jobs tend to pay much less than proprietary counterparts. Compare Linux admins to Solaris, or Postgre to Oracle.
This articles reminds me of those idiotic "shortage of BSCS" articals. Again, look at the job ads, very few jobs require a BSCS. Employers want experience, and lots of it, in a variety of specific products.
>> EVERY single person I know is underwater on their options. Every Single One.
Apparently you don't know any execs at scox, they get their options at $0.001 each. If scox went down to one penny a share, they are still way in the money. As I understand it, that sort of thing isn't unusual for execs.
>> I see a shortage in qualified IT workers. I would say a large percentage of the unemployed IT workforce are inexperienced and lack some major backing (like a college degree, certification, job experience/internship)
I live in denver, co. I don't see that at all. I see very educated and experienced IT workers scrapping for nickles and dimes all over the place.
When you've worked in IT for over 10 years, it is extremely difficult to get out. Employers only want to hire you to do what you did on your last job.
I tried to process real estate loans. I have a degree in business, I've taken every real estate course there is. There was a sever shortage of people to process those loans, it only takes a HS diploma. You should seen the reaction when they saw that I working in software development for the last 10 years.
It just won't work. I've played the rebate game many dozens of times, maybe over one hundred times.
You have to cut off the UPC, making it impossible to return. No, Virgina, they *won't* accept a photocopy of the UPC - at least, you would be a fool to count on it. It's enough of a fight to actually get your rebate when you do everything right.
BestBuy is full of cr@p. Many times I've witnessed customers being charged a restocking fee for merchandise that is defective due to design - i.e. a computer peripheral that is supposed to work with Win2K, but won't. Bestbuy simply wants to scam customers, bestbuy gets all pissy when they can't get away with it.
"Walking up to any manager, however, quickly reveals that common sense prevails."
At the bestbuy where I live, they are *all* managers. Ask one pimply faced kid to see a manager, and s/he will get another pimply faced kid. Once, I did this about 8 times, and got one kid after another. Asking to speak to somebody's direct supervisor gets the same results.
I was at a kinko's yesterday, and I overheard one employee instructing another: ". . . if the ask for a manager, just tell them you are the manager."
Good lord, how old are you? 12? If you are older than that please try to "grow up."
When somebody is baiting you, the *worst* thing to do is take the bait. It's a set-up, a trap, get it?
This entire msft/scox scam is a PR war. And the linux geeks seem to be less up to the challenge than Darl McBride (and *he* is a complete idiot).
The professional msft shills like enderle, lyons, ect. eat those threats up. These idiotic threats do nothing but prove to onlookers that scox is the innocent victim of the linux thugs.
Again, grow up. Learn to be smart. Think, don't just react.
Surprising that posters here don't know any better than to take the bait. These "kill Merkey" comments do not help. Some clown like Dan Lyons at Forbes may very well use those comments to prove that the linux lovers over at slashdot are actually a hateful, violent, crowd. Danny did that with comments from the yahoo boards - comments which were far more tame btw.
On 120mhz system with 64mb of RAM, NT 4.0 is very snappy. And it's a lot more like XP than any version of Linux. Try running MS-Office-97 on your 166mhz VectorLinux System.
How much money is the printed work really bringing in these days? And how much will they lose by the work being available on gutenberg? BTW: I often buy books even when the same stuff is available online.
Is this just a matter of the USA being over-run with lawyers? There are not enough legitimate claims to go around, the lawyers desperately sue everything that moves.
I think a project like this would be about 100X time more useful if it was even compatible with an old version of VB. If that were the case, then you could compile VB apps to run on Linux, now *that* would be a big deal.
As it is, who's going to use it? Hobbiests? What is the point of writing an app in this language?
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's very nice, and impressive in it's own way. But, I suppose it's just a curiousity.
I think Maureen O'Gara, and LinuxWorld have an agenda. I also think msft is behind it.
Yeah, I know, tinfoil hat and all. But, I've followed this scox-scam for a while now, and I've followed msft for even longer. There have been way more dirty tricks than I can even begin to remember.
I know a guy who very recently went in for a vasectomy (sic?). Anyway the realitively simple operation was successful, but they gave him some kind of infection. It was the hospitals fault, they weren't careful. He went back, they had to drain all this, and wash out that, and in so doing, they gave yet another infection. He had to go back a third time. Now he is off work, and on his back suffering in pain.
I don't know a lot about surgery, but it seems to me that doctors just don't care and have become sloppy as all hell.
I think using a PC for a stereo system would be a great idea. For $100 I could put together a system that could store a few thousand songs. Everybody already knows how to use a PC.
No CDs to fumble with, no goofy stereo interface that nobody can understand. Buy your songs online, get a decent set of speakers and amplifier.
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Sun has been saying that since version 7.0. It's just a lie that sunw keeps telling for the publicity.
DOS did not sneak in and start replacing UNIX. If anything, DOS snuck in and started replacing CP/M.
Much later, NT4 server started replaced Netware, and maybe some UNIX.
*Groan* look sunw, if you are going to open source solaris, then do it already. Please stop issuing dozens of press releases, month after month, about what you may someday sort-of do.
Become an Registered Nurse, and you will get a job right away. Or, for that matter, get a commercial drivers license.
I.T. is about the only career field with no practically no such thing as entry-level, and no clear career path. It's all about having the exact right experience, in the exact right products and technologies - not too much, not too little, no experience in the "wrong" products/technologies - and every job has a completely different list of products and technologies. Good luck.
I found it on careerbuilder.com. Ad is for a "Systems Mgt Specialist" in Denver, CO - Just in case you want to apply. Please understand, these skills are the required minimums for one job.
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REQUIREMENTS
Skills Required:
MVS(Expert)
VM(Expert)
zOS(Expert)
JES2(Expert)
JCL(Expert)
General PC(Expert)
LAN/WAN TCP/IP(Expert)
Tivoli(Expert)
Tivoli Workload Scheduler(Expert)
Tivoli System Automation(Expert)
HMC for Mainframe(Expert)
Tivoli Event Console(Expert)
eESM(Expert)
AIX(Good)
Linux(G
OS/2(Good)
SUN Solaris(Good)
UNIX(Good)
Windows 2000(Good)
SUSE Linux(Good)
Red Hat Linux(Good)
Lotus 123(Good)
Lotus Freelance(Good)
Lotus WordPro(Good)
Microsoft Excel(Good)
Microsoft PowerPoint(Good)
Microsoft Project(Good)
Microsoft Word(Good)
Security(Good)
DB2(Basic)
Firewall(Basic)
MQ Series(Basic)
PeopleSoft(Basic)
SAP R/3(Basic)
Seibel(Basic)
Websphere(Basic)
AS/400(Exposure)
C(Exposure)
C++(Exposure)
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Oracle(Exposure)
Perl(Exposure)
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Visual C++(Exposure)
Years of Experience Required.Minimum of 5 years managed operations experience
Education Requirements.BS in CS or CIS . . .
Go over to dice.com, or whatever, and take a look. There are *far* fewer ads for OSS pros. Usually, the OSS stuff is thrown in as an extra (along with 30 other skills needed for an $18/hr job), not the primary job. OSS jobs tend to pay much less than proprietary counterparts. Compare Linux admins to Solaris, or Postgre to Oracle.
This articles reminds me of those idiotic "shortage of BSCS" articals. Again, look at the job ads, very few jobs require a BSCS. Employers want experience, and lots of it, in a variety of specific products.
>>
EVERY single person I know is underwater on their options. Every Single One.
Apparently you don't know any execs at scox, they get their options at $0.001 each. If scox went down to one penny a share, they are still way in the money. As I understand it, that sort of thing isn't unusual for execs.
>>
I see a shortage in qualified IT workers. I would say a large percentage of the unemployed IT workforce are inexperienced and lack some major backing (like a college degree, certification, job experience/internship)
I live in denver, co. I don't see that at all. I see very educated and experienced IT workers scrapping for nickles and dimes all over the place.
When you've worked in IT for over 10 years, it is extremely difficult to get out. Employers only want to hire you to do what you did on your last job.
I tried to process real estate loans. I have a degree in business, I've taken every real estate course there is. There was a sever shortage of people to process those loans, it only takes a HS diploma. You should seen the reaction when they saw that I working in software development for the last 10 years.
It just won't work. I've played the rebate game many dozens of times, maybe over one hundred times.
You have to cut off the UPC, making it impossible to return. No, Virgina, they *won't* accept a photocopy of the UPC - at least, you would be a fool to count on it. It's enough of a fight to actually get your rebate when you do everything right.
BestBuy is full of cr@p. Many times I've witnessed customers being charged a restocking fee for merchandise that is defective due to design - i.e. a computer peripheral that is supposed to work with Win2K, but won't. Bestbuy simply wants to scam customers, bestbuy gets all pissy when they can't get away with it.
"Walking up to any manager, however, quickly reveals that common sense prevails."
At the bestbuy where I live, they are *all* managers. Ask one pimply faced kid to see a manager, and s/he will get another pimply faced kid. Once, I did this about 8 times, and got one kid after another. Asking to speak to somebody's direct supervisor gets the same results.
I was at a kinko's yesterday, and I overheard one employee instructing another: ". . . if the ask for a manager, just tell them you are the manager."
Good lord, how old are you? 12? If you are older than that please try to "grow up."
When somebody is baiting you, the *worst* thing to do is take the bait. It's a set-up, a trap, get it?
This entire msft/scox scam is a PR war. And the linux geeks seem to be less up to the challenge than Darl McBride (and *he* is a complete idiot).
The professional msft shills like enderle, lyons, ect. eat those threats up. These idiotic threats do nothing but prove to onlookers that scox is the innocent victim of the linux thugs.
Again, grow up. Learn to be smart. Think, don't just react.
Surprising that posters here don't know any better than to take the bait. These "kill Merkey" comments do not help. Some clown like Dan Lyons at Forbes may very well use those comments to prove that the linux lovers over at slashdot are actually a hateful, violent, crowd. Danny did that with comments from the yahoo boards - comments which were far more tame btw.
Runs practically all ms-windows programs.
I like linux, but it's not linux is the only OS that will run on older hardware.
On 120mhz system with 64mb of RAM, NT 4.0 is very snappy. And it's a lot more like XP than any version of Linux. Try running MS-Office-97 on your 166mhz VectorLinux System.
How much money is the printed work really bringing in these days? And how much will they lose by the work being available on gutenberg? BTW: I often buy books even when the same stuff is available online.
Is this just a matter of the USA being over-run with lawyers? There are not enough legitimate claims to go around, the lawyers desperately sue everything that moves.
I think a project like this would be about 100X time more useful if it was even compatible with an old version of VB. If that were the case, then you could compile VB apps to run on Linux, now *that* would be a big deal.
As it is, who's going to use it? Hobbiests? What is the point of writing an app in this language?
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's very nice, and impressive in it's own way. But, I suppose it's just a curiousity.
I see absolutely nothing satirical about that article. What makes you think it's supposed to be a satire?
I think Maureen O'Gara, and LinuxWorld have an agenda. I also think msft is behind it.
Yeah, I know, tinfoil hat and all. But, I've followed this scox-scam for a while now, and I've followed msft for even longer. There have been way more dirty tricks than I can even begin to remember.
Again, JMHO.
A few months ago I read an article on slashdot about the creater of linuxworld advising against reading linuxworld now.
He said that since linuxworld was taken over, it seems the entire purpose of linuxworld is advocate msft.
Who took over at linuxworld? Any msft connection?
I know a guy who very recently went in for a vasectomy (sic?). Anyway the realitively simple operation was successful, but they gave him some kind of infection. It was the hospitals fault, they weren't careful. He went back, they had to drain all this, and wash out that, and in so doing, they gave yet another infection. He had to go back a third time. Now he is off work, and on his back suffering in pain.
I don't know a lot about surgery, but it seems to me that doctors just don't care and have become sloppy as all hell.
When my father had heart surgery, in the USA, about ten years ago; it seemed that the entire cardiac care unit was from India.
I guess you might as well go to India.
Still, most modern PCs have about 100X the processor speed, and maybe 10X the RAM.
And without a lot of RAM.
After nearly 20 years of "progress" we need at least a 400mhz processor, with 256mb of RAM to equal it.
Why?
I think using a PC for a stereo system would be a great idea. For $100 I could put together a system that could store a few thousand songs. Everybody already knows how to use a PC.
No CDs to fumble with, no goofy stereo interface that nobody can understand. Buy your songs online, get a decent set of speakers and amplifier.