The US is floating a $7 trillion dollar real debt, huge deficits, and (according to the Fed study) a social security future deficit of $50 TRILLION.
I am surprised that the national debt (or federal budget) hasn't come up in the Presidential debates. It sure didn't take long for Bush to piss away all the work that Clinton had done on the national debt and federal budget. It is only getting worse...
But when did he say it was only 30%? If he said that recently, it doesn't matter. No one knows exactly what they were thinking 30 years before. At the time, his feelings were different, and he was a totally different person.
It was in TFA, but he says that he said it back then:
I wanted to actually finish the film the way it was meant to be when I was originally doing it. At the beginning, people went, "Don't you like it?" I said, "Well, the film only came out to be 25 or 30 percent of what I wanted it to be." They said, "What are you talking about?" So finally, I stopped saying that, b! ut if you read any interviews for about an eight- or nine-year period there, it was all about how disappointed I was and how unhappy I was and what a dismal experience it was. You know, it's too bad you need to get kind of half a job done and never get to finish it. So this was my chance to finish it.
For another example, look at how musicians change over the years. Metallica, for instance, used to be a great band, but now they're greedy bastards.
Yeah, I know. Metallica started its slide during the Black Album. I know, I know - many think it was their best album. But I liked Master of Puppets, and And Justice for All... Hey, I am all for them trying new things, and those things can be good, but it just isn't the same. GNR was never as good as they were on Appetite. Interesting side-note: I was at that concert in St. Louis when Axl jumped into the crowd and a riot broke out. That was crazy. I wish I would have kept my ticket stub.
While I do agree that, in the original trilogy, things were better when he had less control (Empire Strikes Back namely), he still had lots of control on the first one.
But that is my point. He had control on the first one, and it was a huge hit - one of the top movies ever - but it wasn't the movie he wanted to make. He is saying that it was only about 30% of his vision. From what I have seen, I am glad we only got 30%, because I don't think that additional 70% would have been good. The more of his vision we get, the worse it gets.
It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it.
So basically what he says is, he got lucky with Star Wars. Because what he wanted to make was garbage. Look at the prequels - he had much more control over these, and comparatively they sucked. They are tripe on their own, without using the original three as a crutch.
So the movies that people loved, and built his "empire" (so to speak) were not his true vision. We have seen his vision, and it isn't that great. So I think it is time to stop giving Lucas any credit for the first three movies. He doesn't want it, and he apparently doesn't deserve it. Actually, the more control he had, the worse the movies got. It was kind of obvious to me that he had more control with ROTJ, because of the Ewoks and some of the direction the story took. I am almost looking forward to EPIII - not to see it, but just to see how bad it is.
It's not very hard to ignore, just turn off the TV! I've never heard Ashley Simpson. I have no idea who JLo is married to, etc..
Well, I for one like TV. But not all TV. It seems to be getting worse though, even the stations I used to watch all the time (TLC, Discovery) are turning into Reality or Makeover TV nightmares. And I am even willing to admit that I like some of that stuff sometimes. So I don't want to give up television, but I am by no means chained to it.
I have actually learned a LOT from TV. Reading a cookbook is fine, but I am a visual learner. Seeing someone do something teaches me more than just reading about it. If it weren't for the Food Network, Discovery, and TLC I would probably shut off my cable. My bad habit is that I flip around during commercials, because I hate commercials. So I run across all kinds of stuff, and have actually discovered a few good shows like that. Unfortunately, I see all kind of stuff that also angries up the blood.
Oh, and I think JLo is married to Marc Anthony, who is a Latin singer, but I'll always remember him from the movie The Substitute. Did you also know he was in Hackers ? I hear the women at work talking about all this crap during the day. Thank Jebus for headphones.
People like me are the reason why the RIAA's sales numbers are down - we're the ones that used to spend all of our money on music, but a lot of us feel like we already own pretty much all the good music that we want, and new music is mostly a barren wasteland of talentless hacks.
Note that when I said "people" I was referring to the majority of the population. Personally, I think that there is good music out there, even RIAA supported music. But the problem is, you don't know about it. You can't say ALL of the music they push is bad, because it isn't. But you'd never know, because the ONLY way you know what is out there is by radio play or word of mouth. And with the mass populace sucking up whatever is fed to them, word of mouth is dying. So there is probably great music sitting on the store shelves collecting dust, but we won't know about it because whatever label decided not to push it. I actually found some music I liked in the last several years, but it is nothing like what it used to be. Honestly? I just refuse to play the game anymore. I have been going through my collection, and re-discovering stuff in it.
What's the point of preventing people from copying shitty music?
It's what the people want.
Look, I don't understand it either, but for some reason the "public" wants this crap. They want something easy, and formula - like Jessica Simpson. Something absolutely bland and devoid of... well, anything. I keep hearing the suburban cows at work talking about the likes of Britney Spears or Ashley Simpson - I guess that is Jessica's younger sister. I was flipping around one day on MTV, and there she was. OMFG - she can't sing any better than I can! Yet she is supposedly popular. It seems like a big joke, kind of like that movie "Trading Places". Someone is just proving a point, that they can take a nobody with no talent and turn them into a star.
What pisses me off is that it is so hard to ignore it! I don't know much about pop culture these days, but I pick up (more than) enough just flipping through the channels. These shows like ET, Access Hollywood, etc are banality^2. Do people really give a flying F about this stuff? It is all just shameless fluff. And people seem to want it. They read People, and talk about JLo and "Brad and Jen" like they actually know them. I really don't get it.
I find it hard to believe Windows XP crashes 12% of the time. I run XP at work and at home. Here at work I am building, compiling, crashing code, running about 20 things at once and I almost never need to reboot. I shut down on weekends, and sometimes at night to save the company some dough, but I rarely need to reboot.
Crashing and requiring a reboot are two different things. I use XP at work too. I have ZERO spyware on it. It is for work, I use it for work only. No button bars, no cute apps. The only thing I use personally on it are Opera, PuTTY, and an old version of Winamp. I have to reboot about twice a week.
If people need to reboot 12% of the time, then they are doing something wrong. It's not the OS, but more the user in my opinion. XP is a stable system, and does a good job of keeping my machines running.
I have a good idea why my system needs to be rebooted, it is some of the apps I run - mainly certain Rational tools. Sure, on Win98 it would blue screen and crash. XP will just slow to a near halt or start behaving very oddly. Reboots are part of Microsoft OS maintenance. If there is a problem with your machine - reboot. SOP, everywhere I have been.
Even if XP is stable, if it allows applications to bring it down and make it unusable, then the PC isn't stable - period. If the OS can't control it, then it is the fault of the OS.
Hey, I have problems at home on my Linux machine too. Apps will cause X to freak out, and I have had to reboot because I don't know how to cleanly shutdown X remotely or from a console. I am sure there is a way, it just happens so infrequently I haven't bothered to find out. Sometimes Opera will crash X, or if I am messing around with settings on Mplayer, it will freeze it. I used to have problems with my Xfs (font server) crashing all the time, but that was on my old system (Redhat 7.3). I think that may have caused some of the problems with Opera freaking out. I just upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 a few weeks ago, so hopefully that is all straightened out. But my uptime at home is usually VERY long. Not to start comparing, but it usually gets rebooted only when the power goes out or something. In fact, my web server has been up since the last power hit, 118 days ago. Before that, it was up over 230.:-)
Who cares if he's really rich? If he gave away $20 million every day, he wouldn't be for very long, would he? No matter how you look at it, $20 million is a LOT of money.
I ran the numbers, albeit a year or so ago. I compared Bill Gates to my net worth. Now I am not wealthy, but I am not poor. I have been working in the IT industry for 10 years, I have a house, 2 cars, and no real outstanding debt. I am doing OK.
Bill Gates giving away $1,000,000 is the equivalent of me giving $5. And we both live in the same world, where a dollar has the same value for everyone. So he is not being generous. If I would give away 1/2 of my net worth, I would be in big trouble - he could give away 9/10 easily and still be able to survive. I applaud him for donating money, but let's not kid ourselves and pretend he is making any sacrifices. If he was a genuine philanthropist, he wouldn't have named his foundation after himself and his wife.
What exactly do we still offer the world? There's still some tech here, but it's moving away rapidly. Manufacturing is all gone, and engineering is fast on its heels.
Actually, I was thinking of food when I wrote that. We export a lot. We also offer business - as in we consume a lot of the world's products. We offer entertainment, although other countries can certainly survive without that.
Yea. You're right. I would rather live in a country on the bottom of the ladder than on the top of it. I mean, who would want to live in the best country in the world?
Did you ever think that our superiority complex may knock us down a few rungs on that ladder? They have moved a lot of our IT jobs overseas. Our manufacturing is already there for the most part. Now technology R&D? Pretty soon, we are going to be very dependent on other countries, and the tide may turn. Yes, we offer the world a lot. But we can't forget that we aren't the only country in the world. We can't treat other countries like they are beneath us, even if we are on top *for right now*. If the day comes when we aren't on top (and it will), then I can only hope that we have good international relations at the time.
You make me SICK.... America IS the greatest country in the world. First off, for being one of the youngest countries in the world, we have the oldest and longest standing Constitution in existance. I agree the US isn't perfect. But what entity or individual is? For you to come out and say America isn't the BEST country in the world is blasphemy. Go to China were you cant view all the pr0n you want. Or Russia with its wishy washy and highly secretive (more than ours) government. Or Ruwanda were kids 10 yrs old are being given assault weapons to go kill people. Or...... well, I could go on forever. Anyway, go blow smoke up someone else's a$$ because I don't want to hear it, commie bastard!!!!
P.S. The United States of America gives more money to countries around the world than all the rest of the countries combined. If that isn't "worldly" I don't know what is, so SHUT UP!!!
Thank you for illustrating my point perfectly.
You read what you wanted to read, and missed the last half of that sentence where I said "and that it always will be." I DISTINCTLY put that in there. I never said this country wasn't great. But pride goeth before a fall, and there were many many more great civilizations before use that were around much longer. There is a good reason they aren't still around today. But you miss that point. You call me a commie because you are an ignorant, jingoistic fool. You say what I said is blasphemy, which is EXACTLY the point I was trying to make, yet I am sure you don't see why calling it blasphemy is making my point. You see donating money as being worldly.
I keep trying to think that people like you don't exist, and that there is hope for this country.
Great, and within 10 years they'll probably surpass the USA. That is the direction everything's heading- outsourcing the skilled, high tech, and R&D work is going to hollow out the US economy until it collapses in on itself like a neutron star...
And maybe then, people in the US will FINALLY realize that the US is not the center of the universe.
And yes, I am a born-and-raised American. I am just so friggin sick of this idea that the USA is the greatest country in the world and that it always will be. It isn't a big surprise that the "rest of the world" will catch up to and probably surpass us in lots of things. Think automobile production in the 70s. Think electronics. Think military. We are so used to being bullies and living in our own minds that we have forgotten the rest of the world. How many times have you heard something like: "France doesn't like our politics? Screw 'em, who needs the French anyway?" I have heard it way too much. The US is probably the least worldly nation on the planet. (that should be)
Not to start a flamewar, but this is what the Bush administration has been basing its entire existence on! And it hasn't just been Bush, it has been our entire government over the last XXX years.
Unfortunately, it will probably take something catastrophic like a shift in the tech sector, or even worse some military shift to wake people up in this country.
As per topic: it seems to me that centralization is a good thing when no copyright violations are taking place. It allows easy sorting/searching/etc. based on data that is easy to find (the central server) - I think this is a great thing for indy/garage/etc artists looking for another place to promote themselves.
Funny how now we now assume something is illegal unless proven otherwise, instead of the opposite.
You don't think you need to know quotas to be a sysadmin? Or basic kernel setup?
It might be nice, but gee, it really depends on what kinds of systems you are administering now, doesn't it? You think that basic kernel setup is something that a newly converted MS Admin needs to know? (original question here)
So how is your network in Fantasyland doing these days? Seriously, congratulations on getting your basic mail function running, you must be teh 3733t h4x0r for sure.
Typical AC. Brag about yourself, demonstrate what a small world you live in, then insult others - all cloaked in Anonymity. Boy, you really got me there - you made it seem like I thought I was being an etite (sic) hacker. I get it, funny. Wow, are you clever. You are so much better than me. You are Captain Kirk, to my uhh, I don't know, I don't watch that stupid show. Someone help me out here. You are a veteran, I am a newbie, right? That is why you responded, after all, to demonstrate to the world how great you are. Instead of being helpful, you can sit in your anonymous world and role-play. Thank you for not coming out into the real world, we are doing just fine without you.
As someone who learnt Linux at home, then took some classes, then became an instructor, I think most people who learn from home's knowledge holes are gaping.
As a lot of people have. There are few who know it all, the key is knowing what you don't know, and learning what you need to know. Do I need to set up an LDAP server at home? Or a Mailserver? Or how to portmap my jigger to my thingamabob using Skalzor's port analyzer? Yes, I could probably learn all these things, but would I unless I needed to? Those are holes, but they may not need to be filled.
Basic stuff like quotas. How the kernel knows where the root partition is. What the difference between the exire time in an SOA record and the TTL in the zone file is.
Sorry, but you don't need to know any of that to be a sysadmin. You need to know how tools like netstat, nmap, etc work. You need to know grep, awk, sed, vi, ssh, and a host of others. You can easily learn those at home. There are things you may need in a "real job" that you might not learn at home, like how to set up a mail server, or how to set up a website. Sure, you CAN do that stuff at home, but you may not. If you have never set up a mail server, there is a LOT to learn. You don't want to do trial-and-error at a place of business. There should be classes out there that address this exact problem - "The 20 Things You Need to Know to be a Linux System Administrator in a Business".
I have been using Linux for 6+ years, and Unix before that. I am still learning things. I just wiped my main machine (Redhat 7.3) and installed Mandrake 10.0 on it. It was a learning experience. Things just work a little differently. I used to have a nice fetchmail/pine setup going, but it took me several days to get it back. WTF is this Postfix thingy? What pieces do I need, which ones can I disable? Hmm, kmail works but pine doesn't? All little things that had to be figured out, and there was nobody breathing down my neck about it either. FYI - you can get pine working with maildirs without patching it with this nice little hack. Many thanks to the author, I was pretty much at the end of my rope with this one.
That is what I like about Linux - when it works, it works well. When it doesn't work, it is fixable. Yeah, I could have just switched to mutt or some other text mail reader that supported Maildirs, but I am stubborn and knew there had to be a way to get it to work. And I like pine!
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I am surprised that the national debt (or federal budget) hasn't come up in the Presidential debates. It sure didn't take long for Bush to piss away all the work that Clinton had done on the national debt and federal budget. It is only getting worse...
Oh wait, this was about poker? Sorry.
It was in TFA, but he says that he said it back then:
For another example, look at how musicians change over the years. Metallica, for instance, used to be a great band, but now they're greedy bastards.
Yeah, I know. Metallica started its slide during the Black Album. I know, I know - many think it was their best album. But I liked Master of Puppets, and And Justice for All... Hey, I am all for them trying new things, and those things can be good, but it just isn't the same. GNR was never as good as they were on Appetite. Interesting side-note: I was at that concert in St. Louis when Axl jumped into the crowd and a riot broke out. That was crazy. I wish I would have kept my ticket stub.
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But that is my point. He had control on the first one, and it was a huge hit - one of the top movies ever - but it wasn't the movie he wanted to make. He is saying that it was only about 30% of his vision. From what I have seen, I am glad we only got 30%, because I don't think that additional 70% would have been good. The more of his vision we get, the worse it gets.
They had no reason to be scared of Netscape, DRDOS, OS/2, or Sun's Java, but that didn't stop them from doing their best to sabotage them.
So basically what he says is, he got lucky with Star Wars. Because what he wanted to make was garbage. Look at the prequels - he had much more control over these, and comparatively they sucked. They are tripe on their own, without using the original three as a crutch.
So the movies that people loved, and built his "empire" (so to speak) were not his true vision. We have seen his vision, and it isn't that great. So I think it is time to stop giving Lucas any credit for the first three movies. He doesn't want it, and he apparently doesn't deserve it. Actually, the more control he had, the worse the movies got. It was kind of obvious to me that he had more control with ROTJ, because of the Ewoks and some of the direction the story took. I am almost looking forward to EPIII - not to see it, but just to see how bad it is.
Well, I for one like TV. But not all TV. It seems to be getting worse though, even the stations I used to watch all the time (TLC, Discovery) are turning into Reality or Makeover TV nightmares. And I am even willing to admit that I like some of that stuff sometimes. So I don't want to give up television, but I am by no means chained to it.
I have actually learned a LOT from TV. Reading a cookbook is fine, but I am a visual learner. Seeing someone do something teaches me more than just reading about it. If it weren't for the Food Network, Discovery, and TLC I would probably shut off my cable. My bad habit is that I flip around during commercials, because I hate commercials. So I run across all kinds of stuff, and have actually discovered a few good shows like that. Unfortunately, I see all kind of stuff that also angries up the blood.
Oh, and I think JLo is married to Marc Anthony, who is a Latin singer, but I'll always remember him from the movie The Substitute. Did you also know he was in Hackers ? I hear the women at work talking about all this crap during the day. Thank Jebus for headphones.
Note that when I said "people" I was referring to the majority of the population. Personally, I think that there is good music out there, even RIAA supported music. But the problem is, you don't know about it. You can't say ALL of the music they push is bad, because it isn't. But you'd never know, because the ONLY way you know what is out there is by radio play or word of mouth. And with the mass populace sucking up whatever is fed to them, word of mouth is dying. So there is probably great music sitting on the store shelves collecting dust, but we won't know about it because whatever label decided not to push it. I actually found some music I liked in the last several years, but it is nothing like what it used to be. Honestly? I just refuse to play the game anymore. I have been going through my collection, and re-discovering stuff in it.
It's what the people want.
Look, I don't understand it either, but for some reason the "public" wants this crap. They want something easy, and formula - like Jessica Simpson. Something absolutely bland and devoid of ... well, anything. I keep hearing the suburban cows at work talking about the likes of Britney Spears or Ashley Simpson - I guess that is Jessica's younger sister. I was flipping around one day on MTV, and there she was. OMFG - she can't sing any better than I can! Yet she is supposedly popular. It seems like a big joke, kind of like that movie "Trading Places". Someone is just proving a point, that they can take a nobody with no talent and turn them into a star.
What pisses me off is that it is so hard to ignore it! I don't know much about pop culture these days, but I pick up (more than) enough just flipping through the channels. These shows like ET, Access Hollywood, etc are banality^2. Do people really give a flying F about this stuff? It is all just shameless fluff. And people seem to want it. They read People, and talk about JLo and "Brad and Jen" like they actually know them. I really don't get it.
1. Sue IBM
2. ???
3. Profit!
If you have the answer to #2, please contact Darl McBride at SCO.com. We have an immediate opening for someone who can solve this riddle.
Crashing and requiring a reboot are two different things. I use XP at work too. I have ZERO spyware on it. It is for work, I use it for work only. No button bars, no cute apps. The only thing I use personally on it are Opera, PuTTY, and an old version of Winamp. I have to reboot about twice a week.
If people need to reboot 12% of the time, then they are doing something wrong. It's not the OS, but more the user in my opinion. XP is a stable system, and does a good job of keeping my machines running.
I have a good idea why my system needs to be rebooted, it is some of the apps I run - mainly certain Rational tools. Sure, on Win98 it would blue screen and crash. XP will just slow to a near halt or start behaving very oddly. Reboots are part of Microsoft OS maintenance. If there is a problem with your machine - reboot. SOP, everywhere I have been.
Even if XP is stable, if it allows applications to bring it down and make it unusable, then the PC isn't stable - period. If the OS can't control it, then it is the fault of the OS.
Hey, I have problems at home on my Linux machine too. Apps will cause X to freak out, and I have had to reboot because I don't know how to cleanly shutdown X remotely or from a console. I am sure there is a way, it just happens so infrequently I haven't bothered to find out. Sometimes Opera will crash X, or if I am messing around with settings on Mplayer, it will freeze it. I used to have problems with my Xfs (font server) crashing all the time, but that was on my old system (Redhat 7.3). I think that may have caused some of the problems with Opera freaking out. I just upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 a few weeks ago, so hopefully that is all straightened out. But my uptime at home is usually VERY long. Not to start comparing, but it usually gets rebooted only when the power goes out or something. In fact, my web server has been up since the last power hit, 118 days ago. Before that, it was up over 230. :-)
I ran the numbers, albeit a year or so ago. I compared Bill Gates to my net worth. Now I am not wealthy, but I am not poor. I have been working in the IT industry for 10 years, I have a house, 2 cars, and no real outstanding debt. I am doing OK.
Bill Gates giving away $1,000,000 is the equivalent of me giving $5. And we both live in the same world, where a dollar has the same value for everyone. So he is not being generous. If I would give away 1/2 of my net worth, I would be in big trouble - he could give away 9/10 easily and still be able to survive. I applaud him for donating money, but let's not kid ourselves and pretend he is making any sacrifices. If he was a genuine philanthropist, he wouldn't have named his foundation after himself and his wife.
We have a long history of it. I can state two very distinct instances where we behaved horribly.
1. destruction of Native Americans
2. Slavery
Actually, I was thinking of food when I wrote that. We export a lot. We also offer business - as in we consume a lot of the world's products. We offer entertainment, although other countries can certainly survive without that.
Did you ever think that our superiority complex may knock us down a few rungs on that ladder? They have moved a lot of our IT jobs overseas. Our manufacturing is already there for the most part. Now technology R&D? Pretty soon, we are going to be very dependent on other countries, and the tide may turn. Yes, we offer the world a lot. But we can't forget that we aren't the only country in the world. We can't treat other countries like they are beneath us, even if we are on top *for right now*. If the day comes when we aren't on top (and it will), then I can only hope that we have good international relations at the time.
Thank you for illustrating my point perfectly.
You read what you wanted to read, and missed the last half of that sentence where I said "and that it always will be." I DISTINCTLY put that in there. I never said this country wasn't great. But pride goeth before a fall, and there were many many more great civilizations before use that were around much longer. There is a good reason they aren't still around today. But you miss that point. You call me a commie because you are an ignorant, jingoistic fool. You say what I said is blasphemy, which is EXACTLY the point I was trying to make, yet I am sure you don't see why calling it blasphemy is making my point. You see donating money as being worldly.
I keep trying to think that people like you don't exist, and that there is hope for this country.
And maybe then, people in the US will FINALLY realize that the US is not the center of the universe.
And yes, I am a born-and-raised American. I am just so friggin sick of this idea that the USA is the greatest country in the world and that it always will be. It isn't a big surprise that the "rest of the world" will catch up to and probably surpass us in lots of things. Think automobile production in the 70s. Think electronics. Think military. We are so used to being bullies and living in our own minds that we have forgotten the rest of the world. How many times have you heard something like: "France doesn't like our politics? Screw 'em, who needs the French anyway?" I have heard it way too much. The US is probably the least worldly nation on the planet. (that should be)
Not to start a flamewar, but this is what the Bush administration has been basing its entire existence on! And it hasn't just been Bush, it has been our entire government over the last XXX years.
Unfortunately, it will probably take something catastrophic like a shift in the tech sector, or even worse some military shift to wake people up in this country.
I printed this map out at work, on glossy paper, on our 24" wide Design Jet 500 printer. Looks sweet on my wall.
I really want to know if it can emulate the Phantom game console.
Pictures have a personality?
Funny how now we now assume something is illegal unless proven otherwise, instead of the opposite.
It might be nice, but gee, it really depends on what kinds of systems you are administering now, doesn't it? You think that basic kernel setup is something that a newly converted MS Admin needs to know? (original question here)
So how is your network in Fantasyland doing these days? Seriously, congratulations on getting your basic mail function running, you must be teh 3733t h4x0r for sure.
Typical AC. Brag about yourself, demonstrate what a small world you live in, then insult others - all cloaked in Anonymity. Boy, you really got me there - you made it seem like I thought I was being an etite (sic) hacker. I get it, funny. Wow, are you clever. You are so much better than me. You are Captain Kirk, to my uhh, I don't know, I don't watch that stupid show. Someone help me out here. You are a veteran, I am a newbie, right? That is why you responded, after all, to demonstrate to the world how great you are. Instead of being helpful, you can sit in your anonymous world and role-play. Thank you for not coming out into the real world, we are doing just fine without you.
As a lot of people have. There are few who know it all, the key is knowing what you don't know, and learning what you need to know. Do I need to set up an LDAP server at home? Or a Mailserver? Or how to portmap my jigger to my thingamabob using Skalzor's port analyzer? Yes, I could probably learn all these things, but would I unless I needed to? Those are holes, but they may not need to be filled.
Basic stuff like quotas. How the kernel knows where the root partition is. What the difference between the exire time in an SOA record and the TTL in the zone file is.
Sorry, but you don't need to know any of that to be a sysadmin. You need to know how tools like netstat, nmap, etc work. You need to know grep, awk, sed, vi, ssh, and a host of others. You can easily learn those at home. There are things you may need in a "real job" that you might not learn at home, like how to set up a mail server, or how to set up a website. Sure, you CAN do that stuff at home, but you may not. If you have never set up a mail server, there is a LOT to learn. You don't want to do trial-and-error at a place of business. There should be classes out there that address this exact problem - "The 20 Things You Need to Know to be a Linux System Administrator in a Business".
I have been using Linux for 6+ years, and Unix before that. I am still learning things. I just wiped my main machine (Redhat 7.3) and installed Mandrake 10.0 on it. It was a learning experience. Things just work a little differently. I used to have a nice fetchmail/pine setup going, but it took me several days to get it back. WTF is this Postfix thingy? What pieces do I need, which ones can I disable? Hmm, kmail works but pine doesn't? All little things that had to be figured out, and there was nobody breathing down my neck about it either. FYI - you can get pine working with maildirs without patching it with this nice little hack. Many thanks to the author, I was pretty much at the end of my rope with this one.
That is what I like about Linux - when it works, it works well. When it doesn't work, it is fixable. Yeah, I could have just switched to mutt or some other text mail reader that supported Maildirs, but I am stubborn and knew there had to be a way to get it to work. And I like pine!
And so began down the path to the Dark side.
2. The shot of Carrie Fisher and her stunt double? Whoa.