I have not read this book and, thus, cannot comment upon its ability to communicate the intricacies of system administration to its readership.
I would, however, consider it fairly obvious that the author does not anticipate people sitting down to a twenty-four hour caffeine-fuelled cram-session.
The title of the book suggests, rather, that UNIX system administration may be learned in twenty-four hour long sessions. Ideally, these would be supplemented with meditation on the topic at hand and, perhaps, the completion of the exercises provided.
As noted by other correspondents, this will by no means compensate for a lack of hands-on experience but may well inspire an interest in the subject that proves the foundation of future greatness in an aspiring sysadmin. Yeah!
As a point of interest - at least two companies I have worked for in the UK will employ people as Analyst Programmers on the basis that they have a degree in anything at all (e.g. Psychology) while rejecting people with two-year university diplomas in Software Engineering.
Also annoying at the moment is the huge influx of people with degrees in Media Lab Studies. To the unfamiliar US readers, this is a Computing degree available at a number of British universities which does not require knowledge of any programming principles at all to graduate.
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I draw your attanetion to the Samsung Contact project, which was demonstrated at theis year's Linux Expo in London and looked quite impressive:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/samsungcontact/
I have not read this book and, thus, cannot comment upon its ability to communicate the intricacies of system administration to its readership.
I would, however, consider it fairly obvious that the author does not anticipate people sitting down to a twenty-four hour caffeine-fuelled cram-session.
The title of the book suggests, rather, that UNIX system administration may be learned in twenty-four hour long sessions. Ideally, these would be supplemented with meditation on the topic at hand and, perhaps, the completion of the exercises provided.
As noted by other correspondents, this will by no means compensate for a lack of hands-on experience but may well inspire an interest in the subject that proves the foundation of future greatness in an aspiring sysadmin. Yeah!
As a point of interest - at least two companies I have worked for in the UK will employ people as Analyst Programmers on the basis that they have a degree in anything at all (e.g. Psychology) while rejecting people with two-year university diplomas in Software Engineering.
Also annoying at the moment is the huge influx of people with degrees in Media Lab Studies. To the unfamiliar US readers, this is a Computing degree available at a number of British universities which does not require knowledge of any programming principles at all to graduate.