I think it will be a day to celebrate when some Linux company can hire away that Wasko guy.:-) Then he goes to TV interview and declares that he's convinced Linux will win by watching what was happening with it.:-)
I suggest everyone take up Baduk(Go in japanese). It will take a life time or two to master it and it's cheap. Internet Go Server(IGS) is free for the most of the world, and you only need a $25 book to get started. IGC(=clinet) can be purchased or you can get a free version. No more games to buy. No monthly fee. Every once in awhile you can even watch the pro torney on internet TV as well.
hmmm.....
I wonder who's doing accounting audit for MSFT. Recently they were caught red handed trying to rig an on-line poll in UK. I wonder if they try to rig something else.... World's largest s/w vendor and no dividend? I guess they don't want any regulation or govmint oversight. Am I the only one smelling rat here????
I used to live in East Windsor NJ, and it was Comcast @ Home service area. When I first got the service I had some problem so I called Comcast and they gave me a number that had same area code and exchange as my home number. In fact it was number to local cable office with a huge antenna on top of it. It was less than half mile away from my apartment. Eventually I found out that SMTP, POP, DNS, DHCP servers were all local to East Windsor customers. Only NNTP was sort of Trenton regional, sort of. Customer info, and biliing info was kept "centrally"* by Comcast and backbone was provided by Comcast and Sprint jointly, sort of. The tech support girl was not quite sure what @Home did other than providing so called "default" portal, which I personally never used. (Eventually, I met the tech support girl and she was better than average in terms of look and tech talent, but that's another story...) (I quoted word centrally b/c apparently, NJ Comcast is sort of seperate from other state Comcast and local managers do what they want to do.)
Whatever you do don't become a tech support. Especially those where you just sit at a table and answer telephone question all day. If you put up resume on internet or someplace, then you will surely get some phone calls from a half baked head hunter, if you are interested in those sort of things, and he/she might try to convince you that it's the pathway to becoming an admin. Don't take it. Tech sup position is mostly dead end.
Also if you get hired into a large company as a sys admin, office politics play much larger role than tech savvy.
You may have noticed that many current sys admins made lateral movement. The fact is in unix world(especially commercial ones), it's essentially an apprenticeship model. Your chance of getting a sys admin job by sending out resume is slim.
Another thing to note: many sys admin jobs work hellish hours. and you will almost certainly have to wear a pager. these thing can wreck havoc on your relationships with other non-sys admins. unfortunately they don't pay you enuf to compensate for that.
IMHO, OS/2 failed because IBM decided not to compete with MS Windoze. Think about it: even it IBM would win, it would have been a very costly victory. And at the time, they still had anti-trust issue to be resolved. Ability to run Win3.1 proggies has nothing to do with demise of OS/2. (I am assumming OS/2 is dead. Is that right?)
As for world domination of OS by Linux, it will have to be gradual, evolutionary and organic process. In that regard WINE is definitely a help.
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I wonder if boycotting Prof.Madnick's class would be effective?
I think it will be a day to celebrate when some Linux company can hire away that Wasko guy. :-) Then he goes to TV interview and declares that he's convinced Linux will win by watching what was happening with it. :-)
I suggest everyone take up Baduk(Go in japanese). It will take a life time or two to master it and it's cheap. Internet Go Server(IGS) is free for the most of the world, and you only need a $25 book to get started. IGC(=clinet) can be purchased or you can get a free version. No more games to buy. No monthly fee. Every once in awhile you can even watch the pro torney on internet TV as well.
hmmm..... I wonder who's doing accounting audit for MSFT. Recently they were caught red handed trying to rig an on-line poll in UK. I wonder if they try to rig something else.... World's largest s/w vendor and no dividend? I guess they don't want any regulation or govmint oversight. Am I the only one smelling rat here????
I used to live in East Windsor NJ, and it was Comcast @ Home service area. When I first got the service I had some problem so I called Comcast and they gave me a number that had same area code and exchange as my home number. In fact it was number to local cable office with a huge antenna on top of it. It was less than half mile away from my apartment. Eventually I found out that SMTP, POP, DNS, DHCP servers were all local to East Windsor customers. Only NNTP was sort of Trenton regional, sort of. Customer info, and biliing info was kept "centrally"* by Comcast and backbone was provided by Comcast and Sprint jointly, sort of. The tech support girl was not quite sure what @Home did other than providing so called "default" portal, which I personally never used. (Eventually, I met the tech support girl and she was better than average in terms of look and tech talent, but that's another story...) (I quoted word centrally b/c apparently, NJ Comcast is sort of seperate from other state Comcast and local managers do what they want to do.)
Above is not troll.
For the sake of free s/w and GPL, RMS needs to be pushed aside.
Whatever you do don't become a tech support. Especially those where you just sit at a table and answer telephone question all day. If you put up resume on internet or someplace, then you will surely get some phone calls from a half baked head hunter, if you are interested in those sort of things, and he/she might try to convince you that it's the pathway to becoming an admin. Don't take it. Tech sup position is mostly dead end. Also if you get hired into a large company as a sys admin, office politics play much larger role than tech savvy. You may have noticed that many current sys admins made lateral movement. The fact is in unix world(especially commercial ones), it's essentially an apprenticeship model. Your chance of getting a sys admin job by sending out resume is slim. Another thing to note: many sys admin jobs work hellish hours. and you will almost certainly have to wear a pager. these thing can wreck havoc on your relationships with other non-sys admins. unfortunately they don't pay you enuf to compensate for that.
IMHO, OS/2 failed because IBM decided not to compete with MS Windoze. Think about it: even it IBM would win, it would have been a very costly victory. And at the time, they still had anti-trust issue to be resolved. Ability to run Win3.1 proggies has nothing to do with demise of OS/2. (I am assumming OS/2 is dead. Is that right?)
As for world domination of OS by Linux, it will have to be gradual, evolutionary and organic process. In that regard WINE is definitely a help.