Oooh, a menu.lst file. Any idiot with a text editor and man page could figure that out, which is the point of grub over lilo... to make it easier.
You are correct that a cert alone doesn't make a good SA, any more than a computer science degree makes a good programmer. Maybe at your school a good SA is hard to find, but I've never had trouble finding them, either as a hiring manager or a staff SA. The key to finding good admins is to pay them what they are worth. My guess is that your college hasn't figured that out.
I just want to point something out though, and that is that a school's IT department isn't the same thing as a 7x24 critical environment. Isn't, never will be, never, except maybe for those schools that are attached to medical schools that have real hospitals.
But I was also right, you don't have practical professional experience and while it's important to be confident and assertive, it's equally important to know when you're blowing smoke out of your ass. Most of slashdot hasn't figured that out, hopefully you will before you graduate because if you interview with a good technical manager they'll know if you haven't.
I think you don't know many good system admins, windows or linux or otherwise. A good SA knows how to admin a system and can learn the interface to any system. I manage a team of system admins, myself being certified on Redhat, Solaris, and Windows -- and for many years.
I have to say that most of the negative stereotypes of or about system admins are just that, stereotypes and not applicable.
All good system admins work at the command line, can write scripts whether they be bash, or vbscript-based, and understand the functions and interactions of the various parts of the operating systems. All good system admins also know that the best way to do the job is the most efficient way that is supportable, sometimes that is at the CLI and others its via a GUI.
Come work in a place with hundreds of servers and test your own metal before you go bad-mouthing others. Oh wait that'll never happen, this is after-all slashdot, a place where the average poster is totally disconnected from reality, misinformation reins supreme, and boasts are taken as fact.
tftp being unprotected, porn promoting unsafe sexual behavior (for the most part), I don't know, porn and tftp kind of seem like the same thing to me... as they should for anyone that manages a network.
Actually, it's not Canada... the solution to a corrupt and oppressive government is actually revolution, as outlined in the Declaration of Independence. It's the reason we have the 2nd amendment, so that we might rise up and overtake them by force if needed.
Of course, I'm sure you were trying to be funny, that's what the moderators thought; I didn't.
It's easy, tell them they will be able to browse the web and write shell scripts, that their iPod will work but not seamlessly, and that all of the cool commercial games they want to play, well that they'll have to pass on them.
Come on, really? I like it, use it, and write a lot of code for servers on linux but for the average home user interested in gaming, browsing their online bill paying services, and just using their computer as an appliance, Linux isn't ready yet.
I'm the Director of I.T. for a hospital and my CIO expects that I have my staff handhold users who don't even possess a remedial level of basic computer skills. We're not talking about using SPSS or something like that, but sending and receiving email in Outlook or navigating in Explorer windows. We of course, have an education department but they don't offer this training.
End user ignorance, often willful, is one of the most frustrating things to deal with and on occassion I can understand why a tech might have an attitude towards users.
Notice that I deeply hate both political parties, but take great glee in pointing out to the morons tha count themselves a party member, how their respective horses all shit on the street.
>>I personally deal with European scientists on a daily basis,
I think you're full of crap.
Professionally, both my wife and I deal with scientists and doctors from all over the world and all of the work we do and collaborate on is done in the metric system; as is almost all science.
Really, when was the last time a real scientist measured anything in ounces or inches?@!
I'll probably get modded troll for my post but then again, this article is a troll too.
The Democrats are historically anti-freedom; pro-Hollywood and anti-gun. Their anti-freedom platform is just different than the Republicans, who sell your freedoms to big business.
I mean, after all it was a Democrat, everyone's (not mine) favorite Al Gore and his wife who came up with banning music under the guises of the PMRC.
RTFA.
Gasoline motor drives electric generator which is what moves the car. This is NO different than how locomotives work today. All trains are moved with electric motors, each engine being essentially a large power generation station on wheels.
It's actually rather efficient.
Because Tesla is building a car that only the superwealthy can afford.
GM is building a car for regular people so compromises must be made. It's basic economic opportunity cost stuff, really, which you should have learned in college.
What a "dick-head" stunt to pull, an even bigger one she must be to think she has any expectation of privacy during a news conference. Isn't it ironic!
I'm not niave enough to think environmentalists, for the most part, are really only interested in my welfare, nor for that matter, do I need them trying to save me. I lump most of the do-gooders in with the politicos into this place called the trash.
Most seem to forget the earth is a dynamic place, and that change occurs. Sure, it sucks that we are negatively contributing to the health of our own green places, but the reality is that while global warming is not disputable, the cause is less than clearcut. I for one don't give a rat's ass about shrinking ice caps or whether some poor penguin has to adapt to them, I'm more interested in being left alone by you lefty government fanboys.
My life is frugal, I don't waste, I recycle or reuse, and my home still only has a 100amp service because more amps mean more use. I don't need you or anyone else, that probably limits their environmentalist to hybrid cars and recycled newspapers intruding. Better to live by example than preach from the pulpit.
Man it's about time that worthless chunk of ice fell of the island. This world needs some change for a change, melting ice caps and glaciers are a good thing and I can't wait to see more beachfront property opening up at the top of the world! Think of the land rush! I'm getting in early.
Global warming, climate change, blah, blah, blah. I know the knee jerks like to make alarmist press about the warming of the world (slashdot being filled with knee jerks), along with their peak oil theories, and what not, but really, Really, why should we care?
Stop polluting and spouting CO2, or... Nice messages and heck, I even support some of them, but save me the indigination while we're all tapping away on our keyboards, jamming with our ipods (or a zune or zen if you're an idiot) and in general consuming stuff at viral levels.
Yeah, I'm rambling so mod me down. Meanwhile, I'm saddling up my cow and going riding! Methane man on the way.
And that stat is from the equally dimwitted United Nations.
However, the article does makes a point which you'll probably fail to recognize, and that is that wealth isn't a static pool but a dynamically changing pot, one which has GROWN over the years. The key to improving lives is not the punitive redistribution of wealth but the provision of opportunity to the people in impoverished regions so that they have the ability to fairly compete. But remember, competition implies the opportunity to fail as well.
Free market economics works, period, socialism does not. And before you spout off about the evils of western economic policy, realize this; anyone that compares free market ideals to prevailing western policies is a moron as they obviously have the economics understanding of a child.
Hell isn't in the Torah, nor is it in the rest of the Tanach, that I can recall. In anycase, the concept of hell isn't part of Judaism, because we know it is not possible to know what comes next so we instead focus on the now.
Whose numbers?
An "act of desperation?" Not for one minute agree should we apply more lenient judgement criteria against people who commit crimes because of subjective judgement of their circumstance. That's a bullshit method of enforcing moral relevatism upon the world.
I suppose that the terrorists who commit "acts of desperation" by launching rockets into civilian neighborhoods are okay in your book too?
You do not care, as is so apparent in your post. You are an anti-semite who is gutless so you practice your hatred by ranting about Israel's supposed violations but tacitly condone the same violence perpetuated by arabs. At least the KKK and their aryan nutball buddies have the balls to admit who they are to the world.
Stupid liberals.
"As a simple example - 10 or 20 years ago, very few westerners realized what was happening in the Middle East"
You're obviously one of those youngsters that thinks the world never existed before you were born and that all people older than you must be clueless because our youth wasn't infused with information overload.
Sorry to burst your bubble but 10 years ago I knew what was going on in the middle east, and 20 years ago I did as well.
Who really cares if we are causing the change or not?
Spewing CO2 and other things into our environment is simply a bad idea, potentially dangerous, and in general, unwise. Economics or not, we should avoid doing bad things, and IMHO, not doing something to curb the negative side-effects of our species' existence is bad.
We can argue about the cause of climate change, which is a much better term than global warming, all we want, but the real focus should be on changing our bahavior.
>>How badly does our government have to act before people take up the call to arms and start rioting in the streets of this outrageous behavior?
Found your quote interesting but the sad fact is that most of the morons in the U.S. have given up their second amendment rights under the false pretense of safety, just as we're now giving the rest of them away under the same guise.
Best thing everyone could do is to buy an rifle, a handgun, and get proficient with them. Put some teeth back in Jefferson's (really Locke's) premise that we are OBLIGATED to revolt when government no longer serves freedom. Then VOTE for people who aren't the establishment -- NO democrats and NO republicans.
Then stop spending your money for needless consumption. You don't need the latest graphics card or a pepsi with lime. While you're at it avoid supporting new taxation, that means all new taxation. No new property taxes for schools, no 3/8 of a cent for sports stadiums, and while you are at it, stop watching television, it's how they hook you.
Get the idea? Probably not, most Americans/Westerners are willing to sell their souls for a handout from the government.
>>He is however, necessary if we are to make it to the promised land.;-)
It was Moses who led us to the promised land you dolt. John the Baptist led people away from the truth.
Man with no legs or arms cannot swim the English Channel... upset, calls for draining of the famous channel so he can roll across it. Cites unfair advantage of legged individuals.
I have two 300GB external USB2 hard drives that I sync my data to.
I use rsync with the -E option (gets mac attributes should they exist) and is fast, copying only what has changed. I use two drives because I sync the two backups immediately after syncing my data with the first drive.
Easily automated, no RAID to get in the way in the future, and cheap. New drives can be bought for next to nothing. My suggestion is to buy them in pairs and as one set fills, replace it with the second set. You can easily create new data directories and leave stuff online all the time with this method.
Avoid RAID for long-term backup/archival purposes. Ignore those that tell you otherwise.
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Oooh, a menu.lst file. Any idiot with a text editor and man page could figure that out, which is the point of grub over lilo... to make it easier. You are correct that a cert alone doesn't make a good SA, any more than a computer science degree makes a good programmer. Maybe at your school a good SA is hard to find, but I've never had trouble finding them, either as a hiring manager or a staff SA. The key to finding good admins is to pay them what they are worth. My guess is that your college hasn't figured that out. I just want to point something out though, and that is that a school's IT department isn't the same thing as a 7x24 critical environment. Isn't, never will be, never, except maybe for those schools that are attached to medical schools that have real hospitals. But I was also right, you don't have practical professional experience and while it's important to be confident and assertive, it's equally important to know when you're blowing smoke out of your ass. Most of slashdot hasn't figured that out, hopefully you will before you graduate because if you interview with a good technical manager they'll know if you haven't.
>>This is very similar to treating every Arab as if they were a terrorist.
Duh, every Arab is a terrorist. Oh, that's not right, it's only every muslim that's a terrorst..
YES, this is a MOST definately a TROLL, and the truth.
I think you don't know many good system admins, windows or linux or otherwise. A good SA knows how to admin a system and can learn the interface to any system. I manage a team of system admins, myself being certified on Redhat, Solaris, and Windows -- and for many years.
I have to say that most of the negative stereotypes of or about system admins are just that, stereotypes and not applicable.
All good system admins work at the command line, can write scripts whether they be bash, or vbscript-based, and understand the functions and interactions of the various parts of the operating systems. All good system admins also know that the best way to do the job is the most efficient way that is supportable, sometimes that is at the CLI and others its via a GUI.
Come work in a place with hundreds of servers and test your own metal before you go bad-mouthing others. Oh wait that'll never happen, this is after-all slashdot, a place where the average poster is totally disconnected from reality, misinformation reins supreme, and boasts are taken as fact.
Port 69, tftp, porn? That's funny...
tftp being unprotected, porn promoting unsafe sexual behavior (for the most part), I don't know, porn and tftp kind of seem like the same thing to me... as they should for anyone that manages a network.
Actually, it's not Canada... the solution to a corrupt and oppressive government is actually revolution, as outlined in the Declaration of Independence. It's the reason we have the 2nd amendment, so that we might rise up and overtake them by force if needed.
Of course, I'm sure you were trying to be funny, that's what the moderators thought; I didn't.
It's easy, tell them they will be able to browse the web and write shell scripts, that their iPod will work but not seamlessly, and that all of the cool commercial games they want to play, well that they'll have to pass on them.
Come on, really? I like it, use it, and write a lot of code for servers on linux but for the average home user interested in gaming, browsing their online bill paying services, and just using their computer as an appliance, Linux isn't ready yet.
100 percent accurate.
I'm the Director of I.T. for a hospital and my CIO expects that I have my staff handhold users who don't even possess a remedial level of basic computer skills. We're not talking about using SPSS or something like that, but sending and receiving email in Outlook or navigating in Explorer windows. We of course, have an education department but they don't offer this training.
End user ignorance, often willful, is one of the most frustrating things to deal with and on occassion I can understand why a tech might have an attitude towards users.
Notice that I deeply hate both political parties, but take great glee in pointing out to the morons tha count themselves a party member, how their respective horses all shit on the street.
>>I personally deal with European scientists on a daily basis,
I think you're full of crap.
Professionally, both my wife and I deal with scientists and doctors from all over the world and all of the work we do and collaborate on is done in the metric system; as is almost all science.
Really, when was the last time a real scientist measured anything in ounces or inches?@!
I'll probably get modded troll for my post but then again, this article is a troll too.
What did you all expect?
The Democrats are historically anti-freedom; pro-Hollywood and anti-gun. Their anti-freedom platform is just different than the Republicans, who sell your freedoms to big business.
I mean, after all it was a Democrat, everyone's (not mine) favorite Al Gore and his wife who came up with banning music under the guises of the PMRC.
RTFA. Gasoline motor drives electric generator which is what moves the car. This is NO different than how locomotives work today. All trains are moved with electric motors, each engine being essentially a large power generation station on wheels. It's actually rather efficient.
Because Tesla is building a car that only the superwealthy can afford.
GM is building a car for regular people so compromises must be made. It's basic economic opportunity cost stuff, really, which you should have learned in college.
What a "dick-head" stunt to pull, an even bigger one she must be to think she has any expectation of privacy during a news conference. Isn't it ironic!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm not niave enough to think environmentalists, for the most part, are really only interested in my welfare, nor for that matter, do I need them trying to save me. I lump most of the do-gooders in with the politicos into this place called the trash.
Most seem to forget the earth is a dynamic place, and that change occurs. Sure, it sucks that we are negatively contributing to the health of our own green places, but the reality is that while global warming is not disputable, the cause is less than clearcut. I for one don't give a rat's ass about shrinking ice caps or whether some poor penguin has to adapt to them, I'm more interested in being left alone by you lefty government fanboys.
My life is frugal, I don't waste, I recycle or reuse, and my home still only has a 100amp service because more amps mean more use. I don't need you or anyone else, that probably limits their environmentalist to hybrid cars and recycled newspapers intruding. Better to live by example than preach from the pulpit.
Man it's about time that worthless chunk of ice fell of the island. This world needs some change for a change, melting ice caps and glaciers are a good thing and I can't wait to see more beachfront property opening up at the top of the world! Think of the land rush! I'm getting in early.
... Nice messages and heck, I even support some of them, but save me the indigination while we're all tapping away on our keyboards, jamming with our ipods (or a zune or zen if you're an idiot) and in general consuming stuff at viral levels.
Global warming, climate change, blah, blah, blah. I know the knee jerks like to make alarmist press about the warming of the world (slashdot being filled with knee jerks), along with their peak oil theories, and what not, but really, Really, why should we care?
Stop polluting and spouting CO2, or
Yeah, I'm rambling so mod me down. Meanwhile, I'm saddling up my cow and going riding! Methane man on the way.
Actually it's more like the richest 1% own 40%, to quote one of your own lefty, soft-headed rags, the guardian...
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http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,,196503
And that stat is from the equally dimwitted United Nations.
However, the article does makes a point which you'll probably fail to recognize, and that is that wealth isn't a static pool but a dynamically changing pot, one which has GROWN over the years. The key to improving lives is not the punitive redistribution of wealth but the provision of opportunity to the people in impoverished regions so that they have the ability to fairly compete. But remember, competition implies the opportunity to fail as well.
Free market economics works, period, socialism does not. And before you spout off about the evils of western economic policy, realize this; anyone that compares free market ideals to prevailing western policies is a moron as they obviously have the economics understanding of a child.
Hell isn't in the Torah, nor is it in the rest of the Tanach, that I can recall. In anycase, the concept of hell isn't part of Judaism, because we know it is not possible to know what comes next so we instead focus on the now.
Whose numbers? An "act of desperation?" Not for one minute agree should we apply more lenient judgement criteria against people who commit crimes because of subjective judgement of their circumstance. That's a bullshit method of enforcing moral relevatism upon the world. I suppose that the terrorists who commit "acts of desperation" by launching rockets into civilian neighborhoods are okay in your book too? You do not care, as is so apparent in your post. You are an anti-semite who is gutless so you practice your hatred by ranting about Israel's supposed violations but tacitly condone the same violence perpetuated by arabs. At least the KKK and their aryan nutball buddies have the balls to admit who they are to the world. Stupid liberals.
"As a simple example - 10 or 20 years ago, very few westerners realized what was
happening in the Middle East"
You're obviously one of those youngsters that thinks the world never existed before you were born and that all people older than you must be clueless because our youth wasn't infused with information overload.
Sorry to burst your bubble but 10 years ago I knew what was going on in the middle east, and 20 years ago I did as well.
Who really cares if we are causing the change or not?
Spewing CO2 and other things into our environment is simply a bad idea, potentially dangerous, and in general, unwise. Economics or not, we should avoid doing bad things, and IMHO, not doing something to curb the negative side-effects of our species' existence is bad.
We can argue about the cause of climate change, which is a much better term than global warming, all we want, but the real focus should be on changing our bahavior.
>>How badly does our government have to act before people take up the call to arms and start rioting in the streets of this outrageous behavior?
Found your quote interesting but the sad fact is that most of the morons in the U.S. have given up their second amendment rights under the false pretense of safety, just as we're now giving the rest of them away under the same guise.
Best thing everyone could do is to buy an rifle, a handgun, and get proficient with them. Put some teeth back in Jefferson's (really Locke's) premise that we are OBLIGATED to revolt when government no longer serves freedom. Then VOTE for people who aren't the establishment -- NO democrats and NO republicans.
Then stop spending your money for needless consumption. You don't need the latest graphics card or a pepsi with lime. While you're at it avoid supporting new taxation, that means all new taxation. No new property taxes for schools, no 3/8 of a cent for sports stadiums, and while you are at it, stop watching television, it's how they hook you.
Get the idea? Probably not, most Americans/Westerners are willing to sell their souls for a handout from the government.
>>He is however, necessary if we are to make it to the promised land. ;-)
It was Moses who led us to the promised land you dolt. John the Baptist led people away from the truth.
Make sure you don't use aluminum foil.
Man with no legs or arms cannot swim the English Channel... upset, calls for draining of the famous channel so he can roll across it. Cites unfair advantage of legged individuals.
I have two 300GB external USB2 hard drives that I sync my data to.
I use rsync with the -E option (gets mac attributes should they exist) and is fast, copying only what has changed. I use two drives because I sync the two backups immediately after syncing my data with the first drive.
Easily automated, no RAID to get in the way in the future, and cheap. New drives can be bought for next to nothing. My suggestion is to buy them in pairs and as one set fills, replace it with the second set. You can easily create new data directories and leave stuff online all the time with this method.
Avoid RAID for long-term backup/archival purposes. Ignore those that tell you otherwise.