Because I use an iPad and Bluetooth keyboard in portrait mode for wordprocessing. My regular laptop is a MacBook located in my home office. I use the iPad at the kitchen table. Neither Android nor Windows tablets were available when I got my iPad.
Make sure your system meets the minimum hardware specs for FreeNAS. I got away with running FreeNAS on old hardware for years. When I updated to version 9.x and reformatted the hard drives to ZFS, it wasn't as stable as the previous versions were. Looking at the minimum hardware specs, I had to rebuild the system. ZFS requires 1GB RAM per every 1TB of raw storage.
Took me five years as a teenager to master the Sargon II chess game for the Commodore 64 on the hardest difficulty level. I'll like to see a four-year-old do that in less time.
And he's going to have to get up to speed (which takes time and money), and by then, even more competition.
The expectation about ten years ago was the Southeast Asian nations would turn inward to stop exporting I.T. workers and baby boomers would retire en masse, creating a shortage of skilled I.T. workers in the United States. Alas, the Great Recession came and went. I think the labor shortage got postponed for now. I'm expecting less competition in the future.
When I was a video game tester for six years, I did work 60 to 80 hours per week. When I got into IT, I worked 40 hours a week and made more money. My contract doesn't allow me to work overtime.
I worked at help desk when the company hired a new manager who decided that everyone needed ITIL certification. The entire department took ITIL classes taught by the manager. No one got certified because the company refused to pay for it. After the manager got promoted elsewhere, no one mentioned ITIL again.
In your mid-thirties you're coming up on your "best before" date for a lot of IT jobs
I didn't get started in IT until my 30's. Now I'm 45-years-old, still in IT, and studying for the CompTIA Security+ certification. I do security remediation for a company with 80,000 workstations. I'm one of the youngest member of the security team.
A decade ago I took the CompTIA A+ and Network+ certifications, and a Microsoft Windows 2000 certification, which gave me a big boost in the job market I've done IT work on the side while being a video game tester for six years. Too many people think testing video games is all fun and games (it's not!). Without those certifications, I don't think I would have gotten into IT.
I'm now studying for the CompTIA Security+ certification, as I'm doing security remediation for a company with 80,000+ workstations. Most of my coworkers have A+, Network+ and another certification (i.e., Security+ or Red Hat Certified Engineer). Beyond that I may pursue a CCNA and CCNA Security.
I came across a post that you can still buy old stocks of.60 caliber cartridges (~$10 each). However, finding something to fire those cartridges is a different challenge.
Obviously spoken by someone who never owned a Mac. Until the CPU fan gave out this summer, I had a Black MacBook (2006) that ran fine for the last eight years. Alas, with a 32-bit processor that's no longer supported, I didn't take it to the Apple Store to get fix. I had no problems switching over to Windows 8.1, as my data was in cross-platform formats. I'm looking forward to a new Mac next year.
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I used to set up Linux for file sharing back in the day. It's easier these days just to install FreeNAS on a USB stick and be done with it.
Oh i also run the the embedded version of Nas4Free which is installed on a usb drive to free up HD slots not sure if that is possible with freenas9
I've been running FreeNAS on a USB stick for years. It's the recommended install method.
If you're happy with the Apple eco system, why consider anything else?
The software is free. Hardware can get expensive.
I used to set up secondary monitors in portrait mode for people in accounting. More rows was more useful than more columns to them.
Because I use an iPad and Bluetooth keyboard in portrait mode for wordprocessing. My regular laptop is a MacBook located in my home office. I use the iPad at the kitchen table. Neither Android nor Windows tablets were available when I got my iPad.
I prefer portrait mode for wordprocessing. I can view more text that way. I'm more used to seeing my words in compact paragraphs than long lines.
I've set up portrait monitors for users in accounting who need to see more rows than columns on spreadsheets. Less scrolling downward that way.
You can always plug in another monitor to the iMac to run in portrait mode. If you have a VESA-compatible iMac, you can mount it in portrait mode.
Spreadsheets. Especially if you need to see more rows than columns at once.
Get an iPad and a Bluetooth keyboard. This works well for wordprocessing.
Mac users figured out a long time ago that you could flip the monitor.
Make sure your system meets the minimum hardware specs for FreeNAS. I got away with running FreeNAS on old hardware for years. When I updated to version 9.x and reformatted the hard drives to ZFS, it wasn't as stable as the previous versions were. Looking at the minimum hardware specs, I had to rebuild the system. ZFS requires 1GB RAM per every 1TB of raw storage.
My mom died from suicide ten years ago.
I agree! The father needs counseling.
Took me five years as a teenager to master the Sargon II chess game for the Commodore 64 on the hardest difficulty level. I'll like to see a four-year-old do that in less time.
No screenshots of Fedora on Blackbox either.
And he's going to have to get up to speed (which takes time and money), and by then, even more competition.
The expectation about ten years ago was the Southeast Asian nations would turn inward to stop exporting I.T. workers and baby boomers would retire en masse, creating a shortage of skilled I.T. workers in the United States. Alas, the Great Recession came and went. I think the labor shortage got postponed for now. I'm expecting less competition in the future.
When I was a video game tester for six years, I did work 60 to 80 hours per week. When I got into IT, I worked 40 hours a week and made more money. My contract doesn't allow me to work overtime.
I worked at help desk when the company hired a new manager who decided that everyone needed ITIL certification. The entire department took ITIL classes taught by the manager. No one got certified because the company refused to pay for it. After the manager got promoted elsewhere, no one mentioned ITIL again.
In your mid-thirties you're coming up on your "best before" date for a lot of IT jobs
I didn't get started in IT until my 30's. Now I'm 45-years-old, still in IT, and studying for the CompTIA Security+ certification. I do security remediation for a company with 80,000 workstations. I'm one of the youngest member of the security team.
A decade ago I took the CompTIA A+ and Network+ certifications, and a Microsoft Windows 2000 certification, which gave me a big boost in the job market I've done IT work on the side while being a video game tester for six years. Too many people think testing video games is all fun and games (it's not!). Without those certifications, I don't think I would have gotten into IT.
I'm now studying for the CompTIA Security+ certification, as I'm doing security remediation for a company with 80,000+ workstations. Most of my coworkers have A+, Network+ and another certification (i.e., Security+ or Red Hat Certified Engineer). Beyond that I may pursue a CCNA and CCNA Security.
I came across a post that you can still buy old stocks of .60 caliber cartridges (~$10 each). However, finding something to fire those cartridges is a different challenge.
Obviously spoken by someone who never owned a Mac. Until the CPU fan gave out this summer, I had a Black MacBook (2006) that ran fine for the last eight years. Alas, with a 32-bit processor that's no longer supported, I didn't take it to the Apple Store to get fix. I had no problems switching over to Windows 8.1, as my data was in cross-platform formats. I'm looking forward to a new Mac next year.
As my father used to tell me: "A wife is an attachment you screw on the bed to get the housework done."