I could tell you they blocked Legit p2p traffic 24/7 because I was trying to download vmware player iso's just to see what they were talking about. I wanted to see if they were a good solution what I did. I guess preventing someone from working isn't that important.
Given my current Oracle "Support" ticket (for their database) will go a weeks without them touching it, looking at it, or working it, I see no reason why I should buy Oracle hardware. We buy Dells for Windows servers. We might as well buy Dell for Linux servers. Closing out Solaris, is just another reason-- in a long line of reasons --to switch.
Don't you remember the 80's and 90's when there was the big push to get your children's registered -- just in case they were abducted. What do you think happened to THOSE databases.
Or even Solaris proper. Solaris 10 changed the game from the ground up, much to the point where it's Unix on roids. Run levels have been replaced with milestones, init.d has been replaced with SMF and the contract file system. Dtrace makes life worth living. Look, vmstat is great; but with Dtrace you can recreate vmstat/iostat/mpstat from the ground up! Get the picture of what this tool can do for you?!?! Containers/Zones for virtual hosts. OpenCluster for building and working with an HA cluster. Crossbow, for building whole networks inside your machine.
I think my only complaint about OpenSolaris is packages. After 8 years of Debian apt calls I find *Solaris to be a little too retro-RedHat (before YUM) for dependencies and new software.
If you think this is bad, then you better freaking skip working in the IT field; where everything is scanned, deep packet inspections, and if you ever place a personal laptop on the network they install a secret application to monitor you.
... and thus could not be moved. So IT powered everything where they wanted to make a squatters claim to data center floor space. My favorite example was an SGI Challenge, we hadn't used SGI in 3 years, let alone the Challenge. The only thing plugged into this thing was power, no other cables of any type.
So an individual who vastly outperforms all other workers, and who is solely responsible for making that company money, is kicked out the door because of what? Because others can't read code? Not for work performance, which is what he was hired for, but for smelling bad and having a bad attitude? If that was such a problem why wasn't it in the dress code? I thought we were supposed to tolerate diversity in the workplace? This is another example of the left wing liberal commutarians destroying the individual's ability to function!
It depends on what group policies you have and what you want to do?
First, don't use Ubuntu, or if you do, make sure to take the user out of the mix for sudo.
Remove sudo and root access.
Place everyone in LDAP and restrict / grant user access via ldap groups.
Make all shells restricted shells.
run ssh / vnc and an automated daemon for pushing out policy changes.
I don't have a BS degree but I was able to get into the field and work my way up. It was durning the 90's tech boom. But I was originally hired into Operations by a guy who liked to hire non-tech people and train them in the field. I worked into Unix Administration over the years.
You will find that 80% of the job is just being able to adapt, remember, learn, and get along with the other people. You will also find that no matter what you do, what qualifications you have, a Sysadmin job is not a Sysadmin job. Each company will approach things differently so your main trick will not to "learn the OS" but to "learn the environment". What they have in place and how each part relates to the other part. Working in a cubby whole will get you nowhere.
I've also known people, who don't even have a Highschool degree, get hired into the field. They just had to work at really crap jobs and really work their way up. Start looking for jobs. Start looking for anything that will hire you that's close to where you want to go; study; build systems at home and on your spare time (without google) and be ready to change jobs multiple times.
Oh, and don't burn bridges. I don't know where you are but I've found that even in large urban centers the sysadmin community is a small one. You may not know the new guy they just hired in, but odds are good that the both of you know someone in common.
That really makes me want to become an EVIL Unix Admin instead of just a normal Unix Admin. I feel the sudden urge for world domination. Um Bork Bork Bork.
4 years of Undergraduate Philosophy = $30K
2 years of Graduate School, Philosophy, with a GTA = $20K
8 years of Unix Sysadmins saying, "So... what can you do with a degree in Psychology" = Priceless.
The double majors are growing because people need to make money. And Philosophy really isn't a money maker. Sure there is some serious overlap (logic, programming, semantics and search engines). But when it comes down to the actual use of my degree for my work? Nihil, unless you count naming my desktops after Platonic Dialogues.
There must be a reason why your son wants to start learning about *Nix. Find out what that is, and explore those options.
Believe or not my impetus for computers started with scripting. Before then I just liked to play games. I had a computer job doing operations crap, nothing big. I would do some cool things with the work-flow and I used Access to manipulate the data in the Oracle DB but nothing really stood out for me until I started to learn how to script. Once I started to write scripts, I learned how to build, monitor and maintain things at a level I had never imagined. Call it "geek power", I could control a limited universe and I really liked it!
That pretty much drove my career into Unix Administration, because you couldn't script on an NT box. I loved playing on computers, creating little programs that helped me do my job. There is a great feeling of accomplishment when someone asks you to do something, expects it to take all day, and you finish it in about 5 minutes. This still drives me in wanting to learn. Right now it's Ruby so I can do Rails.
As time goes on, other things will pop up that will drive your son's career in directions you never thought.... in directions he can not even imagine. If I did what my father wanted me to do, I would be an unemployed Novel Netware Administrator.
One day my internet connection went out. I had nothing to do but play games. I couldn't load up my EA BF2 game because, you guessed it, I had to login to a server, just to play a single player map. Now with BF2142 you can't even play the cool levels unless you are logged on to a group server and fighting other people.
I bought a game so I could just play it, nothing more. When did we get into this aspect of gaming life where you pay $50+ (USD) so you can spend more $$$ on other things: internet connections, and patches-- patches because you either have to wait 2 hours for a download or pay upfront to filefront.com so you can access a preferred server. Group play through the internet is an option, and should not be the norm.
Hot Spot was "that step child organization" that was forced into T-Mobile Corporate Submission with a painful re-org. I'm willing to bet that those who survive the layoffs will be thankful. The sad thing is, though, there are a lot of good people working there.
I used to work for a large telco and email was the corporate political tool dejour for your cow-orkers to make your life a living hell. If it was addressed to me and I couldn't make sense out of what they wanted I would respond to the sender and ask them what they wanted. And since they could NEVER properly describe their needs in email form, it usually took a phone call. The burden is upon them because they want something from you. And once you get them to spell it out for you, they tend to goof and expose their true intentions: 1) to do their job, 2) get you to break policy for a back door request or 3) to make someone look bad.
I guess recording that Album to Tape, so I could play it on my walkman.... oh sorry, I couldn't afford that... on my Samsung My-My was breaking the law. And yet almost every hi-fi set up had explicit instructions on how to record from Album to Tape. So all those Sony boom-boxes from the 80's that had dual cassette decks with 2X and 4X copying were designed to break the law as well?!?! I guess Mix-Tapes are now the new crack... don't have one, you will get 20 years to life.
When I play a music clip from the web I am downloading the clip from the website to my computer.... I guess I'm breaking the law when I surf because I am illegally copying music. At least there will be a whole new class of people to sue: web sites for providing the content.... yea!
Since they reserve the right to censor the customers, how would we know there is an uproar? Look, people have been complaining about the current administration since day one, but you don't see it in the media because they put the protesters in "protest zones" and away from the cameras. Out of site, out of mind. This would do the same thing. The problem would be far worse than reported / indicated. And as a result people will perceive there really isn't a problem.
... someone would create a nice, easy to use, easy to integrate, mail and calender system for small, medium and larger companies. Something like JES but simpler and easier to configure and maintain....
I hate to say it... because I hated using it... Remedy. This is a good start for your main tasks: hardware replacement, maintenance, projects... everything is put into Remedy. If someone asks for something, ask for the Remedy ticket number. If it's not there, it doesn't get done. This will give your PHB all the information that he will want, including the ability to categorize severity levels.
Hell comes in when you start using the software. You will spend more time managing your processes and people than you will actually doing the work. You will spend multiple hour long meetings deciding on the different levels of outages. You will spend days prepping Remedy tickets just so you can can do an hour's worth of work.
Remedy won't cover everything, especially your day to day activity. So we had to send our weekly achievements to our PHB. Since I could never remember to send the reports I created a CLI LAMP system (w/ an web interface) that would do it for me. Whenever I did something including tickets, I would enter a command and a task description, "compressed files", and that was it. Cron mailed the reports for me, and it was consistent.
I really recommend a database as well. Because when review time comes, you can pull out a nice detailed report of everything you did for the company from the last year. And don't forget a vacation function for when you go on vacation... the PHB will say, "But you didn't do any work on Dec 23, 24, 26, or 27".
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I could tell you they blocked Legit p2p traffic 24/7 because I was trying to download vmware player iso's just to see what they were talking about. I wanted to see if they were a good solution what I did. I guess preventing someone from working isn't that important.
Given my current Oracle "Support" ticket (for their database) will go a weeks without them touching it, looking at it, or working it, I see no reason why I should buy Oracle hardware. We buy Dells for Windows servers. We might as well buy Dell for Linux servers. Closing out Solaris, is just another reason-- in a long line of reasons --to switch.
Too bad they didn't think of doing this pre-1861
Don't you remember the 80's and 90's when there was the big push to get your children's registered -- just in case they were abducted. What do you think happened to THOSE databases.
Or even Solaris proper. Solaris 10 changed the game from the ground up, much to the point where it's Unix on roids. Run levels have been replaced with milestones, init.d has been replaced with SMF and the contract file system. Dtrace makes life worth living. Look, vmstat is great; but with Dtrace you can recreate vmstat/iostat/mpstat from the ground up! Get the picture of what this tool can do for you?!?! Containers/Zones for virtual hosts. OpenCluster for building and working with an HA cluster. Crossbow, for building whole networks inside your machine.
I think my only complaint about OpenSolaris is packages. After 8 years of Debian apt calls I find *Solaris to be a little too retro-RedHat (before YUM) for dependencies and new software.
I can't wait for the job postings once this mother is turned up to full!
If you think this is bad, then you better freaking skip working in the IT field; where everything is scanned, deep packet inspections, and if you ever place a personal laptop on the network they install a secret application to monitor you.
Then the MS workers can finally work from their own home country! And it would free up a large number of H1B visas for the rest of U.S..
... and thus could not be moved. So IT powered everything where they wanted to make a squatters claim to data center floor space. My favorite example was an SGI Challenge, we hadn't used SGI in 3 years, let alone the Challenge. The only thing plugged into this thing was power, no other cables of any type.
So an individual who vastly outperforms all other workers, and who is solely responsible for making that company money, is kicked out the door because of what? Because others can't read code? Not for work performance, which is what he was hired for, but for smelling bad and having a bad attitude? If that was such a problem why wasn't it in the dress code? I thought we were supposed to tolerate diversity in the workplace? This is another example of the left wing liberal commutarians destroying the individual's ability to function!
It depends on what group policies you have and what you want to do? First, don't use Ubuntu, or if you do, make sure to take the user out of the mix for sudo. Remove sudo and root access. Place everyone in LDAP and restrict / grant user access via ldap groups. Make all shells restricted shells. run ssh / vnc and an automated daemon for pushing out policy changes.
I don't have a BS degree but I was able to get into the field and work my way up. It was durning the 90's tech boom. But I was originally hired into Operations by a guy who liked to hire non-tech people and train them in the field. I worked into Unix Administration over the years. You will find that 80% of the job is just being able to adapt, remember, learn, and get along with the other people. You will also find that no matter what you do, what qualifications you have, a Sysadmin job is not a Sysadmin job. Each company will approach things differently so your main trick will not to "learn the OS" but to "learn the environment". What they have in place and how each part relates to the other part. Working in a cubby whole will get you nowhere. I've also known people, who don't even have a Highschool degree, get hired into the field. They just had to work at really crap jobs and really work their way up. Start looking for jobs. Start looking for anything that will hire you that's close to where you want to go; study; build systems at home and on your spare time (without google) and be ready to change jobs multiple times. Oh, and don't burn bridges. I don't know where you are but I've found that even in large urban centers the sysadmin community is a small one. You may not know the new guy they just hired in, but odds are good that the both of you know someone in common.
That really makes me want to become an EVIL Unix Admin instead of just a normal Unix Admin. I feel the sudden urge for world domination. Um Bork Bork Bork.
4 years of Undergraduate Philosophy = $30K 2 years of Graduate School, Philosophy, with a GTA = $20K 8 years of Unix Sysadmins saying, "So... what can you do with a degree in Psychology" = Priceless. The double majors are growing because people need to make money. And Philosophy really isn't a money maker. Sure there is some serious overlap (logic, programming, semantics and search engines). But when it comes down to the actual use of my degree for my work? Nihil, unless you count naming my desktops after Platonic Dialogues.
Go to their Amazon wish list... and grant a few wishes.
There must be a reason why your son wants to start learning about *Nix. Find out what that is, and explore those options. Believe or not my impetus for computers started with scripting. Before then I just liked to play games. I had a computer job doing operations crap, nothing big. I would do some cool things with the work-flow and I used Access to manipulate the data in the Oracle DB but nothing really stood out for me until I started to learn how to script. Once I started to write scripts, I learned how to build, monitor and maintain things at a level I had never imagined. Call it "geek power", I could control a limited universe and I really liked it! That pretty much drove my career into Unix Administration, because you couldn't script on an NT box. I loved playing on computers, creating little programs that helped me do my job. There is a great feeling of accomplishment when someone asks you to do something, expects it to take all day, and you finish it in about 5 minutes. This still drives me in wanting to learn. Right now it's Ruby so I can do Rails. As time goes on, other things will pop up that will drive your son's career in directions you never thought.... in directions he can not even imagine. If I did what my father wanted me to do, I would be an unemployed Novel Netware Administrator.
One day my internet connection went out. I had nothing to do but play games. I couldn't load up my EA BF2 game because, you guessed it, I had to login to a server, just to play a single player map. Now with BF2142 you can't even play the cool levels unless you are logged on to a group server and fighting other people. I bought a game so I could just play it, nothing more. When did we get into this aspect of gaming life where you pay $50+ (USD) so you can spend more $$$ on other things: internet connections, and patches-- patches because you either have to wait 2 hours for a download or pay upfront to filefront.com so you can access a preferred server. Group play through the internet is an option, and should not be the norm.
Hot Spot was "that step child organization" that was forced into T-Mobile Corporate Submission with a painful re-org. I'm willing to bet that those who survive the layoffs will be thankful. The sad thing is, though, there are a lot of good people working there.
I used to work for a large telco and email was the corporate political tool dejour for your cow-orkers to make your life a living hell. If it was addressed to me and I couldn't make sense out of what they wanted I would respond to the sender and ask them what they wanted. And since they could NEVER properly describe their needs in email form, it usually took a phone call. The burden is upon them because they want something from you. And once you get them to spell it out for you, they tend to goof and expose their true intentions: 1) to do their job, 2) get you to break policy for a back door request or 3) to make someone look bad.
Especially when they profited how many billions?
I guess recording that Album to Tape, so I could play it on my walkman.... oh sorry, I couldn't afford that... on my Samsung My-My was breaking the law. And yet almost every hi-fi set up had explicit instructions on how to record from Album to Tape. So all those Sony boom-boxes from the 80's that had dual cassette decks with 2X and 4X copying were designed to break the law as well?!?! I guess Mix-Tapes are now the new crack... don't have one, you will get 20 years to life. When I play a music clip from the web I am downloading the clip from the website to my computer.... I guess I'm breaking the law when I surf because I am illegally copying music. At least there will be a whole new class of people to sue: web sites for providing the content.... yea!
Since they reserve the right to censor the customers, how would we know there is an uproar? Look, people have been complaining about the current administration since day one, but you don't see it in the media because they put the protesters in "protest zones" and away from the cameras. Out of site, out of mind. This would do the same thing. The problem would be far worse than reported / indicated. And as a result people will perceive there really isn't a problem.
... someone would create a nice, easy to use, easy to integrate, mail and calender system for small, medium and larger companies. Something like JES but simpler and easier to configure and maintain....
if my banking information is exposed because of this there will be a class action starting w/ me.
I hate to say it... because I hated using it... Remedy. This is a good start for your main tasks: hardware replacement, maintenance, projects... everything is put into Remedy. If someone asks for something, ask for the Remedy ticket number. If it's not there, it doesn't get done. This will give your PHB all the information that he will want, including the ability to categorize severity levels. Hell comes in when you start using the software. You will spend more time managing your processes and people than you will actually doing the work. You will spend multiple hour long meetings deciding on the different levels of outages. You will spend days prepping Remedy tickets just so you can can do an hour's worth of work. Remedy won't cover everything, especially your day to day activity. So we had to send our weekly achievements to our PHB. Since I could never remember to send the reports I created a CLI LAMP system (w/ an web interface) that would do it for me. Whenever I did something including tickets, I would enter a command and a task description, "compressed files", and that was it. Cron mailed the reports for me, and it was consistent. I really recommend a database as well. Because when review time comes, you can pull out a nice detailed report of everything you did for the company from the last year. And don't forget a vacation function for when you go on vacation... the PHB will say, "But you didn't do any work on Dec 23, 24, 26, or 27".