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Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:37:58 GMT
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> > can on my own, but there's only so much time in the day... I guess
> > I could put Solaris on a PC at home and do some more, though...
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> How much of that money is for the "sysadmin's beer fund"?
No comment.
> > Yup. Not so good in large multiplatform environments (like the one
> > I work in now) but not much of an issue in single platform
> > locations, I would imagine.
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> Yeah, but single platform locations don't exist. Everyone wants on the
> 'net.
True, true. Not quite what I meant, thinking of single platform
in-house, but I get what you're saying.
> Here's how a countryman of mine put it:
> http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=564921734&fmt=text
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> Whatever you do, never touch Exchange. Or Lotus Bloats. Or any other
> groupware email thing. They're all great steaming piles of dog
> excrement.
I've avoided Exchange because we don't use it anywhere I know of on
campus and because I heard so many bad things about it I figured I
could afford to skip it. Kinda depressing when about 1/4 of the
jobs I was looking at last night mentioned Exchange administration.
As for Notes, it seems like we (UT) sorda get passed back and forth
between them and Cisco, with each owning a sizeable chunk of our
soul. Luckily, I don't depend on it or have anything to do with
running it, yet. Oddly enough, most of the bigwigs here use it.
> > Believe me, I know. About 1/3 of any given class I was in were
> > students who thought that they would make the magic leap from jobs
> > like hardware salesman or jeans maker (Levi factory closed down) to
> > system administrator just by taking a few classes, passing a few
> > exams, and playing with a cheap PC or two at home. I think most of
>
> That can give you an excellent grounding, though.
Yeah, it is better than _nothing_, but not by much. "I got an NT
domain to work with 2 PCs" isn't quite what you need to prepare you
for real enterprise-level admin stuff. Maybe small office 10 node
admining - maybe.
> If you have a clue, after an MCSE and a pointer to the RFC archives
> you should be able to start PFY'ing pretty competently.
Yep.
> Of course, if you have a clue, you don't necessarily need the MCSE for
> that. For most clued folks I meet, it's more of a "get-me-in-the-door"
> thing.
Yeah, I'm looking at it as more of a "rounding out several years of
varied PC support now that I've moved into real admining" kind of
thing.
> Oh, wait. OJT. The only way to truly learn to be a sysadmin, or so i
> hear.
Well, the only way to get really good at it. Still, most employers
(I hope) are looking for people who have been swimming for a few
years rather than people who've read a book about it and are willing
to jump into the deep end without a lifeguard handy.
> It's a British type of oven + stove.
>
> They have an agency in New York where they sell them ($12.000 for the
> two-door, bit more for the 4-door version). Considering the probable
> transatlantic shipping costs on these babies (well over a ton of
> cast-iron...), that's quite reasonable.
Ah. Well, no, I doubt I'll be importing a stove. Maybe if Rachael
really wanted one, I guess, but probably not.
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