Hi Folks,
I don't know how many of you follow Sandra Henry-Stocker's excellent series of articles on open.itworld.com (but it's worth keeping in touch if you don't).
The latest has clearly been crafted under the influence of emerging from the festive season, and gives 12 New Year's Resolutions for Unix sysadmins.
See
http://open.itworld.com/5040/nls_unix_resolution060111/page_1.html
They're all good advice, I think; my particular favourites are
-- Learn Linux
-- Find a better job or make your current job better
-- Have a life
and (somewhat ambiguously ... )
-- Get yourself certified
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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(Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
http://open.itworld.com/5040/nls_unix_resolution060111/page_1.html They're all good advice, I think; my particular favourites are
[...]
-- Get yourself certified
One problem with that idea is that all certifications that I have seen so far are bad in different ways: - can be fluked - are platform-specific - do not publish reliability/robustness statistics - fund organisations with harmful political ambitions, or - have few test opportunities (not all are all, but definitely all the big ones seem to suffer at least one of these).
On 12-Jan-06 MJ Ray wrote:
(Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
http://open.itworld.com/5040/nls_unix_resolution060111/page_1.html They're all good advice, I think; my particular favourites are
[...]
-- Get yourself certified
One problem with that idea is that all certifications that I have seen so far are bad in different ways:
- can be fluked
- are platform-specific
- do not publish reliability/robustness statistics
- fund organisations with harmful political ambitions, or
- have few test opportunities
(not all are all, but definitely all the big ones seem to suffer at least one of these).
While I don't disagree with the above, I was rather thinking of "certified" in the medical sense ... :)
Ted.
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MJ Ray wrote:
One problem with that idea is that all certifications that I have seen so far are bad in different ways:
- can be fluked
- are platform-specific
- do not publish reliability/robustness statistics
- fund organisations with harmful political ambitions, or
- have few test opportunities
(not all are all, but definitely all the big ones seem to suffer at least one of these).
I am sensing enough Pessimism to fill New York City. :-)
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