Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 06:59:28 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Message-ID: <XFMail.981223065928.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981222232943.00c1f800@genesis.ispace.com>
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On 23-Dec-98 Drew Baxter wrote: > At 06:21 PM 12/22/98 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > See, there's "Work" and then there's "Where I work".. - All Windows (With > exception to the FreeBSD box) and how it's going to stay. Unfortunately > the school sees the idea that machines come with productivity suites, and > OSes, and best of all Smartstuff's Foolproof Security, as important. > Windows unfortunately is what these kids will leave the 8th grade using, > and also will continue using through their Senior year of High School. It > is also very likely what they are going to be using in the work force, if > they continue to reside in Maine. *sigh* This world is doomed =) > This territory is vastly underdeveloped. There's no such thing as a > Classified ad for a Unix tech here, or any sort of Network job that does > not require Microsoft and/or Novell certification. That's just how it is. Well just to add the usual it-doesn't-matter 0.02 cents: at the place where I work, I am one of the three network specialists and then there's this guy whom we contract. This guy, some of core knows him and he knows every major other guru out there in the UNIX world (I am still amazed over that), is the kind of guy that never tires to explain, but boy does he know a lot about UNIX and IP. I have seen him outwit/outsmart every single NT administrator we have at our job (we are the Novell dudes, so... ;). So ye see, it's all about the knowledge actually, and I have seen by now, that most courses concerning MCSE and MCNE don't really hold their feet in the ground against guys like him (sure there are always exceptions). side-note: Novell and FreeBSD works great next to each other =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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