Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-26 Thread Robert Waldner
>> :Iam finding it very hard to even get looked at by >> :empolyeers.Basically i have made a career change 1 1/2 years ago >> :from being a factory worker to supporting pc's (sadly win9x/win2k >> :for a uk comapany,name withheld to protect my job :-), at least it >> :got my foo

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-26 Thread Christoph Gaitzsch
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:52:02AM +0100, mark wrote: > :Hi, > > :Iam finding it very hard to even get looked at by > :empolyeers.Basically i have made a career change 1 1/2 years ago > :from being a factory worker to supporting pc's

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-26 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi it depends what direction you're heading. if you want to join MIS or IT departments then, there are issues that are much more important then C. you should learn a lot(!!!) about networking, routers, firewalls etc... . also, you should know at least perl and bash (or tcsh). knowing C could be a

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-20 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:52:02AM +0100, mark wrote: :Hi, :Iam finding it very hard to even get looked at by :empolyeers.Basically i have made a career change 1 1/2 years ago :from being a factory worker to supporting pc's (sadly win9x/win2k :for a uk comapany,name withheld to pro

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-20 Thread nestordi
Dear debian-users: I am getting tired of messing up with the sound in my machine Is this a gnu/linux problem, debian problem or a GNOME problem? I think time goes by and there is no fast clean solutions for soundcards, which are nowadays standard devices in most computers. Monitors, mice, keyboar

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-19 Thread mark
Hi, I saw your posting on the debian list regarding careers in Linux.Hopefully you should be o.k, Iam finding it very hard to even get looked at by empolyeers.Basically i have made a career change 1 1/2 years ago from being a factory worker to supporting pc's (sadly win9x/win2

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-19 Thread John Foster
"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a sysadmin at a computer science research lab. I'd say C is > probably the least important part of my job, noone in the group is a > "real" C or C++ hacker. > > You should be able to build programs from packaged source and be able > to tweak a Makefil

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-19 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm a sysadmin at a computer science research lab. I'd say C is probably the least important part of my job, noone in the group is a "real" C or C++ hacker. You should be able to build programs from packaged source and be able to tweak a Makefile and library path, but for actually building a

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-19 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I have a question to ask everyone > > "How many people on this list, are system administrators using Linux, and > in order to become a Linux System Administrator, does one need lots of > experience in Programming?" > > I ask this question be

Careers in Linux

2001-06-19 Thread n6tadam
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