On certifications:

I think that if I were interviewing someone, and he
stated, "I'm certified in Unix," I would have him
escorted off the premises by any means necessary.

To me, for someone to say "I'm certified in Unix" would
be like an artist telling me "I'm a certified artist."

When I ask, "What's your favorite editor?", the
individual who responds with "cat(1)" will prolly
get the job.


Mi dos pesos,

D

"An idiot can run an NT server, and usually does."


* On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 06:55:21PM -0700, shock wrote:
> Many thanks to everyone who replied. I got a really
> good scripting example for how to set something up
> off list.
> 
> I'm going to use sudo,
> http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/intro.html, to give my
> user login access to nice, renice. Then create a shell
> script with the command I need to launch mpg123 with
> a higher priority. I'll then execute the script.
> 
> <just a long rant>
> I'm a field service engineer, for a company based in
> Israel, but I work out of Santa Ana, Ca. (I just moved
> from Phoenix a month ago.) We use Solaris 7 and SunOS
> 4.1.3, (very old), as well as HPUX, and no one here
> could answer the question. Most are user level, it seems.
> Which only reminds me, again, of the many hats a Linux
> user has to wear. My guess would be that within a very
> short time, simply stating that you use and maintain
> a Linux box will be held in higher regard than most
> available certifications.
> I got the job based on my knowledge of the unix environment,
> limited as it is, and I have never taken any courses for
> this OS. I have been struggling with Linux for about
> four years, though, and have loved every minute of it.
> </just a long rant>
> -JR