[geeks] pacing yourself (was: totally unrelated)

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Good points all of them. See I wanted to learn true networking when I
went to school and all they wanted to teach was Microsoft and how to
get everything else to work with it. I got bored and confused in
equal proportions and thus things did not work out. I would love to
have accounts in the different OSes but I feel that from a command
line interface many of them feel the same to me, or at least those I
have used(FreeBSD, SunOS, Linux, and OpenBSD). Mind you when trying
to use a large variety at the same time it is a little hard to learn
the differences. I think using one at a time and learning it's ways
and subtleties might be better. Any thoughts? 

When reading this list it occasionally feels like I am overwhelmed by
the fact that all of you have more knowledge and experience then I
do, and thus I do not comment when I might have a thought, as I am
usually proven wrong. You pointed out that most of the people on this
list have been working with Unix and Sun for many years. I have only
recently been using Linux for a significant amount of my time, but it
is still not on my main workstation. It seems every time I sit down
at that computer it feels too big and complicated to grasp. I am not
sure if I am making a mistake in my approach, or maybe I am more user
then administrator. 



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From: "alex j avriette" <avriettea at speakeasy.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 6:40 PM
Subject: [geeks] pacing yourself (was: totally unrelated)


| > Hmmm. I will rephrase that to say that there are none local to
| > me. I have no doubt there are some in the US, but I have yet to
| > find a decent all around course locally that includes pieces on
| > Unix, BSD, Linux, Solaris and a decent sampling of the hardware
| > those run on. 
| 
| there is no such thing. you have to learn one thing at a time. when
| i  went to school to learn databases, i learned from a guy who
| hardly spoke  english on ms windows / sql server. when i learned
| unix in school it was  a byproduct of learning c and having unix
| machines around. i learned  solaris at one job, linux at another,
| and now im back to solaris. but  the most learning ive gotten has
| been at home, tinkering on one box or  another. i dont want to get
| into an inventory thread again, but you and  i have talked on irc.
| you have to figure out where you want to go in  life and how much
| it means to you. i spent all last weekend putting  hardware
| together and i'll be doing the same this weekend. i'm sure  people
| here would be willing to give you accounts on machines -- i've  got
| solaris, darwin, openbsd, and freebsd here, with irix coming this 
| weekend. you complain a lot that nobody has provided you with
| everything  you need to be "experienced" and "have knowledge." many
| of us have been  doing this for > 10 years. you have to start
| somewhere, and you have to  be dedicated.
| 
| baby steps.
| 
| alex
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