Re: Seeking Advice

joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote in news:91884734.0211181605.22b58693_at_posting.google.com:

> As far as Daniel's suggestion, Solaris or HP/UX _paid experience_ is
> more marketable, but actually having your own box may be more
> impressive to a manager who is seeking someone knowledgeable. By
> that I mean, it won't impress the HR filtering droids, so be aware
> of who you want to impress and why. Every kid coming out of high
> school has a linux box (well, we can hope), so you may want to
> differentiate yourself from them.

If I were the hiring mangler, I wouldn't care what _box_ someone had, be it Linux, IRIX, HP-UX, Slowaris, etc, what's important is whether that someone has mastered it from the O/S perspective.

Are they familiar how to partition the drives? Do they know how to manage the machine? Maintain iptables/ipchains, DNS setup, etc etc ... I don't care _what_ but the fact that this person is "curious" and can figure things out.

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Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
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