1 Dec
2003
1 Dec
'03
2:28 p.m.
On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 09:42 PM, John Allain wrote:
Sorry, You will have to stand in line behind my creditors..
I have been in job search for a technical job for over 4 years.
I am a well-skilled Novell system administrator. I have enough
experience with linux/unix to earn a brainbench cert as unix
administrator.
But instead of finding any jobs for my experience i am forced to
work at [shudder] radio shack [/shudder] (and I am too honest to
be a sales type so I'm the stock guy) (which gets $7.00 /hr and
15/20 hr a week.)
The last time I touched VMS it was at version 3.0.
15/20hr a week scleping boxes, the rest is mine but I
am also still looking for that tech job.
I am currently
uneremployed and can't make ends meet
as it is. I doubt if my wife will spring for the $30 VMS
takes.
snappy responses:
Well, our time for your questions is worth about $30 anyway.
If you want to be productive jobwise,
seriously go do netBSD/Linux instead of VMS. Hmm Layered products, C compiler?
Here's what they say they give you at order time:
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/mount.html
OpenVMS VAX Hobbyist Kit V3.0:
OpenVMS V7.3
DECWindows 1.2.6 (Motif)
DECnet Phase IV
DECnet OSI Phase V
TCPIP V5.1
Kerberos VAX V1.0
BASIC V3.9
Compaq C V6.4
Compaq FORTRAN V6.6
Pascal V5.8
DCPS V2.0
DECSet V12.4
Datatrieve V7.2
>> and... shipping's included
eBay disks are usually more money.
If I remember the vax 11/780 I used to op had
only about a
400mb hard drive. How much do I need for a vms system?
200mb - 1gb should be enough for a minimal/maximal system.
<snappy>
And, time to waste. Got that? </snappy>
This hobbyist stuff is sometimes just plain irresponsible.
Sounds like you don't need to be that.
Walk a mile..
John A.