10 Jul
2003
10 Jul
'03
9:10 p.m.
In message <3F09D049.8090204(a)charter.net>
James Rice <jrice54(a)charter.net> wrote:
To most of the kids in IT today, anything not a t
least a P3 is a
"classic" and they have no clue what to do with it. These are the kids
that are being turned out by the MS certification mills.
Heh - don't I know
it. I once explained to someone how I could plug my Linux
laptop into the network and have the admin passwords in less than ten
minutes. Her response was "Yeah, but you've got no reason to do that". I
said
"But - hypothetically - what if someone really did want to break into the
network?". She had no answer... Next inDUHvidual, please!
Last week I
had a newly minted MCSE tell me that the "net" command had been
discontinued with DOS. Heaven help me if I had presented her with a
Unix shell.
"This is our UNIX fileserver. It's running ..."
"Hey! You can't use UNIX systems on a Windows network! It'll break
everything!"
"Actually, it works perfectly. As I was saying, it's running SAMBA so we can
use it as a fileserver..."
"But it'll break everything!"
"Excuse me, I'm a fully qualified IT engineer with [n] years experience.
You're a newly-hired MCSE. Do you know anything about UNIX?"
"Uh, no, but.."
"Well, here's a set of UNIX books. Have a quick look through them (especially
the 'Ultimate SAMBA Reference') and tell me why 1,000 Windows 2000 systems
won't coexist with our $10,000 UNIX server."
"Uh....."
Microsoft: Spreading misinformation about our competitors since the late
1970s.
Later.
--
Phil.
philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
... Dunno if we'll get that past the CSA und UL 'owever.