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On 10/2/2004 at 10:50 PM Dave Vollenweider wrote:

| I came across this page: 
|  http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/13/131727/462 and
| I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of knowledge I'd have to gain.  
 =============

That page is ridiculous.  You do not need to know all those items.  You may
not even need to know a third of them.   What you do need is a basic
knowledge of how *nix works, common troubleshooting skills,  a curiosity to
learn, and an ability to learn.

When I hire people to work in my engineering department, I do not have a
checklist of skills needed, I am more interested in a person's base
knowledge, curiosity, and ability to learn.