Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 23:03:23 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman <keith@lightningweb.com> To: Joey Garcia <gummibear@mediaone.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Working in the IT Field - Trials and Tribulations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990319230131.682A-100000@nefertiti.lightningweb.com> In-Reply-To: <36F34421.3D08E80B@mediaone.net>
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Great story. I am sure there are tons of these around, can probably dig a few of my own up as well.. At the end of this mail you make a comment that was made in humor I think, but actualy raises a great question.. At what point does one become an IT profesional ?? Is there some threshold of kewlness one has to pass to reach the title. :-) Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Woodman Technical Coordinator Keith@lightningweb.com Lightningweb LLC pid 7962 (sniffit), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Joey Garcia wrote: > > Hey all, > > Here's my IT story. > > Finally, I landed a job working as a Computer Operator last year (after > a long time trying to get into the IT field) in December. Basically, > I'm working with an AS/400 (doing print job work), maintaining PC's, and > now doing the preliminary work of installing a Network. > > This place has been pretty much an IBM shop for many years. A lot of > the company still have terminals instead of PC's. Those that do have > PC's, access the mainframe through emulation cards. When they need to > access the internet, they use dial-up modems to an internet account. > > My Boss (the MIS manager) has been replacing some of the Terminals with > Compaq PC's purchased at Comp USA. Compaq's running Windows 98, with 3D > speakers, games, etc. Why? I dunno. They don't seem to be business > PC's to me, but I'm new so I have to just go with the flow. We're also > moving some departments onto the new network and we're trying out > different emulation software to get the the mainframe. (Actually, I'm > having fun doing that.) > > I had a FreeBSD DNS server, pop3 server, and Web server running for > awhile but no one really took any notice of it. The one other guy that > I'm working with is more of an NT guy. He likes the NT and Microsoft > toys. Well, my server went down because we ran out of network cards and > we needed another for a loaner PC. I was sad, but FreeBSD without the > Internet was boring anyways. Although, I was interested in finding some > nuking software to nuke the Accounting NT server to prove that MS > sucks. Either that, or some cracking software to prove to them that NT > sucks even more. hehehe J/K (I guess some might frown upon that type of > behavior on this list, but it would prove a point wouldn't it? -- I'm > pretty sure that a teardrop attack would bring every PC there down to > it's knees. -- Could I send a teardrop attack to a broadcast IP and > cripple everyone? -- Would be interesting to try *grin*.) > > Right now my biggest problem is the non-business PC's, hardware > accounting, network setup and accounting, and trying to get people not > to install software. I wouldn't mind a heterogeneous networking > environment. I think FreeBSD and NT could work together quite well. > Face it, some users have a hard time with Windows 9x, imagine them > trying to figure out how to use Unix. But, using FreeBSD as a Intranet > Web Server, or Email Server, or Firewall (maybe someday we'll get on the > Internet full time) would be really interesting. > > Actually, I have no idea where I'm taking this. I just sort of wanted > to vent. Maybe I could get some ideas, comments, advice on how to work > with all these problems. > > Sincerly, > > Joey Garcia > (Troubled IT Professional) -- I think I'm considered one of those now. > *shrug* > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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