<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div style="text-align: left;">I am thinking "ghost" my xp partition reinstall xp on one harddrive for the c: drive and install either fedora or ubuntu for a server on my second harddrive. My illegal copy of windows 2000 advanced server is corrupt and never worked worth a damn anyway. This is a pentium 4 computer with 2 hard drives. My other computer is a pentium 2 running windows 2000. I have leads from some recruiters on job possibilities, after which I plan to get a mac laptop and a linux cerified laptop with dual boot capability with windows xp I LOATHE VISTA. I have a router from my DSL provider and one from my VOIP connection I can add to my potential network (which isn't one yet due to no server setup) </div> If I stay working I will take the CCNA (my curriculum expired it lasts 3 years) and get an MCP (only 1 test not 7). Do you guys know is it worth it to get an RHCE? My jobs are contracts that don't last long.... Thanks Karin <hr id="stopSpelling">> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:19:47 +1100 > From: jarich@perltraining.com.au > To: ubuntu-women@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [UbuntuWomen] Unemployed wondering how to get a job in Linux > > Karin Qadri wrote: > > Hell o All, > > > > I have a background in Windows Desktop support, network support an > > obsolete (I think expired not sure) MCSE. > > Trouble is I get asked about the vintage of my MCSE (Windows NT 4.0 > > obtained in 2000). > > > > Do Any of you use Linux at work? How do I get my "foot in a door?" > > I use Linux exclusively for work, and often for entertainment too. :) Having > said that I'm not a systems administrator, just a user. If you want to get into > Linux support and systems administration then I'd suggest a few things: > > * Join an appropriate system administration professional organisation (or > more!). For example SAGE (part of Usenix) and/or LOPSA in the US. SAGE-AU in > Australia. etc. > > * Set up a heterogeneous environment at home. That is grab a bunch of machines > together, install Windows on one, and at least 2 varieties of Linux (RHEL/Fedora > and Debian/Debian-based perhaps) on two more. The more machines and operating > systems (Solaris? Window XP and Vista? Throw in a Mac too?) the merrier. Make > them all talk to each other. Throw in a printer and make sure they all can > print. Make sure they can all use a single internet connection. Make sure they > can all send and receive email. Learn how to apply patches to all of them. Ask > questions, search the web, read books and keep trying until it all works. > > * Once you've achieved the above you're in a solid position. Apply to one of > the junior level jobs advertised via that professional organisation. :) > > Bingo your foot is in the door! Did you want something easier? > > Keep up your Windows skills, because it's very rare that you'll end up in > exclusively *nix environments for the rest of your life. Most systems > administrators will have to deal with heterogeneous environments as the norm. > > J > > -- > ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | > `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | > (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | > _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | > (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | > > -- > ubuntu-women mailing list > ubuntu-women@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women <hr />Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008' target='_new'>Get it now!</a></body> </html>