[parisc-linux] The Bitter Network Administrator
dougchick@thenetworkadministrator.com
dougchick@thenetworkadministrator.com
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:21:31
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Articles:</strong></u><span class="regtextthin1"><font color="#0000FF"
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is the line between having too many certifications and just
enough?
Does your resume give the impression that you have more
experience
in test taking than actual work experience? If this sounds
like you
then here's a quick test to see how you rank. Relax
Poindexter...there's no test here. I was just kidding.
<b>By
Doug Chick</b><br>
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<font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Are you
choosing
software for your company by what will look best on your
resume? <br>
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</font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3"> </font></span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#000000">First
thing I do when looking for software for my company is research all
available software similar to our needs. Then I do a detailed
comparative
analysis, followed by a call to a list of satisfied customers
supplied by
the software company. After all, isn’t that what all Network
Administrators do? Well, maybe not all...<br>
<b>By Doug Chick</b><br>
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Why
wouldn’t Microsoft package it’s own computer like
Apple?</font></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"
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</span><img border="0" src="http://209.26.235.107/pics/mbox.gif"
align="left" width="122" height="113"></font>I Read an article by <span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New
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Roman"" class="regtextthin1">Phillip
Smith</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"
class="regtextthin1">
that raised an interesting question; Why wouldn’t Microsoft package it’s
own
computer like Apple or Sun, and stop selling it’s software to computer
makers
altogether? Microsoft could agree that they created a market that made
them a
monopoly and to add balance to the industry they would stop selling their
product
to computer makers and only use it in their own systems.
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<p align="left"><font color="#0000FF" size="4"><b>Has
Monitoring your Network
Given you a God Complex? <br>
</b></font><img border="0" src="http://209.26.235.107/god.jpg"
align="left" width="86" height="108">From your desk you
can see who and when someone logs in, who and what e-mail they send
and
what websites that they frequently attend. Knowing this information
can
sometimes place you in difficult situations. You often ask yourself
if you
should interfere to help someone that you like, or don't like. See
an
e-mail that you know is damaging and wonder if you should stop or
remove
it completely. It's a very difficult position to be in and almost no
one,
short of other computer people know about it. So what do you do? I
am now
of the philosophy that, "Unless someone is in danger of being
hurt--Stay out of it!" <br>
<b>By Doug Chick</b><br>
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<p align="left"><font color="#0000FF"><font face="Times New
Roman" color="#0000FF" size="4">How
many computer catalogs do companies think you need? </font><span
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><br>
<img border="0"
src="http://209.26.235.107/pics/jerboa_stomp_sm_wht.gif" align="left"
width="65" height="60"></font></span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE:
12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#000000">On
an average, I receive 5 computer accessories catalogs by mail,
everyday.
That’s 25 a week, 100 a month and 1200 an year. Now stacking 10
magazines
on top of each other will give you an inch, and 1200 magazines will
produce
a stack 10 feet high. Let’s review: 5 magazines X 5 days<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>= 25 X 4 weeks = 100 X 12 months = 1200 magazines = a stack 10
feet
high.<br>
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<p align="left"><font size="4">Who wants to be a Network
Administrator?<br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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width="66" height="99">Why
are there so many people out there that are studying so hard to take
your
job away from you? Money. I was sitting in the movie theater with my
wife
last night and one of the ads on the screen before the movie started
read:
Be a Network Administrator and earn 87K a year. Well, two thumbs up
again
for those lying salary surveys. I don’t really think that those salary
surveys are lying as much as I believe that there’s one network
administrator out there that makes 47 millions dollars a year and is
totally warping the salary curve.<br>
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