Re: UNIX Jobs?

Jesse Charbneau wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:

One of the features of working in UNIX is folks generally learn
to use the right tool for the job.

And since when has WIndows ever been the right tool for the job, in
respect to an admin?

Something you seem to have missed about what the job is.
There's more than the technical to being an engineer. There's
only the technical to being a technician. SysAdmin is an
engineering job not a technician job.

Engineering includes customer service and customer
convincing and customer teaching. If you can't take on a
relaxed attitude that it's fine to sit in front of a Windows box
and use it as a widget on which to display a flock of UNIX
interfaces, then you're likelt going to have trouble dealing
with customers and end users and managers. But you'll
get along just fine with engineers and with fellow technicians.

Not my fault most people prefer to be ignorant of how a computer works.

Attitude matters. You're on CUA not where most people are.
Yet you're treating CUA regulars who've used UNIX for decades
like most people. Perspective time.

If you think _you_ are more productive with WIndows, then by all means,
have at.

If I thought it mattered I'd load Linux on my company-supplied
laptop and be done with it. As it is I keep the laptop running
Windows, use it to launch assorted putty and X sessions ...

But having lived on a X11/UNIX box for years

Chortle. Real UNIX works fine at 9600 baud. Screen movement is
all that's needed for vi and friends ...

I find it completely limiting to work from a windows box.

I know. Even when X is running I can't set it to focus follows cursor,
don't raise window on focs, type blind in background windows. It's
how I had my Solaris workstations set for years. But since X runs
fine on this laptop to display anything I need coming from a UNIX
box, I get limited by having to type at a window on top. Such limits.

.

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