Zarquon returns twice daily (three times on Saturday) at the restaurant at the end of the universe as any true Douglas Adams fan knows!
Jim From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Fitzgerald Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 1:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Lurning sum bacic shtuff Oh, I've branched out, as well. I can type zeroes into the prompts now, too. Ayup. Ones _and_ zeroes, or I can even flip it around & do zeroes and ones. You know that there are 10 kinds of people? Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Waiting for Zarquon to return, btw, isn't a great idea. I would think someone from "temporal-wave" would know that... ;) I have about 25 years in multivalue. A few years ago, a company hired me to do performance tuning in UniVerse on AIX (They had hundreds of clients). Then there was 200% management turnover in a couple of years, and since I was in the AIX support group (they didn't know where else to stick me), the expectation became that I was an AIX admin. It didn't go all that well, but I learned. Now I'm a Senior AIX admin at a non-MV site, occasionally moonlighting in the MV world, with 100.0% uptime over 2 years. Moral: learn whatever's in front of you. Make More Money. Have the gender of your preference pursuing you. Afford Oregon Pinot Noir. _____ Subject: Lurning sum bacic shtuff Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 12:47:02 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] I am generally willing to help anyone with anything, but I cannot understand why banks would spend so much money on banking software then entrust its installation and operation to people that cannot do much beyond type ls at a command prompt. If your job is to look after T24 and/or a jBASE installation, and if your company will not pay for some training for you, it seriously behooves you to find some online training guides (which are always free), maybe buy a book or two (and read them) and just generally get up to speed on UNIX. When you can download a free version of any number of Linux installations that will run as virtual machines on your Windoze system, there is absolutely no excuse for anyone in the world not to train their selves in the basics of Linux, much of which (scripts, environments, compiling programs, etc) will translate across to the operating system at work such as AIX, or (Zarquon help you), HPUX if your company is silly enough to go for that. I wanted to make a career in computing because it constantly gives you puzzles, challenges, things to learn, problems to be solved. I really like solving problem, fixing things, getting things to work. If you do not, then I cannot for the life of me think why you would enter into computing other than you think that it is your best chance to make money. However, you won't make very much at all if your idea of being in computing is cutting and pasting an error message and sending it to this group without 10 seconds of attempting to fix things; so get real and get trained. I am really good at my job, not because I am a super genius (though anyone who says I am not is fired ;-), but because I try to learn everything there is to know about the things I am dealing with. Everyone can learn more or less than others, but not trying to learn anything at all and just expecting other people to sort things out will get you absolutely nowhere unless everyone else in your company is exactly the same. Here are some resources: Free virtual machine software: http://www.virtualbox.org/ Free pre-configured images that will run on Virtual box (already installed ready to go in 10 minutes): http://virtualboxes.org/images/ Free Linux training: http://www.linux.org/lessons/ http://education-portal.com/articles/10_Sites_Offering_Free_Linux_Courses_Online.html Free AIX training: http://www.certification-crazy.net/aix.htm http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/training/ Where to go when you need parsers and compilers for DSLs (which you all need but do not realize ;-): www.temporal-wave.com <http://www.temporal-wave.com/> Next, read all the jBASE manuals. When you have done all that, you will be competent to deal with T24 or any other large application in this space. I don't mean to beat up on anyone, but change your attitude and change your prospects! Just think how valuable you will be to your company if you can solve just about anything without coming here. Then come here when something really is tricky. Jim -- Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en _____ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get started. <http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3> -- Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -- Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
