Jim,
I agree with all your humble comments here. Thanks especially for the
links! I've been in the business 32 years and consider any day I don't
either learn something new or catch hell about something a total waste.
Since I really prefer the former, I grab, keep and use any source of
knowledge that comes along.
Zarquon Preserve You,
Charlie Noah
On 05-15-2010 2:47 PM, Jim Idle wrote:
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
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