Of course, there is another theory that this has already happened. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Dan Fitzgerald <[email protected]>wrote:
> ...but immediately thereafter, the universe ends, and may or may not be > replaced with something even more inexplicably bizarre. > > ------------------------------ > Subject: RE: Lurning sum bacic shtuff > Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:22:11 -0700 > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > 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 > > > > 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 > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your > inbox. Learn > more.<http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1> > > -- > 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
