Career Moves
I'm still at uni waiting for RJ to call me so we can have dinner. I'm bored.
This guy next to me is reading a Windows Sys Admin book.
It escapes me why someone would purposely want to be a Windows Sys Admin. I mean, WHY? Windows is just so clunky and difficult to use; imagine having to administer a whole network of them. Sure, this opinion is biased by the fact that I'm a stern Mac user but I'm also a Unix user. I've been using Solaris at work for nearly 18 months and for most of uni I've been using Linux (that is, when I'm not doing P2P downloading or playing games). When Mac OS X 10.1 was released, I was sold. Back to the Mac platform after a 2 and half year hiatus (I had to switch to the Dark Side when uni started). These are just three platforms I believe to be far easier to administer than a Win box.
Of course, I can't back this up. I only hang out with SAs; I don't know what they do on a day-to-day basis. I'm assuming it's stuff like modifying users, adding and removing computers/printers/etc from the network, running back-ups, stuff like that. Surely, this must be easier in a *nix environment than Windows.
I can only speak from a users perspective. Here at uni, for instance, the win machines are a mess. You login and there are files all over the desktop from the previous user. Session preferences aren't persistent; whatever settings you enter are lost during logout. So many things that could have easily fixed.
At this point in my career, I don't think I can ever work on a Windows environment.
This guy next to me is reading a Windows Sys Admin book.
It escapes me why someone would purposely want to be a Windows Sys Admin. I mean, WHY? Windows is just so clunky and difficult to use; imagine having to administer a whole network of them. Sure, this opinion is biased by the fact that I'm a stern Mac user but I'm also a Unix user. I've been using Solaris at work for nearly 18 months and for most of uni I've been using Linux (that is, when I'm not doing P2P downloading or playing games). When Mac OS X 10.1 was released, I was sold. Back to the Mac platform after a 2 and half year hiatus (I had to switch to the Dark Side when uni started). These are just three platforms I believe to be far easier to administer than a Win box.
Of course, I can't back this up. I only hang out with SAs; I don't know what they do on a day-to-day basis. I'm assuming it's stuff like modifying users, adding and removing computers/printers/etc from the network, running back-ups, stuff like that. Surely, this must be easier in a *nix environment than Windows.
I can only speak from a users perspective. Here at uni, for instance, the win machines are a mess. You login and there are files all over the desktop from the previous user. Session preferences aren't persistent; whatever settings you enter are lost during logout. So many things that could have easily fixed.
At this point in my career, I don't think I can ever work on a Windows environment.