Posted by Matthew Pratt on 1999-04-20
> Or maybe someone knows of a completely different > alternative that they've > had a good experience with. > I guess it depends on your current knowledge of computers at the moment. If you come from a primarily M$ background then MSCE is probably the way to go. However in the long run it is known that UNIX sysadmin generally earn more and have a less stressfull time of it (even M$ acknowledges that NT has stability problems). I've heard people at my local Linux Users Group meeting talk about NT admins that have pagers driven by watchdog computers that page them when the NT servers go down. And since NT doesnt have an out of the box solution for telnet, the admin have to go into work and reboot them by hand. What a nightmare! Also keep in mind that most (Australian) ISPs run either Linux or a BSD on their servers. If your curious you can check what a server is running at http://www.netcraft.com Type in the URL and then click "site details" when the next page comes up. Here are the results for my local ISPs: www.dynamite.com.au --> Linux www.apex.net.au --> Linux www.alphalink.net.au --> Linux www.ozemail.com.au --> BSD/OS www.goldweb.com.au --> Linux I think you get the idea... Having said that, most clients run 'doze of some sort and so you may be able to get a help desk job with very little qualifaction other than telling them you consider yourself a windoze guru or something like that. I think your best bet would be to write up a resume and approach some of you local ISPs with it. If that fails then you could try a course of some sort. I ended up getting a job as a tech at a local computer service/sales center just by mentioning that I was in and engineering degree. That and the fact that I was buying parts to build a computer from scratch. Also I'm curious as too what course you are doing, and if its an IT/CS course, what platform the course is based around? At my Uni all our courses are taught on Sun hardware and OSs, or PCs running linux which I'm happy about. We have one NT lab on campus and its not even for the CS students. In the OS course, the student get to hack around with the linux kernel, and their assigment are to modify parts of the kernel to acheive certain things (although I dont do that course as I'm doing and Engineering degree). Also look at the IT section on tuesdays in the Sydney Morning Herald, as it has a section on jobs and the like. Good luck. === Matty . http://members.xoom.com/mattpratt/ _--_|\ mattpratt@xxxxx.xxx / \ s3099239@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx \_.--._/<--Canberra, W2K - The other millenium bug. v Australia _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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