Posts made by ryanov

@dustinb3403 I legit just did forgot password to log in here and downvote your comment. Apparently I dont yet have the reputation for it. So now I’ll have to work on that so that I can come back and downvote it.

What does the background matter? He basically opened with it. So maybe he shouldn't open with something like that, and that's my advice about entering the field. I haven't seen anything so far that tells me I'm definitely wrong. I hear that and think "I'd tell this guy to stick to business school." (Haven't seen anything else that tells me that I've guessed wrong there either).

@scottalanmiller The number aside, someone asking "how can I go from basically no experience to entering this career" and has a salary number in mind in practically his opening sentence, I'm personally going to draw a conclusion. I've been interviewing people pretty much continuously since July, and since I don't need another useless co-worker, I'm on the lookout for red flags, and this one is a red flag to me (as are people who apply for jobs they're clearly not qualified, or who list work experience that is clearly not worth the salary they're asking for). I can't imagine I'm the only person on earth interviewing that would draw that conclusion, especially when the primary question is how to learn the field.

As someone who works in the IT world and is generally surrounded by people who aren't very good at their jobs, the "how can I enter the field making $80k" bit is pretty off-putting. I totally understand wanting to make a living wage, but when you lead off with that, I feel like "you know what, I can find someone who is totally new at this with no practical work experience for way less than $80k." Maybe I'm making a judgement that I shouldn't be from not much text, but I'm not so sure I'm wrong.

Part of this is not correct. RHEL releases as often as not do not directly correspond to a specific Fedora release. I stumbled upon this myself when I tried to use Fedora packages in RHEL for some things (using packages for the same release of Fedora that the RHEL release was based on). Neither RHEL6 nor 7 was based on a single Fedora release:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078

@scottalanmiller How can you be managing a webserver and not know that?

PS: why does this thing drop my final punctuation? (<- I can get a ? if I put two just there)..

People don't give a shit. Understanding DNS is not that hard. I'm an expert, but there are people more expert than me, and people could be much less knowledgeable than me and still satisfy me. Not knowing that no, I can't change the DNS entry to point http://whatever/thing to http://somewhere.whatever.new/thing45/about is inexcusable if you have anything to do with managing servers. Too many "box clickers" in IT. I barely consider the MCSE people to be IT professionals.