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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/05/2014 04:09 PM, Lightner, Jeff
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I don’t think there’s anything evil about bringing MS Admins
from the dark side into the light. Quite the contrary.
Once upon a time I was a lowly DOS user :-)</span></p>
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Same here. As a young teenager I played on my mentor's (a neighbor
that worked for Westinghouse in IT) state of the art 286 computer.
Obviously it was loaded with DOS. I eventually got my own PC (my
parents paid mucho deniro for it). I told him I was bored with DOS
and was thinking of doing something else. He said I had hardly
touched the technology. UNIX keeps me interested. :)<br>
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question in my mind is how much expertise one can really
develop in just 3 months. Hopefully CNN is actually
staffing some experienced Linux admins and are just trying
to jump start the rest of the staff enough to avoid
bothering the more experienced admins with mundane questions
like: “How do I add this user?”</span></p>
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You can not. Only experience can. We are jumping to conclusions.
It may be possible that CNN has seasoned UNIX/Linux IT staff, but
those folks are too busy and too $$$ to train others how to do
stuff. I may be that the others are not going to be full-time Linux
admins, but pick up projects when the real gurus get busy. If I
wanted to expand the experience of IT staff I think that I would
have created the same plan. Sometimes you deal with workers that
have pigeon-holed their self into one job. Maybe a Windows System
Admin only type guy/gal. Sometimes a trainer can get them to do a
bit more. Taking someone that has almost no knowledge of Linux and
then railroading them in one week is a recipe for disaster.
Especially if they are no longer 18 years old. Over 3 months with a
trainer and a mentor would be an excellent plan.<br>
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larger shops I’ve been in we had a mix of seasoned admins
and junior admins and I for one enjoyed seeing the latter
progress over time.
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This may be the same at CNN. <br>
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Some of you folks have looked at their post and automatically
attacked it because you only saw negative things. Maybe their is a
positive side to their request? Crap! To be the optimist is an
unlikely road for me to take....<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
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