[ale] Chinese government recommendation - Linux

[Lightner, Jeff]

Several years ago I went to a Solaris admin “for experienced UNIX admins” boot camp training.  It was 5 x 12 hour days to train you what they would normally cover in 2 weeks.

We had one putz that was a Windows consultant that had never touched UNIX slowing us all down with really basic questions.   Solaris has tools for “spray” that let you make nasty sounds on connected workstations.   We took turns doing that to him.  He’d look at whoever he suspected was doing it at which point someone else would do it.  :-)

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 10:51 AM
To: Paul Cartwright; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Chinese government recommendation - Linux

heh, heh.
sometimes watching the pain of others is fun and not just cruel.
You should put that guy in front of one the windows servers installed with no gui and see how long he lasts! As can be imagined, that is NOT a popular install method.

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com<mailto:pbcartwright at gmail.com>> wrote:
On 05/19/2014 10:27 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> So I would put forward that the wholesale adoption of Linux will
> depend on the retraining of the existing admins so they are willing to
> tell upstream "sure, Linux will be useful here".
I will never forget the class I went to , I think it was a document
source code revision app, Rational Rose..

it was me and a windows guy, definitely a mouse expert. Of course this
was hosted on a UNIX box, and we had to do lots of command-line STUFF,
using history, and editing the command lines.. It was a HOOT!!! he had
that deer in the headlights look for 2 days.
I don't remember him helping out much with the admin of it when we got
back..

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