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What was your favorite course of study? (yeah, it's biased -- do your best!)
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* Twilight1 will have to hang his Mozilla beanie dinosaur in effigy if
Netscape sells-out to Alot Of Losers..
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday February 02 2018, @01:55PM
In about '94 or so you couldn't get a job with this Linux and "internet" stuff. Sorry yo, we're professionals here and only use SunOS and Ultrix and AIX not this Linux stuff and we prefer SNA using source route bridging and SDLC bridges, that IP stuff is interesting but just a flash in the pan. You seem like a bright kid, maybe you could pull biaxial cable and bus-n-tag connectors and terminate token ring cables until you learn the professional stuff. Well, it paid the bills. Things turned around after awhile. My salary quintupled, IIRC.
My favorite SunOS memory from about '93 or sometime in the 90s anyway was mtools was a new software suite and mostly worked however a corrupted floppy would cause the SunOS kernel to crash and at the time I was kinda a unix noob so I crashed about 10% of the machine room by carrying my floppy from machine to machine trying to get it to work. Amazingly I didn't get in trouble but one of the older sysadmins, a real dinosaur from the unix 80s, did give me a WTF lecture which I guess was my punishment? While the end users were screaming but ignored? Thats kinda how things rolled back in the very old days. No one wanted to admit you could crash the kernel with a buggy userspace program so it was all kinda papered over and ignored.
My second favorite distraction was chicks like the one who picked up one of the world's first linux distro cdroms and asked what those guys sound like.