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I don't want to sound like mr. doom-and-gloom, but I do think that some of halfcircle's fears are grounded in reality. Like many people, I have moved around a lot in the last year - two dead dotcoms in 12 months have put me on the jobmarket quite a lot. Here are my observations: Human...

I think I contributed to this thread earlier - anyway, I am now with a company that is 100% Win2K and Solaris 8. Experience so far is that 2000 Advanced Server is vastly superior to NT4.0 in an enterprise setting. We are a software development shop, so we have 65+ Win2K advanced servers...

MRTG is good - runs on Unix and queries IOS - not sure if it can query PIX - anyone else know?

Implicit in alot of this discussion is that the software industry has a poor model of licensing and that is what leads to confusion and/or self justification of piracy. For example, six years ago I bought an expensive statistical analysis software package (>$1000). There was no trial version...

Hey Mark, I surely did not intend to be harsh to you a while back - I just get very tired of reading rote phrases in letters or CVs that are essentially meaningless. And perhaps I was still in the process of trying to migrate an Exchange server that day! I am also a Brit - but I live and...

Regarding the "references furnished on request": What the hell does this mean? OF COURSE you'll give me references if I ask for them, otherwise I won't hire you. This phrase has always struck me as completely superfluous and a sign that people are just using a template. If you want...

I think it depends on what it is you are doing.  If you are a web designer, I think that a homepage or email with hyperlinks to work you have done would be a good thing.  CD-ROMs, I think might be overkill, although I have seen some very cool business card sized CD-ROMS that...

I have to disagree on the hobbies section - I've done quite a bit of hiring and that would strike me as unprofessional.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;What I would add is that the old &quot;rule&quot; of sticking to a single page is not set in stone for the IT world.&nbsp;&nbsp;Don't pad if you...

I think the deeper issue here, and one that I have struggled with recently, is the overall poor performance of many vendors.&nbsp;&nbsp;While this has always been the case it seems to have got much worse the last 6-12 months.&nbsp;&nbsp;Whether it is due to the strong economy making it hard to...

It's unfortunate because I think that Microsoft recognized that they had devalued the whole certification process when high school students and truckdrivers with no IT background could get certified after a one week &quot;boot camp&quot;, a lot of memorization and $15,000.&nbsp;&nbsp;I myself...

I agree with the sentiments on TCP/IP.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, those of us with the TCP/IP exam will have the advantage.&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm amazed how many sysadmins I meet who don't understand the protocols.&nbsp;&nbsp;I got my present job because the CTO was impressed by that knowledge.&nbsp;&nbsp;I...

It's a nightmare!&nbsp;&nbsp;We also tried to get the same thing up and running with no success.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are supposed to be getting a Cisco SE in to help us with it.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you ever got it up and running I'd appreciate any insights.

We had a similar problem and it was due to tcp connections not being broken down and reaching the PIX's license limit.&nbsp;&nbsp;Use the &quot;show blocks&quot; command and look for the &quot;low&quot; count being zero in one or more rows.&nbsp;&nbsp;If that's the case you'll have to dig deep...