I did not see anyone here claim that. We simply rebutted your position.

And you have not defended yours.

I could care less if you change your opinion. But if you throw it out there then you should expect it to come back your way.

Who cares anyway. It's the happy season.

Let's enjoy our families and friends and enjoy a few extra days off.

Happy Holidays,
Regards,
Scott

Is there are single person who responded to this thread that is an network engineer? Administrator? IT manager/director?

I was the webmaster for USC for a time. At ACC the IT director reported to me. And I do some of my own sysadmin for testing web apps.

close enough?

Dustin Hoffman?

BTW: in two years, try finding a Mac that is truly a Mac when all Apples will then be more or less WinTel machines.

Hmmmmm...close.....I guess I was asking if people had been involved with the trench warfare of network adminstration. Sounds like you were to smart to qualify for 'drone' detail. :)

USB -> serial adapter for my powerbook .. can emulate any terminal you need. As a network engineer, I've always preferred BSD/*nix based machines. Whatever floats your boat though, I get on a soapbox for no OS.

When all these glorified type writers get smoked by a sunspot, my old 65,66, and 69, 912s will still be running. Not to mention my old MB diesel.

Steve Jobs at 21.

I resemble that comment and I vote for Dos 3.30 - those were the good old days!

Props for VMS.

And no, Mac OSX isn't UNIX. No certification == not UNIX. UNIX-like-system, maybe, but not UNIX.

Anyone else using Solaris 10? I <3 SUN.

if it quacks like a duck...

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if it quacks like a duck...

Nope...not when the duck that it is supposed to quack like is a registered Trade Mark.

I know. I'm nit-picking on the UNIX TM issue. Sorry for wasting bandwidth:-D

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It's mostly because I'm bored and I've been up for awhile and I'm trying to waste some time online.

yep

although i've moved on from administrating l-users long time ago and now support administrators

{raises hand}
Software Engineer

MacOSX has a BSD core with slight modifications to make the dinosaur that is Unix halfway usable in the real world. Go ahead and output to /dev/tty1 if you want, you can "vi" your self all over the system if need be. "top" your processes, add users through the standard unix methods, set perms on your files, do remote X11 to your Linux machines, etc etc etc. Its as least as much Unix as Linux is, but without the suck-factor of recompiling a kernel every 2 weeks.

UNIX is a dinosaur? Useable in the real world? I'm running Solaris 10 on the computer next to my laptop with Java Desktop and I find it to be at least as useable as Mac OS or Windows NT family. Maybe even more so. GNU/Linux isn't UNIX(tm) either, so Mac OSX is the same amount of not UNIX(tm) that GNU/Linux is.

My webserver runs on FreeBSD (on a dual XEON 2.4, mmmmmm, wish it was mine!!) and it's been nothing but pleasant. I decided to give it a go on the desktop but it was too much frustration. Mucking around with drivers, editing Xconfig files and so on and so forth was cool when I had nothing better to do with my time, but now I need something that Just Works. Enter SUN...

And no, I'm not a "real" sysadmin/network admin/engineer. Unless you count helping people online and family/friends..lol. However, I was recently offered a position as an op. on some AS/400 machines, so my job title might change.

G'day

Not only do Macs suck....but the propeller on my hat is waaaay bigger than the one's on your hats!:p

Know what Really sucks, Emulating windows on Solaris on a Sun Workstation.