not bad up until the asterisk advice... this is the kind of shit that falls on IT at smaller companies, and it is universally hated. not the kind of work many people aspire to doing.

probably the best response in the whole thread. OP displays some naivete if he thinks he can just go into freelancing out of HS, ffs i'm in the same position as you pretty much just at 15 instead of 20... fuckin took me at least ten before i could find my ass with both hands. Even then I would say until I reached about 8 of professional experience (meaning getting paid) could I freelance... but freelancing sucks so fuck that.

The spirit of your advice is sort of on the right track, but... LPIC isn't really widely known like RH certs are. Also, RH certs are more admirable since they are practical only, no multiple choice. I have both LPIC1 and 2, never really helped me, just went and got it to see if I could. Lastly, please don't advocate Perl usage. We have more modern languages with real OOP at this point that are easier to maintain and easier to use. You're right though, if you can't code in at least one language at an acceptable level, you're not getting the job if it's more than a junior position or the hiring person is mildly retarded.

This was me btw, don't know why I wasn't logged in on this computer anymore.

I suggest download the Minix source and using the git portal for the OpenBSD source: git://git.freebsd.your.org/openbsd You can learn a lot from looking at simple tools like ls, and then looking at system libraries as well. And yes, I know it's not C++.

no, it likely has more to do with compute power, or possibly instant using a separate hash for searching than the regular search. Typical arm flailing about how evil google is.

No shit, I wish more people would see that the added complexities of virtualization sometimes outweigh the advantages, especially in resource-intensive apps that have never been tested in virtualization.

Most places using it use it for site-to-site VPN, routers, firewalls, etc, so A. only people from significant sites probably know the answer and B. it's not really what it's known for being great at.

ah, that's super easy, have you ever even tried to read the docs? If 10.0.0.1 is a gateway that people are nat'd behind, something like block in from 10.0.0.1 to 192.168.0.0/24 in pf.conf, done. pfctl -n -f /etc/pf.conf to check that the grammar is correct, and pfctl -F rules -f /etc/pf.conf to reload the rules. If you mean you need to set up the openbsd box to *do* nating it's still pretty simple. All it takes is a quick look at the PF documentation.

Funny, my salary more than doubled the day I quit pursuing that worthless piece of paper. Unless you want to get into hardcore computer SCIENCE stuff, and I mean like algorithmically complex shit or research, or you never actually had the hobby of electronics/computing as a child, a CS degree is largely worthless. You'll have a piece of paper that thousands of other talentless code monkeys have.

"Android style security"??? It's a sad day on /. when someone calls mandatory access control "android style security".

Good to see another puppeteer, I feel like the software does not get enough recognition for how utterly amazing it is. It's still relatively obscure to the sysadmin mainstream. Maybe that has something to do with cfengine's foothold.