Re: XWindows - how capture window ?

2010-03-14 Thread Valery Reznic
--- On Sat, 3/13/10, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: From: guy keren c...@actcom.co.il Subject: Re: XWindows - how capture window ? To: Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com Cc: linux-il. linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8:16 PM Valery Reznic wrote: --- On

Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have been using Linux as an end user for several years, but now I think that I might like to make a career out of *nix administration. Where are some good places to get a certificate from? Is an online certificate as good as an offline course? What online certificates are honourable? What

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread guy keren
Dotan Cohen wrote: I have been using Linux as an end user for several years, but now I think that I might like to make a career out of *nix administration. Where are some good places to get a certificate from? Is an online certificate as good as an offline course? What online certificates are

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Dotan, My recommendation is simple: don't go there. Why? the market is full, salleries went down, and you'll find yourself competing against kids. My suggestion: be a Linux developer. Hetz 2010/3/14 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com I have been using Linux as an end user for several years,

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Dotan, I hire Linux sys-admin's, Linux kernel hacks and Linux developers. The first thing that I look for in a prospective employee is a hobbyist interest in Linux. If a guy shows up in my office with an RFID chipped white rat in his pocket that he keeps track of using a Linux app that he

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Dov Grobgeld
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 14:37, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Even a guy who just shows up with a Dvorak keyboard, no mouse and does everything inside of EMACS gets an offer. This more or less describes me, so do I get the job? :-) Also reminds me of the time a number of years

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
My suggestion: be a Linux developer. Tell me more. Right now I have people coming to me asking me to admin their servers. By Linux developer do you mean to develop Linux software or the kernel? -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Kids will always be kids, and there will always be competition. I think competition is good. Otherwise - go be a Cobol developer. No competition there, you know. Not in five years time, when everyone who knows something will retire. Linux is a dynamic and evolving profession. It gets more and

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Oh, I'll tell you more.. Want to make the biggest sallery? be a kernel programmer. Try to fix or write a driver and make sure it's committed to the GIT (your code will be examined). Once it's in the GIT, it will be worth a lot for you. Learn some linux embedding skills, the GNU chaintool, Xorg,

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Actually, you should be in another profession to make lots of money. You won't make your millions with computers, you know. Programming and syadmin are two different disciplines, and none is better than the other. It should be first what you love doing, otherwise, you will never be excellent in