If I might add to this one. I would push people towards Linux and or any Unix flavor over winders any day. The ease of remote access, command line, and better pay are the big factors. Also note that every Tom, Dick and Harry trade school cranks out Microsoft certified what evers and yada yada yada. The general question though is there is no real firm career path. I started by cofounding an ISP way back in the dark ages and the actual work experience did more for my career than any classes ever could. Bottom line though is you have to start getting your hands on the gear and do the work. A standard BS degree is probably a great start today, back in my day that was sketchy at best. Also, learn the very complex issues either things like Storage or what I did was learn Cisco gear specifically and Network engineering generally. Basic tier 1 types are easily shipped over seas or out sourced. The more complex your skills and experience the more value and less likely you'll be farmed out. Also, depending, be ready to change jobs frequently. If you play the tech game, especially start ups, you'll be shifting around a lot as businesses fail and or new ones form. Good luck! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] what is system administrator need I am not sure if there is a single answer to your question. But I got a BS degree in computer science and taught myself about linux. So I am a linux systems administrator. I know only slightly more about Windows than a typical power user. I think it's questionable whether it's better to concentrate on Windows or linux. I believe there are way, way more Windows systems administrators than linux systems administrators. But there is also a lot more competition for those jobs. The one advantage to linux is that it's designed to be administered remotely via a text console. There are very few things that cannot be configured at the command line or via text files. That's a huge advantage for a blind systems administrator. On the other hand, the screen readers are better for Windows. I don't think there exists a commercial screen reader for linux. Jaws and Window-eyes are very expensive but they are also very good. There is a rock solid screen reader for the linux command line called speakup. But it works only in text mode. For the graphical user interface, there is a screen reader called orca with is really getting to ve excellent. But it's not as good as jaws. Not yet. What I do is use Windows as my desktop to admin linux machines. ----- Original Message ----- From: "philip" <philip_maher2005@yahoo.co.uk> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:25 PM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] what is system administrator need
hello I want to know if I want to be system administrator what should be learn ? give me the subject and certificate to be specialist in adminstrator any help would be appreciated
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