Daily Twitter Roundup

[robotech_master]

Here are the things I am willing to admit to having done today:

• 00:59 Sidekick owners, like @foomf, take note: the class-action lawsuits begin! bit.ly/gBNUv #
• 10:29 What's with all these twitter spammers that have popped up in the last day or so? Are they DARING users to use Twitter's new report feature? #
• 12:38 I love reading @smilinstanlee's tweets. He tweets the same way he does everything else: enthusiastically and exuberantly. Excelsior! #
• 13:31 @squidlord Well, Sheherazade would certainly agree with that. #
• 13:32 Hiding in my room while the rest of the apartment ventilates after spraying for fleas. #
• 13:41 Hopefully that will keep the fleas down for a while. May need to get more frontline #
• 13:46 Hey, @henrymelton - life imitates art. j.mp/2vJJLR #
• 13:59 Funky. Earth & Jupiter in same photo, taken from Mars. bit.ly/38U68j #
• 16:12 Just hit bank to deposit WRITING CHECK and get cash out for the weekend. Now waiting for bus to get me back home before houseguest arrives. #
• 17:21 twitpic.com/lnttq - My friend Felix on my laptop with my cat, and me in the foreground. #
• 17:43 RT @SailorCallie: RT @NewsFirst5: Missing boy found safe---he was in the attic. bit.ly/3D743c Good news to hear. #
• 22:47 Just finished watching Will Vinton's Adventures of Mark Twain. I always forget how brilliant that movie is until I watch it again. #

Comments

[humanblue.livejournal.com]

They are not solid requirements by any means. They are listed to help define the area of the job. Let's go over this real quick so you can get a better idea of where I'm coming from...

BASH: Do you know what a terminal is? Can you navigate through a filesystem? (basic commands like 'mv', 'cp', 'pwd', etc). That is enough and would put you in the top 1% of candidates who have no exposure to Linux at all.

MySQL: Do you know what it is? You will not be developing a database. This knowledge is here so that if a customer calls and says "I have this weird SQL error" you at least know the general problem area.

IIS (and Apache): Honestly, there isn't much to know for most users. You install it and it works. There are things like mod_rewrite that you would learn about by on the job training.

ProFTPd: Have you every used ANY FTP program of any sort? Yes? You're qualified.

What I'm saying is that even though you don't fit the job description TO THE LETTER, keep in mind that most people don't. Instead, talk about what you DO know. Saying simply "Linux" does not differentiate you at all from some guy off the street that heard about it once - you do know these things and you do have experience that sets you apart from the crowd.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

I begin to see. What sort of things would you suggest adding to my résumé? "Linux shell"? "Linux admin"? All of the things mentioned in the description?