Do a home network and hack it together. The sugguestion about getting involved in help-desk work is really good too because all of the sudden you HAVE to learn all this stuff so you can help people (though you may go insane doing it, "I've got 600 messages in my "saved" box on the mail server, should I have backed these up on my local machine?"). If you've got a friend who is a system admin start talking to them as you hack your network, this will have to be a good friend who will not mind giving you advice for free that he charges other people for; but friends can put into English what man pages can only put into "networkspeak", without friends, I'd never even tried to learn linux and would still be a slave of Microsoft. Wes ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Frank Sweetser <fs@WPI.EDU> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:57:27 -0400
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:25:15PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
I've seen good comments made about:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471345865/qid=997293880/sr=1-24/ref=...
Also ISBN 0-201-43319-2
-- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 15 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did... -- Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org> _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug