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Originally Posted by darksoul
I don't think picking up a book is good enough. I've done my fair share of programming, I know several languages and can code just about anything.
However, being a sysadmin, I don't find the patience to tutor some thousands
lines of code for several months.
On the other side, no matter how good of a programmer you are, you won't be able to do the same job as a sysadmin that for years managed networks.
OS dependancy and garbage collectors have nothing to do with sysadmin.
That being said, I wouldn't exclude that there are people out there that can
do both as good, but thats the exception from the rule.
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So, you're saying the only way to learn is by experience, but you don't want to spend the time to do so? You're raising valid points, but they're somewhat mutually exclusive; and of course there are people that excel at both tasks - a good friend of mine started out working doing kernel panic (core dump) analsys for Sun, and ended up managing all of Hotmail for a few years. Now, she contracts.
But, come on.. we're not talking rocket science. XML? Javascript?
And, yes, 'init' is the OS's primary garbage collector when something forks a child process and dies, as we know as a zombie process.