Yesterday I stepped inside Google’s EU headquarters for a SAGE-IE meeting that David Malone was giving on “Possible Questions to ask when Interviewing Sysadmins”
A very good talk considering I’m now at the stage where I’m going to be sending out CV’s for applying for jobs in the whole networking/sysadmin area. I was pleasantly surprised to find I could answer some of the questions in a decent level of detail (considering my experience) while I could give partial answers (Who knew if UDP was being filtered you can send an ICMP unreachable response back, always believed it was a fire and forget protocol, which it is to an extent) to others.
The only one I found myself stumped at was printing in linux/unix because I’ve never used linux/unix before on the desktop long enough to actually set up printing. At the moment this is my current mindset
Servers = Linux/Unix
Desktops = Windows
Before I anger someone, this is my personal view and each to their own.
Conor … printing on linux is pretty straightfoward …. check out cups, and then command line printing with lp and lpr … very useful potentially for embedded linux apps…
I’ve heard of cups and so on. I’ve just never had the chance to use it.
It will depend on the distro you’re using, but on my desktop here I’m hooked up to a bog standard HP LaserJet and can print with no issues or tweaking of settings - I just told Ubuntu what kind of printer I was using and it just worked.
The only thing that took any work at all was sharing the printer with the windows machines used by housemates….
Michele