Tim Greer
04-12-2002, 06:51 PM
Hi, this might sound strange and please read this and bare with me -- and I'm not looking for a "job" or anything -- and I mean, not for free or paid. Allow me to explain. I have a lot of experience administrating a lot of systems, and mostly Unix variants -- stuff like Linux and *BSD. However, it's been a while since I've been on a Sun Solaris system. I want to get back into it, just to make sure I'm up to date on things. This isn't a job -- I don't want to be an administrator, and I'm not looking to just help out for free and volunteer and commit to being an administrator or anything -- and I'm not asking or wanting to be paid. I am simply looking for someone that will allow me to use their server to get more familiar with it. I know 75+% of all the stuff already on it, and I know about (I'd gauge) 30% of the stuff that's specifically Solaris oriented, but I want to get familiar again with the other 70% of the Solaris specific aspects that you can only get with using it. I know enough not to screw things up, and I'm once again not volunteering to be a free admin, but you will certainly benefit from me working on and tweaking it. So, it sort of is an offer to help out, in exchange for allowing me to get familiar with it more, since it's been a while.
I know this might sound strange, and I want to be clear, that this would only be in my spare time (it can't interfere with any work or anything I need to do). I simply don't want to spend the money for a real, and decent Sun Solaris system. I don't want to run X86 Solaris. I am trying to find someone with a Solaris 8 OS, on a real Sun system. You can check around here and see that I'm fairly well known and I can be trusted, but I'm willing to talk about whatever you might need. I'm just trying to expand my knowledge without great expense too. To be clear, I'm not a newbie, or someone that thinks that since they are a webmaster and know HTML, that they are qualified to run a server. I've been doing server administration, security, scripting, programming, setups and configurations since 1995 -- I simply don't want to pay to get into Solaris again, and I don't want to commit to anything or volunteer to be someone's administrator -- but again, you will get the benefits of my working on it -- assuming anyone would want or need any help in exchange for allowing me to configure and tweak their Solaris system to make it the best it can be. I figure it's worth a try to ask, unless someone wants to "donate" a Sun system that I can run Solaris 8 on, that is. (Hey, that was worth a try too! :-)
[Edit: Someone just brought this to my attention, that coming from "me", this post seems quite odd. I guess I've never asked a question here and have always just posted answers, so it seems odd to have me post something like this, so I can "learn" something. Crap, I've been exposed as not knowing it all. :-) Heh.]
I know this might sound strange, and I want to be clear, that this would only be in my spare time (it can't interfere with any work or anything I need to do). I simply don't want to spend the money for a real, and decent Sun Solaris system. I don't want to run X86 Solaris. I am trying to find someone with a Solaris 8 OS, on a real Sun system. You can check around here and see that I'm fairly well known and I can be trusted, but I'm willing to talk about whatever you might need. I'm just trying to expand my knowledge without great expense too. To be clear, I'm not a newbie, or someone that thinks that since they are a webmaster and know HTML, that they are qualified to run a server. I've been doing server administration, security, scripting, programming, setups and configurations since 1995 -- I simply don't want to pay to get into Solaris again, and I don't want to commit to anything or volunteer to be someone's administrator -- but again, you will get the benefits of my working on it -- assuming anyone would want or need any help in exchange for allowing me to configure and tweak their Solaris system to make it the best it can be. I figure it's worth a try to ask, unless someone wants to "donate" a Sun system that I can run Solaris 8 on, that is. (Hey, that was worth a try too! :-)
[Edit: Someone just brought this to my attention, that coming from "me", this post seems quite odd. I guess I've never asked a question here and have always just posted answers, so it seems odd to have me post something like this, so I can "learn" something. Crap, I've been exposed as not knowing it all. :-) Heh.]