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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Possible Career Paths Post 302465111 by huntreilly25 on Thursday 21st of October 2010 04:22:15 PM
Old 10-21-2010
Possible Career Paths

I've read through a couple of forum posts on Career issues but wanted to get some feedback that may be more personalized and whatnot.

I am brand new to the world of UNIX and Linux and while I am finding the learning curve rather steep, I find it highly rewarding and am overall enjoying the experience. I am currently self-learning UNIX/Linux for a part-time "internship" at a College's High Performance Computing Center and am beginning to get interested in what is possible with UNIX and Linux.
I am also a Computer Science Major with other ideas for careers that may be a little off-topic from this site but maybe some people may know some things.

Anyways, I was wondering what Careers there are involving UNIX and/or Linux and what they may require. I'm not looking for anything to in-depth right now...just a SIMPLE explanation of a few careers and jobs available.

Also, I first got into Computer Science with the idea of eventually possibly going into Video Games (this is where I go off-topic a lil, but maybe someone will know some stuff). I know that video game programming isn't necessarily where the money is what but I figure if it's something I love then I wouldn't mind...Anyways, if anyone knows or has insight to the industry some info might be helpful ;-) like, what are some of the jobs and what they entail? what programming languages are typically used in the industry? what do companies look for?

Thanks in advance!
 

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spell(1)						      General Commands Manual							  spell(1)

NAME
spell, spellin, spellout - Finds spelling errors SYNOPSIS
spell [-b] [-i | -l] [-v | -x] [-d hash_list] [-s hash_stop] [-h history_list] [+word_list] [file...] spellin [list] [number] spellout [-d] list The spell command reads words in file and compares them to those in a spelling list. Default files contain English words only, but you can supply your own list of words in other languages. STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows: spell: XCU5.0 Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags. OPTIONS
[Tru64 UNIX] The following options are for the spell command only. Checks for correct British spelling. Besides preferring centre, colour, programme, speciality, travelled, and so on, this option causes spell to insist upon the use of the infix -ise in words like stan- dardise. [Tru64 UNIX] Specifies hash_list as the alternate spelling list. The default is /usr/lbin/spell/hlist[ab]. [Tru64 UNIX] Speci- fies history_list as the alternate history list that is used to accumulate all output. The default is /usr/lbin/spell/spellhist. [Tru64 UNIX] Suppresses processing of included files through the and troff macros. If the -i and -l options are both specified, the last one of the two options entered on the command line takes effect. [Tru64 UNIX] Follows the chain of all included files (.so and spell(1)
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