05-14-2012
The jobs are not always the issue. The problem is getting past HR idiots who insert themselves in the resume review path. They look for reasons to exclude people. This is why I suggested looking for some sort of leverage.
Concrete example: SCT in Columbia SC produced a schizophrenic product called banner that was a utility CIS and a college student mgt app. They sold most of it off. If you had worked supporting that product (even 10 years ago) or coding or whatever there are still some places that would want to interview you.
Discrete skill sets with legacy apps can be a real plus. There are places that are "stuck" with legacy OSes like Solaris 8 or db's like Oracle 9. Exploit those.
Certs convince HR idiots to look at you, so if you are determined to do that, get going.
And yes the testing costs $$.
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csx_validatecis
csx_ValidateCIS(9F) Kernel Functions for Drivers csx_ValidateCIS(9F)
NAME
csx_ValidateCIS - validate the Card Information Structure (CIS)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/pccard.h>
int32_t csx_ValidateCIS(client_handle_t ch, cisinfo_t *ci);
INTERFACE LEVEL
Solaris DDI Specific (Solaris DDI)
PARAMETERS
ch Client handle returned from csx_RegisterClient(9F).
ci Pointer to a cisinfo_t structure.
DESCRIPTION
This function validates the Card Information Structure (CIS) on the PC Card in the specified socket.
STRUCTURE MEMBERS
The structure members of cisinfo_t are:
uint32_t Socket; /* socket number to validate CIS on */
uint32_t Chains; /* number of tuple chains in CIS */
uint32_t Tuples; /* total number of tuples in CIS */
The fields are defined as follows:
Socket Not used in Solaris, but for portability with other Card Services implementations, it should be set to the logical socket
number.
Chains This field returns the number of valid tuple chains located in the CIS. If 0 is returned, the CIS is not valid.
Tuples This field is a Solaris-specific extension and it returns the total number of tuples on all the chains in the PC Card's
CIS.
RETURN VALUES
CS_SUCCESS Successful operation.
CS_NO_CIS No CIS on PC Card or CIS is invalid.
CS_NO_CARD No PC Card in socket.
CS_UNSUPPORTED_FUNCTION No PCMCIA hardware installed.
CONTEXT
This function may be called from user or kernel context.
SEE ALSO
csx_GetFirstTuple(9F), csx_GetTupleData(9F), csx_ParseTuple(9F), csx_RegisterClient(9F)
PC Card 95 Standard, PCMCIA/JEIDA
SunOS 5.10 19 Jul 1996 csx_ValidateCIS(9F)