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Top Forums Programming school or teach myself? Post 45187 by mbb on Tuesday 16th of December 2003 12:20:15 PM
Old 12-16-2003
Hicreas:

It depends what you mean by "computer engineer". The field of computing has many areas of expertise.

If you don't know how you want to specialise in your career, best to keep your education and training in computing as broad as possible. In this way you will keep your options open for that all important first job in computing.

Invariably you will become specialised. Employers tend to 'pidgeon hole' a person into known skill sets and experience.

As your career progresses you must guard against this tendancy by updating your skills and making the most of the opportunities your employer has to offer.

To answer your question about which language to learn. Java, C++ and VB seem to be skills that are in good demand so why not? Maybe plain C too under Unix?

But be careful. Languages can come in and out of fashion. As some of my friends have found out, specialising in a niche language like Gupta or Informix wasn't such a good idea. Even if you don't intend to change your job, always keep an eye on the skills being asked for in the job market. If you don't, you may find yourself stuck in a dead end support role.

MBB
 

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NAME
faxrm - remove fax jobs queued by faxspool(1) SYNOPSIS
faxrm [-i] [job-ids...] DESCRIPTION
Remove job(s) from the fax queue set up by faxspool(1). faxrm removes queued fax jobs. Call with a list of job-IDs to remove specific jobs. Call with no job IDs to be asked interactively about all jobs you own (if run by root, all jobs). For job-id, use the strings returned by faxq(1) (e.g. F000015), without the ``/JOB'' exten- tion. If you are not the owner of the fax job (as per the 'user xyz' statement inside the JOB file), you are not allowed to remove the fax job. Only root is permitted to remove another user's faxes. If the job is locked (most likely because sendfax(8) is active sending it), faxrm doesn't attempt to remove it. Instead, it prints a warn- ing message on stderr and goes on to the next job. EXAMPLES
faxrm F000005 F000033 OPTIONS
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faxrm doesn't return diagnostic exit codes yet. SEE ALSO
faxrunq(1), faxrunq(8), faxspool(1), faxq(1), faxqueue(5) AUTHOR
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