04-01-2005
i recently did a few tech interviews with some guys who claimed they knew unix --- solaris actually --- and i was quiet disappointed ... turns out the guys had tried to read a book a few days before their interviews and were thinking that they could pass off their help desk and/or their sys admin experience as something we could use ... unfortunately for them, i do situational interviews where i can assess troubleshooting skills and basic unix knowledge as well as reaction to stress situations in 1 shot so i quickly found out where their weaknesses were ... it's not pleasant to hear people whimpering on the phone sounding like they're begging you to give them a chance ...
... i usually end up cleaning after other people's mistakes (i.e., recovering servers from crashes where the servers have no redundancies of any kind nor any documentation) so i have ulterior motives to be hard-nosed ... i'm not perfect and i'm still learning a lot but i do expect people to at least know how to do the jobs they're applying for before i hire them ...
the moral of the story? if you know what you're doing and you can prove it to the world, it doesn't matter where or how you learned your stuff --- somebody will hire you. if you don't know what you're doing, you'd be whimpering on the phone too.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bitpim
BITPIM(1) General Commands Manual BITPIM(1)
NAME
bitpim - utility to communicate with many CDMA phones
SYNOPSIS
bitpim [ -c file | -d dir ] [ -f model ] [ -p device ] [ bitfling ] [ debug ] [ cli-command ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the bitpim command.
BitPim allows you to view and manipulate data on many phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo, and other manufacturers that use Qualcomm CDMA chips.
Depending on your phone model, you may be able to access the phone book, the calendar, wallpapers, ring tones, and the filesystem.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-c file
Read configuration from file.
-d dir Read configuration from dir/.bitpim.
-f model
Assume a phone type of model rather than what the configuration file specifies. Particularly useful in CLI mode.
-p device
Communicate with the phone via the device ("port") device.
bitfling
Run as bitfling(1).
debug Print debugging information to standard output and standard error.
cli-command
Interact with the phone's filesystem via a command-line interface. The command must be a single (quoted) argument, and can take any
of the following forms:
cli Bring up an interactive shell, allowing all of the below commands as well as a few others (cd dir, cdu, exit, and pwd or
equivalently cwd).
cp src [...] destdir
Copy files to, from, or within the phone.
ll dir [...]
Print a detailed listing of the specified phone directory or directories.
ls dir [...]
Print a brief listing of the specified phone directory or directories.
mkdir dir [...]
Create a directory on the phone.
rm file [...]
Remove one or more files from the phone.
rmdir dir [...]
Remove one or more directories, which must already be empty, from the phone.
Please note that none of these commands accepts wildcards. To indicate that an argument denotes a file or directory on the phone,
you can prefix it with phone:; this is mainly relevant for cp, which performs phone-to-PC copies unless otherwise directed.
FILES
$HOME/.bitpim-files/.bitpim
The default configuration file.
SEE ALSO
bitfling(1), http://www.bitpim.org/.
AUTHOR
bitpim was primarily written by Roger Binns <rogerb@rogerbinns.com>.
This manual page was written by Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
2007-12-12 BITPIM(1)