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Old 12-10-2004
MySQL

Fantastic!!!!
# 9  
Old 12-12-2004
Zazzy Sorry about the delayed reply I've been moving homes and well I'm without Internet until my new service comes online Smilie Might I add though I'm crying I'm going from 10Mbit cable to 1500/512 DSL Smilie I don't think I can get faster where I am moving to just yet Smilie

Anyway Job sites I've found very good to look at for Oz is

www.seek.com.au
www.jobnet.com.au
www.mycareer.com.au

Jobnet is the best one (well I believe so anyway). Give them a shot and see what's to offer. The cover all of OZ just select which city you want to run a search in.

Hope that helps Smilie


P.S This is all we need more bloody proms in OZ j/k Smilie At least you know a real OS though heehee Also we drink our beer COLD down here Smilie
# 10  
Old 12-14-2004
MySQL

Many thanks for the links, woofie, they're much appreciated. You think you've got problems, I still use 56k dialup Smilie - Methinks that'll be changing once I get sorted down under.

I can drink my beer warm/cold/frozen/upside down/on my head/back to front/etc. I'm sure I'll cope!

Cheers
ZB
# 11  
Old 12-15-2004
zazzy

You pay a fair bit for high speeds down here Smilie

I'm current with optus cable and leaving them for DSL (moving out and can't keep my cable Smilie ) But I'll be paying $100 a month for a 1500/512 speed. You have to still pay a fair bit down here for speeds Smilie

Check out http://www.whirlpool.net.au/ that is an Australian Broadband News website. You can check out what ISP's will provide what service from the website. It doesn't have all of them but has a fair few there.

That should help you find something faster then a 56k.


P.S 56k is still one better then I am right now, my DSL doesn't get connected untill next week Smilie and my firewall still setup at my old home for my dad to use until I cancel the service. Yeah I left a Cable connection connected for my old man to surf the net Smilie
# 12  
Old 01-03-2005
I agree with what has been posted, but will add that experience with Sun hardware and PROM would be preferable to most shops hiring an admin than x86 experience. I would suggest picking up an Ultra 10 on eBay. They can be had for under $100 with 256MB RAM (which I consider minimum).

Download Solaris 10 and burn it to CD. If you can get it on the Internet and able to send mail, you are well on your way.

That said, there is a lot of talented experienced Solaris admins in the job market, and almost as many jobs. Think about being on call real hard, and then decide if this is what you really want to do.

Good luck.
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Old 01-22-2005
I am in the USA the midwest (Wisconsin) to be exact and for an IT position where I am is very very hard since it seems that there are more techs then jobs. I will say one thing though that from my experience companies would rather have hands on knowdlege rather then school taught so any self learning that you have and can do will be a plus. I lost my job in 1998 and became a consultant and have been employed ever since so you might want to consider getting a cell phone a few business cards and hit some smaller travel agents (there ticket systems are unix based and need someone the majority of the time). and get a few UNIX/LINUX clients. I say that cause in doing so you might find your next full time UNIX job. also if your learning solaris you might want to take some of the courses you will do a few things 1. you will learn something and 2 you will meet other professionals that will see what your talents are and the lack of experience might not be a factor.

Another thing you might want to consider put together a resume and a letter and apply for a solaris position you know your not qualified for and ask in your letter when the person hireing isnt busy if they can give you some feed back based on your current skills as what you would need besides experinece to land a job. you never know

just trying to help you if I have great if I havent I am sorry.

and on a side topic what does one need to relocate to the land down under if they arent from there no family there ect.
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Old 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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