Unix sysadmins to watch out for

A friend of mine wrote:

He actually admits that he doesn’t know shell scripting. In his own words he knows “very little”. I don’t think he installed the applications from source, just used pre packaged open source applications.

To me it’s like a Windows admin that doesn’t know how to write a batch file, or doesn’t use keyboard shortcuts at all. It’s worrying me more and more.

Wow. I couldn’t have summed it up better myself. We have berthed a generation of Linux users none of know how to do the fundamental thing that makes Unix Unix: Scripting.

My question for my readers is this: What books do a good job in this area?

Republican leaders call Bush incompetent

Republicans Criticize Bush ‘Mistakes’ on Iraq

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading members of President Bush’s Republican Party on Sunday criticized mistakes and “incompetence” in his Iraq policy and......

Amsterdam

A week from today I will be in Amsterdam. 6 days and counting.

Little things count

“I can’t do anything to affect the outcome of the election” -- well sure ya can. In fact, here’s some things you can do on your own, you can do with friends and family, or with organizations.
http://www.showgeorgethedoor.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvLRK7O1E&b=103179