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Yes you can, it takes at most an hour to study a braindump. I took 15 Microsoft exams, and never failed ( http://www.cobbaut.be/cobbaut.php?blad=cv ).

But you know, no one ever actually points out that that is called CHEATING.

If you actually study the material, as I did, and take the tests honestly, they aren't that easy. And as an added bonus, you atually learn something. They aren't terribly difficult, if you have the real world experience, but certainly not a breeze.

It's unfortunate that a cert is meaningless because so many people are able to pass without working at it, but if you are honest with yourself and study, it at least gives you a baseline and a direction as to what a company thinks is the important concepts of their software that you should know.

That then should give you the ability to talk intelligently at the interview about the software. If the interviewer can't weed out the cheaters then they shouldn't be hiring people. You could probably do it over the phone, before you even bring someone in.

And yes, an MCSA / MCSE is still worth something. People say you can just glance at a book and pass it, but the thing takes 9 tests, some of which are so anal that you do actually have to study, and it helps to have seen it in practice.

It takes only seven tests, not nine: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcse/windows 2003/

Being MCSE on NT4, it took me only two tests to become MCSE2000 and two more for MCSE2003.

How many people do you actually know with an up to date MCSE?
About twenty people, (but i work freelance for different Microsoft training centers).

I know 1. I'm sure on slashdot a lot of people actually have one, or work with a lot of people that have one, but when someone says "Oh, MCSE is a breeze, 10 minutes of studying and I could take it", take them up on it, offer to pay the $100 if they can pass "Exam 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure" or "Exam 70-285: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003". I bet you 95 out of 100 can't do it without studying.

Yes you can, it takes at most an hour to study a braindump. I took 15 Microsoft exams, and never failed ( http://www.cobbaut.be/cobbaut.php?blad=cv ).

On the other hand, I am glad I'm back to being a Linux admin, where things make sense.
Same here! At least with Linux and Solaris stuff just works!

cheers,
paul

Roomba has already saved me hours of cleaning. Are useful robots excluded or something ?

Why is no-one mentioning BRLCAD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/) ?

Some screenshots:
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?gro up_id=105292

A sample script:
http://www.cobbaut.be/stok.sh.txt

before it finally gave up the ghost.

My 1987 Amiga 500 still works!

http://www.cobbaut.be/huis/huis.php?datum=20040418 &foto=26
http://www.cobbaut.be/huis/huis.php?datum=20040418 &foto=25

cheers,
pol :)

before it finally gave up the ghost.

My 1987 Amiga 500 still works!

http://www.cobbaut.be/huis/huis.php?datum=20040418 &foto=26
http://www.cobbaut.be/huis/huis.php?datum=20040418 &foto=25

cheers,
pol :)

If you had any shred of imagination, you would have figured it out. :) Upon entering the ride, certain portions of your body are tethered to the inside of the machine which will tug at certain parts of the ride... Same concept as this.