I don't know where you work, but in the place I work right now we have 5 people making around 50k a year (or less) administering over 50 Windows 2000 servers and over 250 client machines in two (non-adjacent) states. On the other end, my previous employment I was part of another 5 person team that managed around 20 Solaris and 10 NT servers each team member making over 60 grand a year. In my own personal experiences (not yours), one guy NEVER runs 80 machines. I'm betting that these places with the "Little Empire" aren't too financially solvent either. Don't you think that was a slight exaggeration?
Considering the Xbox is set to come out at about the same time, the GameCube is not in a good position. This site has the comparison, but I'll elaborate some. 733 Mhz vs. 405 Mhz, 250 Mhz graphics (nVidea) vs. 202 Mhz (proprietary). 64 MB vs. 43 MB. 6.4 GB/sec vs. 3.2 GB/sec. The kicker: 125 M/sec polygon perf. vs. 6-12 MB/sec. Not to mention lack of DVD. Also, whats the deal with using serial and parallel ports?!?! Is anyone going to be printing from their GameCube?
JSP is inherently slow, and taxing on a system (read you need an expensive system). ASP on Linux, I am very wary about because most people automatically associate ASP with M$ IIS/SQL Server. Perl has good speed on any system, and it is easily integrated into an Apache MySQL system. Then again if you are doing Apache/MySQL why not PHP?
Choose based on your interests. Ask yourself this: do I want to build the cutting edge technology or do I want to use the cutting edge technology. If you are reloading slashdot every five minutes, I am thinking you would be happier with Computer Science. However, you have other options. I myself am a student in Management Information Systems. The programming methodologies we use in my MIS coursework are far superior to the methodologies I used in my CS coursework. In my experiences, the computer science classes tend to be almost all programming related and the ones that are not tend to be really abstract; whereas, my MIS classes have focused more on real situations (in other words programming for a concept versus programming for a reason).
It isn't just floundering dot-com's that lay people off in a shitty way. When I wrote as a "former" employee of SAIR Linux/GNU Certification, I didn't give the details of why I was no longer with them. When I was hired on, I made sure it was okay with them if I took a summer internship and returned in the fall semester. They said that it was. One day, less than one week into my internship, I found myself unable to login to my e-mail there. Thinking it was just a problem with the system, I e-mailed one of the sys-admin's (Les Driggers) asking why my account had problems. He replied that I needed to talk to Lenny Sawyer. When I wrote him, I got the answer that "it came to light" that I was taking part in some inappropriate activity while I was at work. Was it porn? Hacking? Anything malicious? No, I was accused of doing homework. I was not on the clock, and they provided no proof on my doing this. When SAIR hires student workers, they make it clear that they do not mind if homework is done as long as it is not done on the clock. To this day, I have not received a formal letter stating, in detail, why I was terminated. They did not have the guts to tell a Sophomore in college that he was fired in person. They had to send it by e-mail. How weak is that? How does that reflect on their business? I know from bad experience that SAIR has no credibility.
I can give the inside scoop on operations at SAIR. Their material is prepared by college students; many of them never using a Linux box before their initial employment. Their deadlines are rushed and the quality of output is poor. If I had to speculate, 65% - 75% of the employees could NOT pass the Level I test.
A Linux certification should be based on the same principles as the system itself: open development. SAIR is plagued by poor management, poor quality material, and a lack of the true vision of Linux.
If I were an IT manager, knowing what I know about the Sair, Inc. company, the certification would be a piece of paper. LPI should be recognized as the "standard" Linux certification.
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I don't know where you work, but in the place I work right now we have 5 people making around 50k a year (or less) administering over 50 Windows 2000 servers and over 250 client machines in two (non-adjacent) states. On the other end, my previous employment I was part of another 5 person team that managed around 20 Solaris and 10 NT servers each team member making over 60 grand a year. In my own personal experiences (not yours), one guy NEVER runs 80 machines. I'm betting that these places with the "Little Empire" aren't too financially solvent either. Don't you think that was a slight exaggeration?
JPL, thats the Jesus Public License right?
Considering the Xbox is set to come out at about the same time, the GameCube is not in a good position. This site has the comparison, but I'll elaborate some. 733 Mhz vs. 405 Mhz, 250 Mhz graphics (nVidea) vs. 202 Mhz (proprietary). 64 MB vs. 43 MB. 6.4 GB/sec vs. 3.2 GB/sec. The kicker: 125 M/sec polygon perf. vs. 6-12 MB/sec. Not to mention lack of DVD. Also, whats the deal with using serial and parallel ports?!?! Is anyone going to be printing from their GameCube?
JSP is inherently slow, and taxing on a system (read you need an expensive system). ASP on Linux, I am very wary about because most people automatically associate ASP with M$ IIS/SQL Server. Perl has good speed on any system, and it is easily integrated into an Apache MySQL system. Then again if you are doing Apache/MySQL why not PHP?
Choose based on your interests. Ask yourself this: do I want to build the cutting edge technology or do I want to use the cutting edge technology. If you are reloading slashdot every five minutes, I am thinking you would be happier with Computer Science. However, you have other options. I myself am a student in Management Information Systems. The programming methodologies we use in my MIS coursework are far superior to the methodologies I used in my CS coursework. In my experiences, the computer science classes tend to be almost all programming related and the ones that are not tend to be really abstract; whereas, my MIS classes have focused more on real situations (in other words programming for a concept versus programming for a reason).
It isn't just floundering dot-com's that lay people off in a shitty way. When I wrote as a "former" employee of SAIR Linux/GNU Certification, I didn't give the details of why I was no longer with them. When I was hired on, I made sure it was okay with them if I took a summer internship and returned in the fall semester. They said that it was. One day, less than one week into my internship, I found myself unable to login to my e-mail there. Thinking it was just a problem with the system, I e-mailed one of the sys-admin's (Les Driggers) asking why my account had problems. He replied that I needed to talk to Lenny Sawyer. When I wrote him, I got the answer that "it came to light" that I was taking part in some inappropriate activity while I was at work. Was it porn? Hacking? Anything malicious? No, I was accused of doing homework. I was not on the clock, and they provided no proof on my doing this. When SAIR hires student workers, they make it clear that they do not mind if homework is done as long as it is not done on the clock. To this day, I have not received a formal letter stating, in detail, why I was terminated. They did not have the guts to tell a Sophomore in college that he was fired in person. They had to send it by e-mail. How weak is that? How does that reflect on their business? I know from bad experience that SAIR has no credibility.
I can give the inside scoop on operations at SAIR. Their material is prepared by college students; many of them never using a Linux box before their initial employment. Their deadlines are rushed and the quality of output is poor. If I had to speculate, 65% - 75% of the employees could NOT pass the Level I test. A Linux certification should be based on the same principles as the system itself: open development. SAIR is plagued by poor management, poor quality material, and a lack of the true vision of Linux. If I were an IT manager, knowing what I know about the Sair, Inc. company, the certification would be a piece of paper. LPI should be recognized as the "standard" Linux certification.