Certifications are VERY useful for becoming an expert in a certain area in a short amount of time. If you are already educated/experienced/whatever and you need to learn a lot about something you havent had the opportunity to futz with, getting a cert will take less time than playing at home. I am a programmer, former admin, BSCS, 10yrs exp etc etc.. when I need to learn "everything" about say, XML, Oracle, or some other specific technology, I just go take a short course. They have the lab set up and are ready for you to shoe up and fill your brain. If you have no experience in anything, taking a cert course may not help, as half will go over your head, and the other half will be your only knowledge.
in short, certs help you beef up your specialized skills. Specific college courses do too. I am currently taking a course in compiler design, 3 weeks of homework seems to equal 3 months of futzing at home.
For christs sake, I am going to stop reading this 'zine if I see one more "should we think about starting to bash RH just like we bash MS"
NO,NO,NO!! I refuse to cannibalize Linux.
RH rocks for newbies, suits, and even for EXPERIENCED USERS!! Been running it since I gave up on slackeware 3 years ago. I love it, I love what they are doing, and I pay for every release just to support them. I could download it for free, but I fell it is WORTH IT TO INVEST IN LINUX
Red Hat is doing what needs to be done. Getting Big time vendors to provide commercial apps, making it easy for NON-TECHIES to get their foot into the Linux door, and most importantly SELLING LINUX TO THE SUITS. We as programmers, users, peanut gallery bickerers shout rally around them, whether we choose their distro or not. Red Hat is a business, THERE IS NO SHAME IN BEING A BUSINESS. I would rather MAKE MY LIVING WORKING WITH LINUX, than work with ms stuff.
Red Hat has provided $$ to developers of GPLware, they give LUG's awesome FREE stuff, and they are really COOL folks.
All you RH = MS people should really think about the fact the PEOPLE NEED TO WORK SO THAT THERE IS FOOD IN THE REFIRDGERATOR, and RH is a group of folks who are doing a GOOD THING while EARNING A LIVING. (not to mention grabbing MS by the throat)
This kind of article really irritates me. Faking sick is stealing from the company. Not that we all havent done it from time to time, but it's not something to be proud of, never mind promote!
-KZ
The FIRST time I bought an AMD chip...
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Having spent 20 of my 25 years as a student, I am ever grateful to AMD for pricing chips in the affordable range. My first x86 was a Tandy 1000, (which kicked my TI99/4A's ass) followed by a brief stint with a 286.
Since my AMD 386, I have always gone with AMD, and have had no complaints whatsoever. I went to my local computer store today, and picked up not a K7, but a K6-2 333, for the outrageous price of 35 bucks. It's installed, it rocks, the only thing better than a new AMD chip, is the price of the one thats not new anymore!
Intel chips are nice, but the xtra cost of the Intel outweighs any performance and reliability issues. I trust AMD, but hey, it's a free country.
btw, I was the FIRST one to leave the office today!
KZ
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Whats cool: I am walking down to my local computer store to pick up a new AMD chip.
Whats not cool: People who post "FIRST" comments. waste of space, blah blah blah
I started using Linux in college because there were no "server" applications available for Windows. I was a computer science major, and a life long geek who loves to RTFM. However, the manuals available for Linux were/still are imprecise, scattered everywhere, and largely dated before printed. I had to have my roommate install it for me the first time, as he had had someone install it for him at first. Linux is a tool, if I didn't need it, I would not have wasted my time learning how to install,use, and maintain it.
This guy appears to see Linux as his private castle, from which he can throw stones at those who have yet to find the hidden entrance. The beauty of Linux in tha past has been it's community. This guy has gone way beyond insisting that new members be Hazed into the community, to insulting those who may NEED an x86 version of Linux.
I have been programming computers for 20 years, and I understand how frustrating it is to help someone who wants to be spoonfed, but really, newbies are by definition, the people who need the linux community the most, and will help future newbies because of the help that they recieved.
Making a system overcomplicated reduces its usefulness. Insulting those who need to use it, and don't know how is arrogant. Debian users generally are in my opinion, and i hate to generalize but.. egotistical, arrogant, complexity freaks, who probably have no need to use linux anyway, except as their escape from the real world, where real problems get solved.
-ken
my apologies to the few Debian users who are "using the tool" and not "living the identity", there are some out there.
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Certifications are VERY useful for becoming an expert in a certain area in a short amount of time. If you are already educated/experienced/whatever and you need to learn a lot about something you havent had the opportunity to futz with, getting a cert will take less time than playing at home. I am a programmer, former admin, BSCS, 10yrs exp etc etc.. when I need to learn "everything" about say, XML, Oracle, or some other specific technology, I just go take a short course. They have the lab set up and are ready for you to shoe up and fill your brain. If you have no experience in anything, taking a cert course may not help, as half will go over your head, and the other half will be your only knowledge.
in short, certs help you beef up your specialized skills. Specific college courses do too. I am currently taking a course in compiler design, 3 weeks of homework seems to equal 3 months of futzing at home.
ymmv
-Ken
Hopefully we'll see more stuff from them in the futire
This needed to be said, Enough Red Hat bashing.
For christs sake, I am going to stop reading this 'zine if I see one more "should we think about starting to bash RH just like we bash MS"
NO,NO,NO!! I refuse to cannibalize Linux.
RH rocks for newbies, suits, and even for EXPERIENCED USERS!! Been running it since I gave up on slackeware 3 years ago. I love it, I love what they are doing, and I pay for every release just to support them. I could download it for free, but I fell it is WORTH IT TO INVEST IN LINUX
-Ken
Red Hat is doing what needs to be done. Getting Big time vendors to provide commercial apps, making it easy for NON-TECHIES to get their foot into the Linux door, and most importantly SELLING LINUX TO THE SUITS. We as programmers, users, peanut gallery bickerers shout rally around them, whether we choose their distro or not. Red Hat is a business, THERE IS NO SHAME IN BEING A BUSINESS. I would rather MAKE MY LIVING WORKING WITH LINUX, than work with ms stuff.
Red Hat has provided $$ to developers of GPLware, they give LUG's awesome FREE stuff, and they are really COOL folks.
All you RH = MS people should really think about the fact the PEOPLE NEED TO WORK SO THAT THERE IS FOOD IN THE REFIRDGERATOR, and RH is a group of folks who are doing a GOOD THING while EARNING A LIVING. (not to mention grabbing MS by the throat)
-Ken
This kind of article really irritates me. Faking sick is stealing from the company. Not that we all havent done it from time to time, but it's not something to be proud of, never mind promote!
-KZ
Having spent 20 of my 25 years as a student, I am ever grateful to AMD for pricing chips in the affordable range. My first x86 was a Tandy 1000, (which kicked my TI99/4A's ass) followed by a brief stint with a 286.
Since my AMD 386, I have always gone with AMD, and have had no complaints whatsoever. I went to my local computer store today, and picked up not a K7, but a K6-2 333, for the outrageous price of 35 bucks. It's installed, it rocks, the only thing better than a new AMD chip, is the price of the one thats not new anymore!
Intel chips are nice, but the xtra cost of the Intel outweighs any performance and reliability issues. I trust AMD, but hey, it's a free country.
btw, I was the FIRST one to leave the office today!
KZ
Whats cool: I am walking down to my local computer store to pick up a new AMD chip.
Whats not cool: People who post "FIRST" comments.
waste of space, blah blah blah
KZ
I started using Linux in college because there were no "server" applications available for Windows. I was a computer science major, and a life long geek who loves to RTFM. However, the manuals available for Linux were/still are imprecise, scattered everywhere, and largely dated before printed. I had to have my roommate install it for me the first time, as he had had someone install it for him at first. Linux is a tool, if I didn't need it, I would not have wasted my time learning how to install,use, and maintain it.
This guy appears to see Linux as his private castle, from which he can throw stones at those who have yet to find the hidden entrance. The beauty of Linux in tha past has been it's community. This guy has gone way beyond insisting that new members be Hazed into the community, to insulting those who may NEED an x86 version of Linux.
I have been programming computers for 20 years, and I understand how frustrating it is to help someone who wants to be spoonfed, but really, newbies are by definition, the people who need the linux community the most, and will help future newbies because of the help that they recieved.
Making a system overcomplicated reduces its usefulness. Insulting those who need to use it, and don't know how is arrogant. Debian users generally are in my opinion, and i hate to generalize but.. egotistical, arrogant, complexity freaks, who probably have no need to use linux anyway, except as their escape from the real world, where real problems get solved.
-ken
my apologies to the few Debian users who are "using the tool" and not "living the identity", there are some out there.