I am the gunner of an OPFOR tank crew at Irwin, and yes, it gets very very hot. 130+F degrees is not uncommon here. The desert sun will make metal so hot that you WILL get burned if you touch metal with your bare fingers. The inside of the tank can get unbearable, I'm sure Iraq is even worse, that's why on TV, even if they are in a dangerous area over there, they still ride around sticking out of the hatch because the heat is unbearable. Here in the Mojave, a single person can drink 5 gallons of water in a day.
I also play many FPS games and FORTUNATELY, the games aren't too realistic, most people could not take it.
I remember that it wouldn't show every search of course, but you could verify it was working by searching for the same phrase over and over again. About 10 seconds later, you could see your search phrase. You could actually use it to communicate with other people, albeit a little slow, but it was amusing. I would type in silly things just so others watching the voyeur would see them. I bet you guys recorded some of my stuff:P
Microsoft-sponsored benchmarks prove that multiple WinTel Web servers perform better than a Linux mainframe acting as a Web server consolidator. An independent review by Meta verified the integrity of the results. WinTel's superior performance costs....
Does that kindof hint at bias to anyone else? And how about comparing similar offerings? (Mainframes aren't always the answer)
I agree with most people here that being able to remember and regurgitate facts is not really useful in the real world. You must be able to "figure things out" and "make it happen".
Make the certification consist of troubleshooting problems. Allow the person access to the net so they can show that even if they don't know something about what they are dealing with they can still learn how to fix the problems. The test shouldn't be able to be studied for, it should be somewhat unique to each person taking it. Ask the person to make "a" work with "b". Ask them to find the solution to our "need", whether it be things as simple as a way to view and print different types of document files, to something like finding the best solutions for centralized application serving, and when to roll your own solution from scratch instead of using what already exists.
If you want the cert to represent people who can get the job done, you want the test to be geared towards finding people who can diagnose problems even if they are not knowledgable about what is causing the problem. For example, some people may not be at the level to fix a bug in a kernel module, but they should at least be able to diagnose that the module is the problem. For this you'd want multiple levels of certification: Kernel/Driver Programming, Application Programming, Application Integration, System configuration, Networking, Solutions Evaluator(What do we need to accomplish this task?), and a very useful Cert: Explanation (can be aquired in conjunction with the others, how to explain what something is doing in non-geek language). Of course name those to something else, those are just descriptive names.
If you did something like that, you wouldn't just be certifying people on linux, but people who can "make it happen". These are the people companies really need to survive, the people behind it all, the indispensible person a company will not fire because without them, productivity would halve. The innovators(it's tood bad this word means little nowadays), the inventors, the "go to" person. That would make this a very tough, yet the most sought after cert once people realize the extreme quality of people who earn it.
There are people out there who are extremely good "make this work" people, who can get any job done, yet they don't have certs because certs just mean "I can memorize and regurgitate facts for a test, but that doesn't necessarily mean I can make stuff happen". Certainly there are people who have certs that are the "go to person", but there are many more who just know enough to pass the test. There should be a cert that truly IS what people expect them to be, something that shows that this IS the person you need for the job.
What is needed in the world is a certification that show a person's overall competence in technology. Maybe Novell doesn't want to be the ones to do it, but whoever does will change the world for the better.
And now I re-read the original question and realize that the questioner may be asking how to certify companies as "Linux-Specialists" maybe not about People Certification.... oh well, at least I got my idea out somewhere.
At least I'm a specialist somewhere, Army Specialist, heh.
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I am the gunner of an OPFOR tank crew at Irwin, and yes, it gets very very hot. 130+F degrees is not uncommon here. The desert sun will make metal so hot that you WILL get burned if you touch metal with your bare fingers. The inside of the tank can get unbearable, I'm sure Iraq is even worse, that's why on TV, even if they are in a dangerous area over there, they still ride around sticking out of the hatch because the heat is unbearable. Here in the Mojave, a single person can drink 5 gallons of water in a day.
I also play many FPS games and FORTUNATELY, the games aren't too realistic, most people could not take it.
"Everything is NT" or "Everything Isn't" ?
Who knows, maybe the entire "Enterprise" series is in the NEXIS created by picard, or Kirk for that matter.
Anything can fly if you find the correct angle of attack and give it enough thrust... even a Tennis Racket, or that Porcelin(sic?) Tux doll you have.
I remember that it wouldn't show every search of course, but you could verify it was working by searching for the same phrase over and over again. About 10 seconds later, you could see your search phrase. You could actually use it to communicate with other people, albeit a little slow, but it was amusing. I would type in silly things just so others watching the voyeur would see them. :P
I bet you guys recorded some of my stuff
Microsoft-sponsored benchmarks prove that multiple WinTel Web servers perform better than a Linux mainframe acting as a Web server consolidator. An independent review by Meta verified the integrity of the results. WinTel's superior performance costs....
Does that kindof hint at bias to anyone else? And how about comparing similar offerings? (Mainframes aren't always the answer)
and they will come.
I agree with most people here that being able to remember and regurgitate facts is not really useful in the real world. You must be able to "figure things out" and "make it happen".
Make the certification consist of troubleshooting problems. Allow the person access to the net so they can show that even if they don't know something about what they are dealing with they can still learn how to fix the problems. The test shouldn't be able to be studied for, it should be somewhat unique to each person taking it. Ask the person to make "a" work with "b". Ask them to find the solution to our "need", whether it be things as simple as a way to view and print different types of document files, to something like finding the best solutions for centralized application serving, and when to roll your own solution from scratch instead of using what already exists.
If you want the cert to represent people who can get the job done, you want the test to be geared towards finding people who can diagnose problems even if they are not knowledgable about what is causing the problem. For example, some people may not be at the level to fix a bug in a kernel module, but they should at least be able to diagnose that the module is the problem. For this you'd want multiple levels of certification: Kernel/Driver Programming, Application Programming, Application Integration, System configuration, Networking, Solutions Evaluator(What do we need to accomplish this task?), and a very useful Cert: Explanation (can be aquired in conjunction with the others, how to explain what something is doing in non-geek language). Of course name those to something else, those are just descriptive names.
If you did something like that, you wouldn't just be certifying people on linux, but people who can "make it happen". These are the people companies really need to survive, the people behind it all, the indispensible person a company will not fire because without them, productivity would halve. The innovators(it's tood bad this word means little nowadays), the inventors, the "go to" person. That would make this a very tough, yet the most sought after cert once people realize the extreme quality of people who earn it.
There are people out there who are extremely good "make this work" people, who can get any job done, yet they don't have certs because certs just mean "I can memorize and regurgitate facts for a test, but that doesn't necessarily mean I can make stuff happen". Certainly there are people who have certs that are the "go to person", but there are many more who just know enough to pass the test. There should be a cert that truly IS what people expect them to be, something that shows that this IS the person you need for the job.
What is needed in the world is a certification that show a person's overall competence in technology. Maybe Novell doesn't want to be the ones to do it, but whoever does will change the world for the better.
And now I re-read the original question and realize that the questioner may be asking how to certify companies as "Linux-Specialists" maybe not about People Certification.... oh well, at least I got my idea out somewhere.
At least I'm a specialist somewhere, Army Specialist, heh.