Don't know if this will be much help as I live in the US, but here goes. I flunked out of college after 2 semesters in college, so I have no real degree. Got my A+ (in 2001). Then for 5 years I cut my teeth in the screwdriver shops, and after some time, i arose as the go- to guy for nearly everything. I was going on- site and setting up small networks with commodity routers and nothing really centralized. At the same time, i was also taking on side work. You should have seen the look on my old high school friends' faces when I told them I was making $45/hr for side jobs(at age 22!) whilst they're all racking up huge tuition bills. Only about 6 months ago did I really move up into a job where i'm working more on the backend of things, Cisco, Server '03, etc. It was something that I exposed myself to all along, as that was my ambition from the start, so I was ready when it was time. Now I'm at the point where I'm studying for my CCNA, and a wonderful thing is happening. The more I am learning about the underlying technologies that make networks work, the more everything i know makes sense. Why things are done the way they are. As for you, definitely get your A+ to start. Early on, while I was getting ready for my A+, I also had a book for a Nortel Cert, but found it to be over my head, so you may want to hold off on the CCNA. Definately test the waters, and get books like the Cisco Press CCNA study guide. Also, at this point, you should be happy with ANY job you can get working with computers. I doubt there are many people 20 that could deal with or want to deal with the stresses and forced 24/7 availability Network Engineers are faced with. To want to be a Network Engineer is definitely a noble ambition, but it's not as easy as getting your CCNA and then people are knocking down your door with 50k/year job offers. There is A LOT, like a whole career's worth, that only comes with experience. So yes, you can do it, but realize that like everyone else who goes to college or not, you have a lot to learn.
he was probably running the thing 24/7 while sitting on a wool placemat. all of the lint from that turns into a carpet covering the fins for the heatsink. seen it a million times.
...caveat emptor... you'd be surprized at how many people think this is a greek phrase.
Note to the inept(mods): this is a poor/subtle attempt at facetiousness. The dry delivery combined with the inclusion of the 'all greek to me' cliche and parent's latin reference seemed fitting.
The flipside of the coin you present represents the curious, perhaps paranoid side of things. Is this a router or simply an AP? Can it do port forwarding? What is the DHCP(or subnet) range? or(paranoid) what (if any)information about me is this sending to the mother ship?
Hacking is an important and necessary part of the geek approval process. Once the hackers give the rest of us geeks the thumbs up, we(the rest of us - non-network device hackers) know it's ok to pick one up and check out and at our own discretion recommend to others.
you must be new here. sheesh
/agree with everything you said about the cuecat //working at tha shack when they were giving em out ///man the thing was a nightmare ////is this fark?
One thing i still miss from my opera days is the 'paste and go' feature in the address and search bars. It feels natural. very rarely do i paste something in to either bars and not want to just go there. the rare circumstances of not wanting to go there include the need to edit a url or just observe a url when the site has some annoying scrolling thing at the bottom of the window. Bring 'paste and go' to firefox!!
I think people are misconstruing the way Gameworks works. The one i went to in ybor city, fl was basically like an arcade + bar. $20 buys you unlimited plays on all but the ticket spitting machines. Our party spent several hours there and we were all playing the whole time. Between the rounds and the games, I must've dropped like $80 there. And i had fun doing it. I just wish there were one here in the northeast.
[Shake is being held hostage by the Plutonians.] Shake: This ship is great! You guys got these amazing space- age tubes runnin' every which way! Oglethorpe: Ya, they're called *pipes*. Shake: You guys are great... Well, not you guys, but the stuff you guys have is just..
thats why i whipped up a very simple autorun.inf(google it) which runs setup.exe, and burned the whole mess on to the cd's i distribute. That's about as braindead as it gets.
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Divergence!!! YAY!!!!!!!
ssia
Oops... 3rd paragraph should read ...I doubt there are many people under 20 that could deal with...
Don't know if this will be much help as I live in the US, but here goes. I flunked out of college after 2 semesters in college, so I have no real degree. Got my A+ (in 2001). Then for 5 years I cut my teeth in the screwdriver shops, and after some time, i arose as the go- to guy for nearly everything. I was going on- site and setting up small networks with commodity routers and nothing really centralized. At the same time, i was also taking on side work. You should have seen the look on my old high school friends' faces when I told them I was making $45/hr for side jobs(at age 22!) whilst they're all racking up huge tuition bills.
Only about 6 months ago did I really move up into a job where i'm working more on the backend of things, Cisco, Server '03, etc. It was something that I exposed myself to all along, as that was my ambition from the start, so I was ready when it was time. Now I'm at the point where I'm studying for my CCNA, and a wonderful thing is happening. The more I am learning about the underlying technologies that make networks work, the more everything i know makes sense. Why things are done the way they are.
As for you, definitely get your A+ to start. Early on, while I was getting ready for my A+, I also had a book for a Nortel Cert, but found it to be over my head, so you may want to hold off on the CCNA. Definately test the waters, and get books like the Cisco Press CCNA study guide. Also, at this point, you should be happy with ANY job you can get working with computers. I doubt there are many people 20 that could deal with or want to deal with the stresses and forced 24/7 availability Network Engineers are faced with. To want to be a Network Engineer is definitely a noble ambition, but it's not as easy as getting your CCNA and then people are knocking down your door with 50k/year job offers. There is A LOT, like a whole career's worth, that only comes with experience.
So yes, you can do it, but realize that like everyone else who goes to college or not, you have a lot to learn.
It's supporting linux
keep a mouthpiece on your dash. next time she does that to you, floor it and throw in the mouthpiece. That'll learn her.
he was probably running the thing 24/7 while sitting on a wool placemat. all of the lint from that turns into a carpet covering the fins for the heatsink. seen it a million times.
You charge too little.
thats the hardest i've laughed at a /. comment in a while. congrats. you win all the internets.
wait... shouldnt this be modded insightful?
Ummmmm.... Eleven?
...caveat emptor...
you'd be surprized at how many people think this is a greek phrase.
Note to the inept(mods): this is a poor/subtle attempt at facetiousness. The dry delivery combined with the inclusion of the 'all greek to me' cliche and parent's latin reference seemed fitting.
The flipside of the coin you present represents the curious, perhaps paranoid side of things. Is this a router or simply an AP? Can it do port forwarding? What is the DHCP(or subnet) range? or(paranoid) what (if any)information about me is this sending to the mother ship?
Hacking is an important and necessary part of the geek approval process. Once the hackers give the rest of us geeks the thumbs up, we(the rest of us - non-network device hackers) know it's ok to pick one up and check out and at our own discretion recommend to others.
you must be new here.
sheesh
/agree with everything you said about the cuecat
//working at tha shack when they were giving em out
///man the thing was a nightmare
////is this fark?
Behold:
Your democracy has crashed. Please have another country reinstall your government.
TINC
Chicks?!?! Where!?!
Obligatory linky
http://lexluthor.ytmnd.com/
Better yet, use process explorer from sysinternals.com. It can kill processeseses taskman cannot.
/wasted
//dont care
///hope this helps
And somehow theres always a karma whore like yourself to post a comment like that. oooh that really burns me up!
One thing i still miss from my opera days is the 'paste and go' feature in the address and search bars. It feels natural. very rarely do i paste something in to either bars and not want to just go there. the rare circumstances of not wanting to go there include the need to edit a url or just observe a url when the site has some annoying scrolling thing at the bottom of the window. Bring 'paste and go' to firefox!!
I think people are misconstruing the way Gameworks works. The one i went to in ybor city, fl was basically like an arcade + bar. $20 buys you unlimited plays on all but the ticket spitting machines. Our party spent several hours there and we were all playing the whole time. Between the rounds and the games, I must've dropped like $80 there. And i had fun doing it. I just wish there were one here in the northeast.
[Shake is being held hostage by the Plutonians.]
Shake: This ship is great! You guys got these amazing space- age tubes runnin' every which way!
Oglethorpe: Ya, they're called *pipes*.
Shake: You guys are great... Well, not you guys, but the stuff you guys have is just..
... and fancy that, the project is called Openoffice. Man that is some coincidence!
thats why i whipped up a very simple autorun.inf(google it) which runs setup.exe, and burned the whole mess on to the cd's i distribute. That's about as braindead as it gets.
...existence of vonneerderhooten's intellect...
Whew! I thought you were talking about me for a sec there.
Touche!