Maybe slightly off-topic, but after I RTFA'd, I was astounded by the position Brunson has taken with the Novell CLE. Having studied the material and scheduled a test in about two weeks, I can honestly say that:
1) You don't need to have the LPIC 1 to sign up for the test. They recommend that you have the level of skills equivalent to the LPIC 1 because they might ask you to write a cron job that backs up critical files for eDirectory. You can go in cold with no LPI experience, but don't complain if something in there wasn't on a study sheet.
2) You don't have to go to any classes to sign up for the test. Sure, Novell offers 5-day boot camps, but then again, so do Microsoft, Cisco, and (gasp!) RedHat. You can purchase a self-study kit and take as long as you want to get comfortable with the CLE content. Novell just makes it easy to block out all the distractions and spend a week with a bunch of geeks. I'd take one if I had the time.
3) Cost isn't prohibive for the CLE. You can take the test for as little as $200. Sure, you can spend upwards of $2,000 if you want to buy every piece of literature that Novell has on the subject and go to every boot camp, but it is possible to pass the test on just the guidelines alone. Just don't think it'll be a pushover.
I get the feeling the Mr. Brunson is all for Linux training, just as long as the money is flowing his way. I like the idea of practical tests like the RHCE and the Novell CLE because people that really know the field understand what it took to get through them. The know that you didn't spend a month a technical store learning exactly what questions might be on the MCSA/MCSE. You should appreciate all Linux vendors for what they are trying to accomplish, not try and break everybody down to make you look good.
Well, in my case, I used to work for one of Dell's competitors (the one that looks like a cow and runs like a pig), and we weren't allowed to remove spyware from a user's computer on the main support line either. It wasn't because we had any agreements with them (to my knowledge), but because the company wanted the poor users to call the "tutorial" support line and pay $1.95 a minute to remove things like Xupiter that really do break the functionality of Windows.
Depending on how I felt that day, I'd sometimes save them the money and wipe out the hard drive. Better the devil you know...
Maybe he should have looked into the Thermite option we saw in the latest edition of The Broken?
Of course, you don't want that going off when your trying to swallow the evidence. On second though, you don't really want it going off in your pocket either...
Well, since we are throwing out just about every possible way to classify a planet, or in this case, a way to keep Pluto and exclude Sedna, why not use the old method that led to the discovery of Neptune and Pluto?
If the body in question exerts a measurable gravitational force on another planet, then it's a planet. As I understand, Sedna is much too distant to exert any kind of force on the orbit of Pluto. This also can discount Ceres and other large planetoid objects in the asteroid belt, since most of their gravitational exertion can only really be measured on other objects in the belt.
If we keep promoting solar objects with a mass greater than a Volkswagon to planetary status, then I guess all those numbers in Drake's equation just skyrocketed...
And if you think for one second that the RIAA/MPAA is going to just stop at prosecuting the people on DC that are sharing illegal files, I've got a nice bridge to sell you.
Just as soon as they find all the people that are sharing illegally, then they are just going to say that the people doing all the legal sharing were just doing it to access the illegal content. Not that they can really prosecute without having it on your HDD, but they get what they want in the end. The destruction of the filesharing network.
IIRC, there is a famous old saying by a German about not speaking up when they came for the gypsies and Jews, but when they came for him, there was no one left to speak up. Well, when the legal sharers won't speak up for the others using the network, who will speak up for them when their time comes?
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Maybe slightly off-topic, but after I RTFA'd, I was astounded by the position Brunson has taken with the Novell CLE. Having studied the material and scheduled a test in about two weeks, I can honestly say that:
1) You don't need to have the LPIC 1 to sign up for the test. They recommend that you have the level of skills equivalent to the LPIC 1 because they might ask you to write a cron job that backs up critical files for eDirectory. You can go in cold with no LPI experience, but don't complain if something in there wasn't on a study sheet.
2) You don't have to go to any classes to sign up for the test. Sure, Novell offers 5-day boot camps, but then again, so do Microsoft, Cisco, and (gasp!) RedHat. You can purchase a self-study kit and take as long as you want to get comfortable with the CLE content. Novell just makes it easy to block out all the distractions and spend a week with a bunch of geeks. I'd take one if I had the time.
3) Cost isn't prohibive for the CLE. You can take the test for as little as $200. Sure, you can spend upwards of $2,000 if you want to buy every piece of literature that Novell has on the subject and go to every boot camp, but it is possible to pass the test on just the guidelines alone. Just don't think it'll be a pushover.
I get the feeling the Mr. Brunson is all for Linux training, just as long as the money is flowing his way. I like the idea of practical tests like the RHCE and the Novell CLE because people that really know the field understand what it took to get through them. The know that you didn't spend a month a technical store learning exactly what questions might be on the MCSA/MCSE. You should appreciate all Linux vendors for what they are trying to accomplish, not try and break everybody down to make you look good.
Well, in my case, I used to work for one of Dell's competitors (the one that looks like a cow and runs like a pig), and we weren't allowed to remove spyware from a user's computer on the main support line either.
It wasn't because we had any agreements with them (to my knowledge), but because the company wanted the poor users to call the "tutorial" support line and pay $1.95 a minute to remove things like Xupiter that really do break the functionality of Windows.
Depending on how I felt that day, I'd sometimes save them the money and wipe out the hard drive. Better the devil you know...
Maybe he should have looked into the Thermite option we saw in the latest edition of The Broken?
Of course, you don't want that going off when your trying to swallow the evidence. On second though, you don't really want it going off in your pocket either...
Well, since we are throwing out just about every possible way to classify a planet, or in this case, a way to keep Pluto and exclude Sedna, why not use the old method that led to the discovery of Neptune and Pluto?
If the body in question exerts a measurable gravitational force on another planet, then it's a planet. As I understand, Sedna is much too distant to exert any kind of force on the orbit of Pluto. This also can discount Ceres and other large planetoid objects in the asteroid belt, since most of their gravitational exertion can only really be measured on other objects in the belt.
If we keep promoting solar objects with a mass greater than a Volkswagon to planetary status, then I guess all those numbers in Drake's equation just skyrocketed...
And if you think for one second that the RIAA/MPAA is going to just stop at prosecuting the people on DC that are sharing illegal files, I've got a nice bridge to sell you.
Just as soon as they find all the people that are sharing illegally, then they are just going to say that the people doing all the legal sharing were just doing it to access the illegal content. Not that they can really prosecute without having it on your HDD, but they get what they want in the end. The destruction of the filesharing network.
IIRC, there is a famous old saying by a German about not speaking up when they came for the gypsies and Jews, but when they came for him, there was no one left to speak up. Well, when the legal sharers won't speak up for the others using the network, who will speak up for them when their time comes?