I'm sure both are viable options...
I'm makin a damn good salary right now working on solaris boxes that I had no formal training for. (Years and years of being a geek DOES pay off).
Sure, having a college degree may have helped me get this job, but my demonstration of skills and CONFIDENCE IN MYSELF got me where I wanted to be.
College can't really provide the level of knowledge you will need for a true sys-admin job (at least, they won't give you the specifics). Most of that comes from reading, cert classes, and the holy grail of any realy sysadmins - SEARCH ENGINES! (Thank the electron gods for google)
Just my take on it all....College was fun for the sex and drugs, but got boring after a year...
"What do you mean I can't test out?"
You demented monkey weasel....
This is America.. Granted, that gives you the right to sound like just as much of a fanatic as the people you preach about... but hey, guess what, land of the free and home of the brave.
If they want to sit in their basement and burn books that is their problem (provided the books are theirs or they can foot the library fines).
If they wanna do each other in the arse while blowing the cat, that's their issue. To put it bluntly, until these people actually break the law, who the hell are you to say one damn word about them? Makes you just as bad as whomever when you start pointing fingers.
Isn't this sorta against the law?
Arn't 'members only' clubs a violation of something or other?
Telling me I can't get a.pro domain because I am not a cpw, lawyer or doctor is, well, wrong. I am a professional, not that I want to especially be playing in their sandbox, but still.. I would be surprised if this doesn't get some activist group riled up enough to take em to court if they don't broaden their scope.
These bozos are involving my government's resources more and more on an almost daily basis. Is there a point in which the leaders of America say enough is enough, we have better things to be talking about.. No of course not, since the RIAA and organizations like them have plenty of money to get our corrupt leaders' attention. Oh wait, no that's not corruption, that's capitalism... My bad...
The point being, they have the money to fuel the witch-hunt, where is it going to end? In the near future, when you get pulled over for an expired tag or for speeding, are the police going to be making sure you don't have unlicensed/burned media in your cd player? If so are tey going to issue a ticket for it, or simply take you to jail?
Are the top '3r33t h4x0rs' of the cia/fbi going to be doing broad sweeps of the internet to find all us malicious sorts out there using p2p networks to share information? The national guard going to be denying aid to victims of disasters because they had a collection of illegally taped movies? Laugh all you want, but if these fooks go unchecked this very type of thing could be a reality...
Perhaps I am not one to be making a judgement call.. The way I see it, I pay for all the parts of my machines and the access to the yes/no bit thingies, and if it is stored on my media, it is mine...If they really wanted to make it where I couldn't get the stuff, they'd never have made it possible in the first place. Information should be free...ALL information should be free...
Then when you roll accross the GOOD (or good for you..?) information (software, songs, whatever) shell out the clams for it... That's what I do...
Everything should be trialware... Nothing is worse then buying a cd/game that sucks...Cause then it's 'yours'..
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I'm sure both are viable options... I'm makin a damn good salary right now working on solaris boxes that I had no formal training for. (Years and years of being a geek DOES pay off). Sure, having a college degree may have helped me get this job, but my demonstration of skills and CONFIDENCE IN MYSELF got me where I wanted to be. College can't really provide the level of knowledge you will need for a true sys-admin job (at least, they won't give you the specifics). Most of that comes from reading, cert classes, and the holy grail of any realy sysadmins - SEARCH ENGINES! (Thank the electron gods for google) Just my take on it all....College was fun for the sex and drugs, but got boring after a year... "What do you mean I can't test out?"
You demented monkey weasel.... This is America.. Granted, that gives you the right to sound like just as much of a fanatic as the people you preach about... but hey, guess what, land of the free and home of the brave. If they want to sit in their basement and burn books that is their problem (provided the books are theirs or they can foot the library fines). If they wanna do each other in the arse while blowing the cat, that's their issue. To put it bluntly, until these people actually break the law, who the hell are you to say one damn word about them? Makes you just as bad as whomever when you start pointing fingers.
Hmmmm...Blast it all, mayhap they should just stick to making oats :)
Isn't this sorta against the law? Arn't 'members only' clubs a violation of something or other? Telling me I can't get a .pro domain because I am not a cpw, lawyer or doctor is, well, wrong. I am a professional, not that I want to especially be playing in their sandbox, but still.. I would be surprised if this doesn't get some activist group riled up enough to take em to court if they don't broaden their scope.
These bozos are involving my government's resources more and more on an almost daily basis. Is there a point in which the leaders of America say enough is enough, we have better things to be talking about.. No of course not, since the RIAA and organizations like them have plenty of money to get our corrupt leaders' attention. Oh wait, no that's not corruption, that's capitalism... My bad... The point being, they have the money to fuel the witch-hunt, where is it going to end? In the near future, when you get pulled over for an expired tag or for speeding, are the police going to be making sure you don't have unlicensed/burned media in your cd player? If so are tey going to issue a ticket for it, or simply take you to jail? Are the top '3r33t h4x0rs' of the cia/fbi going to be doing broad sweeps of the internet to find all us malicious sorts out there using p2p networks to share information? The national guard going to be denying aid to victims of disasters because they had a collection of illegally taped movies? Laugh all you want, but if these fooks go unchecked this very type of thing could be a reality... Perhaps I am not one to be making a judgement call.. The way I see it, I pay for all the parts of my machines and the access to the yes/no bit thingies, and if it is stored on my media, it is mine...If they really wanted to make it where I couldn't get the stuff, they'd never have made it possible in the first place. Information should be free...ALL information should be free... Then when you roll accross the GOOD (or good for you..?) information (software, songs, whatever) shell out the clams for it... That's what I do... Everything should be trialware... Nothing is worse then buying a cd/game that sucks...Cause then it's 'yours'..