I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. I might add though that you should have a good idea of what your curriculum might be.
Take a look at the RHCE curriculum from Red Hat. I was very impressed at the breadth of the program while still maintaining an open-source fairly platform agnostic approach to learning *ix. In other words, they make you learn how/why rather than being a vendor sponsored marketing/upgrade program. FWIW I also thought I needed to put my $ where my mouth was so I took the RH300 fast-track course and I must admit is was _tough_ based on the mandatory elements in the exam. I think they did a good job and I'm proud to say I passed this program.
I think PDA's are the greatest thing since sliced bread. No, none of them are perfect, but they are all better than the old daytimer... and you realize that the first time you lose either of them. Credit card+sync=back in business.
None of them yet fit my idea of perfection, however. PDA's should be *peer* clients of my scheduling system and not an anjunct to my PC.
Palm has TCP built in - great now it needs to have IPSEC and a radio built in.
I did walk down the road of building a generic hotsync application on a unix host. First it identified the Palm ID, retrieved the profile of what had to be performed on said Palm device, then did it.
It was a very cool personal project, but once I got beyond my personal device and my wife's, I realized I would need an army of programmers to build all the ramifications of different conduits to make it work.
But this is what some corporate entity needs to do!
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Take a look at the RHCE curriculum from Red Hat. I was very impressed at the breadth of the program while still maintaining an open-source fairly platform agnostic approach to learning *ix. In other words, they make you learn how/why rather than being a vendor sponsored marketing/upgrade program. FWIW I also thought I needed to put my $ where my mouth was so I took the RH300 fast-track course and I must admit is was _tough_ based on the mandatory elements in the exam. I think they did a good job and I'm proud to say I passed this program.
P.S. MCSE = Must Consult Someone Else
I think PDA's are the greatest thing since sliced bread. No, none of them are perfect, but they are all better than the old daytimer ... and you realize that the first time you lose either of them. Credit card+sync=back in business.
None of them yet fit my idea of perfection, however. PDA's should be *peer* clients of my scheduling system and not an anjunct to my PC.
Palm has TCP built in - great now it needs to have IPSEC and a radio built in.
I did walk down the road of building a generic hotsync application on a unix host. First it identified the Palm ID, retrieved the profile of what had to be performed on said Palm device, then did it.
It was a very cool personal project, but once I got beyond my personal device and my wife's, I realized I would need an army of programmers to build all the ramifications of different conduits to make it work.
But this is what some corporate entity needs to do!