On 11 Feb 00, at 7:04, George Toft wrote:
But We really do not need a bunch of msce type Linux "experts" running around.
You mean like the executive secretary in my office that is most of the way done with his MCSE ($8100 at University of Phoenix), and can't tell the difference between coax cable and cat 5? I'm serious - he thinks cat 5 is coax. I would have to say the MCSE Networking Essentials course left something out.
Yeah, but I would have to say that it depends on who's giving the course. I'm taking the Cisco CCNA classes through my local community college, and I was pretty impressed with the theoretical part of the course. It covered quite a bit more than the 5-credit data communications course I took in college. We also spent quite a bit of time on dealing with media. But, then, Cisco isn't Mickeysoft.... My employer sent me to a NT Core Technologies and Adminstering NT at New Horizons, however. What a joke! $1800 for a 5-day class and the instructor (Microsoft-certified) couldn't also simple questions about theory. It was like, "this is what's on the test, here's how you 'point and click' (and reboot), don't worry about the rest-- it's not important." It might be real amusing to take a class in administering Ex#%$nge from someone like that. Then, there was this MicroAge I interviewed at. According to the certificates on the wall, the boss was a MicroAge-certified Unix System Administrator. This guy looked at my resume and asked me about X-windows. Seems he'd never been able to get it to work.... Cheers, Dennis "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." --Noel Godin -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/