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Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
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Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:13:21 GMT
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> > Actually, MCSE+I is 9 exams. So I'll have 3 more to go. :( Only
> > one after that to MCDBA, tho.
>
> Really? My memory must be failing. Old age or something.
Well, my consulting partner and I have decided to split up certs
anyway, so I think I'll be getting the MCDBA first. 2 Exams to go
for that - Admin and Design/Implementation.
> > Really? Everyone I've spoken to, either on the employee getting the
> > training side or the manager/employer paying for it says the norm is
> > to a) require a commitment from the employee to stay and b) a
> > commitment from the employer to raise the employee's compensation in
> > some way.
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> Uhm, exactly. I thought you were saying otherwise, so that was a bit
> of a misunderstanding.
>
> Actually, a) happens 100% as far as I can see, but b) is rarer.
Yeah, _everyone_ in my classes earlier this year was amazed that I
was being sent to all that training (and getting exam vouchers) with
no implied or stated commitment on my part to stay with my employer.
'Course, things may be a little different with this being a
governmental educational institution, I don't know. I'm sure if our
legal dept could have crafted some sort of "we train you, you stay
here for 2 years or pay us back and we don't have to increase your
salary by a dime" contract they would have.
Along those lines, the joke around the IT depts on campus is the
fact that, by state _law_, when a secretary passes the CPS exam, he
or she automatically gets a 9% raise. All they have to do is file a
form and bam! it happens. No such provisions for professional
certification in the IT world (for state employees anyway), nor will
there ever be.
Not that I would care - 9% won't quite cut it for me at my current
rate anyway. :)
> > Pen and wipe board, and a simple calculator. Not the most useful
> > thing for binary. Then again, I'm not too concerned about keeping
>
> Heh. My "simple calculator" (Casio fx-115s) does binary, IIRC. Not
> that I ever use it. Or that calculator, for that matter. wonder where
This calculator is literally the size of a credit card. :) Solar
powered too. Cheap, but then again, the testing centers don't make
squat from that part of the business anyway.
> > all the subnetting tables in my head. If there is one thing I
> > brought to my current profession from my former classical studies
> > it's a concern more for how to do things and where to find the facts
> > I need, rather than to commit every single one of them to memory. :)
>
> One two four eight sixteen thirtytwo sixtyfour hundredtwentyeight.
>
> There. Everything you need to convert BIN2DEC and back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I passed the exam in a little room all by myself.
Should I ever need to design or expand part of our network, I'm sure
I'll be able to reach for a table to help me keep things in
perspective.
> > Man, sitting here right now tapping on my laptop stinks, but I wired
> > the phone jack in my computer room for the 2nd line in anticipation
> > of getting my ISDN setup tomorrow. Sitting in the recliner is cool,
> > but I still need a decent mouse substitute and just a wee bit larger
> > keyboard...
>
> What you need is a 100" TFT 10.000 lumen LCD rear projection screen,
> 1600*1200, a real keyboard (make it a www.pckeyboards.com model), a
> real mouse or trackball (Logitech, and don't forget the ruddy wheel,
> OK?), a DVD player in your laptop, and Quake II in the player. Or the
> Matrix, whichever way your tastes go.
>
> Oh, and Dolby Digital Surround 5 channel, and THX.
>
> And an OC-3.
Well, I'll leave the projection system for when we settle down and
buy a house. But I have a DVD player in my laptop. :) And it does
output DD 5.1. :) Won't do me much good until I force myself to
order the speakers I want from this place in Canada, but it can do
it. In fact, I'll be using my laptop to watch movies on my parents'
tv this weekend when we visit them on Christmas day. :)
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