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At 09:48 PM 3/21/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Since nobody listened and posted all the messages to the list, I wanted to
>reply to a few of them:
Nobody listened? This has been a flood of great advise, for you and for
me! I am glad "nobody listened" and we all posted to the list! That is
what the list is for.
["Nobody listened." BAH! (said while waving my hand)]
>1) I currently work as a Technician at a computer company, so my hands
>are always on the insides of computers, etc. I also run the linux server
>for my company. Theres just 6 people in the company, but they were going
>to pay $250 or whatever for WINGATE To run on NT, and I talked them into
>just doing it with Linux for free..
Good job to get going in the field. Good job going for Linux.
>2) I plan on getting a degree, but should I get a Microsoft Certified
>degree? Will that be useless in the future? I heard Cisco is pretty hot
>right now..
Degree == Bachelor of Science from a university or a technical school like
DeVry.
Certification == a certification. A generally good thing.
Certification != a Degree. They are two different things and show
completely different levels of knowledge depth.
Now, after successfully arguing against an MS based solution and
implementing a Linux solution as you described above in #1, why do you want
an MS certification? MS certification will get you jobs doing MS
stuff. If you want to do MS stuff, go for it.
I don't know what is entailed in a Cisco certificate. Never looked into
it. I am a coder, not an admin, mostly. ;^)
Alan
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At 09:48 PM 3/21/01 -0700, you wrote:
Since
nobody listened and posted all the messages to the list, I wanted to
reply to a few of them:
Nobody listened? This has been a flood of great advise, for you and
for me! I am glad "nobody listened" and we all posted to
the list! That is what the list is for.
["Nobody listened." BAH! (said while waving my
hand)]
1)
I currently work as a Technician at a computer company, so my hands are
always on the insides of computers, etc. I also run the linux
server for my company. Theres just 6 people in the company,
but they were going to pay $250 or whatever for WINGATE To run on NT, and
I talked them into just doing it with Linux for free..
Good job to get going in the field. Good job going for Linux.
2)
I plan on getting a degree, but should I get a Microsoft Certified
degree? Will that be useless in the future? I heard Cisco is
pretty hot right now..
Degree == Bachelor of Science from a university or a technical school
like DeVry.
Certification == a certification. A generally good thing.
Certification != a Degree. They are two different things and show
completely different levels of knowledge depth.
Now, after successfully arguing against an MS based solution and
implementing a Linux solution as you described above in #1, why do you
want an MS certification? MS certification will get you jobs doing
MS stuff. If you want to do MS stuff, go for it.
I don't know what is entailed in a Cisco certificate. Never looked
into it. I am a coder, not an admin, mostly. ;^)
Alan
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