Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:16:50 -0800 From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:31:21AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: >> I think the stigma is changing some after many companies have been burned >> hiring the "certified" morons. However, getting certified is never >> necessarily a bad thing. It can be a way to keep up with technology and it >> also shows employers that you are willing to continue learning/growing. >I don't even think it's a good way to stay current. Well, at least >not in any manner that you couldn't get from looking through the >certification vendor's software and hardware sales catalogs and >Google... My interest in actual certification is zero or less, but I've looked at various books & tutorials purporting to prepare victims for the exams. Many struck me as worthless, verging on fraudulent. Compare a series of 8 LPI tutorials at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/ which to me seem a very sound introduction to basic use of Linux, going well into system administration & onward, with related tutorials for awk, bash, regex, & sed. Reliable regulars in debian-user don't need 'em, but isolated users may profit from help -- largely by Daniel Robbins of Gentoo. -- Atrypa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
