From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 23 18:19:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE3E156D3 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:19:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbettle@criterion-group.com) Received: from criterion-group.com ([24.5.44.161]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990724011707.VEUE23826.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@criterion-group.com>; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:17:07 -0700 Message-ID: <379914A3.DD20A85@criterion-group.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:19:31 -0700 From: Roy Bettle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dann Lunsford , "Questions List FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certification References: <002c01bed537$830d5840$87577ccf@isp1.foxlink.net> <199907231723.AA061670587@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> <7nadfe$env$1@twwells.com> <3798C0FF.8B7C3294@greycat.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------45E424EB5CDAF25C0AA66136" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------45E424EB5CDAF25C0AA66136 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR "MCSE" ANALOGY!! Yah; know what you mean about certs; been doing this for 15 years ... probably should get around to getting a cert one of these days ... RAB Dann Lunsford wrote: > "T. William Wells" wrote: > > > > In article <199907231723.AA061670587@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>, > > Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > : >Are you guys by any chance going to create a FreeBSD certification program? > > : >If yes, by when will it be available? If not, don't you think it is a good > > : >idea > > : >to start one? > > : > > : Why? > > > > Yeah. In my experience, most of those who have certificates get > > them in the hopes that it'll substitute for actual hard-earned > > experience. Furthermore, certification programs rarely test > > anything more than the ability to answer questions correctly -- > > this is not a skill that's terribly useful when it comes to > > administering an operating system. > > MCSE == Must Consult Someone Experienced > > Says it all about 'certification", I think. There is a problem with > this though: The suits (at least where I work) are so gung-ho about > certs that there's now a 10-20% pay raise if you get just about any type > of cert. Good Grief. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------45E424EB5CDAF25C0AA66136 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rbettle.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Roy Bettle Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rbettle.vcf" begin:vcard n:Bettle;Roy tel;work:(949) 452-1203 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.criterion-group.com org:Criterion Group, Inc. version:2.1 email;internet:rbettle@criterion-group.com title:President note:Businesses that depend on computers, depend on us. adr;quoted-printable:;;26895 Aliso Creek Road=0D=0ASuite B404;Aliso Viejo;CA;92656;USA fn:Bettle, Roy end:vcard --------------45E424EB5CDAF25C0AA66136-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message