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#1602 Aug 17 2015 at 7:21 PM Rating: Decent
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So now who's gonna help me with these floppy disks?


You laugh, but there is a computer at my workplace that is still running windows 95...

Ahh, legacy apps...
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#1603 Aug 17 2015 at 7:32 PM Rating: Good
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My bad. I assumed the tech geek audience would be more familiar of IT/IA exams and certifications. Long story short, it's one of the top certs in the IT world and is usually considered one of the top paying certs.


Yeah. It's a biggie if you're going into the security side of IT. The importance of any one certification really depends on what kind of job you're looking for and quite honestly the size of the enterprise itself. At a smaller shop, where there might just be one or two IT guys wearing a lot of different hats, having a security cert is going to be a big plus (although security+, A+, etc would probably be sufficient in that case). At a larger shop, specialization becomes a bigger deal. Which is where the more in depth certs come in.

I'd also recommend taking one of the basic Cisco certs if you can. It's unfortunate that about the only network specific training is also vendor specific (in terms of the routers/switches, but it is what it is). Having a good understanding of network architecture and configuration is useful for anything you're likely to do in IT. Knowing the details of obscure commands to configure routers is not (unless you're specifically going into network installation and configuration obviously), but all the other stuff really is useful. Of course, back in the old days, we'd just drop an O'Reilly's book on you and tell you to read it.

Other areas you might look into would be virtualization and cloud computing. Both of those areas have grown massively in the last decade and likely will continue to. Knowing how to configure VM servers and how to build and maintain abstraction code for cloud use is increasingly beneficial. Of course, understanding the hardware layers involved (SAN/NAS/etc) can help too. I've seen more than a few environments fail utterly because someone did the equivalent of crossing the streams at the hardware layer without thinking about how the data would need to move across it later on. There's a ton of cross connected subfields in IT work. Get's confusing sometimes, but if you can get your foot in the door, and then take every opportunity to increase your knowledge along the way, it's pretty darn rewarding.
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#1604 Aug 17 2015 at 7:35 PM Rating: Excellent
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Well, now you two kids have something to talk about over coffee.
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Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
#1605 Aug 17 2015 at 10:40 PM Rating: Decent
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I'm using those same fans. For the money, I don't think you can get much better.
#1606 Aug 18 2015 at 12:35 AM Rating: Good
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You laugh, but there is a computer at my workplace that is still running windows 95...


Bespoke software no-one can be bothered to rewrite?
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#1607 Aug 18 2015 at 3:28 AM Rating: Good
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It's running a microscope, and is also functional as a clock.
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#1608 Aug 18 2015 at 7:53 AM Rating: Good
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So it's like a broken microwave.

I think every computer I've used in Iraq/Afghanistan has had Win95 too.
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#1609 Aug 18 2015 at 8:08 AM Rating: Good
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Almalieque wrote:
A+ is a two part cert that focuses on the technical make up, repair and troubleshooting for a PC along with customer service. The biggest problem with the exam (at least when I took it) was that it was outdated with questions on floppy disks. I'm sure it has been updated since then.

I took a class in high school where I got A+ certified. Sounds like I'm not as out of date as I thought. Smiley: laugh

Also, apparently there is no god.
#1610 Aug 18 2015 at 8:19 AM Rating: Good
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He is also taking it international, offering Australians, Canadians and Brits the chance to send inscribed potatoes.
Not much of a businessman if he isn't considering Ireland.
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#1611 Aug 18 2015 at 8:32 AM Rating: Good
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Also, apparently there is no god.
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He is also taking it international, offering Australians, Canadians and Brits the chance to send inscribed potatoes.
Not much of a businessman if he isn't considering Ireland.
Classic American right there.
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#1612 Aug 18 2015 at 3:03 PM Rating: Good
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Gbaji wrote:
I'd also recommend taking one of the basic Cisco certs if you can
I have CCNA.

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Other areas you might look into would be virtualization and cloud computing.
That's what I'm planning to do. I'm just deciding which cloud cert to get. I want to get C|EH, I just don't want to pay for it.
#1613 Aug 19 2015 at 9:29 AM Rating: Good
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Adding to the long list of dead people this year, and just after Hospital Batman gets killed by a Camry, we add Yvonne Craig, Barbara Gordon / Batgirl in the '60s Adam West Batman show.
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#1614 Aug 19 2015 at 10:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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The Maine Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Governor LaPage fucked up in delaying his veto of 65 bills and it was too late by the time he got to it, allowing the 65 bills to become law.
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Gov. Paul LePage’s end-of-session gambit backfired Thursday, when the Maine Supreme Judicial Court said the governor has missed his chance to veto 65 bills.

The unanimous advisory opinion was a blow to LePage and Republican lawmakers in the House, who had argued for a decision that would require the Legislature to take up the vetoes, some of which were likely to be sustained.

Instead, the court said the bills had become law, and that the governor should enforce them.
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Many of the 65 vetoes in question would likely have been sustained by the caucus, including a law that will ensure asylum seekers and other immigrants will be eligible for General Assistance funds.
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Other high-profile laws in the disputed batch, which the governor must now enforce, include a law to expand access to federally funded birth control to more low-income women, a law to reverse the state’s jail consolidation scheme and a general obligation bond to provide subsidized senior housing through the state.
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#1615 Aug 19 2015 at 10:42 AM Rating: Good
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I don't remember there being a verse about procrastination in that School House Rock song. Guess that's why he was just sitting on the steps doing nothing.
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#1616 Aug 19 2015 at 12:33 PM Rating: Good
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Apparently white people want to be black so badly now that it's becoming a thing. First Rachel Dolezal and now Shaun King.

Let's see if Oprah deals with this former guest as harshly as she did James Frey because I have nothing better to do at the moment.
#1617 Aug 19 2015 at 1:26 PM Rating: Decent
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Apparently white people want to be black so badly now that it's becoming a thing. First Rachel Dolezal and now Shaun King.

Let's see if Oprah deals with this former guest as harshly as she did James Frey because I have nothing better to do at the moment.

C. Thomas Howell started this craze back in the 80s.
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#1618 Aug 19 2015 at 1:40 PM Rating: Good
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More chum for the justice piranha.
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#1619 Aug 19 2015 at 8:52 PM Rating: Decent
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Also, apparently there is no god.
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He is also taking it international, offering Australians, Canadians and Brits the chance to send inscribed potatoes.
Not much of a businessman if he isn't considering Ireland.
Classic American right there.


Maybe I'm just a Classic American, but I always thought that "Brits" referred to people from "Great Britain", which includes England, Wales, and Scotland (and I suppose Cornwall if you want to really divvy things up), but not Ireland. Heck, the UK is technically called "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (used to just be "... and Ireland" until those folks got uppity or something). Seems silly to make said distinction if Ireland is already part of Great Britain. And yeah, I'm aware that modern use of the term "Brit" tends to just mean people from the UK, but that still leaves off most of Ireland, since they're not part of the UK.

So... Um... Pedantic silliness ensues as usual.
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#1620 Aug 20 2015 at 7:19 AM Rating: Good
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Uhm....Classic Canadian?
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#1621 Aug 20 2015 at 8:02 AM Rating: Good
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For what it's worth, I doubted myself for almost a second.

Fear the Walking Dead starts up this Sunday on AMC, if there are any other zombie fans left.
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#1622 Aug 20 2015 at 8:46 AM Rating: Excellent
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Man, I didn't make it through Season One of TWD before I got bored.

I did buy a cheap copy of Zombi for the PC the other day, if that's worth anything.
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#1623 Aug 20 2015 at 9:25 AM Rating: Good
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The show has never been accused of being fast paced, that's for certain. If it follows the books, the next season or two will be pretty slow until the climax as well. I'm really just waiting for the current arc, especially the last two books, to get the live action treatment.

I just found out Jared from Subway was diddling (and diddling himself to) children. That's hilarious. "Eat Fresh" takes on a decidedly less innocent connotation.
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#1624 Aug 20 2015 at 9:37 AM Rating: Good
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I just found out Jared from Subway was diddling (and diddling himself to) children. That's hilarious. "Eat Fresh" takes on a decidedly less innocent connotation.
I wonder if this was his idea.
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#1625 Aug 20 2015 at 4:14 PM Rating: Good
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Deez Nuts is literally running for president. I saw the name referenced earlier, but I guess now s/he is starting to get some votes.

#1626 Aug 21 2015 at 7:17 AM Rating: Good
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Heh, black guy gets his entire life scrutinized to the minutest detail. White teen, not so much. But, you know, it's about the integrity of the process and quality assurance and all that rot. Another cycle or two and we should be electing officials based on retweets.
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