From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 1 14: 8:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C0137BD06 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:08:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA59300; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:07:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:07:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Steve Hovey Cc: John Flowers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Certifications In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Steve Hovey wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, John Flowers wrote: > > > > > Where do I go to find classes to be certified in FreeBSD. > > > > Short answer, there aren't any. Longer answer, it wouldn't mean > > anything even if there were. > > You are making that smart person mistake - those of us in the trenches > realise that certification courses are waste (Ive known several certified > stupid people) - BUT business is a game, and non-techie managers need > something to go by to feel they are making a good hire choice, and > unfortunately buy into the cert thing. I didn't say it wouldn't be useful. I said it wouldn't mean anything. I was feeling particularly grumpy last night. The original questioner has already rephrased his question and got quite a bit of good advice, so my job is done here. :) Doug PS, the answer to the real question is, "Install it, use it, learn it, live it, love it." -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message