[Stealth]

iv allready actually passed
CCNA 1: Networking Basics

hehehehe

Does that include ICND, or is it the one-before-whose-name-I-forget?  I'm due to take the ICND test at some point, had to postpone it until some other personal stuff gets worked out.  Of course, I have an absolute bastard of a work package looming, so bugger knows if I'll ever get round to it...

"CCNA 1"... that makes me think he's doing the 4-stage-course that they offered when i was in high-school. 

CCNA part 1: Networking Basics
CCNA part 2: Routers and Routing basics
CCNA part 3: Switching basics and Intermediate routing
CCNA part 4: WAN technologies

am i right?

[Stealth]

i just realized i guess that's a universal way of breaking down Cisco's CCNA curriculum.  a good way of studying for it too

[Ashrak]

you did CCNA in high school 0.o


well congrats i guess your able to administer a 100 node network easily ... after high school 0.o

[Descenterace]

there is no such thing as values, 'proper ethics', or morals when it comes to business.  the business world is merciless and heartless.

"Well, it's hard to say. You see, what the ruling in effect means is that Microsoft has become far too powerful and has begun monopolising the market – it's the US government's form of a practical joke really."

"Huh?"

"Well they encourage people to build a big company and pay huge amounts of tax, and yet when they do so, they say it's bad and tell you that you have to break it up to be less competitive"

"But weren't they using unfair business tactics?"

"The term 'business' makes the term 'unfair' redundant in that sentence."

[Stealth]

doesn't that agree with what i said?

[Descenterace]

Yes. That was my point

[Stealth]

oh cool. in that case thanks

[neoterran]

you can either be part of the problem, or you can be part of the solution. The choice is up to you. But you shouldn't be proud of it.

[Stealth]

the "problem" is relative.

[neoterran]

i guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.... you'll see the light when you're working in a big ass company that grinds you for a few years.

[Flipside]

It's odd you know, the two biggest 'problems' in the computer world have been IBM and Microsoft, the two companies, which for better or worse, did the most to put PC's in front of everyone and into the public eye. Frankly, if it weren't for IBM Hardware standards and Microsoft software standards, regardless of your opinions of them, then I think that computers in general would have taken far longer to achieve the prominence they have.

[aldo_14]

i guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.... you'll see the light when you're working in a big ass company that grinds you for a few years.

ummm, I'd have to beg to differ on that one.  Whatever you think about the business tactics of a 'big ass company', they definately treat you well.

[Ghostavo]

Wasn't there something a while back about the wife of an EA employee complaining in a blog about her husband's "forced" extra hours?

EDIT:
Found it
http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html

[aldo_14]

Wasn't there something a while back about the wife of an EA employee complaining in a blog about her husband's "forced" extra hours?

EDIT:
Found it
http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html

Mmm, games industry is rather exceptional, though - I think it's pretty well established that the money is usually much better in the business sector (er, if you get what I mean) than games, but people do it out of passion and thus they get pushed a lot harder than could be got away with in other fields.

[Stealth]

yeah it really comes down to whether you want to stick with your 'morals' and 'ethics' and not work for (and support) a 'big company'...... or whether you want to be taken care of, get a good salary, and work for one