grad school / openbsd / editors

[Mark Szidik]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Keyes, Randall wrote:

> In all seriousness, I have found that vender certification (MCP, MCSE,
> CCIE,..etc) seems to be more important the graduate degrees unless you are
> moving toward management.  Have others found this also to be true?
>
> Randy Keyes
> Network Services, JNL
> randall.keyes@jnli.com


Absolutely not.  Any employer that would value a vendor certificate over
a College degree (any degree IMHO) is no place I would want to work.

I could start a rant here, but I think I'll abstain (at least for
today).

-Mark


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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:pfaffben@msu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:39 AM
> To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: grad school / openbsd / editors
>
>
> So I went to the University of Michigan last Saturday to check
> out their computer science PhD program.  It turned out to be very
> cool, very exciting.  (More on this in my kuro5hin diary if you
> care.)
>
> There's one group out there that I'm hoping to work for if I
> decide to go to U-M.  They do very cool hacking and research on
> Linux--but their primary platform is OpenBSD.
>
> This means that I need to learn more about BSD.  So on Sunday, I
> installed OpenBSD on my extra box (pfaffben-2), and I'm learning
> vi.  Yes, I said it, I'm learning vi (vim actually).  Via full
> immersion at that: I'm using it to do all of my non-email related
> editing (I really can't imagine quitting Gnus.)  It is *so*
> painful learning a new editor.  It is worse than using a
> different keyboard.  Thank ${DEITY} for multi-level undo.
>
> Anyway, have some sympathy for me.
>
> --
> "Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school,
>  and then work, work, work till we die."
> C. S. Lewis
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