Re: survey results, part 2

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@gwyn.tux.org>]

> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:50:45 -0500 (EST), in article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980303091306.6665P-100000@roadrunner.realbig.com>, Andy Poling  <andy@globalauctions.com> wrote:
> >Many self-proclaimed SA's are such in their own minds only.

No, most S.A.s were doing something else when they had administering the
system(s) added on to their list of duties.  ;-)

I have a finite [somewhat large, but finite] set of information that I
can keep in my head.  I keep a lot of information about the internals of
all sorts of different kinds of Unix systems in my head, as far back as
Fifth Edition and as recent as Linux.  This doesn't make me any more
able to solve a new problem when I get to a new type of system, than the
lump on the wall is.  What makes it possible is that I know where to
turn for new information, how to decipher a bit stream, how to put
together pieces of a puzzle to find the big picture.

Which are traits that are hard to test for.

Having said that, I kind of prefer the "merit badge" idea mentioned
earlier, to any attempt to reproduce the bogus "CNE" type of
certification.

Joe Yao				jsdy@tux.org - Joseph S. D. Yao