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NovusBogus wrote:"There's money in them thar computer thingies!"
Certifications are easy to get if you have the time and money to do it, all the right responses can be found via online study guides and away you go.
chuckula wrote:It's a shame you had to setup your client with a non-headless Windows server though. I know you are a big Linux guy, so I'm guessing it's because of that legacy C application that is likely locked into win32 somehow.
Hz so good wrote:you damn well better know you're ****.
Krogoth wrote:Why?
The hardware for that server isn't that much faster then what is replacing. IMO, I would forgo getting a GPGPU unless the software the client uses takes advantage of it.
Deanjo wrote:Krogoth wrote:Why?
The hardware for that server isn't that much faster then what is replacing. IMO, I would forgo getting a GPGPU unless the software the client uses takes advantage of it.
Umm the server that was to be replaced was an old XP single core P4 with 1.5 Gigs of RAM. As far as the GPGPU goes, it does drastically speed up performance (and scales extremely well) on realtime analysis but it is usually the larger clients (or the ones with impatient accountants and CFO's) that wish to have that capability. The minimum specs are geared towards the small to medium clients which I am targeting to get these legacy servers off the grid. With the larger clients I usually am consulting them on the setup and customize the specs to their needs. Just a few months back for one of the larger clients their hardware setup wound up costing over a quarter million complete with tesla clusters.
Krogoth wrote:
GPGPUs only makes sense if applications take advantage of it, otherwise it is unneeded expenditure. Nvidia for CUDA-stuff while AMD is the better deal for OpenCL until you go into ultra-high end where Nvidia is the best at a price. The rest of the recommendation list is pretty solid though.
mattshwink wrote:My sister-in-law is an IT recruiter/salesperson (Headhunter)....i.e. she is evil. She cannot understand why the unemployment rate is high (or relatively high) and yet it is hard to fill positions. It's easy.....there are waaaaaaay too many idiots out there.
Ryu Connor wrote:Isn't this discussion roughly equivalent to:
"Why are there so many idiots out there with a degree?"
"Why are there so many idiots out there with years of experience? What have they been doing?"
Which simply just finally leads to
"Why are there so many idiots?"
Blaming the certs is misdirected.
NovusBogus wrote:True but a lot of companies that say they're hiring really aren't, at least not outside the old-boy network. I ran into this when I was unemployed after graduating in 2008.
just brew it! wrote:Paper credentials, a person's position on the org chart, and compensation frequently have little correlation with knowledge or ability.
Captain Ned wrote:just brew it! wrote:Paper credentials, a person's position on the org chart, and compensation frequently have little correlation with knowledge or ability.
More often than not, I find the correlation to be inverse. In the day job I never expect to get a straight answer out of the e-suite (one institution excepted), instead, I go fishing down in the trenches and learn just exactly what's going on. Find someone who hasn't been coached on how to talk with regulators and it's a gold mine.
just brew it! wrote:Many of the higher-ups are where they are precisely *because* they are good at spewing BS. If you aspire to being a corporate executive (or a politician for that matter), being able to regurgitate content-free nonsense on demand while appearing to have more of a clue than everyone else is probably the most valuable job skill you can have!
k2x4b524p wrote:I see this in my college IT department. 3 of their servers are still XP, with no more than 2gb, on a single core. One of them powers their WIFI setup. And all these techs with all their certs cannot figure out why the WIFI side to the outside world is so damned slow. I walked in and explained that the machine needed to be replace with something a smidge newer. the first words out of their mouths were "We have the certs and degrees, we know what we are doing with it." They looked DOWN on everyone who knew their ****, but didn't have, or are in the process of getting certs.
Most of these people are just filled shirts, run through the cert mills much like popcorn in a microwave. pop the cert, out you go. suddenly they are making upwards of the high 6 digits, yet they don't know a damned thing.....
Yet the guys with the certs, skill, and the knowledge, are sitting in line in unemployment...
k2x4b524p wrote:I see this in my college IT department. 3 of their servers are still XP, with no more than 2gb, on a single core. One of them powers their WIFI setup. And all these techs with all their certs cannot figure out why the WIFI side to the outside world is so damned slow. I walked in and explained that the machine needed to be replace with something a smidge newer. the first words out of their mouths were "We have the certs and degrees, we know what we are doing with it." They looked DOWN on everyone who knew their ****, but didn't have, or are in the process of getting certs.
Most of these people are just filled shirts, run through the cert mills much like popcorn in a microwave. pop the cert, out you go. suddenly they are making upwards of the high 6 digits, yet they don't know a damned thing.....
Yet the guys with the certs, skill, and the knowledge, are sitting in line in unemployment...
k2x4b524p wrote:"Seriously? They're using a Win XP server to control their WiFi setup?! LOL!!! That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, and I was once told by a tech that" "the reason they had an 80ft LMR-400 run was because "the packets were coming out too fast"."
That is truly astounding, how can you have packets coming out too fast...
Most of the IT staff at my college are just filled shirts.....
"Windows XP... *snert*"
Would rather us it than Vista
I agree with the statement about them not being able to diagnose their way out of a wet paper bag. I encountered this phenomenon a couple of terms ago. A netbook "Win XP" kept throwing hal.dll errors and was in a state of perpetual reboot, and BSOD. Nobody thought to try and read the BSOD while it flashes a couple of times. I did, had the netbook back the next day, still working to this day, faster too. I had to shoehorn 7's HAL into it, but it works.
As for certs, i am currently going for everything i can get through my BA program with WGU. Online yes, but they offer 16+ certs in their program. Which is more than i can say for my college's IT department.. An update on that, i just found out that they are going to have to take down 2 of the XP servers, and 1 of their 2k8R2 servers. XP for being pirated, and 2k8R2 for not having enough CALS.. Who would have thought MS actually cared enough to send some nasty emails...