Why I hate MS

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Travis Roy wrote:
> And people wonder why I don't trust certifications.
> 
> (generally) they don't teach you anything, they just teach you how to 
> pass a test and get a pretty cert on the wall. It's even more the case 
> when it comes to MS certs.
> 
> Hell, I'm a "certified solaris administrator" but because I never really 
> worked on a solaris box, all the specific solaris stuff is lost on me.. 
> Not that I couldn't find the info I needed in 5mins on the interweb. To 
> me that's more important then a stupid piece of paper.

For that matter I was certified on Cisco routers back in the days of 
Cisco (1999), but haven't touched a Cisco router since.

I could find the info if I needed to, but certifications, along with 
other forms of credentialsim, is largely a waste of time I think. You 
either know what you are doing or you haven't a clue, and a stupid piece 
of paper proves nothing one way or another.

Alas, lesser minds do imagine there is something to the paper. ;-)

-Fred
Autodidact to the extreme.