How about asking references from ex-colleagues?

It depends on your objectives, and which market you are working on. I have LPI certs, as I do not work with RH, and I am always getting contacted. Experience counts too, certs are to get you on the door.

The problem is more than "opening tickets". A sysadmin without some basic networking knowledge is a serious shortcoming.

Yep, over the years I learned that in classes professors do not like to be corrected. The best strategy is to keep unnoticed.

I used it constantly for a good two years. The tape was always out of order, and I remember I blew up around 3 or 4 tape recorders with it, and my parents were not too happy of my using of the tape recorders and the TV. I clearly remember at one point my father literally kicked the tape recorder out of frustration. There were maybe months in a row I wrote my assembly programs in paper, and poked them on BASIC to try them because I had not a tape recorder in working conditions. By around the 3rd year I bought myself a XT, and maybe a year and something after, or two, a 386SX, and I only picked up the Spectrum maybe one year later on where I experimented with it during summer time to understand better some undocumented instructions for an emulator I was beginning to write in C.

I have seen the FPGA projects, and got an idea they are quite interesting, but however suffer the same drawbacks of the emulations, or even more considering nowadays I can run a Spectrum from my mobile. FPGAs seem to cater more for hobbyists than as a consumer device, and that is why I found this whole Vega story a bit non-consistent.

You are the delusional one sir. I would not mind some discrete ads. Thing is most ads are intrusive. Some are huge. Others are animated. Another ones, they tend to be on the place where the content should be placed. Many others, they open boxes and web pages, and can be quite a nuisance. They also waste bandwidth and CPU cycles. And we are not even talking about ads being a carrier for malware.

I am quite aware things have moved on,I have not posted in comp.sys.sinclair for almost 20 years, have you not noticed the word "heydays"? I am just making a point old emulators already emulated quite well most of the quirks. Actually I do remember from the top of my head some emulator emulation bleeding, but I think I would pass that. And that is why I really do not like discussing things here, people tend a lot to take things out of context to make a point. An much less with ACs.

Yes, you made a very valid point. I had myself not the original spectrum but a TC 2048 clone that also had problems with some games due to differences handling ports, having a joystick port already built-in and some extensions ("hires" graphic modes"). Thanks for the tip about SE Basic.

I hope you are using Tor for this kind of post, or your IP is being logged.

Which I will not elaborate here, not exactly on the nature being discussed. My lawyer told me, this kind of provisions only are enforceable while you work for them by our local laws, and since you are not an employee anymore, this clausule is void. That guy knows what he is doing...

So they would better be back to sell comics than DVDs? At this moment on time, using pen and paper is as good as going out of business...it is not doable for a large multinational corporation.

Online archive of the most popular magazine for the ZX Spectrum in Portugal and Spain, and for those saying ZX Spectrum was only a uk craze. http://www.microhobby.org/

Pity you post as anon. Long live MicroHobby.

Are you sure? I am from Portugal, and in Portugal and Spain people were crazy about it. In Brazil, they invented clones because of stupid restriction on trade and heavy taxes on imported computers. In the USA Timex sold TC and TS clones, that were also used a lot in Latin america. In Russia there were lots of "pirate"/non-licensed clones too, that were widely used in the former east block country. The thing with Spectrum is that it was cheap and the hardware was quite easy to understand.