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Comment There's more to being a sysadmin than... (Score 1) 140

There's more to being a sysadmin than just installing and using.

I think the OP is really thinking about this from a business perspective(?). Yes there have been a few changes and SystemD is one of them but (however annoying it is :-), it's just another tool.

To hopefully answer your question, I would investigate your local Linux User Group or local DevOps group. (Try meetup.com). Slashdot may not the right place to find the answers you seek.

Once you determine your weaknesses you should know where to look.

There are of course the old certifications that you could re-do if you believe they will be of use. https://www.whizlabs.com/blog/...

Comment There maybe several things wrong with this... (Score 1) 125

1. There are many different engineering courses and the methods of education differ greatly.
Is the school teaching the student or encouraging the student to learn themselves? (Traditional tech school / university approaches) "Learn the topic" or "read for the degree"?
2. Are the students being encouraged to be analytical? Highly encouraged in Europe but seemingly less so here in the US.
3. Having some qualification in engineering, does not make you an engineer. You don't enter the workforce as an engineer (as the article claims)

It might help if the authors of the article had engineering degrees (maybe they do but a 30 second look at the HBR pages for each author proved little.)

Engineers know that an engineering degree completely changes the way one sees the world. It is subsequently observed very differently from those who do not have an engineering degree.

Comment Re:What the hell? (Score 1) 101

It may seem that way but it is a real issue. Watching a football(US) game on Comcast, live, it is easy to see the lack of visual quality as the camera moves and the field just becomes a blur of green, which once again returns to detail as the image stops moving. Movies from Netflix/Amazon are often blocky (low res image) over a 1080p image choice. How can we hold providers to account and or make an informed choice as to which service provider is better? We don't watch the same instance of a game on two providers at the same time. We don't have two service providers for the same show? It's an interesting question and one which will become more of an issue as bandwidth providers race to the bottom rung of the ladder.

Comment Re:Embrace, extend, extinguish. (Score 1) 183

EEE works by allowing users to experience a consistent set of tools across platforms. These tools, over a long period of time, will dumb down a generation of users. After some time, you allow the quality of the tools on one platform to slip somewhat. Just a little. At that point the other platform starts to become slightly more preferable. No. Everyone wont switch to Windows. But there would be some who will.

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