This time James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 09:45, Vox wrote: >> This time Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> becomes daring and writes: >> >> >> IMNSHO, if you don't understand IP,TCP, UDP, you have no business >> >> running a server of any kind, no matter what Microsoft may have told >> >> you. >> > >> > Gee, thanks for the flame. :-/ >> >> It's not a flame, it's a statement of *my opinion*, nothing else. >> >> > >> > Why not? We let people create human beings without training and there >> > is far more risk involved.;-) >> >> And I firmly believe that people shouldn't be allowed to have >> children without extensive psychological and genetical testing...no >> license, no kids <shrug> >> >> > Truth is that my knowledge about IP, TCP/UDP is adequate although I >> > conceed the point that my experience in working directly with them >> > is noteably lacking - I still get my terminology wrong, forget to >> > mention things etc. I've installed a couple of firewalls, networks, >> > a beowulf cluster and a MOSIX cluster but I had other tools at my >> > disposal then. >> >> I am not a networking guru...hell, half the terminology I use is >> wrong (but I can blame that on the fact that english is not my >> native language :) but I do have plenty of empirical knowledge, >> acquired from all the people I've worked with during the last 15 >> years or so. I don't advocate for a MSCE-like test for computer >> users...theoretical tests don't mean a thing, IMNSHO...but let's >> start giving out practical tests to everybody before allowing them >> to use a computer unsupervised...that'd be paradise :) > > > Of course the obvious question would be who do you want to exclude and > how do you want the results of the test skewed... I can write a test to > exclude any individual or group you'd like. Uhm...any human being who asks a question before reading the documentation? that'd make the IRC channel I hang out a lot more civil :) Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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