[SunRescue] Clarification

[Mike Hebel]

>>I'd just want to clarify on my previous statements.
Announcer: "And Chris ducks the flamethrowers!  What a competitior!  What
form!"
;-)

>>I know a lot of brilliant
>>people who have come out of college and can open up computers like
nobody's
>>business.  When I was taking some courses at COlumbia I had tons of bright
>>classmates and proffessors who could open up computers and such.  I also
had a
>>bunch who could not.  I have two friends who use AOL and Windows95, both
of
>>whom failed their introductory CompSci courses in HS, who are going onto
be
>>CompSci majors, mainly for the money.

I completely agree, nor is this a new thing.  The people in this industry,
usually at the middle level are more often than not managers disguised as IT
professionals.  They know enough to get themselves in the door and can fake
the rest of it for quite some time.

*donning asbesto underware*  As for the AOL/'95 thing it usually the easiest
platform for home users that do not need anything special.  It's simple,
there's a lot of support for it on the web and in print, and it runs all the
snappy "new" "fresh" software that the marketing gurus can convince the
sheep^H^H^H^H^H people to purchase.  I'm ashamed to admit that my sister and
*lowers head in shame* my wife use Windoze.  My sister even uses AOL.


>>People seem to misunderstand what
>>computer science/computer engineering is all about, and unfortunately,
some
>>universities are changing their courses towards how these students think
>>CompSci is.  Now I am sure that tons of you are brilliant hackers with
college
>>degrees, and I don't doubt that.  Im just disturbed by a growing number of
>>students out of uni who have degrees, but aren't serious hackers.

And it's only going to get worse.  Look at the proliferation of NT networks
out there.  You don't really have to know hardly anything about hardware to
install and run NT.  (Before you ask, I've run NT since Ver 3.1 and even
administrated Exchange on top of it all.)  You just have to know what GUI
buttons to press and where to find the particular Knowledge Base article to
solve any problems that arise.  What are students madly trainging for? NT.
What will probably grind many networks into the ground because they have
"fake" IT technical people? NT.
NT training has almost nothing to do with hardware and because schools are
teaching it you get a bunch of "NT zombies" that are learning something
because it's HOT or because "I can make X salary without having to do much
work!".

Sincerely,

Mike Hebel