Subj : Windows 2000 MCSE Upgrade Exam
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : Steve Quarrella
Date : Thu Apr 12 2001 07:01 am

 lg> I suspect there will be a fair number of NT4/Exchange5.5
 lg> sites for the near future. If nothing else, the

I still encounter the occasional production server on NT 3.51, so it's going to 
be some time before 4.0 vanishes into the ocean.

 lg> MCP/Exchange5.5 could help in landing some
 lg> contract/consulting work that nobody else will be available
 lg> for or interested in.

We had a guy at Software Spectrum whose job was to go out and migrate companies 
from LAN Server and LAN Manager.  At the time, that kept him quite busy, and 
that's all he did.  He might have been the only guy in DFW who knew these NOSes 
that well, and he knew it.  Imagine being paid well over $100K/year to know LM 
and LS, although I find it unlikely that, in 2000, he's still getting that kind 
of cash, especially since the market for migrating them has probably dried up 
something ugly.

 SQ>> the bindery, on the second pass?  I heard a distinct click
 SQ>> -- one of my CNE friends had bailed -- and the other guy
 SQ>> asked "Uh...what's a bindery?"
 lg> Priceless! :-)

Yeah, you could almost hear the announcer saying 'Oh, the humanity!'

I dealt with a lot of that kind of ignorance.  Ignorance is not a bad thing, as 
some folks just don't know, and that's why they're calling me for help.  I have 
no problem with that, and nothing is more satisfying than to teach someone and 
then send them on their way.  But when you're dealing with these d-weeds who 
are going to engage in a logical fallacy like "Argument from authority," then 
they're going to get paddled in the woodshed when they wave their certification 
around as some kind of carte blanche.

We had plenty of NON-CNEs in our group who did everything but dream about 
Novell, and they could have eaten these guys like Christmas cookies, despite 
their not having a piece of paper.

 lg> I'm not really doing much better. My current NT4/Exchange5.0
 lg> box runs on a P166 w/64MB RAM.. it serves our purpose for

A bit slow, but it'll take it.  My test box at my last job was only 34 mhz 
faster, with the same amount of RAM.  It served me well, although it did 
require a lot of patience on my part.

 lg> That leaves me a single PII machine to explore Windows 2000.

I'll be building a couple of supermachines this summer to handle that.

 lg> Though.. here's something to consider. I read the other day
 lg> that training materials used for job advancement that are not
 lg> provided by the employer are considered to be tax deductable.

My wife was telling me the same thing.  If I could just find my receipts....

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