Recent content by Rick Butler

You've mentioned this one before. And you're right - there aren't a lot of CE options for those newer, higher certs. SecurityX is pretty good, but the others, not as much or not really at all. The way I see it, if CompTIA uses a CE program, it has to allow folks to get 'continuing education'...

I just wish the CE CertMasters were available for all certs...

I haven't really found a place where AI agents can be of a help to me yet.

@BrianFord does a great job with the classes he teaches. I've had the opportunity to get to know him a bit over the years and I think there's a lot to learn from him - even if you've been in the field a while.

I thought the seminar started at 1700 MST...Did I miss something or was something not right?? I was telling people it was overlapping DataSys+ Session 10, last week... (well, gotta watch that on the rewind...but the ICS files scheduled it for 1700 MST ...so I'm seriously confused...)

Locked in

Exactly. We had a college here in the Springs (who shall remain nameless here), who, back in the day, was touting fast-track paths to MCSE and the $65,000 starting salaries, etc etc. Even when I got my MCSE+I, I didn't see $65k for quite a long while. Working in a for-profit higher ed...

Never argue with getting free stuff! I know when I did reviews for Redmond Magazine, I always loved getting free copies of books. In fact, I have several still on my shelf (including my old Sybex Server+ 001 book and two others for Red Hat Linux - meanwhile, I went down the Debian road...).

Absorption time and opportunities for multiple exposures to the same information - which is necessary for long-term retention. Most people cannot acquire/retain information from one or two exposures. The average human brain requires about seven from different sources and modalities to write...

Well, yeah...?

I know what you mean. I have a wide array of machines that I have for different purposes, testing, and such - I think I have about 10-15 at any given time. Sometimes bouncing between different systems gets confusing, but for me, it's one of the few ways I have to stay sharp - although I'm...

For me, a pristine environment (virtual or physical) that I'd use to validate the student experience, is what I've always done - that way, I can run what I want for how I do my work without having to worry about those things, to me, is the way to go.

Oh geez - I'm barely finding time to mess with the Commodore emulators that are packaged in Vision OS, let alone start wandering about with another system platform.

A well written job req post. Thank you for being detailed - most we get don't even differentiate between on-site and online...lol. /r

Well, my disdain for Microsoft has developed over the course of decades of using their products and feeling constrained by Redmond in doing things. They weren't always that way. But these days, they have gotten very much controlling of the Windows environment. I get tickets and complaints...