RE: Training Standards

[Rajkumar Andrews <shibumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aye aye to that!
I joined a course called Certified Webmaster from World Wide Web Institute - 
they taught me about 8 tags in html, 1 tag in dhtml (onMouseover), and before 
they damaged my brain further I quit!!  I've got linux at home - I've learned 
installation; tcp/ip; modem configuration; graphics (GIMP); html; javascript; 
perl; python.  I am learning X windows (of course I have it running already).  
I can configure the apache webserver quite successfully (one of these days I 
will have you guys dialup into my home-server and see for yourself).  In 
addition I've learnt tons and tons of philosophy which keeps me going (in real 
life too!!)  And honestly, I pull myself out of the computer only to answer 
nature's calls, my family's social requirements, and finally when I get 
physically tired out.  I told the director of the institute to install linux - 
the dumb fellow is now offering to teach linux for prospective students!!  He 
has no knowledge of anything except sweet talk - which of course everybody 
knows.  It hurts him a lot if you ask him for a refund of the money you are 
expected to deposit in advance.  I had a mind to go the MRTP (Monopolies and 
Restrictive Trade Practices) guys but then I let him off the hook.

There is so much more on my computer that I haven't had the time to go through 
it all.  I have to play around with Postgresql, c++, and whatnot.  There is 
tons and tons of documentation.  My system NEVER crashes (inspite of the 
electricity failures at least half a dozen times in a day!)

Additionally I have very high quality friends all over the world; including 
many on this mailing list!

The bottomline of this long posting is: Learn it yourself by doing it 
yourself.

And if you want to get certified just keep answering the various queries on 
this mailing list, buddy, you'll be certified with honours.  Guaranteed 
forever.

Regards,
Rajkumar Andrews
>
>As you say you have already installed most of the components with some
>help then I say you have become a guru already and why do you need
>training ?
>Some time I really wonder why people are after training and
>certification. Why one requires any training for Visual Basic /Java /
>multimedia /e-commerce etc. etc.
>The people who wants to make fast buck usually start training institute
>and innocent people fall prey to it. What one learns by actually doing
>has no match to any training in the world. And linux is like that only.
>Buy a 486 and put free linux and get going, plenty of help available
>around. You do not have shell out hefty sum of 50k to learn Internet or
>e-commerce or java.
>I wonder which training institute atul or arun or raj or ...(sorry if
>missed other big wigs) had joined to learn linux?
>
>-mukund


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