<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryan J. Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org">b.j.smith@ieee.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
E.g., after plunking down $749 for the RH302 exam-only, when I<br>passed, I didn't even get a printed Certification sent to me -- but only<br>received a PDF file and had to print it myself! I humored my fellow<br>Novell colleague Ross Brunson with that one -- even though I regularly
<br>argue FC/RHEL over SuSE/Novell in our other sessions. ]</blockquote><div><br>The only way to win this is in the framing. Back when I worked at a tech support farm, I once got in a war with another tech over who had the most meaningless test, with the best sheepskin (Brainbench) and the best exam with the worst cert (A+ at the time sent a stripey, faded cert printed on ink jet with a cert template). It escalted into who had the most total certs. Then on to who had the prettiest frame.
<br><br>We decided to take all of our PDF and "print this page, you're totally certified" and "simple ASCII table wiht your score" certs and put them in ornate gold leaf frames like we were Harvard med grads. Dead center was my buddy's Church of the Sub Genius ordained minister creds, allowing him to perform deflowerings and levitations. Invariably the suits would tour and stop at the wall near our cattle pen and marvel at how well trained our team was. ;-)
<br><br>The gig was finally up when I snuck in my framed portrait of Colonel Sanders.<br><br>--jeremy<br></div><br></div><br>