A+ shenanigans!
Okay, I'm FINALLY taking my A+ cetrification classes at the local ComColl, and just in the first day of class, in the first chapter of the required material, the author and subject material are pissing me off.
The syntax they use for everything just riles me. This is supposed to be a certification ensuring that our future computer techs are intelligent, well-versed and competent, but instead seems to promote imbreeding, NASCAR and Macintosh computers.. (and i use the term 'computer' when referring to a Mac VERY loosely)
Here's a list of some of my frustrations:
* "Covers many operating systems, including Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP"
-To their credit, they do later include UNIX, Linux, Mac OS and OS/2 in lists and descriptions, but to state that XP is a different Operating System than 2000 is flagrant misinformation. Imagine if every major kernel update in Linux were a new Operating System.. there'd be chaos.
* "Only Windows 2000/XP can use the NTFS filesystem"
-As if anyone really WANTED to use NTFS anyways, Linux has full read/write usability of NTFS.
* "PCI is currently the fastest non-video card interface in modern Intel-based computers"
-Wow. Obviously we haven't heard of PCI-E, have we?
* They dismiss the existence of RAID arrays and SATA connections very early on, driving IDE and EIDE into your skull like it's the gospel.
We'll see what comes up in the future, but this isn't promising to be a very enjoyment filled semester.
The syntax they use for everything just riles me. This is supposed to be a certification ensuring that our future computer techs are intelligent, well-versed and competent, but instead seems to promote imbreeding, NASCAR and Macintosh computers.. (and i use the term 'computer' when referring to a Mac VERY loosely)
Here's a list of some of my frustrations:
* "Covers many operating systems, including Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP"
-To their credit, they do later include UNIX, Linux, Mac OS and OS/2 in lists and descriptions, but to state that XP is a different Operating System than 2000 is flagrant misinformation. Imagine if every major kernel update in Linux were a new Operating System.. there'd be chaos.
* "Only Windows 2000/XP can use the NTFS filesystem"
-As if anyone really WANTED to use NTFS anyways, Linux has full read/write usability of NTFS.
* "PCI is currently the fastest non-video card interface in modern Intel-based computers"
-Wow. Obviously we haven't heard of PCI-E, have we?
* They dismiss the existence of RAID arrays and SATA connections very early on, driving IDE and EIDE into your skull like it's the gospel.
We'll see what comes up in the future, but this isn't promising to be a very enjoyment filled semester.
posted by DarthBong at 23:07
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