What Are You Doing Right Now
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If anyone is interested, courses from Ivy League universities you can take online at your own pace, and even receive credit for them.
You have seen our discussions on college, right?
That said, I'll probably look, but will be surprised if I find anything useful to me in there.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If anyone is interested, courses from Ivy League universities you can take online at your own pace, and even receive credit for them.
You have seen our discussions on college, right?
That said, I'll probably look, but will be surprised if I find anything useful to me in there.
There's tons of stuff.
As an example, I'm going through a PHP book to learn how to program... nothing formal or really teaching/explaining actual programming concepts. (at least not more than a mile high overview)
So... looking around, I found these courses, which look like they would do a hell of a lot more for me than a PHP programming book:
Examples: (deciding between first two atm)
- https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:HarvardX+CS50+X/course/
- https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:MITx+6.00.1x+2T2017_2/course/
- https://www.class-central.com/course/coursera-algorithms-part-i-339?utm_source=qz&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=ivy_league_moocs_2018
- https://www.class-central.com/course/coursera-algorithms-part-ii-340?utm_source=qz&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=ivy_league_moocs_2018
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You have seen our discussions on college, right?
And yes, I've seen them... If you have taken them to mean: "Never go to college, college courses are never beneficial", then you need to reevaluate what was said.
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Also, keep in mind I'm doing this as a hobby... just as anyone would go golfing in their spare time, I'd take a free college course from Harvard or MIT to help boost me with a hobby... Some are credit-eligible
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Also, keep in mind I'm doing this as a hobby... just as anyone would go golfing in their spare time, I'd take a free college course from Harvard or MIT to help boost me with a hobby... Some are credit-eligible
That's exactly what I'd expect. There will be some useful stuff in there depending on what you're looking for, but actually going after a degree is what many of us question.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
but actually going after a degree is what many of us question.
No, you are totally misunderstanding the entire point of the discussion.
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Thinking we need to find some extra MSP/Odd Job man dotted around to cover simple tasks like running cable, plugging in kit and basic network trouble shooting.
As I don't fancy a 5hr drive to find a loose network cable in a PC
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
but actually going after a degree is what many of us question.
No, you are totally misunderstanding the entire point of the discussion.
I'm forgetting to be specific enough I think, a degree in IT is where the value is questioned. While degrees in business management and other areas they do a good job with.
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Patching what will be come Windows 8 and 8.1 VM templates.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
but actually going after a degree is what many of us question.
No, you are totally misunderstanding the entire point of the discussion.
I'm forgetting to be specific enough I think, a degree in IT is where the value is questioned. While degrees in business management and other areas they do a good job with.
Right, but this isn't about IT. It's about computer programming (in my case) as a hobby; me wanting to learn more about programming concepts and algorithms, especially in Python.
Anyways, it looks like a great resource and covers a ton of things I thought perhaps some would find useful.
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Back to the grind
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Trying to figure out who to cuss at IBM because our MaaS360 account is suddenly expired. Tech Support said to go to sales, Sales said to go to account manager, the account manager is MIA.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Patching what will be come Windows 8 and 8.1 VM templates.
What’s the reason for still needing Windows 8?
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Patching what will be come Windows 8 and 8.1 VM templates.
What’s the reason for still needing Windows 8?
We have a smattering of Windows 8 and 8.1 devices left in the company, as well as some Windows 7. The decision to upgrade them is above my paygrade, so I need some older OSes for testing stuff.
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Doing my annual dance with Comcast to get ourselves back on promotional pricing. Unfortunately live in an area where it's my only viable option. These sort of tasks are made especially for Mondays.
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Dealing with "fanatical" support at Rackspace. Their support is pretty bad. You only need to advertise it as fanatical when it's very much not.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with "fanatical" support at Rackspace. Their support is pretty bad. You only need to advertise it as fanatical when it's very much not.
Fanatical means they want to burn their customers at the stake.
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@kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with "fanatical" support at Rackspace. Their support is pretty bad. You only need to advertise it as fanatical when it's very much not.
Fanatical means they want to burn their customers at the stake.
Now it makes more sense.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with "fanatical" support at Rackspace. Their support is pretty bad. You only need to advertise it as fanatical when it's very much not.
Well - hope it went well. Always fun to find an extra room in the ship that is filled with water only to have to bail it, mop it, and then paint it.. Can we get some light down here,.. I think we have another room here around the corner that - ACK! Giant Spider!
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Had to do some banking. back home now.
