<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Jonathan Hutchins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org">hutchins@tarcanfel.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I was recently referred to a skills testing site, <a href="http://proveit.com" target="_blank">proveit.com</a>. They have a<br>
number of Linux skills tests available - all of which can only be taken in<br>
Internet Explorer running on Windows.<br>
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It occurs to me that yes, there is a world where all the admins run Windows<br>
and manage their Linux systems and servers with putty, or more likely vnc or<br>
a web interface. I'm sure this is more common in the "enterprise" Linux<br>
world than in my experience.<br></blockquote><div><br>cygwin's rxvt now comes with usable defaults OOTB; ssh in a cygwin rxvt is rapidly replacing Putty for me at least<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Besides the tests working only in Windows, they say that they were tested in<br>
Firefox 2.0 and IE6 - the latter being a notorious security hole that<br>
Microsoft has struggled in vain to get rid of.<br>
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Anyway, just so you know, anybody citing <a href="http://proveit.com" target="_blank">proveit.com</a> testing as evidence of<br>
Linux knowledge is pulling your leg.<br></blockquote><div><br> were the tests bogus? did they cover trivia only applicable to obsolete versions of RHEL? You'll need a better accusation than "their website didn't work with my rig" to invalidate them as a human resources criterion in my opinion.<br>
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