proveit.com

[Oren Beck]

Has anyone recently audited their site etc to see if this is a current
reality? Meaning, have we been disallowed on Linux/Mac/Android in the
present time. As if that's proven to be so- no access absent crud like
WGA etc, the company's a MS shill and undeserving of our respect.
Duplicity incarnate?

It's a dubious way to establish Open Source and Linux community
respect, let alone credibility by having ANY situation of a MS
requirement. Personally, I'd not consider them as being fully in the
proper orbit absent an Open Source access path.

Yes, the company may be legit re: honesty and credibility in the
testing/cert areas.

But, requiring MS at all, let alone IE6 is simply made of Pure, Epic FAIL.

If they're claiming to be an Open Source/Linux participant., and still
they demand MS be the only path to them, they're almost akin to the
Bird Shop with no Birds. Frankly, I can see *ZERO* reason for
demanding MS be used for test/cert of Linux skills.

Now, a test exercise where you'd have to spoof user strings etc to
simulate being IE6, from SeaMonkey..

Oren Beck




On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Hal Duston <hald at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:39:54 -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>> I was recently referred to a skills testing site, proveit.com.  They have a
>> number of Linux skills tests available - all of which can only be taken in
>> Internet Explorer running on Windows.
>
> I'm going to disagree on this point as I recall taking a couple tests via this
> site a few years back (2007?) with a Fedora desktop and Firefox browser.
>
>> It occurs to me that yes, there is a world where all the admins run Windows
>> and manage their Linux systems and servers with putty, or more likely vnc or
>> a web interface.  I'm sure this is more common in the "enterprise" Linux
>> world than in my experience.
>>
>> Besides the tests working only in Windows, they say that they were tested in
>> Firefox 2.0 and IE6 - the latter being a notorious security hole that
>> Microsoft has struggled in vain to get rid of.
>>
>> Anyway, just so you know, anybody citing proveit.com testing as evidence of
>> Linux knowledge is pulling your leg.
>
> The agency cited proveit.com testing as evidence of my C knowledge and PL/SQL
> knowledge at the time.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Hal Duston
> hald at kc.rr.com
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