How to tell a real computer tech.

[tokenuser]

Like a browser with a spell checker?
Yes, pointing out the RAM is valid, and important. Asking for the TAM is just plain stupid.

My comment on the car was pointing out (by analogy) that asking for the TAM was esoteric, and irrelevant to the problem at hand.

The Crown Vic is (was) a bomb proof car. There is a reason it was the choice of taxi fleets and law enforcement for decades. Like the computers you tend to prefer, they keep chugging along. The 92 Vic was also the first to ditch the carb, and go EFI.

I have no mental block against open source or their patrons, just the zealots. Like a republican/democrat political debate, the left wing free as in beer crowd are just as crazy as the right "its MS or nothing" folks.

The right person to hire is the one that chooses the appropriate tool for the job.

I was in a meeting today talking about a project I'll be working on for a large manufacturer of <things I can't really talk about>. There is a ton of data they want analyzed. As a management team, their tool of choice is Excel. I don't have a problem with that and I will present the results to them in Excel (I'll be using a Mac, they are on Windows7, but that make no difference either), but I'll be doing the complex analysis using a combination of the MySQL as the data store, Java, and a number of open source text mining libraries. I'll pull the manipulated results into Excel via ODBC so they can then play with the numbers how they feel fit (Excel is a tool they all know and use ... so its appropriate).

[justpeon]

Originally Posted by rfm33428

The test maybe be biased, but I don't think it's designed to piss people off who don't know Linux. Yeah, I'm sure it will happen. If the 1st guy were more polite & forthcoming with why Win 7 wouldn't work, I think that goes just as far as completing the task. I would probably give him or her a chance then.

It is a test, I'm sure there's more to it than what's on the surface.

Good answer.

The right person to hire is the one that chooses the appropriate tool for the job.

The floppy was the right tool for the right job. I have driven real tanks, but that does not mean I have to own one. Again TAM s/b RAM..... There was no tam involved. I know quite a few Republicans who are open source supporters.

[tdmeskimo]

it not a test of ability, but knowledge. one needs to know what the hadware can and cant do with the giving software and os! as far as ability, i don't know terminal well in linux or batch either in windows, knowledge is part of ones ability.

[justpeon]

For what it is worth.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Win...-II,8110.html#

No one knows everytiing about computing, but with the internet a keyboard away, you can find the answers....