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Thread ID: 125089	2012-06-06 02:06:00	First PC build help.	FlightOfGrey (16802)	Press F1

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1279937	2012-06-07 00:26:00	Well my major is networking but I'm avoiding all maths-y sounding classes if I can help it. Unfortunately it means I've ended up doing a fair lot of junky papers (like IT service provision, it's a nasty piece of work), and even some of the 'proper' papers are naff. I hate SQL because of my logical database design lecturers, and my programming 2 lecturer (first time round) ruined programming for me. Now Network Security (CCNP I believe) has ruined Cisco networking stuff for me after I enjoyed the hell out of CCNA 1 and 2. As for hardware and the like, we might have a couple of papers that cover it but in those cases it's almost assumed knowledge from day 1. Like, year 1 had foundations of IT infrastructure that taught basic numeracy in hex, octal and binary, and covered things like 'this is a harddrive', a bit of DOS scripting, how to install ubuntu 9.04 and some optional BASH scripting. The closest we've come to putting a PC together has been plugging an IDE drive caddy into a slot, or sticking cables in to some cisco routers and patch panels. Then year 2 had Network and System administration (sounds great right?) which covered installing broken images to a virtual box setup, then getting them working using Active Directory. The images we were given were xp, server 08 and a broken 10.04, and linux was again optional but worth more marks. The lecturer was qualified to teach us but doesn't know the nitty gritty about what he's teaching. Quite literally we walked up to him, asked him how to fix the busted images (and after that, how to recover the passwords since he didn't know those either) and he said 'you figure it out, then you tell me and i'll mark it'. pro tip: don't go to university. It's an expensive waste of time.	8ftmetalhaed (14526)
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