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Screen Resolution Trends
by Don Erickson 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Here's a bit of data that web users/designers may find interesting. This is a table of (rounded) screen resolutions and months that the data was collected. I've had a javascript function to tailor pages to the screen resolution of visitors to a few web sites, and "databased" the results. Here's how it breaks down: 2004-03 2004-10 2005-01 2005-03 640x480 2 % 0 % 1 % 1 % 800x600 34 % 30 % 24 % 23 % 1024x768 54 % 55 % 57 % 58 % 1200x960^ 11 % 15 % 18 % 19 % So, by these numbers the ubiquitous 800x600 screen resolution that pixel-based programs have to design for are now used by fewer than one quarter of the users out there. I think that this is significant. Also, on the certification topic, is LPI still an entity at all? For distribution-neutral certifications, I thought that it used to be the pinnacle, or at least they intended to become that, but it didn't even merit a mention in a dozen or so emails on this list. I do agree that a task-based test is going to tend to be a more valid measure of skills than a multiple-choice, but I thought the LPIC-2 was pretty tough. Regards, -Don

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RE: Linux Certification
by Leo Mauler 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

I smell "Catch-22": certs are useless, don't get them first; but there's no other way to prove to an employer that you know something...other than getting a job which requires that you prove what you know, except you can't without a cert which is useless to get the job you need to prove you can do something... I mean, the only alternative is to occasionally take two years off every decade and re-take an A.A.S. in IT (guess what I'm doing...). Personally, I'd think that any "hands-on" cert is still worth something. This would include Cisco and RHCE/RHCT. There at least you can point to a cert and say "I had to demonstrate real-world knowledge to get it, not just write down answers on a test." Granted, Cisco is probably an employer-sends-you-to-it cert, at about $1500 to take the whole thing, but you can still get that RHCE/RHCT cert for less than $300. --- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> wrote: > I've been watching the certification saga, both > Linux and otherwise, for a while now. > Certification is something you do within a position, > not as a qualification for a new position, not as a > ticket to the next job. > > I think that's where it remains, and when someone > asks "what's a good certification to go for?", I > say "Whatever your employer will send you to". > If you don't have the qualifications to get the > job without the cert, if the prospective employer > isn't convinced that certification is a formality, > for you, and isn't willing to pay for it, I think > it's a bad gamble. > Get the job first, then worry about the > certification. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: Linux Certification
by Leo Mauler 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Don't know much about this being a good way to find out about prospective employees. Some of us are very good at bluffing: about four years ago I had never touched Microsoft Excel, and yet I scored 88% on the test for it for some temp agency. --- Jack <quiet_celt(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Of course, now adays the best certification for > a copmpany to look for is to send the prospective > employee to one of those "prove it" test sites. > I don't think certificates or even job experience > necessarily are proof of competency. I would give > a test to any person I might hire. If a person can > perform the job tasks and has the right stuff then > he/she would get hired. > > Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: Screen Resolution Trends
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

>-----Original Message----- > > >Something that's been skirted in this discussion is the idea that the >whole point of a windowing environment is that no one application takes >all of the resources - they share the screen, so whatever the screen's >maximum resolution is, any given app should take _less_ than >that for it's >standard resolution. > >That's been something that's frustrated me. We have this ideal of >multiple working windows, but unless you're on some >super-pricey graphics >workstation you're usually reduced to maximizing each >application in turn >to make the most of your resources. > I have to put my home monitor on 1200x1600 so that I can get a decent workspace w/ several apps open at the same time and them all be usable.

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RE: Linux Certification
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

So how did you do on the test Bill? What are some good study materials and was there any part you found difficult, challenging, poorly worded, obscure, etc.? -----Original Message----- On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 10:58 -0700, Linux Rocks wrote: > Howdy: > > I was considering to pursue a Linux certification. > According to your opinion which certification is > better or more rewarding to pursue, if any. > > Thank you in advance. > Novell's CLP (Certified Linux Professional) and CLE (Certified Linux Engineer) are both avail for testing in voth MO, and KS vicinities around KC. CLP is based on SLES9 and for the CLE I would wait till June when an updated version of the test is available. -Bill

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Re: Screen Resolution Trends
by Jack 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

--- Don Erickson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Jonathan Hutchins wrote: > > > It's important to remember though that the 800x600 > screen reaches both the > > 1024 and the 1280 user though, giving it an > overwhelming market share, > > while the 1024 and larger screens "miss" the lower > resolution market. > > Oh, I'm certainly not suggesting that pages don't > have to display properly > on 800x600 screens. I guess that I'm suggesting, > due to the wide range of > resolutions that most people are using, that > static-sized pages should be > depricated and authoring dynamically-sized pages ... Absolutely. Web pages, should resize up/down to a certain minimum width. Although, resizing a page meant for 800x600 to 3200x2400 would be nuts. The graphics and fonts might to look very ragged. > ... > the range is so wide now that dynamically-sized > pages are certainly the > way to go in the future, and the present. > > But then, I'm still waiting for the browser that > renders vector graphics. You should be able to do that with a vector graphics plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. Or even a helper app. Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: UML CASE tools
by Jack 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

--- Joe Fish wrote: > I taught a class on UML / Introductory Java a few > years back, and, since it > was an intro class, fielded a lot of questions about > UML tools. > >... > > OTOH, there's also a F/OSS project to create a more > complex and > full-featured CASE tool loosely based on UML / the > Rational Process > here.<http://freshmeat.net/projects/argouml/>I > looked at, and > installed, this one as well, but found it to be > quite a bit > more work -- it's more like a UML > process-development tool than anything > (ie, very flexible, but a steep learning curve -- > and a lot of setup time, > AFAICT, even if you already are familiar with it.) Yeah, I installed argouml. Doesn't do what I need it to. THere looks like an add in for doing db schemas, but not out of the box. I wanted to find a full-fledged UMl tool, but my specific need was to build a db schema with E/R diagram. None of the tools I've looked at have an actual db graphic. The best I can hope for is to use a UML class tool. Or use something like Gimp and draw boxes and then add lines to seperate out the table names and fields. It would have been nice to have a tool to generate the SQL also. There seem to be some experimental add-ins to dia to do this, but I don't see any debian packages for it. Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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UML CASE tools
by Jack 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Does anyone use any CASE tools in Linux? What are the popular choices. I've googled and found quite a few tools out there and was surprised to find a number of dual licensed and commercial CASE tools. My immediate need is for making DB relationship documents. Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Free desktop Linux training
by Bill Cavalieri 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

http://www.novell.com/training/train_product/lcm/lcm.html Its aimed at using Linux on the desktop, and is a really good resource for your average user thinking of moving off windows.

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RE: Linux Certification
by Jack 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Of course, now adays the best certification for a copmpany to look for is to send the prospective employee to one of those "prove it" test sites. I don't think certificates or even job experience necessarily are proof of competency. I would give a test to any person I might hire. If a person can perform the job tasks and has the right stuff then he/she would get hired. Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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