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I start studying for the CSSLP certification exam. I plan on taking it no later than the end of March (maybe earlier).
I'm only doing it because my job requires it (my personal opinion of certifications is that any half-aware monkey can pass the tests, and the only reason we have to get them is because someone in the government is getting kickbacks). Test is 4.5 hours, and costs $650 (artificially high price).
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No comment..... not disagreeing but still. Microsoft has so completely f'd up things why anyone would want, correction, need a cert in MS anything boggles my mind.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: No comment..... not disagreeing but still. Microsoft has so completely f'd up things why anyone would want, correction, need a cert in MS anything boggles my mind.
I think John might just come back with, US Gubberment.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Requiring a certification indicates to me a position I would not want.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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My last position required a MCSA cert. I got the cert but was still not given admin permissions on our db server. Why was the cert needed? Because the federal government still doesn't know how to write IT contracts.
The CSSLP is "Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional". It's a *management* cert that all federal contractors and civilian software developers must get. This is the DoD 8570.1 chart. I have to have Security+ (I already have this) and CSSLP.
https://4d0q7u11k31p1qnkosal8q2e-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/8570-cert.png[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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charlieg wrote: need a cert in MS anything boggles my mind.
Certifications helped me get my first job. It was a way to show employers that I could code even though I had no experience yet.
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The only reasonable thought I came up with for "me" to get anything certified from MS would be something along John's answer - contractual. Or perhaps I might learn some secret back door feature that would help me solve a customer problem. Doing battle with MS for the last 10 years, it is evidently clear why my customer is rapidly accelerating away from MS and heading to Android. I'm sure there is crap over there as well, but maybe, just maybe a little less of it.
Microsoft reminds me of Digital Equipment in it's denial phase.
Sorry, I'm ranting...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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So a half-aware monkey can pass the test, you're taking it by end of March, yet you're committing weekend time (weeks in advance) to study.
Not trusting your inner monkey to just wing it? 
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Good luck! Hope you get it over and done with soon so you can get back to more fun/meaningful things 
Let us know how it goes.
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...ever crossed the 'tecnogas' brand of ovens? It allegedly, a nearly 60 years old Italian brand, but it is the first time I see it ever (yes I'm looking for a new oven)...
Have you?
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Fiat is also Italian, and well over a hundred years old. Still doesn't mean I'd want to own one, based on their running joke of a reputation (seriously, "Fix It Again, Tony"?)
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isn't this why they invented powerpoint?
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Where's rg;bg (colourful language)?
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I would like to get some ideas from the people here on the topic of organizing data. In my immediate case, I have too many disparate files in too many disparate locations to be truly and effectively useful to me.
There are a zillion files, sprinkled among....
- My Desktop Computer's hard drive
- My Phone
- A Bunch Of Thumb Drives
- My Notebook computer
- Two Separate External Hard Drives
The disorganization presents complexities that astound me.
i.e., How did I ever let this mess develop to this point ?
Something tells me that I am not the only one dealing with this sort of problem.
I'm looking for thoughts from folks here on the root cause of Data Disorganization, like thoughts and habits that we fall into way back at the start of it all, along with some ideas about minor habits that go along with reversing the process so it doesn't start again.
Your thoughts ?
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C-P-User-3 wrote: I'm looking for thoughts from folks here on the root cause of Data Disorganization
Optimization of spending energy. If there's no obvious reward to doing it "the right way", you will stop doing it.
It does not have to be a single location; all my photo's are on a thumb-drive, projects on an external USB drive, and there's an "unorganized" folder on the desktop. Use it for the moments where you have "no time" to do it right, to postpone it for later that week.
Have a similar "unorganized" folder on your laptop/notebook, and move the contents to the unorganized folder on the main-PC whenever you connect to the network.
Bonuspoints if you write an application for synchronizing/archiving the contents of the folder
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The easiest thing to do is to organise your files and backups.
Mine is all organised on my machine in a set directory structure (personal, work, business, entertainment, ebooks, old stuff),
- shadowed onto a second drive in the same machine,
- shadowed to an eqivalent directory structure in a backup machine,
- and backed up onto pairs of external drives.
Thumb drives and/or phone are only for transporting files to/from work sites (and usually I'll email or dropbox a copy for myself for that too.)
Also all files pertaining to clients are also kept on one of their machines (normally the one I use for dev/test - Sometimes encrypted if I don't want them poking around in it.)
the hardest thing to do is discipline yourself to maintain that organisation.
Anything updated away from my main copy is daily added back to my main machine (thumb drive for safety/first level backup but usually I email it (or a dropbox link if large) to myself.
- because I already have a habit check my email daily I see and immediately act on filing that new copy to my "master"
- backup to external drives, depends on the amount of changes, absolutely minimum weekly but often daily.
- backup to backup machine - weekly (weekends) - my backup machine is also my entertainment box (connected to TV = bigger screen). My main machine would already be on as even in weekends I check email before sports / movies & beer o'clock, easy to mount the network drives and run the update script.
How to make backups easier
Of course use a proper backup software and scripts, just backup everything - no "should I add this? do I have that?" worries, who cares, O/S and all just back it up.
(except to the backup machine to which I only backup all the non-system folders)
- Go for SSD (yes for external drives too) - main reason people don't do backups is takes so damn long. SSD's fix that - the longest part of doing my backups to external is plugging the things in, (USB 3.1 gen 2), even if I've copied a database for testing (lets say 10G) it's still all done in a few minutes - try that on a spinner or for real fun a thumb drive.
SSD drives, including SSD externals - I can't stop saying this, throw away your spinners.
when backups only take seconds (faster than you can get yourself a cup of coffee) it's no longer a chore that you put off until tomorrow coz you're to shagged.
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Lopatir wrote: SSD drives, including SSD externals - I can't stop saying this, throw away your spinners.
when backups only take seconds (faster than you can get yourself a cup of coffee) it's no longer a chore that you put off until tomorrow coz you're to shagged.
How's your data recovery from the SSD's when things go awry? Spinning rust allows for data recovery in a lot of scenarios. SSD's mean pretty much instant data death thanks to TRIM.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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that's why everything is doubled. I want the speed.
... hardware is replaceable, time not so much.
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Lopatir wrote: SSD drives, including SSD externals - I can't stop saying this, throw away your spinners.
when backups only take seconds (faster than you can get yourself a cup of coffee) it's no longer a chore that you put off until tomorrow coz you're to shagged.
My backups typically run overnight; it doesn't matter to me how long they take.
And even though they've been dropping in price, spinners are still far cheaper than SSDs. If I wanted to get an extra set of backup drives for everything I have, I'd need about 24TB (I'm being lazy and not separating out copies of my own ripped DVD purchases as part of my backup set). The last set of 8TB drives I bought (best price/capacity ratio I found at the time) was $180 each ($540). With some arm-twisting, I could justify that.
A quick Amazon search shows that 4TB SSDs are still ridiculously expensive ($850; I'd need 6 of them, or $5100). 2TB SSDs are much more reasonable ($380--I have one to host VMs), but then I'd need 12 of them, so that makes $4560. At over 8x the price, I can't justify that.
My NAS is all spinners and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. Spinners (even accessed across my LAN) are plenty fast to stream movies as I watch them in realtime; same for music. To me it never made any sense to put things that don't need extra-fast access on SSDs.
Of course it's all a matter of needs and volume, so YMMV. I'm just objecting to blanket statements such as "throw away your spinners", is all. Anyone you can convince should send them to me; I could use them as extra backups. :-p
(And yes, all of this goes out the window the instant the price/capacity ratio of SSDs beats spinning disks...I'm still patiently waiting for that day)
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actually I'll give you the media library is still a case for spinners (given volume required for the price as you point out). Not much else though.
NAS too is OK for spinners, as you say with backups automated seeing as they are on 24/7.
My take was OP was speaking to active files required and updated daily (so unlikely to be GB's), ... some on pc, some on laptop, some on thumbs and even on the phone - my points really came down to:
1. choose a master (likely the PC),
2. make it a habit to maintain that master up-to-date, (tip: use email to spur that action)
3. to make 2 less of a chore use the fastest solution(s) you can get
(because if it is a huge chore, well we humans are naturally lazy creatures so...)
BTW: Personally I've given up on the media library - kept too many things that I would never look at again (too much to feasibly watch), and seeing as really cheap access to older content comes bundled with the various movie/tv subscriptions even more didn't see the point
- but that's my way, absolutely not saying everyone should do this - luckily we [nearly] all live in a world we we can choose to our own preferences.
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Lopatir wrote: and seeing as really cheap access to older content comes bundled with the various movie/tv subscriptions
You mean like Ultraviolet, which have recently emailed me to tell me they were shutting down their service and I was going to lose access to my purchased DVD/Blu-ray streaming option unless I somehow find the means to transfer what they think I own to another provider?
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