Good, I apologize for my rant, after decades in the industry its a pet peeve and I always tend to hear it from those that hold low stations. I didn't mean to imply you were a script monkey, thats just been my experience. I had this guy working under me at DND in '98, new guy, Microsoft certs out the wazoo and we were in the midst of switching from Novell and Banyan to MS, needed a new NT server, so tasked him with it, couldn't even get the drives partitioned. Took him 2 days, man he took a lot of ribbing from the rest of the crew. I stopped with the vendor certs after pouring thousands of dollars down the shitter, the only Comptia one I pursued was the Project manager one which I think was around 2004 ish. I guess you need them these days if you are running your own shop but always thought they were a racket. Novell cost me a fortune back in the day, MS too, plus the updates, Network Associates Sniffer and Cisco's early certs as well but all that is obsolete now.
Now you need to tell me in your professional capacity why you wouldn't use one of these devices
The only reason I can think of after reading and watching the progress of these devices for a couple years is the possibility of an exploit, I find that to be a remote possibility in my case and I generally stay up on those things. Is there something else? I haven't laid hands on one of these things yet so I was looking for first hand accounts of use and performance, but if there is something I haven't considered I am all ears.
