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OMG, sellout!

Great systems administrators do not show up at work in the mornings, have some coffee and a biscuit, and then decide to install a server operating system because they have got a few hours before lunch.  Great system administrators work with a plan.

That’s right folks!  Great system administrators plan their coffee and biscuits ahead of time and we all know what they do with a few hours before lunch;  they plan where they will have their lunch, read Slashdot and their daily comic strips, then mark all unread email as marked so they can get down to business: play some Quake.

All that aside, those were the first few opening lines of the “Windows Server Administration” Training Kit.  That’s right, I am doing an MCITP course, the Enterprise Administrator certification to be exact.  I am keen to broaden my knowledge of Microsoft operating systems so I can be a better technologies integrator and eventually an architect.  So now I am busy downloading the Vista DVD image from MSDN so I can get started installing some VMs with Vista and Windows Server 2008, all legally of course.

I wonder if my certification will come with a mark of the beast somewhere on my forehead.

About Xander

Xander Soldaat is a Software Engineer and former Infrastructure Architect. He loves building and programming robots. He recently had the opportunity to turn his robotics hobby into his profession and has started working for Robomatter, the makers of ROBOTC and Robot Virtual Words.