Posted in General on November 18th, 2008 No Comments »
As of today, I am now HP certified to work on HP Desktops, Notebooks, and Workstations. That’s one more for the resume! Thank you for using Prometric Prime Testing Systems. Below are the results of your recently attempted test: ============================================= Name: Blake Johnson Test Title: Q01-Servicing HP Dsktops, Wrkstations, and Ntbooks Start time: 11/18/2008 8:20:44 [...]
Posted in General, Linux, Open Source, OpenSUSE, Random Stuff, Rants, Reviews on July 7th, 2008 No Comments »
In no particular order… OpenSUSE 11.0 came out a couple weeks ago. I’ve been using it since about Beta 2. I think it’s a great improvement over OpenSUSE 10.3. For example, I now have basic 3D acceleration without installing any ATI drivers, and I have native 3G support. However, there are two bugs which are [...]
Posted in General on March 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Earlier today, I took both the 070-271 and the 070-272 exams and passed them. That means I’m now a certified Microsoft Desktop Support Technician Exam Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 9:00 AM Candidate: Blake Johnson Candidate ID: sr3276439 Exam Series: 070-271 Exam: Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System Grade: Pass [...]
Posted in General on February 4th, 2008 No Comments »
I took the first 2 major A+ exams this morning, and passed them both. It turns out I’m now A+ certified. Exam Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 at 8:30 AM Candidate: Blake Johnson Candidate ID: COMP001001501574 Registration #: 224035823 Exam Series: JK0-601 Exam: CompTIA A+ Essentials Exam Validation #: 961549007 Grade: pass Exam Date: Monday, [...]
Posted in General, Rants on November 13th, 2007 No Comments »
I got a call today which got me thinking about how much I hate ITT Technical College. Here are my reasons why, and I’m hoping I can save at least one (1) poor soul the experience of having to attend that school. Credits are non-transferable. I quit ITT after about 3 terms. That’s almost a [...]