On 12-Jan-06 MJ Ray wrote:
(Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
http://open.itworld.com/5040/nls_unix_resolution060111/page_1.html They're all good advice, I think; my particular favourites are
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-- Get yourself certified
One problem with that idea is that all certifications that I have seen so far are bad in different ways:
- can be fluked
- are platform-specific
- do not publish reliability/robustness statistics
- fund organisations with harmful political ambitions, or
- have few test opportunities
(not all are all, but definitely all the big ones seem to suffer at least one of these).
While I don't disagree with the above, I was rather thinking of "certified" in the medical sense ... :)
Ted.
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