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 Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 7:30am On Aug 21, 2014 |
Story .....You love your job indeed... why won't you love it when you lots are more interested in how much you can siphon from the government hospitals than what you can do to better it...... Perhaps you lot should try the private hospitals owned by your senior colleagues and let's see how much you would like the same job...... Greedy lots.... Make una dey pray say government go change mind or else many of una go chop sand this coming season..... Lol. |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 6:09am On Aug 19, 2014 |
ozodigboo: Point of correction. . . . no doctor is begging for his job back.Lol..... Are you for real? You are obviously not a doctor else you would know that Doctors working for doctors in private practice are the worst paid...... Guy get real! And talk with some touch of reality. |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 6:01am On Aug 19, 2014 |
soulglo: Both my parents were civil servants. They served their country with pride. That was in the 80s. In today's Nigeria it is considered slavery smh.You know the irony of it all, many of these chaps writing nonsense about Doctors earning the right to be paid like politicians do not even know the realities on ground in the private sector. I challenge any doctor here to come and tell us how much they get paid in private hospitals. I know cos my in law is a doctor with Havana hospital, she does not even get upto 200k per month yet Havana is an elitist hospital in surulere, not to talk of the ones that pay 100k, 70k and the likes yet these hospitals are mostly owned by the same Doctors threatening fire and brimstone on the FG. These guys don't remember that Doctors deserve 100k hazard allowance when it is their hospitals, I know many doctor friends in private hospitals who do jobs on rota basis in different hospitals yet they hardly make up to 250k per month......many of them know this is a fact, that their demands can't be met in private hospitals managed by their colleagues....... Na for government hand na im una dey remember say una spend 1million years to do medicine...... Like I have said, if FG should decide to put open the positions of those sacked residents, the results of the interests will daze everyone....... Even the sacked ones will re-apply....... Hypocrites that can not seem to negotiate real issues outside of getting fat greedy paychecks. 2 Likes |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 5:20am On Aug 19, 2014 |
phantom: Below is the breakdown of the monthly earnings of a Nigerian senator:NOTE: ALL ARE IN NAIRAWhy not leave the damn profession and join a party to contest as a politician instead of using this bullcrap as an excuse to cripple down the health sector..... I just hope somebody like you is not a doctor. Tell me in all truthfulness, do you think you face more hazard than a Nigerian soldier or are more deserving of such than him, you are not even half as commited to his job as him yet he will put his life in danger and still not complain, I have an uncle who is a military Doctor, this man goes for months without seeing any member of his families, those are the people that should be talking about hazard and fat salaries not overpaid folks who many Nigerians have lost confidence in and can't rely on them to perform an ordinary open heart surgery by-pass. It has not occurred to many of you that it is just not only about money but the kind of very mediocre services you lot give in comparison to others who earn the same thing or even less..... You go to LUTH and ask a doctor a very simple question and he or she becomes rude..... See them shouting at patients writhing in pain, some even threaten to leave them..... Na all these ones follow too for una medicine training........ Scheew. |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 5:01am On Aug 19, 2014 |
infolekan: Leave him to his delusions....is a Doctor a Priest to you....and to think the Pastors even ride jets these days.hahaha a.... Ignorant comments like this only buttress the point I made earlier on, you lots are in that profession for the wrong reasons, you seem to think because you are a doctor you are smarter or more deserving than others. Apart from the humanitarian nature of the profession there's really nothing extraordinary about it except that you spent most of the time in a hospital, the whole training of Medicine starts and ends in a hospital...... It does not mean you are more read or have more knowledge than anyone else. Trust me, you will look like a dunce if you dared to do the kind of job I do for in stance even though you think you are smart....... I I That most profession do not start and end on a confined institutional training or learning process does not mean they are easy to study and pass. If we were to name the hardest subjects or field of study trust me, medicine won't be first, there are way more complex field of study that require way more than read, do Labs and examine patients. Anyway, I hav doctors friends, I have seen many dumb Nigerian doctors who never should have been there in the first place just like the one that quickened my mother's death with her carelessness at Onikan Hospital, if reading medicine was the determining factor for brilliance, Nigerian doctors are an exception as far as I am concerned. Many of them are not doctors in the real sense. Yet they think Nigerians who hardly get good health care unless they go to their own private clinics should push government to throw money at them and make them the numero uno of every health care institutions........ Ll Many of them act like the people in our police force, show no empathy or serious humanitarian commitment to the job, medicine to them is a license to brag and feel smart and fleece the intellectually dumb set up of the Nigerian Federal ministries. If a doctor can argue that because politicians earn fat salaries they are entitled to the same then it is obvious this is not about personal satisfaction and service to human, it is about status and financial achievement to these lots. Quit your job and join politics, simple. Don't put me under scissors and knives and then complain endlessly about things that by nature are set to default. 1 Like |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 10:50pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Judah1986: For those that don't understand, this is medical sarcasm at its best 8-)oh, go ahead and explain to us all..... You seem to be the only one that understand the sarcasm.... Lol |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 9:33pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
DrLuv: if you are referrring to that guy "rhyming out" heretic rhymz...better leave him..he posted his ignorance on the wall.. yet he keeps up with it despite correctionLOL... Obviously this riff-raff can not be a Doctor, not with this utter rubbish you keep plaguing the thread with. Kid before you argue with your betters perhaps you should learn first to write with some degree of coherence, I can hardly make any sense out of the gibberish you post like a retard. I will keep posting my views and hope you seethe and swallow your tongue in rage, Nigerian doctors, especially the ones in the government employ are fucking hypocrites on ego ride at our own collective expensive. |
| Business › Re: NACCIMA Proposes Naira For ECOWAS Single Currency by rhymz(m): 7:58am On Aug 18, 2014 |
For now we do not need such currency amalgamation cos it will only benefit European countries like France that has practically turned francophone countries into their extensions where they can dump their own manufactured goods and dictate the politics of these countries. Nigeria will only turn to their dumping ground as well. We are better off going it alone period. ECOWAS zip a water of time |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 6:15am On Aug 18, 2014 |
Too many kids here are just confusing issues and like is usual with the "Nigerian Doctor I am the smartest one on planet earth" any opposing views are seen as personal attacks against them individually. Everyone is unintelligent, only the Nigerian Doctors are smart and can only understand the issues... too many square pegs in round holes. People holding medical degrees so they can brag to their friends and perceived foes about their brilliance... lol Abeg you guyz should calm down and understand that government can not pay you like politicians no matter what your arguments are....and the government as the employer can sack all of the residents if they choose to deliberately frustrate efforts to solve their own issues. Again, in a negotiation there has to be compromise, no one person can get it all. Negotiation is a process and not an instant happen stance. It takes more skills to be a real Doctor and that is compassion and service. whoever is interested in getting a fat ass oil and gas salary should leave the government hospitals and chase the paper.simple. 2 Likes |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 9:18pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
Kcinho: On top of the ignorance you lack adequate home training.Home training to talk down on a low lifer like you..... I am probably older than you and have more life experiences than you..... So don't pretend like you are talking to your equal, you are probably some stray idiot with Internet connection trying to feel like you are smart. Henceforth I will ignore you simpleton. |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 8:00pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
Kcinho: I believe this guy still does the hot salt water bath because he is so ignorant and has refused to learn. Your ignorance is amazing.Guy go to hell! Do I look like I care to sound cliche so you can like my comments?? You can choose to burst a vein in your rage that is your own cup of tea. I will continue to argue that those residents deserve what they got and obviously needed to be curtailed. It is very simple, if you are no time satisfied with conditions of service, leave the hospital and join your colleagues in private hospitals or go and try your luck abroad like many of your mates have done. What we won't allow is For you and the other doctor wanna-bes to cripple down the sector because to you it to is not about service but being treated like a politician or an oil and gas worker..... 4ck you again.... 1 Like |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 6:15pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
DrLuv: please please my brother..permit me to insult u please,jor biko.if u do not know what residents means and the position they occupy in the tertiary centre..dont comment jor rather than compare them with medical students jor.This immature FOOL too is a doctor  Lol, no wonder they are on the brink of losing their jobs and talking tough on their little screens. Trust me, I may not be a doctor but I am damn good at what I do, you lots ain't the only smart people you know So come down your high horse and Comment like you have got some damn sense in that head of yours. 2 Likes |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 5:52pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
bushdoc9919: Erm....at the bolded.Last time I checked, provisional licenses are only issued to medical school graduate trainees going through further training as residents in mostly government hospitals, these guys can't do jack without the presence and supervision of a consultant. Do how are they licensed doctors? Provisional license is only for the training and not to practise medicine as real doctors would without some guy watching over in case they mess up. I repeat, they are only as good as the supervision they get, they are not licensed and can not function outside of the confines of the training program. Let's not deceive ourselves, nobody is irreplaceable no matter your skills. How are they hard to get? Do you know how many of their colleagues in the private sector that will jump to take up their positions? Trust me, you don't want to put the FG to put that to test cos you will be shocked at what the results will be. We were all witnesses to the LASG experiment, it came to a point NMA threatened to withdraw licenses of doctors who showed interest. So bone that matter. If push comes to shove, they will be replaced and the hospitals will continue to exist and function as usual. I don't see how fighting over who should be called consultant and the propriety of your colleagues heading the hospital administration and management, will improve the treatment and health care I get from the FG hospitals. Most of these issues border on self serving frivolous ego protection fight, it is not in my interest or anyone that's not a doctor interest. So forgive me if I say it as it is.... Sack them and replace them or have them sign undertakings before reinstating them. Simple. 1 Like |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 5:19pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
bushdoc9919: Erm....at the bolded. |
| Health › Re: Government Vows Not To Recall Sacked Doctors by rhymz(m): 10:14am On Aug 17, 2014 |
Can people stop twisting the facts and reality on ground.... residents are not even licensed doctors so what is this talk about the hospitals coming to a halt because medical graduate trainees have been sacked. Are you guys for real. With or without Resident docs, the teaching hospitals can run fine, all the management need to do is make little changes and tweaks here and there. The absence of residents can not stop a hospital from running, for God's sake these guys are a little above the medical students. Do you all know the other levels above residents who are already licensed and can perform without supervision? There are specialists, fellows and consultants, all doctors..... So how does the suspension of the residency program equate to sacking 16000 doctors.... Na only residents dey work for FG hospitals ni? Abeg let's be realistic, these guys had it coming when they left the profession and started a power tussle and politics first with colleagues and in extension with the FG their employers. They allowed the consultants to use them as pawns forgetting that they are just graduate trainees who can be used to out fears in the mind of their bosses. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: How A Married Woman Almost Seduced Me - Pastor Adeboye by rhymz(m): 7:33am On Aug 11, 2014 |
bobonicez: ” That didn’t deter the woman who continued to pester him, and even came to the camp to threaten him, saying “if you stand on my way to marrying this man, I will kill you.”I can't seem to figure out the quoted part. Who exactly was she telling the quoted part?? the same pastor that she is trying to seduce. Anyway, this is a clear case of mental disorder, the pastor should know this already. Besides, if her husband is already aware of it, it shows that it is clear case of mental disorder. It is unfortunate the Pastor had to be the object of her mental obsession. The whole story seem like a private matter to me that should not have been discussed in the open, at least to protect the husband who probably is going through a lot himself unless this whole story is a fictional hogwash. 3 Likes |
| Health › Re: Ebola Latest: US Rejects Nigeria’s Request For Trial Drug by rhymz(m): 1:29pm On Aug 09, 2014 |
An average Nigerian is not analytical at all, it shows in the kind of very ignorant statements they make online especially here on NL and that is why it always seems as if we can not get anything right. Besides the Zmapp serum that everyone is falling over each other to get, do you all know that there even more promising drugs like the TKM-ebola from tekmira in canada and the Japanese Fujifilm anti-influenza drug favipiravir all at different stage of experimentations and trials that have shown prospects and even better promises to treating the Ebola viral infection. We don't seem to focus on the real issues, the commentaries are as usual; intellectually shallow, mentally lazy and lack depth in analysis. It is always about some preposterous conspiracies or the usual blame games or some dumb kid coming up with very distasteful joke on the issue. It is so annoying to read different threads and notice the same streak of intellectual laziness and lethargy in analysis of issues. Now we have quite some drugs from some small time pharmaceuticals many not even in America but their fundings are tied to the American military and so will most likely need the approval of the American FDA to produce these drugs in commercial quantities, what we as Nigerians should do now is to contract other pharmaceuticals around the world working independently already to develop a vaccine or drug for Ebola. Fund them and get Nigerian scientists to work with them as well. This whole excuse of not getting enough information on the use of the serum is enough pointer to the politics surrounding the development of any drug to cure an outbreak, it is all about business viability and nothing more. So far the casualties of Ebola viral infection has largely been confined to poor Africa and a mere 900-1000 deaths, that can not be profitable enough to warrant commercially profitable production. This is where Nigeria especially should come in and leverage on. Take over the funding of some of these researches in many of these not too big pharmaceuticals scattered around the world, get them to developed drugs that directly affect the region and geography of Africa. Get big shots like Dangote and his likes to contribute to this research, have a programme with them that involves Nigerian scientists working with them on this and also cite the possibilities of setting them up in Nigeria. This is where our discussions should go not this nonsense trivial anti-american rants and small talk that portrays Nigerian youth as talkative intellectual midgets that lack proper understanding of the issues and have problems with analysis of issues. 3 Likes |
| Health › Re: American Ebola Patients Saved With A "Secret Serum" by rhymz(m): 6:15am On Aug 05, 2014 |
Three top secret, experimental vials stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last- ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment. On July 22, Dr. Kent Brantly woke up feeling feverish. Fearing the worst, Brantly immediately isolated himself. Nancy Writebol's symptoms started three days later. A rapid field blood test confirmed the infection in both of them after they had become ill with fever, vomiting and diarrhea. It's believed both Brantly and Writebol, who worked with the aid organization Samaritan's Purse, contracted Ebola from another health care worker at their hospital in Liberia, although the official Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case investigation has yet to be released. A representative from the National Institutes of Health contacted Samaritan's Purse in Liberia and offered the experimental treatment, known as ZMapp, for the two patients, according to the source. The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. The patients were told that this treatment had never been tried before in a human being but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys. According to company documents, four monkeys infected with Ebola survived after being given the therapy within 24 hours after infection. Two of four additional monkeys that started therapy within 48 hours after infection also survived. One monkey that was not treated died within five days of exposure to the virus. Brantly and Writebol were aware of the risk of taking a new, little understood treatment; informed consent was obtained from both Americans, according to two sources familiar with the care of the missionary workers. In the monkeys, the experimental serum had been given within 48 hours of infection. Brantly didn't receive it until he'd been sick for nine days. The medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice's blood were harvested to create the medicine. It works by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells. The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever, which refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the body and are often accompanied by bleeding. Early symptoms include sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headaches and a sore throat. They later progress to vomiting, diarrhea, impaired kidney and liver function -- and sometimes internal and external bleeding. The ZMapp vials reached the hospital in Liberia where Brantly and Writebol were being treated Thursday morning. Doctors were instructed to allow the vials to thaw naturally without any additional heat. It was expected that it would be eight to 10 hours before the medicine could be given, according to a source familiar with the process. Brantly asked that Writebol be given the first dose because he was younger and he thought he had a better chance of fighting it, and she agreed. However, as the first vial was still thawing, Brantly's condition took a sudden turn for the worse. Brantly began to deteriorate and developed labored breathing. He told his doctors he thought he was dying, according to a source with firsthand knowledge of the situation. Knowing his dose was still frozen, Brantly asked if he could have Writebol's now-thawed medication. It was brought to his room and administered through an IV. Within an hour of receiving the medication, Brantly's condition dramatically improved. He began breathing easier; the rash over his trunk faded away. One of his doctors described the events as "miraculous." By the next morning, Brantly was able to take a shower on his own before getting on a specially designed Gulfstream air ambulance jet to be evacuated to the United States. Writebol also received a vial of the medication. Her response was not as remarkable, according to sources familiar with the treatment. However, doctors on Sunday administered Writebol a second dose of the medication, which resulted in significant improvement. She was stable enough to be evacuated back to the United States and is expected to arrive before noon Tuesday. ZMapp has not been approved for human use, and has not even gone through the clinical trial process, which is standard to prove the safety and efficacy of a medication. The process by which the medication was made available to Brantly and Writebol is highly unusual. It may have fallen under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "compassionate use" regulation, which allows access to investigational drugs outside clinical trials. Getting approval for compassionate use is often long and laborious, but in the case of Brantly and Writebol, they received the medication within seven to 10 days of their exposure to the Ebola virus. On July 30, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, an arm of the military responsible for any chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive threats, allotted additional funding to MAPP Biopharmaceutical due to "promising results." 8 Likes |
| Health › Re: Secret Serum Likely Saved US Doctors Infected With Ebola Virus by rhymz(op): 8:55pm On Aug 04, 2014 |
ochon: Meaning the UK doctor was right when he said Westerners ain't bothered cos the disease is ravishing only Africans. See the way secretly produced these vials when their own was affected. SMHlet's not conclude as if that is the case, is not like anyone has a cure and is hiding it. the serum is still under serious investigation and observation and has not even gotten to the stage of testing it on humans. If anything, the docs put their lives on the line and got infected, they should be commended for such selfless service even when there is no gratification for it. |
| Health › Re: Nigerian Doctor Who Treated Victim Infected With Ebola by rhymz(m): 6:54pm On Aug 04, 2014 |
The National Institutes of Health plans to begin testing an experimental Ebola vaccine in people as early as September. Tests on primates have been successful. So far, the outbreak is confined to West Africa. Although infections are dropping in Guinea, they are on the rise in Liberia and Sierra Leone. In the 1990s, an Ebola strain tied to monkeys -- Ebola- Reston -- was found in the United States, but no humans got sick from it, according |
| Health › Secret Serum Likely Saved US Doctors Infected With Ebola Virus by rhymz(op): 6:24pm On Aug 04, 2014 |
Three top secret, experimental vials stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment. On July 22, Dr. Kent Brantly woke up feeling feverish. Fearing the worst, Brantly immediately isolated himself. Nancy Writebol's symptoms started three days later. A rapid field blood test confirmed the infection in both of them after they had become ill with fever, vomiting and diarrhea. It's believed both Brantly and Writebol, who worked with the aid organization Samaritan's Purse, contracted Ebola from another health care worker at their hospital in Liberia, although the official Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case investigation has yet to be released. A representative from the National Institutes of Health contacted Samaritan's Purse in Liberia and offered the experimental treatment, known as ZMapp, for the two patients, according to the source. The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. The patients were told that this treatment had never been tried before in a human being but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys. According to company documents, four monkeys infected with Ebola survived after being given the therapy within 24 hours after infection. Two of four additional monkeys that started therapy within 48 hours after infection also survived. One monkey that was not treated died within five days of exposure to the virus. Brantly and Writebol were aware of the risk of taking a new, little understood treatment; informed consent was obtained from both Americans, according to two sources familiar with the care of the missionary workers. In the monkeys, the experimental serum had been given within 48 hours of infection. Brantly didn't receive it until he'd been sick for nine days. The medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice's blood were harvested to create the medicine. It works by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells. The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever, which refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the body and are often accompanied by bleeding. Early symptoms include sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headaches and a sore throat. They later progress to vomiting, diarrhea, impaired kidney and liver function -- and sometimes internal and external bleeding. The ZMapp vials reached the hospital in Liberia where Brantly and Writebol were being treated Thursday morning. Doctors were instructed to allow the vials to thaw naturally without any additional heat. It was expected that it would be eight to 10 hours before the medicine could be given, according to a source familiar with the process. Brantly asked that Writebol be given the first dose because he was younger and he thought he had a better chance of fighting it, and she agreed. However, as the first vial was still thawing, Brantly's condition took a sudden turn for the worse. Brantly began to deteriorate and developed labored breathing. He told his doctors he thought he was dying, according to a source with firsthand knowledge of the situation. Knowing his dose was still frozen, Brantly asked if he could have Writebol's now-thawed medication. It was brought to his room and administered through an IV. Within an hour of receiving the medication, Brantly's condition dramatically improved. He began breathing easier; the rash over his trunk faded away. One of his doctors described the events as "miraculous." By the next morning, Brantly was able to take a shower on his own before getting on a specially designed Gulfstream air ambulance jet to be evacuated to the United States. Writebol also received a vial of the medication. Her response was not as remarkable, according to sources familiar with the treatment. However, doctors on Sunday administered Writebol a second dose of the medication, which resulted in significant improvement. She was stable enough to be evacuated back to the United States and is expected to arrive before noon Tuesday. ZMapp has not been approved for human use, and has not even gone through the clinical trial process, which is standard to prove the safety and efficacy of a medication. The process by which the medication was made available to Brantly and Writebol is highly unusual. It may have fallen under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "compassionate use" regulation, which allows access to investigational drugs outside clinical trials. Getting approval for compassionate use is often long and laborious, but in the case of Brantly and Writebol, they received the medication within seven to 10 days of their exposure to the Ebola virus. On July 30, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, an arm of the military responsible for any chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive threats, allotted additional funding to MAPP Biopharmaceutical due to "promising results." |
| Science/Technology › Re: Do Your IT Certifications ‘Stack’ Up? Find the Right Path for Your Career by rhymz(op): 7:26pm On Jul 24, 2014 |
Storage Level Certifications NetApp NCDA If you really want to scale your infrastructure, you need to get off of local storage and employ some sort of SAN or NAS equipment in your rack. I’m talking about shared storage here; it’s become a necessity in the datacenter, especially with technologies like VMware taking off. Where there used to be a couple hundred gigabytes in our datacenter, the data that we collect now demands hundreds of terabytes. For a good entry-level certification on storage, the NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) certification is at the top of the list. Yes, there are other storage centric certifications out there, but the NCDA is a good place to start. There are no pre-requisites to obtain the NCDA, and you are not required to re-certify every three years like other certs. Passing the NCDA exam means that you have a firm understanding of NetApp’s storage systems. As an NCDA, you can comfortably navigate NetApp’s Data ONTAP operating system in either NFS or CIFS environments, configure storage controllers, disk shelves, fibre channel networking, build aggregates, volumes and create LUNs. There are advanced certifications with NetApp, but first things first, get NCDA certified. Below is the NetApp Certification roadmap. https://www.trainsignal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/NCDA1.jpg Other certifications: HDS CSM: Hitachi Data Systems Certified Storage Master (Hitachi), EMCPP: EMC Proven Professional (EMC), DCEE: Dell Certified Enterprise Engineer (Dell) 1 Like |
| Science/Technology › Re: Do Your IT Certifications ‘Stack’ Up? Find the Right Path for Your Career by rhymz(op): 7:24pm On Jul 24, 2014 |
VMware VCP5-DV Yes, VMware is a server level certification; however it is one certification that relies on having the knowledge of several other technologies in order for it to function properly. VMware’s ESXi is the industry leading bare metal (type 1) hypervisor. With VMware, you can build virtual machines with Windows or Linux as the guest operating system. You must also understand how networking works to understand the configuration of virtual networking within VMware. In order to have a robust VMware infrastructure and one with all of the best features of VMware, you must have shared storage such as a SAN or NAS. It’s easy to see how much you must already know in order to configure and build out your VMware environment the right way. Today there are many VMware certifications (for a full list you can read the certification roadmap here). In the certification roadmap there will be many choices, but you will want to take the entry-level certification, VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5-Datacenter Virtualization (VCP5-DV). By passing the VCP5-DV exam you will have illustrated that you understand how to build a VM, attach and configure shared storage, build clusters, configure VMware High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT) and a whole lot more. This exam is tough, but passing it means you know your stuff. There is a pre-requisite to obtaining the VCP5-DV certification. You must complete a VMware-approved in-person or live online classroom course. The general course is VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0]. VMware does not require that you re-certify every three years, but a new version comes out just about every other year, along with the accompanying certifications. Below you will find a graphic of VMware’s certification roadmap. Other certifications: MCITP: Virtualization Administrator (Microsoft), CCA: Citrix Certified Administrator for XenServer 6 (Citrix), RHCVA: Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RedHat). |
| Science/Technology › Re: Do Your IT Certifications ‘Stack’ Up? Find the Right Path for Your Career by rhymz(op): 7:23pm On Jul 24, 2014 |
Server Level Certifications Microsoft MCSA/MCSE/MCSM Microsoft has really set the standard for server operating systems. There are still companies out there running Windows Server 2003, which says something about the longevity of its software. You are more likely to see Windows Server 2008R2 and maybe a sprinkling of Windows Server 2012 on infrastructure servers today. Microsoft has gone back and forth with its certifications. At first, it had the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. For some reason, the certifications changed to Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional (MCITP). In 2012, the company re-released the MCSA and MCSE, but this time they stand for Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, along with the addition of Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM). What it really boils down to is non-systems engineers not liking the moniker of engineer on a tech certification. Each of these requires several exams in order to achieve certification, but none of them have any classroom training pre-requisites. I could write an entire post on all of the different Microsoft certifications, instead here’s a graphic explaining the certification path for each one. https://www.trainsignal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Microsoft.jpg Other certifications: RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer (RedHat), CompTIA Server+ |
| Science/Technology › Re: Do Your IT Certifications ‘Stack’ Up? Find the Right Path for Your Career by rhymz(op): 7:14pm On Jul 24, 2014 |
Networking Certifications CompTIA Network+ This is an entry-level networking certification. For this certification you will learn about the OSI model, networking hardware (switches, routers, etc.), IP addressing and a brief overview of binary math and subnetting. You will even learn how to make your very own patch cable and crossover cable. This is where you should start with networking certifications. There are no pre-requisites to obtaining this certification, although if you are new to networking you should find some classroom training or CBTs to help you prepare. You must re-certify every three years with CompTIA to maintain your Network+ certification. Other certifications: CompTIA A+ Cisco CCNA The CCNA certification is the industry standard for networking certifications. Cisco owns a large part of the market share for networking equipment. From Cisco ASA firewalls, switches, and routers, you are bound to come across some Cisco networking equipment in your IT career. With the CCNA there are two routes to take in order to become certified. You can go after the Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) first, which you achieve by passing the ICND1 exam. Once you pass that exam, you must then take the ICND2 exam, which will certify you as a CCNA. For those of us with a little more experience who want to just take one exam, there’s the CCNA composite exam, which consists of content from both ICND1 and ICND2 rolled into one exam. It’s up to you to decide which route is best for your learning style and test-taking ability. The CCNA goes further in depth on networking topics such as routing and switching, interconnecting Cisco devices, subnetting, binary math, VLANs and much more. There are no prerequisites to taking either route to get your CCNA, but like the Network+ certification, you must recertify every three years. https://www.trainsignal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CCNA.png Other certifications: CNE: Netware6 Certified Network Engineer (Novell), CWNP: Certified Wireless Network Professional (Vendor Neutral) |
| Science/Technology › Do Your IT Certifications ‘Stack’ Up? Find the Right Path for Your Career by rhymz(op): 6:47pm On Jul 24, 2014*. Modified: 7:09pm On Jul 24, 2014 |
There are so many IT certifications in the industry today that it can be difficult to understand which ones you should spend your time and money on. If you have a certification, you know how much effort they demand, so it’s important you choose which ones to pursue wisely. Are you aiming to be a specialist and just focus on one specific technology’s certification track? Or, do you pick the generalist path and go for three or four different vendor certifications? Both paths can make for a lucrative career, but I want to point out what I believe is the new certification path: “The Stack.” What’s The Stack? No, it’s not just a bunch of certificates piled up on your desk or littering your walls; it’s much more than that. Taking “The Stack” certification path means you approach your certifications the way a company approaches the technologies in their racks and how they interact with each other. Imagine we’re in a datacenter right now and staring down a row of racks filled with equipment. If you opened one of those racks and looked inside, what kinds of hardware would you see? In a typical rack, you might see your top of rack switches and maybe a firewall or two. Underneath that, you might find a load balancer or some type of WAN device. Moving on down the rack you would find servers, either blades in a chassis or rack mount servers, affectionately called “pizza box” servers. Even further down the rack, you’ll most likely find some type of shared storage, either a SAN or NAS piece of hardware. At the bottom, you might find some PDUs, unless of course the PDUs are vertical and on the side of the rack. In about 90 percent of racks in the world today, you would find this type of technology stack. Of course, there are some datacenters with racks and racks full of SAN equipment, but for the sake of this article, let’s focus on the rack I described. Just as the technologies in this rack work together to create a functional infrastructure, obtaining the certifications pertinent to those technologies will create functional knowledge of how they interact. Which Certifications in “The Stack” Should I Focus On? The quick and easy answer is simply: all of them. I know, that sounds like a lot of money and a ton of your time spent up, but I promise it pays off. So the next question is where to start? It would be best to start with a networking certification. Why networking? Without networking, none of the equipment would be able to talk to each other. How would you replicate data from your server to your SAN? You wouldn’t; networking is the single most important piece in an infrastructure. There are several networking certifications you could obtain, and here’s a good path to being certified in networking. |
| Health › Re: JOHESU Sues NMA, Says Doctors Strike Illegal by rhymz(m): 4:26pm On Jul 19, 2014 |
And please, for Bleep sake, can all these so-called doctors fronting here about being the most important humans alive write in clear English text for all to read and understand? What is with the silly childish abbreviation s and short hands? na so them teach una for una medical schools? So much for the touted brilliance of the medical doctor. 1 Like |
| Islam › Re: Belgium: Woman Assists More Than 1000 Become Muslims by rhymz(m): 4:05pm On Jul 19, 2014 |
BetaThings: Take one =You sound like a kid taunting another kid for being equally dimwitted. There is hardly any difference between these two religions, they are both man made and violent, Christianity has come off age and is lethargic, Islam is in its prime and bursting with fanaticism and the macho and gusto of a radicalism. They are both not safe for society. |
| Islam › Re: Belgium: Woman Assists More Than 1000 Become Muslims by rhymz(m): 3:59pm On Jul 19, 2014 |
Obviously, the world is going to be worse for it. This is the gradual islamization of Europe and the Americas, they start by using one sentimental religious white woman or as a poster child for success then comes the force. Europe and America will soon begin to feel the scourge soon in another 20-30 years to come by the time people would have gotten so used to the so-called moderate Islam that they will be so numb to the point they won't feel the slow and steady radical Islam surreptitiously creeping up on them. Islam is one religion that can't seem to go under scrutiny without defenders being at diggers drawn and threatening violence. Even the most soft spoken Muslim can slip into an uncontrollable fits and bouts of anger and kill fest once you go against the tenets of their religion. Reason does not seem to prevail with these adherents, even the most sophisticated Muslims are not spared from the jihad virus when affected. Rather be a Chinese monk than a Muslim. 1 Like |
| Health › Re: JOHESU Sues NMA, Says Doctors Strike Illegal by rhymz(m): 4:47pm On Jul 17, 2014 |
All these Doctors shouting about them being the best thing in the hospital should come off their high horse, no one health professional medical or not can work without the the other professionals. Just because they call you a medical Doctor does not mean you can do everyone's job, it is not like on their own they will perform a surgery successfully, neither will anyone work into a hospital that has only a doctor with no auxiliaries. It is like the whole strike thing is hinged on ego and a need to reiterate their superiority as a Doctors. And it is folly for anyone to argue that one has to be a medical person to be an admistrator in the hospital, crap. If ministers from another field can be appointed as head to lead an unrelated ministry even without prior knowledge or related professional training of the ministry. Administration is administration, it is not medicine or medical science, anyone can attain it, as long as you are already conversant with the runnings of the place and have one or two management qualifications. 2 Likes |
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