RE: Suicidal - or what?

I don't know how you can do a good distance learning program. I mean, you're sitting in front of your computer, and your phone rings. Its either your wife and if you don't answer the phone, you're dead. It could be a customer and you don't want to piss anyone off these days. And yeah, the material is cut and dry. I'm not sure which class you are attending, but my guess is that they expect that you understand the underlying concepts, or are at least familiar with the terminology. But hey! What do I know? ;-) -G From: maliiug@btopenworld.com To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Suicidal - or what? Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:06:57 +0100 I have spent today going through an IBM Informix distance learning course on IDS 11 as I was instructed onlt this morning that this is a pre-requisite for some IBM Informix IDS 11.5 training that I am doing on Thursday. It left me feeling decidedly suicidal. I am sure there must be better training material out there. I was particularly concerned at the 0.5 hour module on Administration mode. And where did they get the experts from? If any of you are tempted to undergo this distance learning course I suggest that you give yourself enough time to complete the course at one module a day for two weeks. No rational computer specialist can ever subject themselves to such an exercise in boredom. But that’s just my opinion. Regards Malcolm _________________________________________________________________ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld