I just spent a little more than that on a server rack and various rail kits. :3

I have work today and it's 1:00AM. I too need sleep.

@Windows7ge

Yeah hah, server stuff is expensive. This will be my first pc I'll build, I figured since I'm in college now for networking and security I need to have a pc.

What curriculum? I'm going for CCNA.

@Windows7ge
yup

So...many...ACRONYMS!

Literally 100's. I can't memorize them all. I wish they had us play with the equipment more. Partly why I pick up a lot of server equipment so I can teach myself the things they don't teach us at college.

Bout you?

@Windows7ge

I took a two year class in a technical school already while I was in high school, yeah there's a lot of terms haha. Took the NOCTI also, top of the class. But we did study 2 weeks for the three day four hundred question test.

MY favorite are the acronyms that have acronyms in them.

I attended a technical school called BOCES my Junior and Senior years of high school. This was for entry level computer repair and my CCENT. College was a refresh of CCENT and the next level CCNA.

I promptly failed both...retook CCENT, passed, still have to retake CCNA.

School is hard. I'd give you an acronym of acronyms but I've been out of the class for quite a few semesters so I don't remember much. College wants me to learn things not the least bit relevant to the major but I'm closing in on repeating the course. Might happen this coming semester.

Computer repair was fun, I do want to program some Cisco routers though. I think using command-line prompts would be more involved and fun than GUI prompts.

It is definitely more time efficient when deploying multiple devices. I've been having fun writing bash scripts to query information from and program a dozen or so networked Debian(Ubuntu) servers.

I haven't really done much programming like that, I've coded a bunch of websites and created some cursor followers and that with Javascript but that's the extent haha. Would like to get into it more this summer after finals week (next week ) I did have a friend who liked using python for windows corruption files, and I supplied him with he operating systems but he's in the navy now so... Would be cool to build a pwnagotchi...

I'm not a programmer at heart. I'm a network/server guy. I do however acknowledge the extreme amount of power even basic scripting and/or programming enables you to do which is why I try to learn at least the basics. I tried to learn Java in college and failed miserably. I picked up VB and did well till everyone told me its a dead language. Picked up C# and that went great. Made quite a few useful little apps. Now that I've switched to GNU/Linux I'm trying to learn basic scripting.