This is a post in a series where I will go through the modules made available for free by Brocade for the beta test of the BCFD 16Gbps exam. If there's any objection to me writing about these in this detail here please let me know. First module available (is …

BCFD exam is going into Beta testing in January as well! This post will be updated as I move along through the different objectives / documents. // Update 2012-01-15: Added the Knowledge Assessment Test. // Update 2012-01-28: Went through each .pdf and updated some in here. The link to the Brocade page where …

You can use rtmpdump on linux to download videos from a page that uses rtmpe / flash to display the videos. If you want to, you can also run an ssh tunnel. This could be used with benefit if you want to watch videos from a web site that you can't …

Merry Christmas ya'll! Making food in our little apartment this year, avovaimon family is coming here. Ham in the oven, potato and carrot box, janzon, lots of fun stuff :)

There's a couple of places (naturally). It's easy to be fooled and think: "anybody can type man man". But in all fairness, you need to figure out which man page to look into, or what command to run and sometimes it's just a blank. In RHEL there is /usr/share …

I just received the EXAM results. This was on Sunday at around 1500 Finnish time. About three days after I took the exam, these guys must be working on the weekend to check the results! Result: 300/300!

Wow, there's lots of it in there. Some of it is about networking and a lot about individual services. I haven't actually planned to go get the exam soon, but I think just going through these objectives will make me better at Linux. Anyway, if I pass the RHCE, that …

Just did the exam. Not bad at all, I really enjoyed this hands-on exam. Great way to test someone's skills, although I thought it would be harder. But maybe I got lucky with the tasks. I believe this RHCSA Rapid Track (along with My Own Preparation (tm)) and learning how …

Last day! A little more kickstarting, LVM - logical volume management and File ACL. Then a rehearse of the previous chapters. Feeling a bit excited about tomorrow! These ACL were a bit more complex than I thought, but they could be made very complicated if you want to. But there's the …

Wow, what a day! Some great stuff today It ended with configuring a kickstart file, starting an unattended installation via PXE by referring to said kickstart file on an http-server. Before that we were playing with partitioning, making swap, encrypting with cryptsetup and LUKS. Also very interesting. After we learned …