LPI Community Corner
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There but for fortune go you or go I
on December 16, 2010Earlier this month an old acquaintance of mine, Hal Miller, wrote an open letter to SAGE, an organization that is part of USENIX and which specializes in systems administration. You can read his letter here. I can vouch for the fact that when Hal said he was “at the top of his field”, he was there...
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LPICPrep: "Why Get a Certification"
on December 16, 2010LPI Community Corner is pleased to share the video "Certifiable: Why Get a Certification" by Ross Brunson from his LPIC Prep Channel. Ross has been training IT professionals to prepare for LPI exams for many years and is a long time supporter. In this video he offers his views on the value of IT...
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Local business, Local jobs
on December 2, 2010The press has been alive the past several days with news of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where the police have been going in and rounding up drug dealers. From the amount of press and police actions, some people outside of Brazil must think that all of the people in the favela are thieves or...
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Open Source Lights Up Darkest Africa
on November 4, 2010Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria....countries in Africa that some people have to use an atlas (or at least Google Maps) to locate. While low cost computers, networking hardware and software are helping these countries develop the computer infrastructure they need those are only part of the answer. To...
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LPI and My First International Proctoring "Job"
on October 5, 2010One of the contributions that I have lent to LPI, and of which I am very proud, is the constant drum beat about making LPI multinational. From the very beginning I remember talking about the issues in various countries around the world in terms of language, costs of certification and ease of...
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The Beginning
on September 23, 2010It was early 1998, and the commercial side of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) was beginning to flourish. Enthusiasts and researchers had embraced FOSS some time before, but while some companies were using FOSS, and some companies were making money from FOSS, most companies were still going...
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