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the morning has started off with everyone walking around like zombies groaning “COFFEE….”

Day Two of the RHCE certification class. I’ve had a couple more “oh!” lightbulb-coming-on moments, and learned things. So far, I’ve been drinking the Red Hat Linux kool-aid, and its not that bad. I still prefer Solaris, but Red Hat isn’t as bad as I thought.

Anybody have 256M or 512M sticks of PC133 RAM they don’t need anymore? I need to upgrade two of my mini-ITX machines that do remote backups of the SunHELP stuff, and can’t find anything affordable around here..

Had the first day of my RHCE cram-and-exam course today. The instructor is nice, and the class is sixteen people. I’ve had no trouble so far and I think I’ll do well; I’ve had a couple of “Oh!” moments that clarified how things work, so I’m learning things.

As part of the course, everyone got a bag with the following goodies:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES Media Kit (with 30-day update license)
• Red Hat-logo notebook
• Red Hat “calendar strip” for the top of a monitor or whatever
• Wind-up “Red Hat with feet” walking toy
• A red 3.5″ floppy diskette, to be used later in the course for an emergency boot floppy
• and last of all, a COFFEE MUG (its a really nice coffee mug)

You’d think that for $2495 they could give us more than a 30-day trial subscription to RHN…

I’ve got 15 or so GMail invites available if anybody wants one.. Just speak up in the comments and tell me who you are and why you want/need it. Don’t forget to enter your email address so I can send the invitation.

We went out for a nice night drive at 1am, and ended up going all the way out to Mansfield Dam. I’ve lived in Austin for eight years now, and had never seen it before. Quite impressive at night.

Taking it early this weekend, as I’ve got a RHCE four-day class and certification exam next week.

I spent the evening setting up the SunHELP Wiki, and then contributing to the Stevie Ray Vaughan section of Wikipedia.

Here’s a really good list of lists of essential OS X applications by a number of well-known bloggers, and common folk like me. I posted my list back on September 2nd, and updated it with more things I’d forgotten yesterday.