I needed updated squid packages last week for the security issue with ntlm_auth. That was several days after the bug was disclosed. They didn’t have that ready. Just please notice that I am talking about the Fedora Legacy here, not Fedora Core. Anyway, I am still too see a distro that make patches and publishes them as fast as Debian.…

There is something crappy with my libc development files. As I was forced to use backported version of Debian packages (something I won’t recommend to anyone), I had some terrible problems that urged me to migrate to Fedora. There have been security updates in the 2 or three last kernel versions, and I am not being able to easily upgrade due to compilation time errors. After a make: CC arch/i386/kernel/process.o…

Last friday I got my LPIC Level 1. They sent the certificate itself, an id card asserting “John Doe” is a certified LPIC Level 1 professional and an ad from linux-magazine.com. The certificate paper is cheap, too thin IMO. I thought Canada was the land of wood and paper :) Good quality paper shouldn’t be so expensive there. And I paid 200 hundred dollars for that. Also, it’s bad propaganda since it sais I have a “[b]Level 1[b]” cert in big capitalized words.…