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.…

I just installed RH9, as required by the customer, and wondered if I would have problems with lack of official support and updates from Red Hat. Thankfully, the Fedora Legacy project provides updates to RH9. It just takes a few commands, and it’s all set. :) www.fedoralegacy.org…

A good anti-spam solution must have at least two approaches: An RBL check, and a learning tool of some sort. When deploying an RBL check solution, one must note that the lists should be picked carefuly, since they could block HAM either. It is important to implement exceptions lists, either, in order to ignore some key entries in the lists (murphy.debian.org, for example). About the learning tool, this will the topic for a future post.…