Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-08 Thread Michael Jaffe

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Actually, the Red Hat course I was considering does not result, by itself, in 
any certification.  It is part of a sequence of courses (RH Essentials, 
SysAdmin, Shell Scripting minicourse, Networks/Security) leading to 
certification.  And the last step in the certification process itself is 
supposedly very demanding, an 8-hour exam that includes hands-on tasks and 
problems.  You can check out the Red Hat site's training section.

The indications from John Bryce and Red Hat tell me that the course is indeed 
knowledge or skills oriented, not just for certification.  Then again, I have 
no personal experience with the course or its cachet in the field.  Hence, my 
inquiries.

Also, are there other frameworks out there (in Israel) for Linux instruction?

Thanks!

Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We all do hope that the Technion give you a little bit more than
certify that you have read the right books...

A disclaimer: I am training for many years the corporate world
in all aspects of Unix/Linux systems, so I am quite familiar
with the driving forces you mentioned. Luckily, all the
courses I gave (sys-admin, net-admin, kernel, Perl, what'snot)
where not certification oriented, but rather knowledge oriented.
This way I know that most of my students actually came for *learning*.



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Actually, the Red Hat course I was considering does not result, by itself, in 
any certification.nbsp; It is part of a sequence of courses (RH Essentials, 
SysAdmin, Shell Scripting minicourse, Networks/Security) leading to 
certification.nbsp; And the last step in the certification process itself is 
supposedly very demanding, an 8-hour exam that includes hands-on tasks and 
problems.nbsp; You can check out the Red Hat site's training 
section.brbrThe indications from John Bryce and Red Hat tell me that the 
course is indeed knowledge or skills oriented, not just for 
certification.nbsp; Then again, I have no personal experience with the course 
or its cachet in the field.nbsp; Hence, my inquiries.brbrAlso, are there 
other frameworks out there (in Israel) for Linux 
instruction?brbrThanks!brbrbiOron Peled lt;[EMAIL 
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thanbrcertify that you have read the right books...brbrA disclaimer: I 
am training for many years the corporate worldbrin all aspects of Unix/Linux 
systems, so I am quite familiarbrwith the driving forces you mentioned. 
Luckily, all thebrcourses I gave (sys-admin, net-admin, kernel, Perl, 
what'snot)brwhere not certification oriented, but rather knowledge 
oriented.brThis way I know that most of my students actually came for 
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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-08 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham

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Hi Michael,
Sounds like the course is a good idea. You can probably learn more 
effectively through the course than by yourself. It can jump-start your 
Linux career, so go for it. But don't expect it to cut much ice with 
employers who need really qualified or really motivated Linux engineers. 
For that you'll need the track record that I mentioned previouosly.

   - yba


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 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:46:19 -0700 (PDT)
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 Actually, the Red Hat course I was considering does not result, by itself, in 
 any certification.  It is part of a sequence of courses (RH Essentials, 
 SysAdmin, Shell Scripting minicourse, Networks/Security) leading to 
 certification.  And the last step in the certification process itself is 
 supposedly very demanding, an 8-hour exam that includes hands-on tasks and 
 problems.  You can check out the Red Hat site's training section.

 The indications from John Bryce and Red Hat tell me that the course is indeed 
 knowledge or skills oriented, not just for certification.  Then again, I have 
 no personal experience with the course or its cachet in the field.  Hence, my 
 inquiries.

 Also, are there other frameworks out there (in Israel) for Linux instruction?

 Thanks!

 Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 We all do hope that the Technion give you a little bit more than
 certify that you have read the right books...

 A disclaimer: I am training for many years the corporate world
 in all aspects of Unix/Linux systems, so I am quite familiar
 with the driving forces you mentioned. Luckily, all the
 courses I gave (sys-admin, net-admin, kernel, Perl, what'snot)
 where not certification oriented, but rather knowledge oriented.
 This way I know that most of my students actually came for *learning*.



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 Actually, the Red Hat course I was considering does not result, by itself, in 
 any certification.nbsp; It is part of a sequence of courses (RH Essentials, 
 SysAdmin, Shell Scripting minicourse, Networks/Security) leading to 
 certification.nbsp; And the last step in the certification process itself is 
 supposedly very demanding, an 8-hour exam that includes hands-on tasks and 
 problems.nbsp; You can check out the Red Hat site's training 
 section.brbrThe indications from John Bryce and Red Hat tell me that the 
 course is indeed knowledge or skills oriented, not just for 
 certification.nbsp; Then again, I have no personal experience with the 
 course or its cachet in the field.nbsp; Hence, my inquiries.brbrAlso, 
 are there other frameworks out there (in Israel) for Linux 
 instruction?brbrThanks!brbrbiOron Peled lt;[EMAIL 
 PROTECTED]gt;/i/b wrote:blockquote class=replbq style=border-left: 
 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left:
 5px;brWe all do hope that the Technion give you a little bit more 
 thanbrcertify that you have read the right books...brbrA disclaimer: 
 I am training for many years the corporate worldbrin all aspects of 
 Unix/Linux systems, so I am quite familiarbrwith the driving forces you 
 mentioned. Luckily, all thebrcourses I gave (sys-admin, net-admin, kernel, 
 Perl, what'snot)brwhere not certification oriented, but rather knowledge 
 oriented.brThis way I know that most of my students actually came for 
 *learning*.br/blockquotebrp#32;
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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-07 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Oron Peled, from the post of Thu, 07 Sep:
 On Thursday, 7 בSeptember 2006 02:41, Amos Shapira wrote:
  What about certification?
 
 What about it? Certification is just a money making, self sustaining
 vicious circle --

hence the high price - it's priced for employers sending their workers
to learn, not for random individuals on the street.

 we don't need to help this crap enter the FOSS world.

what has it got to do with software licences exactly? you are confusing
freedom and lifestyle with professionalism and market demands. those are
totaly unrelated. don't confuse your right for freedom with the rights
of the capital forces to do what they do. That's what happend to
Greenpeace, when some 20 years ago they switched from pro-nature hippies
to anti-corporate politicians. you are picking the wrong targets.

(disclaimer: I once gave a week's course at such a school, though not
for certification, nor am I certified by any official body)

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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/09/06, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday, 7 בSeptember 2006 02:41, Amos Shapira wrote: What about certification?What about it? Certification is just a money making, self sustainingvicious circle -- we don't need to help this crap enter the FOSS world.
It's already there, at least in some parts of the world, though it's true that from a cursory scan of job advertisements on the net I remember only one which specifically requested RH certification.
But if he bothers to take a course maybe he might as well get another stamp for it?
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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:48:59PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:

 You follow Digg too? :)

reddit is better.
/me runs

Cheers,
Muli

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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote:

 we don't need to help this crap enter the FOSS world.
 

 what has it got to do with software licences exactly?
Nothing, nor did Oron suggest otherwise.

Certificates are a vicious cycle designed to keep the under-talented
employed in exchange for money. It is vicious because it places the
talented at a disadvantage.

It went as far as to have a course I attended (not FOSS) where the
person in charge of all the courses entered the classroom, asked the
teacher to address the students, and then went on for five minutes about
how these certificates are crap, but it makes your CV more attractive to
potential employers, himself included.

When he was done I stood up and mentioned that I carry none of those
certificates, and yet am still teaching that course.
 don't confuse your right for freedom with the rights
 of the capital forces to do what they do. That's what happend to
 Greenpeace, when some 20 years ago they switched from pro-nature hippies
 to anti-corporate politicians. you are picking the wrong targets.
   
Maybe, but the FOSS world is, currently, relatively free of such
nonsenses, and I would sure want to see it remain so. Unfortunately, I
am not optimistic that this will remain the case. As more money is put
at stake, so will more people want to participate, and the certificates
will take a bigger and bigger role.

The only positive aspect is that these certifications lower the
standards for the quality of people who deal with FOSS, and so the
average salary will decrease and the claims that Linux is more expensive
to maintain. The bottom line is that a wide spread use can only be
achieved when some of the people doing the maintenance are less skilled
but cheaper.
 (disclaimer: I once gave a week's course at such a school, though not
 for certification, nor am I certified by any official body)
   
I don't have much against taking a course in order to know more. I'm
only against taking a course for certification sake only.

Shachar

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Certification (was: Red Hat SysAdmin Course)

2006-09-07 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
Certification in principle is no better, or worse, than academic titles or 
degrees. 

For a job candidate, it is a means to enhance one's CV by proving that you 
were sufficiently interested for attending a course, and smart (or 
persistent) enough to complete it successfully.

For employers, it gives some clue about job candidates about which you 
know nothing except what is in their resume.  Given two candidates that 
you don't know, the one with more diplomas has an advantage.  It would be 
much better if each potential employer could design an examination 
specially tailored for his/her needs and make each candidate take the 
examination.  However, this is expensive for both parties, thus 
impractical in most cases.

I used to tell my children:  passing bagrut does not prove much, but not 
passing it does prove something, generally considered negative.  This is 
the same for certification.

Shalom (Regards),  Mati
   Bidi Architect
   Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
   IBM Israel


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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-07 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Thu, 07 Sep:
 
  what has it got to do with software licences exactly?
 Nothing, nor did Oron suggest otherwise.

he was talking about the FOSS world, and that (to me) interprets as
the developper community and its product. this has no direct relations
to conditions of employment.

In fact, if I was to attend a job interview where my certificates of
lack therof had more weight to consider my employment than my
professional experiance, I can safely say it's probably not the kind of
place I'd want to work for anyway.

OTOH, When I was working on salary, my bosses considered sending me to
such a course to get a certificate so THEY can market their company
better to their clients. it's the standard thing since Novell invented
that system, and M$/Sun/Oracle/Cisco and the rest joined in. I don't mind
taking an exam payed for by my boss, it's HIS marketing decision and
investment.

 Certificates are a vicious cycle designed to keep the under-talented
 employed in exchange for money. It is vicious because it places the
 talented at a disadvantage.

talented people are rarely in a disadvantage with smart employers. let
the stupid employer keep his untalented work force... He deserves
nothing less.

 teacher to address the students, and then went on for five minutes about
 how these certificates are crap, but it makes your CV more attractive to
 potential employers, himself included.

his manager should give him a bonus for excellent marketing...

 Maybe, but the FOSS world is, currently, relatively free of such
 nonsenses, and I would sure want to see it remain so. Unfortunately, I
 am not optimistic that this will remain the case. As more money is put
 at stake, so will more people want to participate, and the certificates
 will take a bigger and bigger role.

it's what happens when you enter the corporate world. I have a friend
who is VERY talented in all things MS. he has a long list of very warm
recommendations. one of the three big banks came to him with an
excellent offer, but they demanded he has a BAGRUT. that's their
standard. he already passed a polygraph and Pilat and stuff, but if he
want take a bagrut exam in TANACH and literature, he can't get the job.

I told him to tell them to go suck an egg. other people will think
differently perhaps.

 The only positive aspect is that these certifications lower the
 standards for the quality of people who deal with FOSS, and so the
 average salary will decrease and the claims that Linux is more expensive
 to maintain. The bottom line is that a wide spread use can only be
 achieved when some of the people doing the maintenance are less skilled
 but cheaper.

that's the case with every market. it's a simple set of rules of demand
and supply. If all of us FOSS consultants want to be payed for our work,
we need FOSS to spread and the customers to want it, but for that to
happen it also has to be cheap, because clients look at that. OTOH we
don't want to have it TOO cheap, but that's the way the ball is rolling
and it's hard to stop it. to get out of the niche and into the mass
market you have to compromise.

 I don't have much against taking a course in order to know more. I'm
 only against taking a course for certification sake only.

and yet you went to the Technion instead of reading the books at home,
and a good friend of ours is getting a Masters' degree to get a visa to
another country... there is always a give-and-take. in some cases you
would be more willing to give than in others, but that's life.

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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-07 Thread Oron Peled
Shachar explained it better then I could, but I'll try anyway...

On Thursday, 7 בSeptember 2006 11:35, Ira Abramov wrote:
 In fact, if I was to attend a job interview where my certificates of
 lack therof had more weight to consider my employment than my
 professional experiance, I can safely say it's probably not the kind of
 place I'd want to work for anyway.

Exactly. The certification systems are all about judging employees about
how professional they *seem* and not about how professional they *are*.

The only FOSS related thing is the attitude:
 - How many time you see the PR-spin about the new, shiny, fantastic,
   professional, innovative new software when only the poor sods who
   had to write this proprietary software under impossible deadlines
   and fuzzy marketing specifications know the truth?

 - OTOH, when somebody tries to spin it in the FOSS world (and it
   happens every once in a while), you normally have a bunch of party
   busters calling -- Show me the source (party is over now ;-)

So a culture that respect the kids who call The king is naked does
not like to participate in a game of masks.

 ... my bosses considered sending me to such a course to get a certificate
 so THEY can market their company ...
 it's HIS marketing decision and investment.

That's OK on your personal level. But is this the standard we are
striving for?

 talented people are rarely in a disadvantage with smart employers. let
 the stupid employer keep his untalented work force... He deserves
 nothing less.

Sure (and we can send them some Malachei Sharet to help them ;-)

 his manager should give him a bonus for excellent marketing...

Actually, that's very bad marketing. Companies have *abused* so
much these techniques that most people simply wait for the
babbler to go mind his own business and not waste their time.

 it's what happens when you enter the corporate world. I have a
 friend ... but if he won't take a bagrut exam in TANACH and
 literature, he can't get the job.

As you said earlier:
 let the stupid employer keep his untalented work force... 

 and yet you went to the Technion instead of reading the books at home,

We all do hope that the Technion give you a little bit more than
certify that you have read the right books...

A disclaimer: I am training for many years the corporate world
in all aspects of Unix/Linux systems, so I am quite familiar
with the driving forces you mentioned. Luckily, all the
courses I gave (sys-admin, net-admin, kernel, Perl, what'snot)
where not certification oriented, but rather knowledge oriented.
This way I know that most of my students actually came for *learning*.

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Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-06 Thread Michael Jaffe

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Hello.

I'm considering taking John Bryce's Red Hat System Administrator (course #876). 
 This is the 5-day all day version.  I have programming experience and some 
experience with Fedora and I'm wondering
a) if I actually need the course
b) if the course is any good

Does anyone have any firsthand experience with this course - or know of anyone 
who has taken the course?

Thanks,
Michael
jmichaeljaffe(at)yahoo(dot)com




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(course #876).nbsp; This is the 5-day all day version.nbsp; I have 
programming experience and some experience with Fedora and I'm wonderingbra) 
if I actually need the coursebrb) if the course is any goodbrbrDoes 
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has taken the 
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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-06 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham

Hi Michael,
By nature, this list is a place where very few if any people take these 
types of courses. In fact, most of the list members are qualified to 
deliver these course themselves. So I think that your question might be 
better sent to one of the Hebrew Linux lists that have a wider readership 
and will be more likely to have participants who can answer your question.

Regards,

 - yba


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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 07:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello.

I'm considering taking John Bryce's Red Hat System Administrator (course #876). 
 This is the 5-day all day version.  I have programming experience and some 
experience with Fedora and I'm wondering
a) if I actually need the course
b) if the course is any good

Does anyone have any firsthand experience with this course - or know of anyone 
who has taken the course?

Thanks,
Michael
jmichaeljaffe(at)yahoo(dot)com




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programming experience and some experience with Fedora and I'm wonderingbra) if I actually need the coursebrb) if the course is any 
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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-06 Thread michael

On the other hand, because this list includes many who are qualified to
deliver these course, you might get some pointers as to what to look for and
what to avoid.

I teach such a course, and my recommendation is to make sure there is plenty
of hands-on time. Ideally, every student should have a computer in front of
them where they can try out the concepts as they are taught, and ask questions
right away, in addition to lab time where more complex exercises are carried
out. This computer should be one on which you can try anything without fear of
breaking the installation (i.e. don't use your own laptop!) and of course it
should be the same system being taught.

I find networking concepts are very important, and I like to set up servers on
my computer and invite the students to access mine (samba, ssh, apache, cvs,
etc.). Then they learn how to set up their own and visit each other. By
learning how to set up and debug servers, a lot of other concepts are
practiced.

I also find the boot process an important topic. Knowing what is started when
is important when debugging systems.

I consider building the kernel a pretty fundamental exercise. I schedule this
before a break or at the end of the day so that we don't waste time waiting
for it to compile. If students take the laptops home, I encourage them to
experiment with removing items from the configuruation until the kernel stops
working, then trying to figure out what broke and why. (I sure learned a lot
this way)

(I'm also Michael, but a different Michael)



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Hi Michael,
By nature, this list is a place where very few if any people take these types 
of courses. In fact, most of the list members are qualified to deliver these 
course themselves. So I think that your question might be better sent to one 
of the Hebrew Linux lists that have a wider readership and will be more 
likely to have participants who can answer your question.

Regards,

- yba


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 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 07:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
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 Hello.

 I'm considering taking John Bryce's Red Hat System Administrator (course
 #876).  This is the 5-day all day version.  I have programming experience
 and some experience with Fedora and I'm wondering
 a) if I actually need the course
 b) if the course is any good

 Does anyone have any firsthand experience with this course - or know of
 anyone who has taken the course?

 Thanks,
 Michael
 jmichaeljaffe(at)yahoo(dot)com




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 Administrator (course #876).nbsp; This is the 5-day all day
 version.nbsp; I have programming experience and some experience with
 Fedora and I'm wonderingbra) if I actually need the coursebrb) if the
 course is any goodbrbrDoes anyone have any firsthand experience with
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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/09/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, because this list includes many who are qualified todeliver these course, you might get some pointers as to what to look for and
what to avoid.[long list of points deleted ]What about certification? If you are going to spend 5 days studying this sort of stuff wouldn't it be worth much more if you got a certificate (or was prepared by the course to sit the exam)? 
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Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-06 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 7 בSeptember 2006 02:41, Amos Shapira wrote:
 What about certification?

What about it? Certification is just a money making, self sustaining
vicious circle -- we don't need to help this crap enter the FOSS world.

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