Zane Gilmore wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:53:23 +1200 > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>As of this afternoon I've been appointed to take this course. > > > Congrats Chris! > From what I've seen they have a very knowledgable teacher.
No, not really, the more I've taught myself the more I've realized just how little I know. That said I honestly don't think I'll be totally out of my depth. The course is not exactly rocket science or brain surgery. The only problem is that the O/S of choice is RH-7.3 & I have been playing with Mandrake for about 18 mths., Suse, Debian, and Yggdrasil before that. Now Gentoo recently. I pointed all that out to Avonmore but they said it didn't matter. They said direct editing of the config files is ok. The students are going to get vi's 'treatment', but I'll not let her get totally out of hand. >>Only need 5 mins plug time. All I'll do is to wave the book and >>re-iterate the following:- > > > If you keep it to 5 minutes I'll eat my hat :-) > (err that's metaphorically speaking) I'll order you an edible one. I'm only going to read them the mail-list posting. >>The Linux course from Avonmore is based around the Linux+ Study Guide >>from Sybex. The content is as defined by the CompTIA - the very rough >>equivalent of the NZQA - in the USA. >> >>The study guide is 728 pages long ( index included ). It's good solid >>stuff, but as is usual with books from that part of the world there is >>that certain level of prolixity. And I've just discovered that the CD in with the book has a copy of the text of the book but it's in Adobe's Ebook format, and thus will only work on MSW or, I suppose, if you decrypt it using the Demitry ( sp? ) method. Imho that really is a completely legal reason for the Russian Ebook opener. You have just installed linux as directed by the said book on to your machine, and now you can't read the friggin' book from the CD! "Quite potty" in just two words. > I had to look up that p-word ( it means overly wordy or lengthy) There's no need to use six words when there is just the perfect one for the job you know. :-) Peter Sheer gets _a lot_ more into his RUTE book which is about 100 pages shorter iirc, and it's about 20% cheaper! > See you at the meeting tomorrow. I'll be bringing the little 400MHz PII from HP so that ppl. can play with the Pink Rabbit etc. Also the two TeXLive files on one CD. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell.
