I have no idea why GBoard keeps auto-correcting "of my" with "m f", but this is the 3rd time I haven't caught it before sending.
Surely makes for an interesting suggestion in North American slang though. ;) - bjs On Monday, October 16, 2017, Bryan Smith <b.j.sm...@ieee.org> wrote: > On Monday, October 16, 2017, G. Matthew Rice <m...@starnix.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','m...@starnix.com');>> wrote: >> >> Hi Anselm, >> I don't think consensus on which editor should be conflated with >> consensus on covering an editor. For example, if we did that, there >> would have been a time when LPIC-2 covered no MTAs and, currently, no >> HTTP servers. (Did I just open a can of worms?) > > > You just re-opened a can-o-worns, but it was very relevant to the > discussion, and a good flashback to have. > > 'Professional use cases' brings up something I wanted to mention >> earlier when someone mentioned LPIC-1 being a (Linux) sysadmin cert. >> I know quite a few people that also view it as a Unix cert. And, in >> my mind, it's a cert for any professional user of Linux. I spent the >> first part of my career as a sw developer (SunOS and Linux, mostly) >> and it took many years to accumulate the portions of the LPIC-1 >> knowledge body that would have made life so much more fun, productive >> and safer to the enduser. > > > And that's why I prefer to see even Red Hat candidates with *both* RHCSA+ > *and* LPIC-1+. > > Every quarter there is an issue on a RHEL system that isn't covered on a > Red Hat exam objectives, but is in the LPI 101 or 102 objectives. It sucks > up hours, even days of other people's time, but I figure out in 5 minutes. > > And after that happens, we cover the topic in the LPI objectives so > everyone is aware. > > I don't want to take anything away from the Red Hat performance-based > exams. And it's true, you can usually use what you want on them (not > always, especially on 400 exams) to accomplish a task. But by their > design, they cannot cover as many subjects, as LPI exams. > > Hence why the question always comes down to what _should_ a sysadmin know, > for the LPIC 100+ program, especially for when the "fits hits the shan." > > In fact, to correct one m f prior comment ... > > Red Hat exam tasks are more geared towards completing day-to-day tasks, > and don't address more outlier concepts, with very limited troubleshooting. > > LPI exams can not only cover day-to-day concepts, but a lot of very > important outliers too. As I said, I run into them quarterly, and then we > hit the LPI Objectives after-the-fact, so everyone is aware. > > I'll leave it up to others to decide on the fact of any inclusion of text > editing and/or Vi. > > - bjs > > > > > -- > > -- > Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith > E-mail: b.j.smith at ieee.org or me at bjsmith.me > > -- -- Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith E-mail: b.j.smith at ieee.org or me at bjsmith.me
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