Good Day All,
Well Friday Sept 4th is the day for my Linux + cert test. I'm kind of nervous about it because I suck at test taking. Nothing new going on beside studying for next week. My next semester @ ITT-Tech I'm taking on 4 classes. Really it's three but I'm auditing a programming class since when i took the class they were doing VB.Net. Now their teaching Pearl. I don't have anything aganist ".NET" I just want to learn another language. So aspect to hear from me around Sept. time frame. One more item, please checkout this link : http://openwaters.eventbrite.com
Its just a mini Opensource Conf @ ODU (Norfolk, VA)
TTYL,
Loafy
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
R.I.P. Michael Jackson 6-25-09
Today is a sad day for most if not all music lovers. Today the King of Pop Michael J. Jackson was pronounced dead @ UCLA. The said cause was a heart-attack but has yet to be confirmed. This isn't one of my usual blog post but when I heard it I was deeply sadden by it. In the last couple of months we've lost so many great actors and singers; #IsaacHayes, #BernieMac,and #MichaelJackson. I know thats not all the names but those are the few that stand out to me. I grew up listening to Michael and Issac. I laughed til it hurt at Bernie Mac. In an nut shell I'm saying tomorrow is not promised to us so live everyday like it's your last!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, May 25, 2009
Just a Rant
Greetings all,
Wow, was looking at the last time I did a blog post....Shame on me. Well schools' out for two weeks so I have time to finishing craming for my cert. Looking at the new LPI I think I can pass this one. So I have two weeks to get $155.00 for the test. I'm giving my day job one more month for a number of reasons. The main reason tho is my boss. I'm tired of him lying to customers and feeding them BS about their machines to make a qwik buck. Virus here bad software there. Granted some cases are true, but let the customer talk about diff software and he has a fit. Last week I died a little inside when I had to install Vista over a copy of Ubuntu 8.10. Between the lying and the other BS I think it's time for me to grow else where. Plus I learned what I needed to; how to deal with laptops. Well this is my short rant for the week, time to enjoy my day off! TTYL
-Loafy
Wow, was looking at the last time I did a blog post....Shame on me. Well schools' out for two weeks so I have time to finishing craming for my cert. Looking at the new LPI I think I can pass this one. So I have two weeks to get $155.00 for the test. I'm giving my day job one more month for a number of reasons. The main reason tho is my boss. I'm tired of him lying to customers and feeding them BS about their machines to make a qwik buck. Virus here bad software there. Granted some cases are true, but let the customer talk about diff software and he has a fit. Last week I died a little inside when I had to install Vista over a copy of Ubuntu 8.10. Between the lying and the other BS I think it's time for me to grow else where. Plus I learned what I needed to; how to deal with laptops. Well this is my short rant for the week, time to enjoy my day off! TTYL
-Loafy
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Friday's show
Happy Easter all (who believe),
Fridays show was a big bust but a learning experience none the less. Problem 1. No notes..I basically shot from the waste my goal was to set up a live study group using talkshoe. I didn't want to actually lead the group more like provide an outlet to help others out. Problem 2. No one showed. I thought at lest one or two people would show up but hey what can I say " you can lead a horse to water but can make it drink". Problem 3. Just not prepared. OK now I'll take the blame on this one, all together I just wasn't confident enough. But hey you live and learn so now my goal is to try it again with a little more preparation. Because if this succeeds then I'll post it as a podcast and ogg feed to help future students of ITT. Well its home work time so until next time. L8tr.
Fridays show was a big bust but a learning experience none the less. Problem 1. No notes..I basically shot from the waste my goal was to set up a live study group using talkshoe. I didn't want to actually lead the group more like provide an outlet to help others out. Problem 2. No one showed. I thought at lest one or two people would show up but hey what can I say " you can lead a horse to water but can make it drink". Problem 3. Just not prepared. OK now I'll take the blame on this one, all together I just wasn't confident enough. But hey you live and learn so now my goal is to try it again with a little more preparation. Because if this succeeds then I'll post it as a podcast and ogg feed to help future students of ITT. Well its home work time so until next time. L8tr.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Big Things for the Future!
Greetings all,
Tonite I set up a short conf. call for my IT club @ school on talkshoe. I'm hoping all goes well. If so I'll turn it into a podcast and ogg feed. This is my first shot @ hosting anything so if anyone have any words of advice please fill free to share. O, the job is going great, we're trying to expand the shop a little by opening up and Internet cafe. I would love to set up and maintain that because it would give me the chance to flex a little knowledge of what I've learned so far. It would also give me a chance to show others about Free and Open Source software. That's it for today, catch-ya later. NN
-Loafy
Tonite I set up a short conf. call for my IT club @ school on talkshoe. I'm hoping all goes well. If so I'll turn it into a podcast and ogg feed. This is my first shot @ hosting anything so if anyone have any words of advice please fill free to share. O, the job is going great, we're trying to expand the shop a little by opening up and Internet cafe. I would love to set up and maintain that because it would give me the chance to flex a little knowledge of what I've learned so far. It would also give me a chance to show others about Free and Open Source software. That's it for today, catch-ya later. NN
-Loafy
Thursday, April 2, 2009
New Job!
Good Day to all,
As of the 30th of March I finally got another day job! Currently I'm a computer repair tech for a local shop here in Norfolk, VA. Funny thing how I came about this job, I lost my day job back in Sept. I've always had little side jobs here and there to help make ends meet but still I needed something steady. I'd applied for various IT help desk jobs in the Hampton Roads area. With every call I made and resume I sent up no luck. Every one just wanted me to have a cert in something. I thought since I had the experience that was just as good, WRONG! One day while getting my hair braided at a local shop I asked my braider how was the PC repair guy round the corner doing, she stated business was good but he needed help. To much work not enough hrs in the day to do it. When she was done I swung by his shop and grabbed a flyer. A week later I gave him a ring to see if I could help. He told me to bring a pencil and paper next week and he'd give me a little test to see how much I knew. Automatically I thought "man cram session again!". When I came in That Monday He set me in front of a desktop and said "Let me know what's wrong with it and then fix it". In my head I thought "Yes finally the brake I needed". My trial by fire was done in under 45min. Needles to say I got the job, and kept fixing boxes for the rest of that day. At the end of the day he'd thanked me & paid me. I was just happy that someone gave me a chance. I'm still studying for my certs to have the paperwork behind my experience. The moral here is practise your craft as much as possible you never know when someone will test what you know!
As of the 30th of March I finally got another day job! Currently I'm a computer repair tech for a local shop here in Norfolk, VA. Funny thing how I came about this job, I lost my day job back in Sept. I've always had little side jobs here and there to help make ends meet but still I needed something steady. I'd applied for various IT help desk jobs in the Hampton Roads area. With every call I made and resume I sent up no luck. Every one just wanted me to have a cert in something. I thought since I had the experience that was just as good, WRONG! One day while getting my hair braided at a local shop I asked my braider how was the PC repair guy round the corner doing, she stated business was good but he needed help. To much work not enough hrs in the day to do it. When she was done I swung by his shop and grabbed a flyer. A week later I gave him a ring to see if I could help. He told me to bring a pencil and paper next week and he'd give me a little test to see how much I knew. Automatically I thought "man cram session again!". When I came in That Monday He set me in front of a desktop and said "Let me know what's wrong with it and then fix it". In my head I thought "Yes finally the brake I needed". My trial by fire was done in under 45min. Needles to say I got the job, and kept fixing boxes for the rest of that day. At the end of the day he'd thanked me & paid me. I was just happy that someone gave me a chance. I'm still studying for my certs to have the paperwork behind my experience. The moral here is practise your craft as much as possible you never know when someone will test what you know!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Making progress!
Greetings all,
Yeah I know I know, I say the same thing every post. Sorry for the delay. Now a days I find myself getting busier and busier. I've finally have all the tools I need to knock out my two certs next month. For those who haven't been following me I'm currently studying for my LPIC and Net+ certs. I've broken it down to even days get Net+ study time and LPIC get the odd days. The reason I want to get my Net + is I'm currently an CNS student @ ITT Tech (Norf). My LPIC because I like Linux and the whole Open source thing. In the mist of my studying I'm making plans to attend the Southeast Linux Fest being held in SC. this summer. Well gotta go for now still doing homework for class tomorrow. TTYL
-D
Yeah I know I know, I say the same thing every post. Sorry for the delay. Now a days I find myself getting busier and busier. I've finally have all the tools I need to knock out my two certs next month. For those who haven't been following me I'm currently studying for my LPIC and Net+ certs. I've broken it down to even days get Net+ study time and LPIC get the odd days. The reason I want to get my Net + is I'm currently an CNS student @ ITT Tech (Norf). My LPIC because I like Linux and the whole Open source thing. In the mist of my studying I'm making plans to attend the Southeast Linux Fest being held in SC. this summer. Well gotta go for now still doing homework for class tomorrow. TTYL
-D
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Long Time, Sorry to all.
Greetings to all,
I'm so so sorry it took so long to come back to this. Last month was rough all around, but classes started up this week and I'm back in the swing of things. Just a little fyi, I'm only taking two classes @ ITT-Tech this go around. Those are Linux (lol) and XP Pro :-( . Last month I'd slowed down on my studies for the LPIC and Linux+ but since I have a fresh start I'm hitting them full force. I'm cutting this short since I'm still in class right now but rest a sure no more slacking.
L8tr for now.
-Loafy
I'm so so sorry it took so long to come back to this. Last month was rough all around, but classes started up this week and I'm back in the swing of things. Just a little fyi, I'm only taking two classes @ ITT-Tech this go around. Those are Linux (lol) and XP Pro :-( . Last month I'd slowed down on my studies for the LPIC and Linux+ but since I have a fresh start I'm hitting them full force. I'm cutting this short since I'm still in class right now but rest a sure no more slacking.
L8tr for now.
-Loafy
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Fedora 10
Greetings all,
Sorry for the late post but me and my family have been sick for the last week. We've been eating chicken noodle soup and wrapping up in blankets. Today I hit the books hard playing catch-up. Today I also loaded Fedora 10 on my laptop. I'm trying to learn and get a handle on rpm based distro's so what better to run the Fedora. I still have my test server running Debian etch and I'm in the process of learning Apache. To help with getting all this done I've been listening to past episodes of "Linux Reality" with Chess Griffin. He did some excellent tutorials on building a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql,PHP,Perl,and Python) stack. That's it for now I'm not @ a 100% yet so I need some rest, til next time. L8tr
Sorry for the late post but me and my family have been sick for the last week. We've been eating chicken noodle soup and wrapping up in blankets. Today I hit the books hard playing catch-up. Today I also loaded Fedora 10 on my laptop. I'm trying to learn and get a handle on rpm based distro's so what better to run the Fedora. I still have my test server running Debian etch and I'm in the process of learning Apache. To help with getting all this done I've been listening to past episodes of "Linux Reality" with Chess Griffin. He did some excellent tutorials on building a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql,PHP,Perl,and Python) stack. That's it for now I'm not @ a 100% yet so I need some rest, til next time. L8tr
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Building my foundation.
Greetings All,
It's been a long week for me how about you all? Friday was my first "LPI" study group with host Chad of the "Linux Basement". The meeting covered Chapt. 4 of O'Reilly's "LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition" (I'll include the links @ the end of this rant). Also this week I've started heavily building my linux knowledge foundation base by watching video tutorials and following along click by click. The current video set of tutorials I'm working with is "LinuxCBTDebian3". I'm working with Debian for a couple or reasons: 1. Ubuntu is a Debian based linux OS, this was the OS that brought me back to linux. I'm okay on Ubuntu but I really wanted to learn the base of what it was built off of. 2. I like their package manager APT. 3. In my eyes if you have a distro you like you should learn what it was built off of. That's my rant for today hope you all in joy the week to come and here are the links I promised:
Chads' show: http://linuxbasement.com/
LPI study group notes: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=14464&cmd=tc
Linux computer based training: http://www.linuxcbt.com/
Ubuntu homepage: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Debian homepage: http://www.debian.org/
O'Reillys' book link: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005283/index.html
It's been a long week for me how about you all? Friday was my first "LPI" study group with host Chad of the "Linux Basement". The meeting covered Chapt. 4 of O'Reilly's "LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition" (I'll include the links @ the end of this rant). Also this week I've started heavily building my linux knowledge foundation base by watching video tutorials and following along click by click. The current video set of tutorials I'm working with is "LinuxCBTDebian3". I'm working with Debian for a couple or reasons: 1. Ubuntu is a Debian based linux OS, this was the OS that brought me back to linux. I'm okay on Ubuntu but I really wanted to learn the base of what it was built off of. 2. I like their package manager APT. 3. In my eyes if you have a distro you like you should learn what it was built off of. That's my rant for today hope you all in joy the week to come and here are the links I promised:
Chads' show: http://linuxbasement.com/
LPI study group notes: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=14464&cmd=tc
Linux computer based training: http://www.linuxcbt.com/
Ubuntu homepage: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Debian homepage: http://www.debian.org/
O'Reillys' book link: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005283/index.html
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Catch-up Day
Greetings all,
Today was a catch-up day for me. I finally finished up my reading and study for classes. Also I got the chance to lay out my study plan for my first Cert, CompTia's Linux + . I'm currently watching a training video from Learnkey on "Linux+ (using Redhat8)Certification" and reading the Linux+ Cert. bible (Finished Parts I &II). Those chapters were basic information on what Linux is and how to install it. This was easy reading, it was geared towards mainly new users. Since picking Linux back up in Jun.08 with "Ubuntu 8.04" this was a nice little review. Today was the Inauguration of our new president Barack Obama! Change has come. Today was a first in a long time where I shed a tear of joy, "Let Freedom Ring"! Will thats it for today, I'm putting in my copy of CBT Debian (disc2) on and cranking up my server for a little cram session. Good night all.
Today was a catch-up day for me. I finally finished up my reading and study for classes. Also I got the chance to lay out my study plan for my first Cert, CompTia's Linux + . I'm currently watching a training video from Learnkey on "Linux+ (using Redhat8)Certification" and reading the Linux+ Cert. bible (Finished Parts I &II). Those chapters were basic information on what Linux is and how to install it. This was easy reading, it was geared towards mainly new users. Since picking Linux back up in Jun.08 with "Ubuntu 8.04" this was a nice little review. Today was the Inauguration of our new president Barack Obama! Change has come. Today was a first in a long time where I shed a tear of joy, "Let Freedom Ring"! Will thats it for today, I'm putting in my copy of CBT Debian (disc2) on and cranking up my server for a little cram session. Good night all.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Intro
Greetings all,
This is my first official blog. I started this blog after doing a call in show with dave yates of the "lottalinux links" podcast. I also wanted to start this blog because of my interest with Linux and the F/OSS movement and to help me keep track of my progress towards becoming Linux+ and LPI certified. My goal is to be a Sys Admin,Programmer and a basic Linux tutor(I do mean Basic). Since this is my first blog I will keep it short and sweet, I can be reached on twitter under the handle "itt_tech", and on identi.ca under the handle "luthaloafy". Goodbye for now.
-Loafy
This is my first official blog. I started this blog after doing a call in show with dave yates of the "lottalinux links" podcast. I also wanted to start this blog because of my interest with Linux and the F/OSS movement and to help me keep track of my progress towards becoming Linux+ and LPI certified. My goal is to be a Sys Admin,Programmer and a basic Linux tutor(I do mean Basic). Since this is my first blog I will keep it short and sweet, I can be reached on twitter under the handle "itt_tech", and on identi.ca under the handle "luthaloafy". Goodbye for now.
-Loafy
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)