RHCE Certification – Back on track!

Last Updated on Monday, 30 June 2008 03:54 Written by Brian Saturday, 28 June 2008 11:31

I have been studying for a little while now in preperation for taking the RHCE Exam. My initial goal was to have it completed before the Red Hat Summit, but a rather large Red Hat Enterprise Linux implementation that consisted of an HP 7000 series Blade Center, Clustering, Virtualization and LeftHand Network SANS had me real busy over the past month which pushed my goal back a bit, now that this job is coming to a close I intend to get back into the swing of things with my RHCE Cert.

With summer now here and the kids finally out of school we do plan to travel a bit (while the weather is good, and here in Buffalo, NY that timeframe is short ) so my new goal is taking the exam towards the end of August or the beginning of Sept.

Downtime / Hosting issue

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 June 2008 11:14 Written by Brian Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:08

Unfortunately late Friday afternoon June 20th, my hosting provider decided to dissappear. At first I thought it may be a simple network issue so I figured I would wait until Saturday, since I only have personal stuff hosted with them, to see if it came back up before submitting a ticket. Well Saturday rolled around and still no website so I submitted a trouble ticket only to wait another 12 hours before it was responded to stating “We are working on the issue”. After numerous requests and 5 days of downtime without so much of a peep as to what was going on and when to expect service to be restored, I decided to relocate to a new host, so now the site is back and should be updated (Now that I can access it) frequently.

Red Hat Summit / FudCon10 Boston – Day 3

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:03 Written by Brian Friday, 20 June 2008 04:02

Today I spent most of my time at FudCon where we continued working on Testopia setup and configuration for tomorrows BarCamp, which unfortunately I wont be able to attend as my flight home leaves later today.

My overall thoughts of attending my first Red Hat Summit and my very first Fudcon was it was very well worth the time, I learned alot and got to meet many of the people I have only interacted with via irc. I will be sure to attend next years event as well as look forward to getting to another Fudcon.