programming courses ot?

2006-09-07 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi all, Are there any good courses for computer programming taught in english. I am looking for some recommendations from the list: languages of choice: Python Perl C Also of interest are linux systems administration. since this is most probably ot its ok to reply off-list. Thanks, Aaron ==

Re: Red Hat SysAdmin Course

2006-09-07 Thread Michael Jaffe
--0-481231148-1157694379=:3117 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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,

[OT - possibly offending] The linux Kama sutra

2006-09-07 Thread Lior Kesos
I believe this is totally relevant to this list (hope It hasn't been posted yet) but in the past some posts aggravated people if they had any "obscene" content or pictures and where not marked appropriately. Therefore if you're age is under 18 or if you may be hurt buy viewing amusing illustrations

Re: Digg?

2006-09-07 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 7 בSeptember 2006 09:48, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 07/09/06, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Beware of bugs in the above code; > > I have only proved it correct, not tried it." > > -- Donald E. Knuth > > > > You follow Digg too? :) I had this lay

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 s

Consecutive theorems in LyX

2006-09-07 Thread Guy Rutenberg
hi,I am using Lyx to write some paper and I need to write down to two consecutive theorems (i am using article(hebrew) class). When I try to do this Lyx combines them into one theorem environment. One solution that i found was entring {} in ERT between the two theorems and marking the ERT style as

How to manipulate system-wide capabilities set

2006-09-07 Thread Olshvang Lev
Hello linuxers, I am running RH AS 3 update 6 Linux. I want to allow for the user process to change its scheduling policy to the real-time scheduling. I don't want to run with root privilegies, so I am trying to use linux capabilities (CAP_SYS_NICE). The man page states that there should be "

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 relatio

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 g

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

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 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g.,

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 l