May you live in interesting times is certainly the thing for this week.

Bell cut off my provider last week for a day and a half, today there is a network flood that causes my DSL modem to lock up, and I walked on the power bar where I had plugged in while I was moving the server into a rack. I’m surprised anything survived.

At least this constituted some activity on the site. If anyone was actually trying to view/post/comment, my apologies.

We have to have the exams shipped in from Toronto, so anyone who has not signed up by Monday night may not have an exam to write on. I will send a confirmation email to everyone who is scheduled to write.

Meeting this Thursday, Nov 20, 2004. See calendar for details.

Last meeting had some relatively lively discussion, hopefully we can keep the trend going. Given that we will be punting the LPI exams out, this could help map out training (if people want it), and we could discuss GNU cfengine.

Just to clear up any confusion, you need to send an email to lpi_exams@ovsage.org with the following information:

• Name (First Last)
• Valid Email Address
• LPI Identification Number (you need this to take the exam)
• Which exams will you be taking? (101R 101D 102 201 or 202)
  Exam 101 can be done with a RedHat Package Manager (101R) or Debian Package Manager (101D) specialty
• Which Seating (11:00 or 13:00, or both) in order to write the exam

Looks like we will have a little more time to get ready. We didn’t get the request for the exams in early enough, so we will be punting out 3 weeks and making it the 11th of December instead.

We will be hosting an exam on Nov 20 at the Altera offices in Kanata.

I know it’s a bit out of the way, but we do have use of the training center there, and it holds about 40 people. Space is limited to that many people.

Some details about the location …

• We are setting up for two seatings, 11:00 and 13:00
• For those who use public transit, and are are not familiar with Kanata, the bus route 160 passes along March Road (near the building) on Saturdays octranspo schedule.
  
  It can be transferred to from the Terry Fox Park & Ride in Kanata Centrum. You will want to get off at the former Ceyba building (if anyone remembers what it is called now, this would be a good spot to post).
  This is across from MDS Nordion on March Rd. If you look across their parking lot, you will see the PMC Sierra Building. This is where Altera is located. If you miss the stop, you should be able to stop near Lockheed, and walk back. Don’t blame me, I didn’t design the bus routes.

I was considering holding a training day to review the info from the IBM website that has review material on the prior Saturday, but I don’t know if there is any interest. I just learned that I will be working that day, so this is no longer an option. It will be considered for future exams.