Certification Changes and Updates

A look at the changes to a number of vendors certification entries is posted on UnixReview and can be found at: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10133/ur0706c/ur0706c.htm. Those vendors dicussed include: Cisco, CISSP, CompTIA, LPI, Microsoft, Novell, and Red Hat.

Linux Users and Groups

If there is one thing that all Linux administrators deal with on a regular basis, it is users and groups. If there is one topic that you should know inside and out, it is users and groups. That said, 50 questions intended to test your knowledge of user and group fundamentals at an intermediate level (with answers are at the end of the article) are now posted on UnixReview and can be found at: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10133/ur0706f/ur0706f.htm

A look at Moodle

A look at Open Source at is best is now posted on CertCities and can be found at http://certcities.com/editorial/columns/story.asp?EditorialsID=216. If you've taken classes at a university recently, the odds are good that there was an online component to it. The odds are also good that said course was administered through proprietary software known as a Course (or Learning) Management System (CMS/LMS) such as WebCT, Blackboard or Scholar360. Such software is expensive for universities, and not as flexible as many would like. Enter Moodle.

A review of SlickEdit 2007

A review of the newly released SlickEdit 2007 is now posted on UnixReview and can be found at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10130/ur0705j/ur0705j.htm. This year, the company has opted to change their numbering scheme. The successor to version 11, instead of being named Visual SlickEdit version 12, is named SlickEdit 2007. Don't let the name change fool you – it's still the same great product that it always was, only now there are even fewer reasons to not use it.

PC Technician Street Smarts

A review of the newly published PC Technician Street Smarts book is posted on UnixReview and can be found at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10130/ur0705c/ur0705c.htm.
PC Technician Street Smarts is a well-written book that every entry-level technician should have – and have handy – whether or not they are considering A+ certification

MySQL Test

A self-study test of MySQL topics consisting of 50 questions can be found on UnixReview at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10130/ur0705a/ur0705a.htm. The answers are at the end of the exam.

Uptime Software Review

A review of the newly released Uptime version 4.0 is now posted on UnixReview and can be found at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10130/ur0705f/ur0705f.htm. This is the best software package for Unix and Linux monitoring currently on the market.

Test Your PHP Knowledge

A new self-study test of 50 questions about PHP - most at the intermediate level - is posted on UnixReview at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10130/ur0705d/ur0705d.htm. The answers appear at the end of the quiz.

Regular Expressions and Shell Basics

A 50-question self-test on regular expressions and shell basics is now posted on UnixReview at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10125/ur0704d/ur0704d.htm. The answers to the questions appear at the end of the article.

A look at Linux and ulimit

An overview/tutorial on using ulimit with Linux is now posted on CertCities at http://certcities.com/editorial/columns/story.asp?EditorialsID=214. The ulimit utility allows you to limit almost everything in Linux except disk storage (for which purpose quota is used).

Test Your Knowledge on Ethernet

A sample quiz of 50 questions on Ethernet-specific and networking-generic questions is now posted on UnixReview and can be found at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10124/ur0703f/ur0703f.htm. The answers appear at the end of the quiz.

Network+ Review

The absolute best product that money can buy for Network+ self study is The Ultimate CompTIA Network+ Resource Kit. As powerful a statement as that is, it has been a long time since I have been so impressed by a product and a review of it can be found at: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9561/ur0703b/ur0703b.htm

Digital Shortcut Review Posted

A review of the new Cisco Firewall entry in the Digital Shortcuts series is now posted at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10124/ur0703c/ur0703c.htm