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Today the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) from CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) starts it’s operation. This is a huge particle accelerator (also widely known as “the largest machine built by man”) which will try to reproduce the conditions that existed only during the Big Bang, and also try to detect and prove the existence of many particles only known in theory (so far).

- LHC at Wikipedia
- Special website from Nature
- Coverage from Scientific American

Some say this is the prelude to the end of the world, but that’s just human nature. Usually people are scared about things they don’t know or don’t understand. For those people, today is the first day towards the end.

For those who believe the LHC is a benefit to humanity, we can only hope that with the experiments we can finally understand black holes, worm holes, big bang, or even time travel and parallel dimensions.

Let History define who’s right and who’s wrong.

ramkumar commented on an earlier post called “RH401: Passed” that he didn’t know what RHCDS mean. To serve a wider public, I am going to post a few links of interest for those who want to understand what goes around Red Hat Certifications:

• Red Hat Training main page
• .RHCE - This is the regular certification. It means you are able to manage Red Hat systems in a general manner.
• RHCDS - This certifies that you are a little over a regular administrator, and you have datacenter skills.
• RHCSS - This certifies your skills/knowledge of fine tuning security on Red Hat systems.
• RHCA - This certifies that you have further knowledge, and is prepared for the “enterprise” systems (clusters, virtualization, etc).

Some of the courses overlap, some are specific. Read the descriptions, check the courses, and define your path.

I don’t know worldwide, but I can say that in USA and Brazil, RHCE is a pretty strong certification (better than LPI), and RHCA is rapdly becoming of higher importance.

Have fun!

Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. has touted its “green computing” image following a recent independent test that ranked Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5’s power efficiency over Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on three different hardware platforms.

The server tests rated power consumption on IBM, Dell and HP machines in three conditions: active mode optimized for power savings, active mode optimized for performance and quiet mode.

Read the full story…

Yay! I passed the RH423 exam (Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication). That’s the second step towards an RHCA. 3 to go!

O documento abaixo foi escrito por uma colega de trabalho (Eliane Iwasaki), como monografia do seu curso de pós-graduação. É um texto muito interessante, e vale a leitura.

MOVIMENTO OPEN SOURCE: a importância da comunicação e da relação entre empresas e comunidades para o mercado.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender o modelo de produção do software livre, motivações de colaboradores de comunidades open source e sua influência no mercado de TI. Para a realização deste estudo, a internet foi amplamente utilizada como fonte de informações sobre comunidades, mercado de TI, tecnologia e de duas grandes entidades representando empresa e comunidade: Red Hat e Fedora. Complementei esta pesquisa bibliográfica com meus conhecimentos obtidos por meio de participação em palestras e eventos, além do acesso a informações e pessoas dentro das entidades citadas, devido a minha atual posição no departamento de Marketing da empresa Red Hat Brasil. A conclusão obtida a partir dos resultados da pesquisa afirma ou contesta hipóteses levantadas no início do estudo, esclarecendo muitas questões a respeito deste movimento revolucionário e inovador. Pode ainda contribuir para a relação entre empresa e comunidade open source, visando a continuidade e crescimento deste mercado.

Veja mais, e faça o download do texto completo no Dicas-L.

I read an interesting comment by Matt Asay, on C|Net Blogs, with title “What is the world’s defining software company for the 21st century?“. What are the interesting points in it?

a) It’s a very biased observation against Red Hat’s mission statement.

b) It mentions Kiat Huang, my friend and former manager.

So, you go and read the comment for whatever reason you have to.

/me waves at Red Hat People Blogs !

Yay! I passed the RH401 exam yesterday (Red Hat Enterprise Deployment, Virtualization and Systems Management). That’s the first step towards a future RHCA.

Today marks my 1st year at Red Hat! I’m so glad and happy of being here that I have no words to express it. Got a lot of congratulations from co-workers, which makes me even more happy.

I hope I have many more years here, because working for this company is awesome!