Category: Personal

Brainbench certificates

I was planning to take a couple of tests and pass certifications from Brainbench for a while already but I never came back to actually do it. This Friday I occasionally got near by the Brainbench site and finally went to the test section. I found all the free/sponsored tests and I took almost all of the ones I thought I had some knowledge in. I ended up with 9 certificates:

  1. Linux Administration (General)
  2. MS Office 2003 Fundamentals
  3. Computer Fundamentals (Win 95/98)
  4. HTML 3.2
  5. Computer Fundamentals (Win XP)
  6. PHP 5
  7. Cisco Routers Fundamentals
  8. Network Security
  9. MS Windows Server 2003 Administration

Only two of the above (no 7 and no 9) are not very well, but still ok due to the reason that I am not too much into Cisco (consider myself a beginner) and I am more a Linux administrator, so I do not spend much time on Windows Servers and that is why my Windows Servers test was not as good.

Anyhow, I think that it is quite good for the time being. I hope that I will get better results on the two not-so-good tests and that I will take more tests later on (especially if they will be free/sponsored).

My transcript number is 6210735 and my results (and other stuff related to Brainbench) can be seen here

Missed Slashdot new design while using RSS

I am so used to RSS that I have missed a new (or maybe it is not already new???) design of Slashdot. I don\’t remember when I was visiting the sites for news directly and thus I do not see the changes there. It is just today that I was seating not on my machine and didn\’t have access to my RSS reader (nor I wanted to go to bloglines) I decided to visit Slashdot and I was very impressed. I really liked their new design – cool :)

Now I feel a bit pity about this. Just imagine, web-designer do a lot of their job to make cool look & feel and people (although not all of them) do not visit the site directly more than once :(

Flickr uploads

Thanks to my brother I now have a pro account with flickr which allows 2GB of uploads per months. I have started uploading some more photos, but the internet speed at home is a bit slow so it takes some time to upload. I hope that I will manage to move the majority of my photos to flickr soon.