Archive for February, 2009

Installing KDE 4.2 in Intrepid Ibex

Written on February 18th, 2009 by shakir
Categories: Information Insemination, Nerd Public Journal?

I've been a KDE user since I started using Mandrake Linux 8.0, which if I remember correctly by that time bundles KDE 2. It was until recently that when Kubuntu 8.10 includes KDE 4 by default rather than KDE 3, I switched to GNOME.

KDE 4 at that time for me was an unfinished product where it's not ready for prime time. The desktop effects were slow, many features of KDE 3 programs were still not ported, bluetooth was not working, and most important of all I can't run it in dual screen.

This has changed recently when KDE team released KDE 4.2. There were so many bugfixes and improvements that I think it's time for me to go back to KDE.

I've published an article on how to install KDE 4.2 in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) at Techrecipes.

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LPI to update LPIC-1 and LPIC-2

Written on February 5th, 2009 by shakir
Categories: Nerd Public Journal?

LPI (Linux Professional Institute) is revising it’s current LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certification programs and the updated certification program is set to be launched in April 1, 2009.

What this means to me is that if I am to take any of the exams, I better do it before the updated certification program take place, or wait at least for another year. This is because it’s gonna take quite a while before books that are based on the new objectives to be made available on the shelves. This is true especially for the LPIC-2 certification, which even for the current certification program, there’s only one book (to the best of my knowledge) that covers it which is O’Reily’s LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition.

I can just hope Ditesh to organize a new el-cheapo LPI exams as it’s gonna cost RM574 per paper for the exam, and with two papers to pass per certification, it’s gonna hurt my budget big time.

/* I’ve started studying for the LPIC-2 exams (I’m already LPIC-1 certified, but is due to expire later this year), and it would be nice to know if anyone else is to join me taking the exams */

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