Monthly Archives: July 2008

vim w/ ubuntu and hebrew

Posted by on July 29, 2008 No comments

When real guru says to use vim please listen to them and simply use it. Vim comes from vi editor which is 32 years old program. You can call vim it’s child cause it’s younger but much more powerful.

For some weird reason ubuntu decided to use striped-down version of vim (package: vim-tiny) which comes by default install. Problem with vim-tiny is it’s weak and not powerful as real vim.  However you can install it by “sudo apt-get install vim“. After that copy default vimrc file from /etc/vim to your home directory with the name .vimrc

cp /etc/vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc

After that edit it and turn syntax on (more info). Here is little example of my editor:

If you want to read/write Hebrew perhaps you should read wikipedia which says to use “:set rightleft” and “:set norightleft” (or short :set lr,:set nolr). It also says it don’t support BiDi very well for it’s simplicity, but this way writing hebrew is better that lot of IDEs that i know.  Better than my favorite komodo edit.
I remember at beginning when i saw Vim and when i started to read man pages i decided to stay with nano. I used nano for few years but today, no way that I’m returning to nano/pico after vim.

LPI-1 by myself

Posted by on July 19, 2008 1 comment

I decided to learn LPIC-2 and RHCE by myself. If you read previous post you’ll see how expensive courses are in Israel. Learning alone is always hard, it’s not easy as it’s in group but there are few benefits which i don’t know them at a moment.
I wish i can find more few blogs with same target as mine, having LPIC & RHCE, which could be very good practise for me.

Material?

Very good matterial for LPIC-1 is IBM docs (registration required) but they web site is really buggy for downloading and showing updated material. For example if you go to: lpic-1102 you’ll find material for topics: 103, 104, 110 missing but if you try from index site you’ll see it’s there. I also had a problem with logging into the site. Overall the web-site too buggy and hard to get used to.
But if you have any good free alternative material for LPIC please contact me and I’ll update here.

There is also few tutorials which are not free, like Cbt nuggets which is very good alternative if you’re lazy to read :) However, I’m used to read man pages so IBM docs is fine by me.

How LPIC is build?

LPIC is separated into two certification.

LPIC-1 certification is separated into two exams:

  1. exam 101
  2. exam 102

LPIC-2 is also separated as LPIC-1 into two exams:

  1. exam 201
  2. exam 202

So, bottom line is, if you want LPIC-2 you’ll need to have 4 exams which each of them costs about 100~150$. It’s little expensive so you got to learn very good before you take them.

I was looking for motivation for doing those certification alone so i decided to write at least once a week about the progress so maybe somebody will join me :) I’ll try to find material and questions to check myself and I’ll share my knowledge to the world. So next exam is 101 of LPIC-1 and expect next few posts about