Today I passed the second exam in the Sun Solaris 8 Operating Environment. Which means that if I were a dork, I would start appending it to my e-mail signatures.I’ve always been somewhat “anti-cert” because I’ve known plenty of “certified” people in the technical world, and, with the exception of a few select certifications (like [...]

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I aced my first Sun Solaris certification test today.That means: beer.

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I have some geek overload for y’all: I am writing this from my newly-installed Sun Ultra 5 workstation during the WebStart install.Now, I have to say, WebStart is probably the worst option for installing Solaris 8—it’s slow and only allows a minimum of customization. However, I must say that the “web” portion is the coolest [...]

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I’m in Sun training again. This time, it’s Enterprise Cluster 3.0. Fun fun! My wife and I are trying our best to have a sane Christmas—without getting too caught up in the insane commercialism and all that—but it’s tough. I am inspired by the people in the Culture Jammers network and the “Buy Nothing” days. [...]

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I am in Sun Enterprise 10000 training all week. It’s a nice way to come off of vacation, I must say. It’s really cool to learn about these machines which are, at there core, Cray Super Computers. Sun purchased the technology from SGI back in the day for something like US$12M and now sells each [...]

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