I have recently added a wiki/faq section to the site. This is mainly for my own notes and thoughts, but I find that if I am working on something, then someone else has as well. You may or may not find the information useful.

I could have waited until I had populated it more fully, but better partial information than none. Most of the items will be computer related, but you never know what I might start looking into.  This being said, I have also not determined how I am going to handle comments. Currently they are disabled. This is mainly due to the wonderful fact that spam bots would fill up the entire thing in about 20 days if I was not careful.

To this effect, I may have to enable some sort of feedback loop to help minimize those types of responses.

Mountain biking is an inherently dangerous sport. Riding through the woods on two wheels with branches, roots, and other nonsuch leads to the very high potential of being injured. The injuries can rank from the minor scratch to ending up in a cast, or two. Even with these dangers, I would rather run into a tree than to be taken out by an auto while on a road bike.

Recently at a race, I took a bad spill on a downhill section. While nothing was broken, I had some major bruising. I had to take about a week off to recuperate, but no major issues. These types of crashes are the ones that you are glad to have.

Now last week, my foot came unclipped due to sliding on a root, and my eggbeaters (pedals) swung around and slapped me in the shin. For all intents and purposes it was a minor accident. However, the shin is a bad place for wounds. The skin is taunt and shallow depth to the bone. Needless to say after continuous bleeding for 4 hours I went the emergency medical clinic.

As I stated earlier, the first 3 days of the Red Hat rapid track training went by in a blur. The amount of information covered was more than I believe a lot of people could absorb in the short time frame. There were a number of people at the training claiming that they were going to fail the certification exam at the end of the week.

Day 4.

The first half of the day was spent finishing the course material. In a strange twist, the stuff that we covered on the last day was some of the easiest items that we had covered all week. During the training I was able to pull out my laptop and answer a few emails that needed seeing to. While the material covered in the last day did not seem that important it is where I spent the second half of the day that made all the difference.

The first 3 days of the Red Hat Rapid Track course have been fairly intense. The main reason for this is the shear amount of data that is covered in three days. I have taken other training courses that take 2 days before you even get into the training material. That would not be the case when it comes to the Red Hat rapid track course.

For starters, I am taking the course at a local Red Hat approved training facility. The location is in a part of Atlanta that is probably convenient to the largest number of people around town. If you know the Atlanta area, then it is just north of I-285 off on GA-400. For me it is a bit of a trek, but all in all it has not been a bad commute. If I was doing my normal work hours and not 9 to 5 it would be even better. The facility is clean, and the coffee is much better than what we have at my regular office.

This week I am going to the Red Hat RHCE Rapid Track Course with RHCSA and RHCE Exams included. In the past I have been an RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer), but it expired a few years back. As the exam costs several hundred dollars, and it was not a priority, I never went and took the exam again. Now the opportunity has arisen for me not only to take the RHCE exam, but the week long Rapid Track course as well.

It should be interesting to see how the training stacks up to some of the other training that I have had. If it compares to the training that I had for JBoss, then I will be pleasantly surprised. Though, if I remember properly, that training did have areas where it could have been improved.

This is the course description as pulled off of the Red Hat website, at the time of me taking the class.