Monthly Archives: September 2014

Turin, Italy chooses Ubuntu, ditches Windows

Munich tried then ditched Linux. I wonder if Turin fares any better.

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€6m: the amount the municipality of Turin hopes to save over five years by switching from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux in all of its offices.

The move will mean installing the open source operating system on 8,300 PCs, which will generate an immediate saving of roughly €300 per machine (almost €2.5m altogether, made up from the cost of Windows and Office licences) — a sum that will grow over the years as the need for the renewal of proprietary software licences vanishes, and the employees get used to the new machines.
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‘It was a huge risk’: How the end of XP support helped France’s gendarmes embrace Ubuntu – fast

‘It was a huge risk’: How the end of XP support helped France’s gendarmes embrace Ubuntu – fast

Or rather, to the old ones. Another reason for the switch was that the computers Turin uses are quite old…

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Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here’s how I chose peace

TED videos are always inspirational. With all the fighting going on in and around, it is nice to know that there are some who refuse to follow in the footsteps of their extremist forefathers.

Bride shares final dance with her dying father and it will break your heart

If this doesn’t make you at least slightly tear up, you must have a heart of stone. Knowing what its like to have your own father in hospital, I can feel for Lisa.

LPIC-1

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First step achieved towards LPIC-1. Part 1 complete, part 2 commence! :)

Score was 710. Pass mark was 500. Score ranges from 200 to 800, so if my score was 710/800, that makes it 88.75%. Not a bad score.

I arrived 30 minutes early, and the test centre allowed me to take the test early, although we had some troubles getting the exam started (technology, eh?)

However, once started, I clicked through the questions, and felt reasonably happy with the level of questions, even though I evidently got quite a few wrong on the System Architecture section.

I chuckled when the receptionist asked to take a picture of me to compare against the last picture (to verify I was who I said I was) and then promptly asked me “have you lost weight since the last time you were here?”

Um… I don’t think so? :P

Breakdown of topics:

I am going to see if I can find out which questions I got wrong. Would be nice to know so I can learn for future.