Reisavontuur: Linux basics


Avonturier(s):Oscar
Continent:Afrika
Land:Tanzania
Aanvang:15 Oktober 2010
Einde:15 Oktober 2010


inux Basics

So, for the first time I’ve a couple of minutes to type a message, it has been a busy week.

Yesterday we finished the first course with an exam. The last 4 days I teached Linux Basics for a nice group of 5 people (Freddy, Kennedy, Hilda, Joshua and Rechinold). The general pace was quite fast and so the level quite high. Look at it backwards I talked far too much but that’s always a difficulty: exercise more but tell less other the other way around. I choose to tell them a lot. But for next week I’ll focus on a more thourough treatment of the subjects.

The group handled this overloading of information quite well. But I still was a bit worried they would make my exam. The exam proved to be quite hard but 4 out of 5 made it! One 3, two had a 6, one 7 and one 8,5. A good result and for myself, I can be satisfied. Catherine is making nice certificates for the graduees. On the certificate will be the text: ===================== Certificate for the 4-day training: Linux basics. The student has succeeded this course and has basic knowledge of the following subjects:

- the difference between the Linux kernel, the shell and commands. - the Linux filesystem - usage of the editor vi - the Linux permission system - filesystem commands - the use of wildcards - basic regular expressions - command line knowledge of exploring all of the above. ===================== Here’s a picture of Hilda’s certificate:

Today we drive with a van full of computers to a school near Arusha where we will implement a classroom setup with one server and fifteen client computers. Kennedy in the van with the computers. (@work: do you recognize these computers? ;-) ) Berry: herken je ze?? :) Joshua, Rechinold and Freddy with the van.

I will see how things really go in practice. And at least from now on I’ll use the clean toilet… Yesterday we were eating at the rooftop of Kinderoko hotel (with nice views of Moshi and the Kilimanjaro) and I told I liked the office of Viafrica very much but I thought the toilet was a bit of a shit-hole… Turned out I used not our toilet…

Ok, we almost go now. Six people and 16 computers in a van on road to Arusha! Till later.
 
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