On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 00:07 +0000, Sam Sharpe wrote: > I haven't attempted EX442 yet, but I have sat the RH442 class. This is > an awesome course and while it's not 100% relevant to what I do (work > for a Hosting company), there are some little things (like presenting > statistics for non-technical people) that are covered very well and > would be applicable in many areas.
Sorry, gotta nitpick here ... Huh? "like presenting statistics for non-technical people" The course throws OS design theory and the practical implementation of kernel 2.6 at people, then an overload of system, process, memory, I/O information and profiling at them and, in the end, you have to interpret and tune. So the course takes -- at most -- 15 minutes to cover the tool "mtrr" for _elementary_ "visualization." I'm a degreed engineer and have never considered "visualization" of data to be "for non-technical people." Quite the opposite. I want to visualize stuff that _only_ technical people could appreciate, but can absorb much quicker. E.g., even 2D graphs not only let you see a rate of change (algebra), but a rate of rate of change (elementary differential calculus). But that aside, being that you are at a hosting company, you do use mtrr for your own monitoring, correct? ;) -- Bryan P.S. Great book for visualizing with Python (written for technical people who may not know Python or are not programmers, including more sysadmin types, let alone engineers, researchers, statisticians, etc...): http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Python-Visualization-Transformation-Professionals/dp/1430218436/ -- Bryan J Smith Senior Consultant Red Hat, Inc Professional Consulting http://www.redhat.com/consulting mailto:[email protected] +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:[email protected] (Blackberry/Red Hat-External) -------------------------------------------------------- You already know Red Hat as the entity dedicated to 100% no-IP-strings-attached, community software development. But do you know where CIOs rate Red Hat versus other software and services firms for their own, direct needs, year after year? http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
