Rich Jerrido

This past Friday, I took (and passed ) the EX429 exam. This exam was a little weird for me as it is the first exam that I have completed since I began my employment at the crimson habadashery. Under normal conditions, completing the EX429 exam post-RHCA means that one would become an RHCSS, but since [...]

After an awesome week of all types of Crimson Haberdashery related activities, it is time to get back to the grind. Summit was kick ass. The presentations from the Red Hatters, partners and customers were very relevant and enriching. Hell, they even let me give a Campground presentation . It is posted here. I am [...]

Travelling fairly frequently has caused me to re-evaluate the way that I travel and my workflow. In the process, I’ve learned some new tools, as well as learning new tricks for existing tools that I have. Most of my toolkit is designed around security and backups, since while I am away from 127.0.0.1 ::1, data [...]

Since transitioning over to a new $DAYJOB, I have been primarily a remote employee. While working from home has many advantages (one of which is a happier Richie), I ran into a number of challenges that I needed to solve that I hadn’t experienced in the past. Primarily, most of the issues that I had [...]

I took my final exam (EX442 – Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning) for RHCA certification yesterday, and got my e-mail notification that I passed earlier today! I am definitely relieved that it is over. There was a metric ton of material that one needed to be proficient on. But I would put [...]

This past Friday, I took (and passed ) the EX318 exam. Woohoo, 4 of 5 in my quest for RHCA completed. This exam was a pretty important one in the series for me. Passing it granted me the following certifications: Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS) Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA) Though Red Hat, [...]

Now that I am back at 127.0.0.1 from the crazy week known as the Red Hat Summit, I guess I’ll post my quick review of the event. Overall, I was very impressed by the events and the various presentations. It was very helpful to get out of the office, take off my flame-retardant suit, and [...]

After 6 days of waiting with high anticipation, I got my results of my recent taking of EX333 after taking RHS333 this past week. I passed, but that was one pretty intense exam. Obviously, I cannot divulge the details, but it was exactly what I was expecting from Red Hat: Good practical application using live [...]

I have been sitting here thinking about some of my career options. Much of my Linux career I have been designing & deploying solutions based on Red Hat’s product line. And the more and more that I think about it, I think that it is in my best interests to finally quantify that experience. Additionally, [...]

I think that its time that we sit down and have a talk. We’ve been dating for over 10 years and I think that we still haven’t reached a point in our relationship where it is mutually beneficial to both of us. I understand that in your previous relationships with other platforms, you did things [...]