[lpi-discuss] looking for courseware

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday, 13 May 2005 00:39, ross e. brunson wrote:

> > For LPIC-2, 2 weeks -- let alone 2 days -- ain't enough to cover
> > it all.
>
> Amen to that, though I don't completely agree with Alan's extremely
> long timeline, it should be at least a couple of weeks long, widely
> separated and highly organized.
>
> Ross

Just to fill in the blanks, I get most of my students raw. Usually 
experienced Windows admins, sometimes Novell, and very rarely a 
Solaris person. They come from support companies planning to migrate 
their customers, and very few have any experience with Linux at all.

A black screen with white text is a completely foreign concept to this 
class of person, and the absence of the mouse rocks their universe to 
the very core.

I yearn for the day when I can run boot a boot camp like Ross does and 
have a class full of people that have already learned why they do not 
work routinely as root.

To come back to the original question, I'm also severely XML deficient 
and use OOo for all my courseware which I write myself. 
Interestingly, one book is 700 pages, no sub-docs, with extensive use 
of styles. An old ancient Dell notebook (PII, 266MHz, 192MB, 4.7G HD) 
takes this in it's stride, albeit a tad slow. When exported to .doc, 
Word chokes and can't generate a table of contents. I started it in 
OOo 1.1.1 just to see how it would perform, and was so impressed with 
OOo I just carried on using it

alan

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