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Brainbench offers some pretty interesting certifications this September for free.

FREE for September

• Cisco Router Fundamentals
• Computer Forensics (U.S.)
• Computer Fundamentals (Win XP)
• Computer Technical Support
• English Vocabulary
• Medical Transcription (U.S.)
• Math Fundamentals
• MS Office 2003 Fundamentals
• MS Windows Server 2003 Administration
• Network Security
• Project Management (2005)
• RDBMS Concepts

Pre-Release (Beta)

Pre-release (beta) exams are certification exams that are currently under development and getting testing feedback from beta test takers. You will be getting credit if you pass the exam just like taking the regular non-beta exam.

• Internet Research Techniques and Resources (U.S.)
• Data Warehousing Concepts (Refresh) Beta
• MS SharePoint Portal Server 2003
• Visual Basic 2005 Beta

Check out the complete list of Free Brainbench Certification Exams for September 2006

PLUG would like to request for people to support SFD! Go and/or invite people to attend the celebrations. Burnfest of FOSS distributions and other activities would be done courtesy of UnPLUG and other affiliated student organizations. Companies and/or individuals may give support (either financially or manpower or food, among others).

[info lifted from http://linux.org.ph]

As part of the global Software Freedom Day celebrations, the University of the Philippines Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG), UP College of Engineering Department of Computer Science (UP COE-DCS), UP Computer Center (UPCC), Association for Computing Machinery - UP Student Chapter (ACM-UP), Bluepoint Institute of Higher Technology Foundation, and the Philippine Linux Users’ Group (PLUG) will hold the Annual Software Freedom Day celebrations along with the Third Quarter Free Technical Seminar for the year 2006 on 16 September 2006, from 9AM to 6PM at the UP College of Engineering Theater, UP Diliman Campus, Diliman, QC. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! ALL ARE INVITED - FEEL FREE TO COME AND JOIN!

Saturday, 16 September 2006
9am - 6pm
UP College of Engineering Theater
UP Diliman Campus, Diliman, QC
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Janette Toral of DigitalFilipino.com is offering a FREE Blogging 101 Workshop Online.

DigitalFilipino.com started its advocacy for blogging as a means to document knowledge learned in 2003. To further spread blogging know-how, we are launching this Blogging 101 workshop designed for individuals who would like to learn more about it.

The workshop includes:

This workshop has the following lessons:

Lesson 1: Introduction to blogging
Lesson 2: Getting started in blogging
Lesson 3: Blog copyright and ethics
Lesson 4: Introduction to Podcasting
Lesson 5: Generating revenue through blogs
Lesson 6: Blogging ideas

Sign-up now @ DigitalFilipino.com

I was downloading some ISO images of CentOS 4.4 for a fellow over at PLUG and boy was I delighted when I saw how fast my box was downloading the images.

I was able to download 1 whole CD in 10 minutes.

I now attest to what mirrors.kernel.org says below:

Mozcom and UnionBank team up to bring you the first Entrepreneurial E-Commerce Excellence (E3) Awards.

Calling on all budding entrepreneurs from top universities in the country to join this rare opportunity to show off their technical genius and business acumen in the development of innovative e-business ideas. The country’s most comprehensive online payment system, Mozcom PayEasy, and the country’s leading e-commerce banks, UnionBank, co-present the “First Entrepreneurial E-Commerce Excellence (E3) Awards.”

This e-commerce advocacy campaign is open to all duly enrolled college or post-graduate students from reputable schools. Each contestant must submit an E-commerce entry or - any business project that would require an online payment or transaction component. Business concepts developed for the competition may use commercial or open source development tools andplatforms.

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