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OVJU Part 2

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Format: NTSC
Region: All Regions
Studio: Thornton studio
DVD Release Date: July 12, 2010
Run Time: 60 minutes
Average Customer Review: 23 customer reviews
ASIN: B0007R5T7A
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Not the Best OS Course I Have Taken

ByJohn W. Eubankson February 2, 2007

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

If you buy these courses, start by watching both DVDs as an overview. During this initial phase, try many of the command, but do not attempt to fully understand any. On the second pass through each course, I recommend using three windows. The first window is for the DVD videos, the second is for the "bash" shell, and the third is for taking notes. As you are confronted with each new command, skimmed through the online "man" descriptions, and played with the command until you feel comfortable with it. In this way, the information will takes days of hard work to complete. It is also tiring, so expect to take a lot of breaks.

The UNIX command language, as presented by Mr. Boris Vinnik, is mostly a collection of utilities, each with numerous parameters. The information is useful, but the presentation is jumbled. The first course starts out with ample explanations on every topic, but as the course progresses, there is acceleration to the number of commands presented each minute.

Throughout the video, Mr. Vinnik is always shown standing against a gray background, and moving his hands about. The commentary is not always in sync with his lips, and sometimes gets ahead or behind the examples. The examples are blurred video taping of a screen, as Mr. Vinnik types in the commands. It is what can be expected from an enterprising person who produces and markets his own product. It looks amateurish, as compared to courses developed for in-house use by most American companies.

If you are a beginner looking for a general overview of UNIX commands, then it may not be a good investment. An alternative description of how UNIX works is "UNIX for Dummies", which costs only $15. The book will give you a working knowledge of UNIX. Mr. Vinnik's courses cover more System Administrator information, but I think it falls way short of what would be needed to do the job. I base this on having maintained VAX VMS, and CDC Scope operating systems. However, to be fair, my training took several weeks for each operating system. Mr. Vinnik has crammed his twenty years of knowledge into less than four hours of video.

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Don't waste your $$$$$$

ByAmazon Customeron October 15, 2005

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Number one - the DVD doesn't play right!! Why in the world they decided to make it in .mp4 format is beyond me! They could've made it a DVD video so you could watch it on your tv & follow along with the computer! But no, they had to make it .mp4 so you have to use a computer just to watch it & the files are terrible! It comes with Quicktime, which I installed & it never worked right! I also tried using Nero Showtime, a Divx player, 2 different versions of Windows Media player with an .mp4 plugin, & had problems with all of them!! The computer would constantly lock up, the sound & video would be out of sync, blurry video. This DVD is CRAP!!! I even tried copying the files to my hard drive & playing them & still had the same problems! I have a fairly new, fast computer with 1 gig of RAM, so that's NOT the problem. It's extremely hard to consider someone a "computer guru" when the DVD they put out doesn't work right!!!!

Other people have mentioned the "accent". I work with people of all different nationalities & I still had a hard time understanding Boris Vinnik at times, even with repeated listenings. When the information is so critical this can be a problem!

Definitely NOT WORTH THE MONEY!!! I can't stress to you enough how dissatisfied I am with this product!!!

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Disappointing...

ByMr. D. A. Pfisteron December 30, 2007

Format: DVD

I purchased this course as part of the 4 disc DVD set for over $200, thinking it would teach me something. Well, unfortunately, besides brushing up on some old fundamentals it disappointed me. Definitely not worth $200 in my opinion...but I will let you be the judge of that.

Further "Dislikes":

1. He "mimes" to try sync with his pre-recorded voice narration, without
much success. Get's a bit irritating after a while (remember the old
Eastern Kungfu movies?)
2. His mixture of English words does not go well with his strong foreign
accent. This, at times, makes it difficult to follow what he is saying
especially when he uses "tech words" that newbies won't have heard
before.
3. He spends too much time explaining basic concepts, without getting
into the the actual material enough.
4. The examples on screen are often cut off, which means you cannot follow
what he is explaining as you cannot see the examples.
5. He, at times, makes mistakes at the command line, but does not always
correct them, which leaves you guessing what is correct - unless you
knew better yourself.

Having been through 3 of the 4 discs (couldn't push myself any further than disc 3), I gave up. Other CBT Unix / Linux training that I do recommend (over Boris' course) are those offered by CBT Nuggets and LinuxCBT. That and a few good Unix/Linux books will get you far more productive in the Unix/Linux World.

For those wanting a very "Basic Intro" into Unix, then stick with Boris.