Every year people predict things, it's almost the journalists version of New Year Resolutions. Predict something and see if you are right. If you are then as you say you get to say "I was right" but if you are wrong you conveniently forget you ever wrote said article and rely on Google cache cleaning itself up.

The world will be a different place after this recession - and so will the web. I don't think however we should all update our microblogs saying "The end of Web 2.0 is nigh" just yet.

When I did my RHCE (Admittedly back in 2006 so it was RHEL 4, not 5) we were taught a little about what was under the hood, we were certianly shown hw to do everything in the shell as well as through a GUI - but to really learn what is under the hood, as a Red Hat course anyway - you need to look at doing the RHCA - which is about 5 separate courses, and costs a small fortune!

Give me man, info, google (through links or lynx if you only wish to use the shell) over a week in a (very nice) RH lab in Guildford, UK learning Red Hat specific kernel tweaks and Red Had Directory Service any day. :-) Oh and please do not think that I am against Red Hat - I have an RHCE and use CentOS every day through work and for personal server use. I just like the abilty to transfer my skills to Debian based distros too.