skykissme: MAGISTER IT MAGI

CCNA Semester 3

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:25:00 PST

I haven’t been writing my blog for a long long time … I’m not sure if it is my laziness or simply don’t want to put my moaning and groaning of my everyday life on other people, reader, surfer. Although, I sure, some of which you guys have experience it once in awhile. That’s life …

As for me, I am now about to finish CCNA Semester 4, only a Skills Based Exam and an Online Final to go. Then I will be having a great Christmas break and after that … head down, and study more for CCNA Certificate Exam.

CCNA Semester 3, I don’t remember much of how the classes went on … I only remember so late nights studying. However, a lot of information of what we learnt in CCNA 3 shows up in CCNA 4, for example Single Area OSPF, VLAN.

For those who still have a chance to take CCNA 3 v3.1 classes, my only recommendation is, have a look at your Case Study as earliest in the piece as possible. It will help you understand more of what you have to do in Skills Based Exam at the end.

If you’re like many of us … don’t really understand what’s what in the CCNA 3, talk to your tutor, supervisor, or some folks here in Geek Zone maybe able to point you to a correct direction of which/what supplement information you should read, or perhaps an example or a scenario that will clear your picture up.

If you guys are using some free routers simulation products like NetSimK, NZ own Router simulator, and Packet Tracer, by Cisco there are limitation you should be aware of. As far as I know NetSimK has no support for routing protocol like EIGRP or OSPF. So for your best chance to deal with Case Study at home … Packet Tracer is the one to choose. Choose carefully!!

Your case study should look more business like as possible … you will have to give your client a recommendation for future improvement, products price, your quotation – pretty much. For the best result, as I found, adding some pictures of the equipment you’re going to be using … to complete the job you are quoting for.

If you want to start practicing your CCNA 3 Skills Based Exam, here is a scenario:

(I’m giving it to you as much as I can remember – but for v3.1 it shouldn’t be too much different.)

RouterA (dce) ------Serial Link ------- (dte) RouterB

SwitchB---------------------------------------SwitchA

/ | \ / | \

Vlan 1,2,3 Vlan 1,2,3

Configure your router with OSPF area 0
Basic Router/Switch Configure
VLAN/VTP Configuration

That's it from me for now ... I will definitely tell you more of my CCNA Semester 4 experience after I finished my exam, which is this Wednesday and next Monday. Wish me luck~~!

Mailbox cleanup

Mon, 07 May 2007 06:24:00 PDT

Well.. clearing up my round trip delivery time test mail box today, first time since I have a script running. 4 in total. 2000 messages WOW.

But one thing for sure, there is a pattern of a spam burst at the certain time of month.. I found. Between th 20th and 29th of each month, I have more spam than my round trip test mail.

Interesting.. really. Perhaps I should make my spam filter level higher at that time of month and lower at other time.

So far my spam filter been working great. No ham in the spam box.

Woosh wireless Driver for Vista

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:51:00 PDT

Woosh April Newsletter:

Woosh Wireless Broadband now compatible with Windows Vista

Good news for our wireless broadband customers who have been waiting to upgrade to Windows Vista. We now have new Vista drivers available for Woosh modems and the Laptop PC Cards.

Woosh users can now combine the mobility, security and entertainment upgrades that Vista brings, with the freedom of wireless broadband.

Existing Woosh customers can download the Vista drivers from the Woosh website at www.woosh.com/vista

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I'm still saving money for new computer.. so I will have to wait until then

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Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:32:00 PDT

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Back to square one, after leaving linguistic behind

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:19:00 PDT

After leaving linguistics. Web Programming was the topic I went for then. After a qualification in E-Commerce I jumped into a first job I found on the newspaper. Good that they accepted me.

Telephone technician, installing PABX systems and structured cabling install. Look on the bright side, I'm one of the 2% of the country. What is this 2% refer to? you may ask. Well.. according to StatNZ there are only 2% of female Telephone technician in this country. I love my job, I love my clients although some of them gave me a sore head. But my career as a phone technician came to an end when the company went under with some big $$$ they arrear on my wages. It came back up with a different name base on the one that went. I thought I should leave then.

Good that Cisco CTC require full time, so I used that as an excuse.

Now I have a job in a local ICT company, yeah! what is my duty now... universal... really. I'm taking CCNA too, so it's good that my boss can help me out from time to time. Explaining things.

But I'm also back to the 1st square, web programming. HTML, PHP and JavaScript (not Java). I love this job too. But miss being a phone technician.

My CTC Blog, not very intelligent but might just be good enough to be a geek.

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:22:00 PDT

After spending time and energy on CISCO CTC first paper – IT Essential I – Hardware and Software, feeling terrible and terrify enough to feel like quitting but the result isn’t to bad. “B” as I didn’t finish the lab book.

100% in practical test and doing 0.6% too much on the theory as I wished to just get 70%.

This year CTC isn’t going to let us play with electronic stuff. They send us to learn Voice and Data Cabling instead. It’s relatively easy for me as I’ve been in Telecommunication Industry for almost three years. Only problem is with terminology. I don’t seem to be able to put my head around it. The practical test isn’t far to go. I hope it’s not going to be too difficult.

IT Essential II – Network Operation System. Mainly focus on Linux this term. But they let us use RedHat 7.2 to get familiar with Linux, how funny.

I grown up with using internet on Unix and first chat based in Unix “talk”, “stalk” command. Then move onto developing a website which hosted by a Debian Linux based company. So I quite good with Linux compare to other people in class.

RedHat 7.2, is something different. I hardly ever give up on anything but I gave up on trying to get Firefox going on it.