As mad as a hatter... sometimes
Colin Smyth
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Jun 15 2006
Squeeeze…
Last day at BT, and we have already been off on a flying start. A quick lab on the routers again doing some PPP work (this is the underlying technology of internet connections) then we dove into Frame Relays and moved swiftly onto ISDN. Whats interesting is that what we are covering here, is becoming …
Jun 14 2006
Access Denied
I hate cisco, specifically Access Control Lists (ACL) that they encoded into switches and routers. We have been working on ACL’s most of the day, first doing theory and some practical on it, and im sure most of the people in the class are suffering “burn out” since it took forever and most people still …
Jun 14 2006
Coffee Break.
I swear, when you go on training there is a chance you will be living off coffee (or tea) while your here. Im drinking up to 5 cups a day now! The good thing is we get freshly baked scones every morning for the half 10 break, which is a nice change from coffee… oh …
Jun 13 2006
Destination host Unreachable…
Finally gotten enough time here to sit down and update, Day 5 at BT and its just after Lunch here so quick break from cisco commands. Last night it was reported that Larne’s got a new Mayor, the SDLP person (name evades me)… my first thoughts was “Oh crap, that’s Larne doomed” then I realised, …
Jun 12 2006
extra spicy…
Quick addition to the site now that im back at home. (it feels far later than 7pm ) Starting to feel a bit “overloaded” with all the information that’s being thrown around, Im guessing 7 days worth of cisco course will put a strain on concentration but im only on day 4!. Having a slight problem remembering …