Re: Car repairs and that damned CEL!


"Mark Bedingfield" <atari030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Grinner wrote:
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Mark
nevermind, cheers. i still wuvs ya marky. my light bulb moments came
when i got how to do a sequential update and control break - saved me
from failing a course at TAFE, then went on to uni. before that it was
looking grim. understanding pointers in C and Object Oriented stuff
like polymorphism, inheritance and client supplier relationships with
classes were other light bulb moments. i guess networking and all other
apsects of IT have similar plateaus and sharp learning curves, when i
did the ccna course (didn't do the exam) subnetting was probably one of
the more challenging parts of it, but having already played around with
bytes and offsets etc, hex and binary calulations it was different but
similar, anyway there was a lot to remember with routing and routed
protocols, switching. getting it all happening in a practical exam
timeframe still looms as a challenge, tafe are offering a bootcamp -
sort of a refresher with the the cisco exam and advancements since i dd
the course. i may do that.
I finished netacad and sat the CCNA. We had 43 people start the course
and only 2 of us sat the CCNA. Right at the point my Nana died and my
wife fell pregnant. Had to fly back to NZ for the funeral and all. Hell
of a struggle, failed first attempt, 83%. Passed the second attempt 93%.
Pass mark was 85%. I think it has been lowered since. I also did
C.B.Electronics and cert 3 in network admin. I'm still a parts jockey
tho, I like fixing/building and bending stuff. I have done some M$
modules too, not worth the dunny paper it was printed on.

I actually like subnetting, its fun in a weird sort of way. Initially I
didn't get it, but one night between classes I sat bolt upright in bed
(No, I didn't *** my pants). It was a lightbulb moment in the purest
sense. I haven't programmed anything more than batch files and HTML in
20 years. I'd been keen to have another stab at it one day. I'll say one
thing about Cisco tho, its all head down and arse up, especially if you
are working too. Vamps nobbled the CCNE I think.

yeah i need to finish it for my own peace of mind i think, like she said
regarding the MCSE, 'Must Conusult Someone Else' i'm a bit weary of those
courses.

I mostly did the CCNA to prove I could. Like David Gilmour said, he didn't
like school, but he knows he's nobodies fool. I didn't suck at school if I
was interested, nailed top in form 3 for science. But if I wasn't
interested I was crap at it. Form 3 was when we really started on physics
iirc.

i started doing multistrand (4 unit science) in year 11 and 3 unit maths,
but couldn't get the hang of balancing chemical equations, once i realised i
wasn't going to be a doctor i ditched the extra maths unit and picked up art
instead.

been trying to find a free web site to upload the pdf to, but all they
seem to allow is gifs, jpg and mpgs. optusnet doesn't support file
uploads anymore apparently - it's all microsoft now.
Or you could just PM it to me;-) Plenty of space here.

PM?

Private/personal mail.

i'll look into it. there's some other soft goodies i could send along.

Cheers (Carlton cold again).

of course. gotta crash, see y'all next week.

I've surfaced, damn frost outside. Go back to bed mate;-)


it got cold up this way through the week though we haven't had a sub zero
morning yet. snowed out west and on the barrington tops, though.


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