Month: January 2005

Spamming Comments

I’ve been getting hit HARD with spamming comments lately. So if I’m down at any point, assume I either killed something, or am upgrading to take care of spammers. Fuck you all. (Since midnight I’vve received over 300 spam comments.

I hate the internet!

Anyways. Been busy mad studying for my test lately. I’ve finally started to get into the 90% range on the practice tests… I dunno if that means I’m finaly learning the material, or if I’ve just finally memorized all the test question answers. Either way. Retake on Wed or Thursday. I ‘m going to talk to Daemon today when he comes in and see if he can recommend somewhere good. I really don’t want to go back to IVC.

Builds tonight are going ok. However for some reason it deployed to italy-staging-eng, but failed when deploying to italy-staging-it… Hopefully it doesn’t fail on any of the real QA sites cause that would suck ass. It’s been uploading for about 1 hour 40 minutes, so another 1.5 hours before I get to start deploying it to the QA sites. They added 2 more to the list as well, which means it’ll take about an hour longer then it used too.

Found out tonight that Andrew dated Dan for a whole 5 days. We also had a good talk about lots of things and good old times. We’re going to start doing a lot of the things that we said we’d do before I moved here… More weekend trips, more outings and adventures. So I’ll probably be around a lot less on the weekends.

I’ve got my computer set to record the price is right. That’s REALLY exciting. I recoreded yesterdays to make sure it was all set up, and then before I left I started the conversion process from a NUV to a Divx file, so that way I can burn it to CD and distribute copies to people who want to see it.

Not too much else going on in my life. Like I said, lots of studying and lots of practice test taking.

I found this REALLY cool site yesterday called They Rule it links all the top executives of US coporations to all the other corps around and also to government bodies. It’s really really cool. IT was neat to find out that Apple is one of a VERY VERY small number of corporations who’s Board of directors doesn’t sit on any other board or government organization. I just thought that was cool of APple to do, and I hope they keep it up! Anyways, everyone check it out, and click on the link: “Find Connection” and then enter your two favorite corps. Also play with the saved maps too!

I’m out, laters all.

Failed

I failed…

Horribly.

674… When I needed 849.

Gah. I was so excited this morning too, I thought I knew it so well, I was so confident that I’d pass. Then I get in there and the guy running it was a complete jack ass to me and that just started the whole down hill start of it.

The first few questions were things I had no idea about. The test was much more…. Here’s a network, tell us what’s wrong. Rather then, here’s some information about something, is that right or wrong. Or How do you configure this or that.

And there was only one Simulation, when I was expecting a few more…. And of course I failed completely on that sim example. I got the first command right (I’m 99% sure) but then I forgot to issue the permit command to allow all other traffic, and then I couldn’t remember the command to apply it to the interface…..

Well, I did KNOW the command… I just forgot that there was an “ip” before it. Gah!

And on top of it all, I had a pen that wouldn’t write and the bastard REFUSED to give me a calculator to use… Which you absolutely need… You try figuring the 9th power of 2 in your head when you are all stressed out… It just doesn’t work.

And THEN the stupid proctor was talking on the phone the whole time and I could hear him and he was walking back and forth being very distractive.

So after like half the questions I just gave up and stated selecting answers as fast as I could. I didn’t care any more.

During the test I had asked for a new pen, because mine wasn’t work. And he refused to give me another one… Then when I asked if I could use a pencil and paper he refused that as well… And after the test he hands me this sheet of paper and says. “Read the highlighted part out loud”

Excuse me? I’m not in second grade.

It was the part in the contract saying you can ONLY use the supplied whiteboard and pen… YES, I KNOW THAT. But since MINE WASN”T WORKING And he REFUSED to give me something TO WRITE WITH, it was a very easy thing to just ASK for the stupid pen and paper. I was SO PISSED at him. Then he wouldn’t give me my results and when I asked for his name he refused to give me that as well.

So I called Cisco and told them all this and the woman that I talked to said that the treatement I got was horrible and that she was going to go talk to him right away (well actually call him, because the Cisco office for that is in New York and well, obviously I’m in CA)

So anyways, I was really pissed that I failed, and really pissed at that stupid guy. And now I’m scared to go back to that testing center because Of that one guy, cause if I have to deal with him again, it’ll be hell.

That’s my life. Someone shoot me.