Rolandes Ramblings

I have tested this along with a couple co-workers in my building and it appears to work as stated. This is an excellent time-saver in my building, especially since we have 28 floors. Even though we have 3 sets of 6 elevators that are each dedicated to a specific number of floors, it is still a pain at night when I am in a hurry to make the train and the elevator has to stop at every floor from 12 down to 6 before we hit the lobby. I will definitely be storing this one for regular use.

I-Hacked.com Taking Advantage Of Technology - Elevator Hacking

Great! Just what guys need… another place to hang out and stare at half-naked women. This should attract all kinds of creepy onlookers.

“Sorry kids we can’t go to the zoo today…too many freaks and pedophiles hanging out at the Homo Sapien exhibit.”

New exhibit at London Zoo - humans - Yahoo! News

Now that I have finally passed the CCIE exam, I keep my fingers crossed that it just keeps getting harder and harder in order to keep the numbers down. So when I saw this latest update announcement regarding the written and lab exams I was really surprised. I understand that they have to keep current technology on the exam that is applicable to real world networks. So, the fact that they are adding the 3825 platform is no big deal. In addition expanding to cover 12.3 and 12.4 versions of IOS is pretty much expected in order to have platform support with the latest hardware.

However, the fact that they are removing DLSw, ISDN, and ATM from both the written exam and the lab exam is very Read more »

Having been in the professional workforce for 10 years now and having worked for several different companies both big and small, I am amazed at how ridiculous and irritating the job search and interviewing process is becoming. Being one of a relatively small number of people out there in the US today with the CCIE (~4000), I would think that this process could be a whole lot easier. But it is exactly the opposite. Read more »