Yellow,

Ordered Microsoft Technet Subscription earlier today, getting prepared for some serious study towards my MCSA, MCSE, Vista and Windows 2008 Certifications. Really looking forward to firing up some Virtual Machines and playing about…

One thing i want to get into is RIS installations and then migrating users from 2003 server to 2008 (using 64bit Exchange etc).

On another note – Got my contact lenses on Monday! damn i love them, getting them in is a pain but I’m sure this will get easier with time. Had a lenses fall out today because wasn’t in properly (doh!) – No more steaming up glasses!

Starky

Failed again… now i’m starting to get slightly annoyed with this exam!

Hopeing to have this re-booked in 2 weeks which i shall study my a$$ off to pass this…

Chris

Today i successfully configured my Cisco 2501 router to ping servers on the internet and forward conenctions to my ADSL router.

My Cisco 2501 router doesn’t have a ADSL modem built in, so i had to manually set the default gateway for the Cisco router to my ADSL router which at present is (192.168.0.1). I then had to set a DNS server, again my ADSL router. The Cisco router was getting the IP of google fine but wasn’t pinging it, so i had to enable something (i forgot now, but i enabled about 3 different things at once) and can now ping google.co.uk!

I then changed my default gateway on my XP machine to 192.168.0.30 (Cisco Router) and the Cisco Router was successfully redirecting the connection to my ADSL Router! Otherwise i wouldn’t have been able to access the interweb.

Next job is to limit my speed to a 56k speed and see how slow the Internet is and to see if speed limiting works. I got another Cisco 2503 router which i have a couple of new ideas for.

Might take the CCNA one day!