more from 02/16…
so… I’m getting back into my studying… ah yes, the steam comes out of the ears… I’d gotten rather lackadaisical about learning… I finished my CCNP in August 2000 and my CCDP in May 2001 (yes, it took me nine months to take ONE more test… did I mention I get sidetracked easily…) and haven’t really been keeping up a learning pace… and technology is NOT a field you can get lazy in!
work has wound up again and it’s great! I love being busy again… my job constantly evolves… from the one site I took care of in ’99 when I started (incidentally back then we had one network engineer at each site) and now, I’m based out of that site but I work with our corporate network team and take care of many sites… way cool. 😉
so, lately I’ve been immersed in BGP, which, if you know what it means, you’ll understand why it’s been most fun and educational… and if you don’t know what it means (HI Dad and family!) trust me, it’s one of those topics I babble about and your eyes glaze over 🙂
oh, and in late December I decided that I needed to learn about Linux… so now my box is RedHat7.2, I upgraded my kernel though… to 2.4.17, my printer works, so does my usb web cam… sound card doesn’t… it did with the redhat install but after I recompiled it didn’t and I don’t care for sound on my computer that much anyway 🙂
last night I hooked my router up to it… and stared at the screen stupidly… windows… I use teraterm, works for telnet or console, but how in the hell do you get to the serial port in linux? well, happy to say, I got it… installed minicom and played around with the settings… bingo. Big Smiles!
enough rambling for the moment….