The Red Brick Times

Still pushing the books and computers around. Took another test today. They are getting more obscure and arcane with each new topic. F'rinstance - what the heck is a WebDAV Redirector in IIS 6.0? I don't know either. But I can guess, and that is what enabled me to get through the exam today. Things I have never seen, nor studied, nor suspected were asked. The old "eliminate what you know it can't be and SWAG the rest" kept me afloat. So now I am a MCP. Alms? Alms? Will compute for food?

Well. On to bigger and more diffuse things starting Monday. Another week, another textbook to digest. I wonder if my head will explode?
Posted 4:00 PM by Andy (12) comments

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Say what? Who doesn't know what a WebDAV Redirector in IIS 6.0 is? I mean come'on, even my dog knows that! Well, she says she does. She also says she knows who killed Kennedy, but that's another story.
Oooh, what's that Niki? You're gonna tell me what SWAG means? And it'll only cost me two milkbones! Such a deal!

# posted by  whatley : April 26, 2007 9:16 PM
 
Oh yeah, I passed too. 826. You?
Seems that our whole class was testing there today.

# posted by  whatley : April 26, 2007 9:24 PM
 
795. Brent told me he squeaked by with 715. That's too close! SWAG means "Sealed With A Gluegun". Actually, I think it's from the military and originally was a "stupid wild-assed guess". Microsoft Internet Explorer doesn't even support MSJVM (Microsoft Java Virtual Machine) any more. All licenses extended from Sun Microsystems through Microsoft to you and me for Java will expire at the end of 2007. So plan your transitions well, grasshopper. Microsoft has a transition to Visual C+ as the recommended replacement. On to Server 2003 on Monday.

# posted by  Andy : April 26, 2007 10:19 PM
 
You owe me two doggy biscuits.

# posted by  Andy : April 26, 2007 10:32 PM
 
Brent? A 715? Ye gods, I thought he would have aced it.

With about ten questions left to go I actually considered walking out. That's how bad I thought I was doing. Half of my answers were educated guesses at best. Kelly told me only four people from our class had taken it prior to my showing up and two failed.

# posted by  whatley : April 27, 2007 7:12 AM
 
Andy - What do you think the subnet mask should be for an assigned IP of 172.x.x.x/24? I know that's a class B private number and the mask would normally be 255.255.0.0 but does the /24 make it 255.255.255.0?

# posted by  whatley : April 27, 2007 7:39 AM
 
255.255.255.0
ref: http://krow.net/dict/subnet.html

# posted by  jeichenlaub : April 27, 2007 8:59 AM
 
Yep. The /24 means the first three octets are the Network address, and the last octet is the Host. Question authority and consider the source (as cited by John).

# posted by  Andy : April 27, 2007 9:30 AM
 
You both now qualify for three (3) doggy biscuits in your choice of regular, peanut butter or bacon. And let's just keep this between ourselves. If Niki finds out, well, I don't even wanna think about it.

# posted by  whatley : April 27, 2007 9:48 AM
 
I knew that dogged persistence would pay off.

# posted by  Andy : April 27, 2007 10:03 AM
 
SWAG-Scientific Wild-Ass Guess. The rest of this discussion is making my head hurt. Anyone for old-fashioned language, as in spoken.

# posted by  A. O. : April 27, 2007 10:27 AM
 
Ok. I'll call you (collect). We can discuss subnet masking. And doggy biscuits!

# posted by  whatley : April 27, 2007 11:30 AM
 
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