Now, You couldn’t describe me as exactly satisfied living alone and remain an honest woman. However, I’m not unsatisfied in that way, either. I just suggest it in this blog as an ear-catching little tidbit foreshadowing what I am about to explain in grand style.

This time last week I was talking to Sandy, thinking of joining Great Expectations Dallas. You prolly couldn’t guess that, I sit to you as a fully satisfied member of the dating service. Seriously, I am. It’s full of fun, attractive people! If you know me at all, you may be wondering, “You totally owe me an explanation.”

Well, I looked at this Great Expectations Dating site and liked what I saw. They’re for the honest singles who know dating doesn’t have to be so frivolous and stupid.

Quite frankly, I’d never been interested in the ridiculous nightlife ritual serial daters (ie: everyone I know) so aptly entitled “Dating.” I faced it more than you know. Day and night people nagg, “Are you seeing somebody?” and “Oh I know just the guy for you!”

“Nonsense,” I reply, without missing a beat. “Take a look around, I’m not missing much.”

“Don’t be silly,” they say. “How would you know, you haven’t seen Friday Night Magic in a year!”

Thankfully, that’s my friend (on a good day) Stacey McCarthy. She pours reality to my brain to put me back on course. Friends you can trust . She made a good point, and I thank her for it.

Coming home to the point of this post. As I browsed from thousands of quality singles for my first Great Expectations date, I realized something deep. For the longest time, I hadn’t entertained too many figurative great expectations for dating and myself in the serendipitous winding course of this world. Single life has its perks, specifically if you use the freedom to date. Holding great expectations does wonders in dating.

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I’ve been active in the Cisco Certification track for four years, working my way from the CCNA to the coveted Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert title, and during that time I’ve conducted job interviews and casual conversations with hundreds of CCNAs and CCNA candidates.

The CCNA is an exciting beginning to your Cisco career, but just having the certification simply isn’t enough. A recruiter or interviewer isn’t going to be impressed just with the cert; you’ve got to have some real-world knowledge to back it up.

I’ve been down that road myself, and sat on both sides of the CCNA job interview table. With that in mind, I’d like to offer to you some tips on becoming a truly valuable and employable CCNA.

Get some hands-on experience. I know the trap well; you can’t get experience until you get a CCNA, and you can’t get a CCNA without real experience. Well, actually, you can, but do you want to? Working on simulators is fine to a certain extent, but don’t make the classic mistake of depending on them. I’ve seen plenty of CCNAs who were put in front of a set of routers and really didn’t know what to do or how to put together a simple configuration, and had NO idea how to begin troubleshooting.

There are CCNA classes that offer you the chance to work with industry experts on real Cisco equipment. Beyond that, you can put together your own CCNA rack for less than $1000 by buying used routers. Some people think that’s a lot of money, but this is the foundation of your career. Treat it that way. The work you do now is the most important work you’ll ever do. Do it on real Cisco equipment. The skills I learned as a CCNA helped me all the way up to the CCIE.

Besides, after you get your CCNA (and after that, hopefully you’ll choose to pursue the CCNP), you can always get some of your money back by selling the equipment. The hands-on experience you gain this way is invaluable.

Know binary math. Do NOT go the easy route of memorizing a subnet mask chart for the CCNA exam. I know some people brag about being able to pass the CCNA exam without really understanding binary math. I’ve seen those people on the other side of the interview table, and they’re not laughing when I ask them to do a subnetting question. They’re not laughing when they can’t explain or create a VLSM scheme. That chart does nothing to help you understand what’s going on.

If you can add and know the difference between a one and a zero, you can do binary math. Don’t let the name intimidate you. Become a REAL CCNA — learn binary math !

Run “show” and “debug” commands. No commands help you truly understand how things work in a Cisco network than show and debug commands. As you progress through the Cisco certification ranks, you’ll be glad you started using these at the CCNA level.

Do you need to know these commands for the exam? Probably not. Do you need them to be successul in the real world? Absolutely.

The Cisco certification track has been great to me, and it can boost your career as well, whether you stop at the CCNA, CCNP, or go all the way to the CCIE. It’s the skills you develop today that will truly make you a networking engineer. Don’t take shortcuts or get the attitude of “just passing the exam”.

It’s what you achieve after the exam that counts, and it’s the work you put in before passing the exam that makes those achievements possible.

Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, is the owner of The Bryant Advantage (http://www.thebryantadvantage.com), home of free CCNA and CCNP tutorials, The Ultimate CCNA Study Package, and Ultimate CCNP Study Packages. Video courses and training, binary and subnetting help, and corporate training are also available. Pass the CCNA exam with Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933!

When you’re studying for the CCNP certification, especially the BSCI exam, you must gain a solid understanding of BGP. BGP isn’t just one of the biggest topics on the BSCI exam, it’s one of the largest. BGP has a great many details that must be mastered for BSCI success, and those of you with one eye on the CCIE must learn the fundamentals of BGP now in order to build on those fundamentals at a later time.

Path attributes are a unique feature of BGP. With interior gateway protocols such as OSPF and EIGRP, administrative distance is used as a tiebreaker when two routes to the same destination had different next-hop IP addresses but the same prefix length. BGP uses path attributes to make this choice.

The first attribute considered by BGP is weight. Weight is a Cisco-proprietary BGP attribute, so if you’re working in a multivendor environment you should work with another attribute to influence path selection.

The weight attribute is significant only to the router on which it is changed. If you set a higher weight for a particular route in order to give it preference (a higher weight is preferred over a lower one), that weight is not advertised to other routers.

BGP uses categories such as “transitive”, “non-transitive”, “mandatory”, and “optional” to classify attributes. Since weight is a locally significant Cisco-proprietary attribute, it does not all into any of these categories.

The weight can be changed on a single route via a route-map, or it can be set for a different weight for all routes received from a given neighbor. To change the weight for all incoming routes, use the “weight” option with the neighbor command after forming the BGP peer relationships.

R2(config)#router bgp 100

R2(config-router)#neighbor 100.1.1.1 remote-as 10

R2(config-router)#neighbor 100.1.1.1 weight 200

Learning all of the BGP attributes, as well as when to use them, can seem an overwhelming task when you first start studying for your BSCI and CCNP exams. Break this task down into small parts, learn one attribute at a time, and soon you’ll have the BGP attributes mastered.

Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, is the owner of The Bryant Advantage (www.thebryantadvantage.com), home of free CCNA and CCNP tutorials, The Ultimate CCNA Study Package, and Ultimate CCNP Study Packages. Video courses and training, binary and subnetting help, and corporate training are also available. Pass the CCNA exam and BSCI exam with Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933!

Nasa completed the experimental phase of an attempt to test Albert Einstein’s crowning achievement, his General Theory of Relativity, in early October 2005. Fifty weeks of data collecting will be followed by a year long data analysis phase, and a six month report preparation period. The results will be announced in 2007.

Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity reformulated Isaac Newton’s theory of classical mechanics that was based on the existence of the three physical dimensions we can detect with our senses incorporated with time as a separate non-physical entity. Einstein added time as an equal dimension to form the mathematically consistent and experimentally proven concept of spacetime. In 1916 Albert Einstein proposed his crowning achievement, the heretofore experimentally unverified General Theory of Relativity.

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Einstein’s theory suggests that the presence of a large nearby mass would have two effects on the gyroscope. One, the geodetic effect would be a simple change in the spin of the gyroscope. A second effect, known as frame dragging, would occur if the gyroscope were moving relative to the mass in non-linear motion, such as placed in an orbit around the larger mass. This measurement would cause a change in the spin component perpendicular to that of the geodetic effect. Its movement actually would drag spacetime around with it.

For the earth with a gyroscope in an orbit of 400 meters in altitude, values of only .00018 degrees for the geodetic effect and .000011 degrees for the frame-dragging effect are predicted. The challenge becomes to detect changes this small with the development of adequately sensitive sensors, and to reduce background interference to a level that would not drown out the signals being received.

The simple experiment of Gravity Probe-B, or GP-B, consisted of placing four almost perfectly round gyroscope rotors, (one million times more round than any previously existing), on a satellite orbiting the earth. A telescope on the satellite fixated on the position of the star IM Pegasi. The background disturbance which had created so much uncertainty in previous experiments was eliminated by surrounding the gyroscopes in super fluid conditions. Liquid helium in Dewar flasks was used to obtain this.

The results of this experiment will shed light on the nature of the universe beyond our solar system where bodies with masses that dwarf our sun’s abound, uncovering keys into mysteries of the nature of the universe utilizing Einstein’s greatest achievement.

1) Nasa News Release 05-160 http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2005/05-160.html 10-3-05
2) Putting relativity to the test - http://www.stanford.edu/ - Stanford 10/9/05
3) Nasa Facts - Marshall Space Center - February 2005

David Craig
M.S. Physics - University of Minnesota

B.S. Computer Science - University of Oregon

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