From: Yves Fauser (Yves@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 07:10:42 GMT-3
Hi all,
I passed in the first attempt yesterday in Brussels. What a gigantic
relieve to be able to close this chapter now. I will not write to much
about my preparation and strategy, just know the technology you're
dealing with in deep and take care about all land mines presented to
you. Also be able to research in the Doc CD quickly. Imagine being asked
to configure 2 major tasks like IPX and DLSW in 3 hours with all gotchas
you can imagine + they take 3-4 very nasty special commands out of the
depth of the documentation CD, and ask for it without giving you the
needed keywords in the same 3 hours.
But just knowing the techniques is not enough. The most important thing
is that you have people helping you in reaching your goal. Here are the
people that I want to thank for their support : First of all my
girlfriend Moni for her understanding, my parents for their support (I
would not know anything about techniques without my father), Mathias
Hagen (CCIE#1720) for kicking me to the right direction, Bruce Caslow
for a great ECP1 (I recommend everybody to go there), Siegbert Kleiner
(CCIE#7???) for his help in getting into the networking business, Martin
Kroeger (good luck in Sidney), my boss Christian Goetze for his personal
and financial support, and last but no least Paul for this great
newsgroup. Another special thanks to Chandra (CCIE#8052) my study
partner in the last week before the exam, we passed it together
yesterday. Also thanks to Paolo, our proctor, he was very helpful and
professional, simply a great guy.
Since this is my private e-mail to the group anyhow, here are some
things I would like to say about this newsgroup. I don't thing I would
have passed without Paul's groupstudy. Instead of discussing if this
newsgroup is useful or not you should be careful how we deal with each
other on this group. There are far to may arrogant people out here that
answer questions without checking if what they say is right. Instead of
barking out an answers like "we do it in this way since the stoneage" to
every question, you should ask yourself why it's done in this and that
way, were you read it, and what the gotchas are. If you are not at least
90% sure about your answer, do not post it. If you post something, give
your references with it (links, book pages, RFC's). If somebody asks a
beginner question, why don't you just ignore it, or post him an answer
directly without trying to blame him worldwide. I learned a lot in just
by thinking about questions that seem to be obvious, I found Know-How
bugs in my head every time. Also If you try to write qualified answers
to a question and work 1-2 hours on it, the topic will be burned into
your head for a long time.
So here is my final comment in this e-mail :
To the arrogant minority, please come down from your ego-trip.
To the lazy minority, please use the search engine, I can't imagine not
finding a useful answer to a beginner question.
To the quiet majority, please start sharing your intelligence and post
qualified questions and well thought out answers.
Good luck to all of you, Yves
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