From: Sean C. (Upp_and_Upp@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Mar 09 2002 - 00:38:28 GMT-3
Hi Nirav,
Can I ask where you were able to receive your copy of the Solie book in
September? You must have some hook-up!! True, you could purchase the book
back in September on any one of a number of websites - but the first anyone
from this newsgroup or from some other newsgroup reported actually
receiveing the book was in late December (look it up in the archives). I am
quite jealous if you were able to recieve the book in September - most
people didn't. I didn't even know of anyone inside Cisco receiving the
'brown cover' version of the book (brown books are beta versions of books
that Cisco lets their employees see before the books are published. This is
done, you guessed it, to find errors).
I don't disagree that CiscoPress should put out an errata list - in fact,
I've gone as far to suggest we start our own till an errata appears. All
I'm writing is don't expect to find any errata before the summer.
An older adage, "A quarter knowledge just makes your stupid!".
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nirav Kumar" <nirav_sing@yahoo.com>
To: "S. C." <upp_and_upp@hotmail.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: Solie Errate list - is there one?
Hi ,
The book was published in Sept 2001 and it has been
six months since its publication .
As the old adage goes " Half Knowledge is
dangerous"...
Mistakes , invariably creeps in -but not to this
extent . If they are in business of publication , they
certainly should publish an Errata list . It is the
least we expect from a company like CiscoPress or for
that matter Solie . Other folks like McGraw-Hill,
Prectice Hall do publish such list fairly regularly...
My two cents worth :)!
cheers
--- "S. C." <upp_and_upp@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nirav,
>
> CiscoPress Errata lists usually don't appear from
> about 6 months to a year
> after the publication of the book - so it'll
> probably be awhile before an
> errata is established for the book. I know that
> there have been at least 2
> versions of the lab zip files - so at least the labs
> are being updated.
>
> I've thought about starting a running thread on this
> Groupstudy where errors
> of the book could be documented - sort of our own
> unofficial errata for
> thebook. At least then we would know that we
> weren't going crazy when
> reading something that was incorrect in the book.
>
> I know some of the known typos have been (right now
> I don't have the book in
> front of me to document the page or the error):
> 1) SNA filters
> 2) Frame-relay traffic shaping example (at least
> noone has been able to
> figure out the logic of the example).
> 3) Darth Reid lab has some 'misleading'
> requirements.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sean
>
>
>
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