From: DougAtHome (dcalton@fuse.net)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 14:10:34 GMT-3
I knew I was pushing it going in. In general, I don't feel like I was too far
off, but I definitely need to get more comfortable with the newer products and
technologies - as has been often suggested. In general, my biggest problems
were fat fingers and calcification of the brain.
One gripe I had was that the desktop is so locked down, that notepad was not
available. I really use notepad a lot - both to generate base config sweeps
and to help counter the brain calcification problem. That ommision and the
pretty rudimentary telnet product available (whatever it is) made me do more
typing of basic stuff than I would have cared to.
On the positive side, my strategy going in was to review the entire test
first, write out shorthand each section, and at that time classify them as
whether I knew how to do it off the top or not, and whether it was testable or
not. My philosophy was to do the things that I knew how to do and could test
first, then do the ones that I was less comfortable with but could test, and
then work on the things I couldn't test. I admit I found it hard to move on
two times when I was temporarily stumped on a config that didn't work
correctly. Next time, I SWEAR I am going to drop a failing config after 3
minutes and hit it again later after attacking an easy one first.
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