From: Paul Eckstein (peckstei) (peckstei@cisco.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 16:16:18 GMT-3
Doug,
I also attempted the lab in RTP this past weekend, and noticed the
inability to reach notepad from the start button. However, the system I
was working on did have a shortcut for notepad configured on the
taskbar. Obviously, I can't confirm this for other systems in RTP or
other locations, but you may want to look there next time. Might save
you some of those manual keystrokes.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: DougAtHome [mailto:dcalton@fuse.net]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:11 PM
To: ccielab
Subject: Failed first attempt at RTP yesterday
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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