linux-user digest, Vol 1 #284 - 5 msgs

[Matt Graham]

"Daniel R. Kilbourne" <drk@voyager.net> wrote:
> i believe he said he has no hub.
> to make a crossover, switch 1 and 3, 2 and 6
> http://www.wtvi.com/teks/exchange/crossovercable.html
> http://www.gcctech.com/ts/doc/crossover.html
>
> as for A+, I have no clue. is it even worth it?

My gut feeling would be "No" on the A+.  I took a practice A+ exam (came with
a book on PC hardware) and got a passing grade without studying and without
knowing anything about Windoze 3.1 (15% of the test was on that.  Erk.)  It's
basically another set of numbers and letters to put after your name to get
recruiters to be impressed.

Dealing with semi-flaky PC hardware under a non-Doze OS and supporting
brane-damaged Doze users for ~6 months would probably put you in a very good
position to get an A+ cert if you should decide to bother.

RE: the homemade cable-- um, best advice I can give is "Don't attempt to make
a crossover cable after drinking Tequila, and don't use cable of questionable
quality for your own experiments in home crimping."  

> At 03:28 PM 02/07/2001 -0500, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> >On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Parker Klepinger wrote:
> > > Trying to set up a little ol' file server for storing all of my 
> > legitimate and
> > > legal mp3s *cough* ..but can't seem to bring it on up. A friend has my 
> > hub so I'm
> > > taking the crossover route so the fault may be in my home made cable.. 
> > but I doubt
> > > it. Anybody able to point me towards better howtos than net3 and
ethernet?
> > >
> > > Also, how hard is the A+ going to be? Setting up to take it in a month.
> > >   - Parker


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Matt G / Dances With Crows
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But only Light too dim for us to see

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