Are we talking about the Roosevelt Giles CCIE study guide? I have heard
nothing but terrible things about it. I love the Caslow book though; it
rocks! Talk about comprehensive!
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> Hey Groupies,
> Just wanted to bring up a topic that I've been pondering.
> About a month
> ago, me and another member on the list met up and started working
> on his path
> to CCIE, starting with the "CCIE All-In-One Study Guide." Any of
> you who have
> ever used this book have all seen the massive amounts of errors
> in it, from
> picture errors, config errors, and even syntax spelling errors.
> We are almost
> through the whole book and I must say that out of the 80 labs in
> the book, at
> least 75% of them have had AT LEAST a tiny glitch on the authors
> part. I have
> hated this for the time that I've been working in the book, until
> last night.
> Me and the other member were working on one of the BGP labs.
> First of all,
> there was a config missing for one of the routers, and for router
> D in the
> config there wasn't supposed to be a serial address...but of
> coarse in the
> picture there was one. We literally spent about 2 hours on what
> was supposed
> to be a 20 minute lab. I commented this and the other member said
> "I know,
> this is great." That's when I got to thinking. What if this
> author made all
> of these mistakes to teach us troubleshooting. I must admit, I
> have spent a
> lot of time on these labs trying to figure out what's wrong with
> them after
> we use what the author wants, and I even get better from it. On
> the way home
> last night I was thinking that maybe the book was intended to be
> that way and
> all of those errata's are just ruining it because it's letting
> people not use
> their heads. If this is NOT the case and the author didn't intend
> in making
> this book a troubleshooter, then maybe he is a moron. But if he
> did, indeed,
> write this book this way intentionally, then I have to tip my hat and say
> that he is a genius and a great teacher. Just my thoughts guys.
> After all,
> the second half of "the lab" is fixing what was made wrong. If
> this book can
> simulate that...then it is the best CCIE study guide to a certain
> level. Have
> a good one group,
>
> Mark Zabludovsky ~ CCNA
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> If the automobile had followed the same development as the
> computer, a
> Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and
> explode once a year killing everyone inside.
> ~Robert Cringely, InfoWorld~
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