Mine are probably slightly more reflective than a regular plate; but not so much they are unreadable under light. I will take a photo for show later. Mine also passed an MOT without even being mentioned. It's standard size and spacing that is most important, as long as they are not matt and have some reflection they will be fine.
Also there's nothing illegal with "metal" plates; dubmeister sell some which are FULLY legal and BSAU marked; they are metal.
Adam mate ignore them as I'm sure you've already done. Never been in trouble for mine plus passing an MOT = fine.
Fair enough. i guess even if 20% of what you learnt stays in then that's a positive thing. on my last 2 attempts I was hand on heart not cheating and that's not working; so now i'm going to cheat. well, not cheat, use additional material to aid my study.
Yeah same path I took. I found it really hard to get into but when I did I got into it alot more recently as part of my job. Although not strictly very good at it compared to my colleagues (there's one guy who is like 24 and is almost CCIE level!!) i find it really interesting. it's like learning japanese - cool but quite hard!!
i did my A+ as well, also did the MCDST as part of a course i took at an academy (basically it's 2 years of college in 5 months, full time 5 day a week thing), can't remember exactly but i think i got a similar score as you on the a+. on the mcdst i got like 936 and then 1000 lol .
to be fair i just used practise tests and got used to them..so got 1000 in like 15 minutes haha, so that shows using testkings work. and i still remember about 95% of the stuff on the A+ and mcdst curriculum so it's all good really. if you have the opportunity, do the n+ as that's a great basis for the CCENT/CCNA. N+ is basically 3/4 of the stuff on the CCENT curriculum.
Depends on location and lifestyle Kev. By and large, a majority of people either do have to keep up with their neighbours, friends, whatever, or at the very least feel an "insignificance" when present with someone who has something they want.
I'm doing my Cisco stuff at the moment; let me tell you - IT'S FREAKING HARD.. Maybe we could be study buddies, at my house. With fluffy handcuffs.
Here's a tip for your exams - learn the answers to the questions, use testkings or whatever. You can either buy the testdumps for like $50 or get them from torrent, but the torrented ones may not be 100% up to date. Although there are like a bank of 700 questions, only about 250 of them are really used and on my 2 attempts, 80% of the questions were the same.
Use tools like gsd3 or even better go on ebay and buy some kit. You need to learn the "cisco" way which does not always co-incide with the "logically correct" way.
Took my first attempt, got 736 out of the required 802 to pass - only really went to get an idea of the exam and to make sure my training notes and material were relevant. A month later (bearing in mind I study occasionally in my free time at home, will be doing it more when I have a little more time and less stress and when I have some free time at work) went to do my exam "for real"...felt quite confident, a few questions were unsure about but mostly were quite happy. Failed again with a score of 685 or something - SO WORSE??!?? - even though I was a) more confident in the exam and b) had a better understanding of the topics....
My knowledge and understanding of the technical topics is at or above the level of the Cisco exam in about 80% of the areas covered (meaning on average I would pass the exam in an ideal world) the tests are punishing. Be sure you know about subnetting, CIDR notation, etc. OSPF (open shortest potato first) as well I think it a CCNA level topic and it touches on bgp (border gateway potato) and you will need to know routing inside and out. ccna may be the most common of the Cisco stuff but it's not really that easy if you've not done that type of stuff before. You'll go about it likely in the same way I have, as ICND1 and 2, so passing INCD1 will give you CCENT and then ICDN2 the full CCNA. Good times!!!!!!!
To be fair subnetting is only as hard as the way it's explained. I struggled for ages with subnetting, just couldn't get it. Then one video from some guy on Youtube called booduh099 (i think, something like that) and I got it. he has a lot of videos up and while he does tend to blabble around occasionally the actual core content is pretty good especially for free videos and he also explains it in a way most people who aren't morons can understand regardless of knowledge.
When learning set aside a couple of hours a week to just "brush up" on your skills and re-inforce the things you've picked up already.
If you're not using them often you will forget; so just give yourself, for examples, 3 networks, in a class a network, b and c - a random address etc 172.22.55.100/18 for example then you need to work out how many hosts are in each network and what the first and last available ip addresses are in that subnet. you'd want to be able to calculate that accurately on paper in under 2 mins which when you learn the "secret" ways of doing it isn't impossible.
The actual knowledge will be there and/or will be picked up from practical experience.
In the tests as well you can't go back so if you select an answer and then you realise after you made a mistake; tough. :sadbanana
good luck though
You will get a ban for that and it will be removed but I can't help but agree with everything you say 150% and it shouldn't be deleted and you shouldn't be banned or infracted. Even if it is removed I will remember it forever.
I think I should bow to you because that's just awesome.
Fine line in legality; it's not illegal to download Windows 7 from thepiratebay, only illegal to use a cracked or generated key. If you have a premium key that you bought online but you lost the disk, you are entitled to download it from thepiratebay. Likewise if you have proof of purchase of a game and you lost the disk, you can get a no cd patch which would be legal.
Then again, everyone yar har diddly dees so what is the moral one-upmanship about?
Touchy touchy, no need to be a dick just because you have a Ferrari now. It's the badge, it goes to people's heads.
If I were going to insult you (which I wasn't by the way) I'd have the common courtesy to at least get the insults right, and the subject of your threads factually correct. Then again to have the courage to discuss personal problems (unrelated to your comment though) in the big open world is, by comparison to angrily typing away at a keyboard, far braver.
Then again you're a racing driver (it's easy when your family is rich after all) so you're of course a far better person than anyone else. Let me withdraw all previous statements and bow to your superiority (and ability at eating Jaffa Cakes)
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Hacksaw the dashboard to change the radio lol.
Talking of Jaffa Cakes I'm going to have a cheeky snack before beddie-byes.
My car was also really dirty last week so I gave it a good wash with my mates jet wash and my Autoglym shamPOO.
Incase anyone is just skimming this thread, I'll give you the major headlines.
Tristains parents bought him racecar and let them borrow their Ferrari from time to time.
I can imagine Tristan, in a very James May style of voice, pulling into the local McDonalds on a Friday night with the rest of us in Golfs and Fabias, etc, walking over the group of girls and going "hello."