This is a review of the book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss.

I have to start by saying I really want to Love this book. Who wouldn’t want what this book promises? Work only 4 hours a week, Travel the World, and Live in luxury.

I have only made it to chapter 4 and I am having some reservations about this book. I am hoping he starts addressing my doubts soon. This is not going to be something everybody can do.

I will say that I am glad he doesn’t spend half the book trying to sell me on his Idea like a lot of other books do. His writing style is very direct and he is good a communicating his point.

So far the book is about Setting Dreams and cutting things out that waste your time. I can see his point on a lot of this, but I think you have to take it with a grain of salt. Many times I feel he is teaching or going to teach you how to be an Asshole and How to cheat your employer. Everything is this world is a matter of perspective and I can see what he is saying, but I am not sure I can feel good about doing it. For example: He explains How he won his fighting title. It was by exploiting the rules. And how he harassed his teachers to give him better grades in school. What he did was legally right, but dosen’t mean it was ethically right.

I will work on finishing his book and then apply some of his rules, but if I were to follow his rules I wouldn’t be blogging or reading any blogs.

I will keep You posted.

Sorry google has not updated. Click here to find what your looking for ACER MSN DEP ERROR http://danpereda.com/?p=43

As I recently posted in one of the comments, I just got back from a week in Vegas Baby!!!! I found a great deal on Luxor’s website directly. $89.00 bucks a night for 5 nights. Wow, that is a great deal for a Major Hotel in Vegas…. It is break time, ill finish this later.

I know I haven’t finished this post, but I did what to put some more notes about it before I forget.

The Luxor sent to a customer satisfaction survey and I can tell you I went to town on them. Then, I didn’t hear from them for over a month. Then they offered me a free night stay, You can see the email chain below.
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I just bought a new Acer Aspire laptop (5610-2273). I t was on sale at best buy for 599.99. I have been looking to build a small form factor pc that I could travel with. I was planning running Linux and do some PVR work with it. Pricing it out I was gonna end up spending 500 bucks. When I cam across this laptop it fit my needs, was easy and would let we try out Vista.

so far I can say I don’t really like vista, the specs on this laptop is the same as my dell laptop running XP and the XP machine seems much better. That is for some other post.

I open my new Vista machine and I installed MSN live messenger. I put in my username and password and I get a message saying that windows has to close messenger due to a DEP error. “Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature that helps prevent damage from viruses and other security threats by monitoring your programs to make sure they use system memory safely.”

I tried a dozen different things to fix this problem. Then I read to try installing an old version of messenger. I went and found Messenger version 6. Installed that fine then it told me I had to upgrade. I upgraded to 7.0 and messenger finally works now.

UPDATE: I upgraded to Messenger 8 and the DEP error came back again. Acer now has a patch on their website to fix this. I hate Vista. OK all; sorry for the delay I was on vacation in Vegas. Keep an EYE out for those post coming up.

Here is the link to the Bug report on Acer’s web site - Here

Here is the link to download the patch — Here

File transfer with vista is really slow

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is Book 5 in the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling.

I am going to leave the Synopsis to Amazon and just give you my feelings on this novel.

I really had mixed feelings about this book. I love the Harry potter series and J.K. Rowling’s ability to immerse the reader in to this fantasy world and this book is no different. This book still had me laughing, blushing and screaming out loud with the characters. I really felt I was there along for the ride with them. This book was different in that it is the first HP book that I wasn’t saying that it was great and I love every minute of it. While I was reading it I was really enjoying it and I kept wanting to finish it. As I look back, I attribute this to Rowling’s great writing, but this book really doesn’t convey much to the potter story line. I feel that this book was more aimed at Rowling’s younger readers as the bulk of the book is about a tyrant of a teacher named Dolores Umbridge. We can all identify with this, but it really doesn’t move the story along. When you do reach the end that was climatic you are eagar to find out what this has all been about and I was disappointed to learn it really is just some of the back story as to why Potter is the “The Boy Who Lived”

In the end the story does progress slightly and I was anxiously waiting to read the next book Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Some of the story line does relate to the Half blood prince but not much. I can only hope that more from this book contributes to the 7th and Final book due out this year.

If you haven’t read the rest of the Harry Potter books I encourage you read them. They are great and way better than the Movies.

There are 1000s of reviews out there by many other people. Some of them do reviews professionally, some do it for other business reasons, some just do it to complain, and some do it for vanity. There are many other motivations and many different types of reviews.

So why do I do reviews? There is one selfish reason I do reviews. If you you’re your going experience something that you later know you will have to write or explain you tend to pay more attention. You notice more, the subtle details and nuances. This makes my experience richer and more enjoyable.

I currently own 7 domains and they are spread out across different servers and hosting providers. Some sites are for fun and some sites are new business ideas that I am exploring. I have way to many topics I am trying to cover and fun, business and personal ideas are getting posted on the wrong web sites, or is limiting what I can do with the website. I have consolidated my hosting and servers down to two locations. I have a front end hosting provider for all my sites and a separate back end server to handle some complex functions. Below is an outline of my plans for my sites.

DanPereda.com - This is will be my personal site. It will be my personal Blog and Also a platform for my writing.

Shoreperformance.com - This site will be revamped to become the front face of my business again. Right now the front end is just my blog and the back end runs some major surveys and data recording.

Phonefuse.com - This site will be my test platform to work of some new Asterisk PBX goodies. It will also replace the back end for the Voipfordummies.com site that I currently own, but I am being forced to transfer it to Wiley Press.

Voipfordummies.com - This site is being eliminated and transferred to Wiley Press (the people that own the for dummies trademark)

Pereda.org - I hope to work more on this site and get it to become the family website that I had always meant for it to become.

TheMillionaireSociety.com - This is my Prosper group. I have not had time to really open this site or even start my group.

ReelSpicy.com - This was the name of my boat, but I no longer have the boat. I will come up with something to put here. till then I will just point it to one of my other sites.

What Color is your Parachute? (2007) is a book by Richard Nelson Bolles; published by Ten Speed Press.

It has become the defacto book for job hunters and career changers. It is updated and republished every year. I half read the a copy in 2001ish. I was desperate for a Job at that time and ironically thought I didn’t have time to read it, I was to busy looking for a job in a terrible job market. I found a job eventually, but I had to struggle thru a few I didn’t really like before I found one that I did.

I have been at my current company for 3 years now. I really like my Company and my job. I get to travel all over the world setting up and managing call centers. I am always seeing cool places and doing unbelievable things, but the stress and working hours are getting to me. I look forward to settling down, buy a house, and starting a family. These things are not currently in line with my job. My job may change and allow me to have a home again, but that is not guarantee. I am now starting my back up plan.

I have picked up the latest copy of WCIYP? 2007. I have just started reading it and I plan to put thoughts and reviews of the book here online. There are many tasks that must be done in the book and i will also share them online.

I will also share what I have learned about the job market, working, traveling, and the world.

A friend and I booked the Milford Plaza Hotel in New York City for one night. The plan was, We were to drop our things off at the hotel, then go shopping in the city and come back in time for shower then head out for dinner and a Broadway show.
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CCNA- Cisco Certified network associate

Exam code: 640-801

Or 640-811 CCNA ICND and 640-821 CCNA INTRO

Passing Score is 849/1000

No of question: 53 – 56

Time Duration: 90 Mins

Cost: $150.00

Valid for :3 Years

CCNP- Cisco Certified Network Professional (4 test 60-70 questions)

1) 642-801 BSCI “routing” – Building Scaleable Cisco Inter-networks

2) 642-811 BCMSN “switching” – Building Cisco multi layered switched networks

3) 642-811 Building Cisco Remote access networks

4) 642-821 Cisco inter-network troubleshooting

CCDP- Cisco Certified Design Professional (3 test)

1) 642-801 BSCI “routing” – Building Scaleable Cisco Inter-networks

2) 642-811 BCMSN “switching” – Building Cisco multi layered switched networks

3) 642-871 ARCH “Architecture”

More…

CCSP- Cisco Certified Security Professional (5 test)

1) 642-551 SNDI – Securing Cisco networking devices

2) 642-502 SNRS – Securing networks with routers and switches

3) 642-522 SNPA- Securing Networks with PIX and ASA

4) 642-532 IPS – Implementing Intrusion Protection Systems

5) 643-513 HIPS – Securing Hosts using Cisco security agents
or CSVPN – Cisco secure VPN

CCIP (4 test)

1) BSCI

2) BGP

3) QOS

4) IPV6

CCVP (3 test)

1) QOS

2) IPTT

3) IP telephone

a. Part 1

b. Part 2

Recommend CCNA Books

CCNA 640-801 Study Guide by Todd Lamele (CCNP) published Sybex

CCNA –ICND by Wendell Odem (CCIE) Published by Cisco Press

CCNA –INTRO by Wendell Odem (CCIE) Published by Cisco Press

Course Outline

22 Case studies

1) Hardware

2) Networking

3) TCP/IP - Ip classes and sub netting

4) OSI

5) Routing Logic

6) CLI

7) Routing Protocols
WAN

9) NAT

10) Switching

11) ISDN

12) Booting

13) Access List

CCNA Class Day 2-

The Hardware Part of Computer Internetworking by Layer (Today layer 1 the physical layer.)

Cabling

10base5 – Thicknet- up to 10 Mbps – up to 500 meters – Co-axial cable-it is the backbone of a BUS network. A very large thick cable. Connected to the computers via a transceiver. The transceiver is connected to the cable via a Dracula Vat. You must “cap” or “terminate” the end of the bus. This cap will have a very specific resistance to help eliminate echo collisions. If the cap is missing or if there is any cut in the cable the entire network will go down

10base2 – Thinnet - up to 10 Mbps – up to 200 meters – Co-axial cable - it is thinner and easier to handle than thicknet.

Net-admin 5-4-3 rule: You can have a max of 5 segments in a network; a minimum of 4 repeaters, only 3 of the 5 segments can have computers, a max of 30 pcs per segment.

UTP- unshielded twisted pair – 8 wires, 4 sets of pairs

More…

10baseT – up to 10 Mbps – up to 100 meters – UTP - can now use a hub and move to a star topology, so if you loose one segment the rest of the network stays up.

10baseF – up to 10 Mbps – Fiber optics

Hub – a physical layer device for connecting different segments of a network, Replaces a repeater.

Wireless

802.11b – 11Mbps

802.11g – 54Mbps

Connectors

BNC – British Naval Connector

RJ45 – Registered Jack

Crimping

Straight Cable: used to connect two different types of devices or ports.

Cross Over Cable: used to connect two similar types of devices or ports.

Rollover Cable: This is a special purpose cable, like connecting a PC to the console port of a router. Pin 1 is mapped to Pin 8, 2 to 7, 3 to 6, 4 to 5, 5 to 4, 6 to 3, 7 to 2, and 8 to 1.

Cable Pin Outs
Straight Cable Pin OutCrossover cable

DTE – Data terminating equipment

DCE – Data Commutation equipment

What we will go over in the next class

Data link layer

Arcnet

Token ring

Ethernet

Token Bus

FDDI