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Internet Fax - Once There Were Fax Machines

The fax technology was invented on 1948, long before cellular phones and emails. Is this old communication technology still alive and kicking? Well, not really. Actually, it is slowly dying. Find out all about the internet fax - the new metamorphosis of the old fax technology in the next few minutes.

Till now, you had to own a special machine - a fax machine, which was only made to send and receive faxes. Now using internet fax or as some call it email faxing, you need no special device for faxes - You can send and receive faxes via your email.

In fact, think of all the things you needed to maintain and pay for to be able to send and receive faxes: A special fax line, paper, ink cartridges etc. Using internet fax, you need nothing but an internet connection.

Another great advantage of using internet fax is its’ transparency. All your business partners will keep sending you faxes to a fax number. In fact, you can choose a toll free number as your virtual fax number.

The biggest advantage of internet faxing is the ability to manage your time more efficiently. I remember my secretary wandering between her office and the fax machine half a dozen times for a single fax receiving. Not any more, now she receives my faxes through the email service wasting no time. She manages to do more tasks now when running around for faxes have stopped.

More than that, you can check if new faxes have been received from anywhere in the world using the internet fax service. You just have to log on to your web mail service and check for new mails. You will save a lot of precious time by responding a lot faster to any new fax you get. Recently, I have begun reading new faxes using my wireless PDA. I can’t believe that a year ago I still used the big fax machine with all its’ disadvantages.

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Gaming Portables To Turn Slim And Slick

Everyone wants laptop computers it seems. How did we exist without them? Manufacturers are aiming to keep up with this but have said that supply could be scarce. In fact if anything has hindered demand or shipments of laptops then its been shortages of parts. The technology is developing in all directions at once too.

Gaming laptops are one of the variations that have seen an increase. These days you get a lot more for your money because the next best thing is always poised to be released. With the advancement of dual core processors, notebook computers are worthy of gaming. These days the vast amount of gaming laptops aint even big, chunky and noisy. Hardcore gamers will always like their desktop gaming setup for speed and rightly so but it’s the functionality laptops provide that makes people compromise on frame rates. It looks as if everyone is possessed with manufacting thinner, portable notebook computers and I’m sure we’ll see gaming laptops like that in the near future.

Performance laptops are usually custom built to the users specification. The main advantages here are the fact that you can typically get advanced aftermarket parts in custom laptops. Detailing what you require simply is the main advantage. Prebuilt laptop computers are manufactured for people who have similar needs and that may not be you right? For the niche consumers, custom laptops close the void. I like that idea that there are a lot of smaller resellers offering good customer care for custom laptops. A number of niche markets acknowledge they are served better because of this.

Tons of funky gadgets are being released soon. Except from what has previously been mentioned UMPC’s are a further big product witnessing a rise this year. Its funny how a successful product has made a new sector. Huge screen and amazingly lightweight, that is what everybody would like. I reckon you could say these laptops are already attainable if you’re ready to pay the price. Market trends indicate that gaming laptops will become increasingly lighter in the next few years. Us geeks will see something amazing in the next couple of months that’s a certainty.

I’d personally recommend http://www.rizeon.com/gaming_laptops/page.php

Investment Portfolio of Chromabarography - strategy, market, objective, risk, potential, opportuniti

People who think. People who do. People who get it.

“Wat we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly”. Paine

“Friendship based on business is better than a business based on
friendship”. Rockefeller

Do you want to know how you can save time and get higher
profits, make your product competitive and ensure its sale on
world market? Well ! But first I invite you to analyze together
the situation around the conditions of the problem. The XX
century, the latest period of the history of analytical
chemistry, was specially rich in innovations. A great
significance had the invention of chromatography (M. S. Tswett,
1903) and the subsequent development of its varieties.

The analyses of a great number of substances are based on the
use of chromatographic principles of separation. On this same
principle are based the separation of isotopes and therefore the
creation of atomic weapon and atomic power stations.

Six Nobel prizes were won by Carrer in 1932, Kuhn in 1938,
Ruzicka in 1939, Martin and Synge in 1952, Sanger in 1958 and
1980 - authors, whose achievements depended to a significant
degree on the use of chromatographic analysis.

In the development of chromatography, a process that goes on up
to-day, a definite tendency is traced. After the substantial
theoretical and technological “gush” it follows to provide the
equipment with additional parts allowing the enlargement of the
analytical possibilities of the chromatograph. On this
background it is considered in - time the development of
Chromabarography - a new basic technology of chromatography.

What does it present itself, what does it give to the user and
producer of the equipment? After all, the heart of
chromatography is the chromatographic column. The theory of gas
chromatography, presented by the equation of Van Deemter H = A +
B/u + Cu shows that for each chromatographic separation there
exists an optimal flow rate above and below which the column
efficiency is reduced.

In practice, the linear speed of the sample zone moved by the
carrier gas, is changed continuously and increases as it
approaches the outlet, which results in a non-effective use of a
part of the column.

Yet the linear speed may be kept constant by programming the
movement of the pressure gradient along the column, realizing
the function pressure - location - time and keeping ∆ p
constant at the ends of the chromatographic column during the
whole process of analysis.

For the first time in the world this basic technology was worked
out and proposed by me, based on the investigation of the
factors of diffusion and kinetics, and includes the meaning
“bar-gradient chromatography” or Chromabarography. For its
realization an equipment was invented and defended by a Russia
patent. As a result a maximum possible efficiency (Hayrapetyan’s
Effect) of column is obtained at a minimum length, which at the
same time is optimal as well, as in difference to the ordinary
column further increase in column length increases the analyses
time. However these are not the only advantages of
Chromabarography. On the contrary, new interesting possibilities
of its modifications are opened which foresee: of combined
application of the moving gradients of pressure and temperature
(Chromabarothermography)

or of the moving of pressure gradient along the column
simultaneously with temperature programming affected equally on
all the separation column (Chromabarograph with temperature
programming). Amongst other advantages of scientific value may
be mentioned: The possibility of bar-focusing on each component
to solve complex analytical problems on a singular gas
chromatographic column, in difference to two or multistage
columns.

The realization of the proposed technology and enrichment of any
chromatographic equipment of serial production with
supplementary parts is not linked with great expenses and
difficulties, and service does not require special knowledge.

The percentage of the improved products will be increased.

As similar technologies and equipments do not exist in the whole
world, demands for Chromabarographs will be significantly
increased.

The profit and circulation from the realization of the equipment
will be increased principally on account of selling the product
on international market, and following the first publications
concerning this theme it may be unpredictably much higher.

Having in hand data about the industrial capacities with account
of economy in time and expenses for investigations, and the
principal premises for working out of a new basic technology and
the Chromabarography itself, it is not difficult to count the
real income. The chromatographic apparatus by its functional
purpose may be subdivided into several groups. Devices for
standard analyses Universal chromatographs. Devices for special
significance. The universal chromatographs are the most widely
used types of the chromatographic equipment. According to
information sources, their production makes up more that 90% of
the whole quantity of chromatographic equipments. However,
taking into account that the modern chromatographs of the
leading firms include a large number of modifications, from
which it is practically possible to make up an equipment of any
special purpose, the proposed new basic technology of
chromatography - Chromabarography will be low but not less than
50% of the quantity in demand. The economic effect of the
chromatograph is determined mainly from the viewpoint of
analytical control. By expert’s evaluation the annual effect of
1 equipment varies from thousands to hundred thousands rubles
(dollars), giving a compensation period from several days to
several months for an average price of an equipment. The
commonly useful advantages of Chromabarography are obvious first
of all for scientific investigations in studying the state of
various solid supports and stationary phases for the separation
of multicomponent mixtures with a wide range of boiling points.
The analysis and estimation of conjuncture information and
patent situation provide a basis to confirm that
Chromabarography is a XXI century technology of scientific and
commercial value. Attention! Proposing the modern technology by
switching on the electronic market Internet, I am ready to
discuss any question in the frame of the information postulated
on the site

The last know - how’s and engineering in the creation of new
modifications of Chromabarography with effective synergism.
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Conceptions of further improvement.

Performance of temporary or permanent, including the Joint
Venture form, managering, industrial, patent licensing (all
kinds of works, as well as evaluation and defense of the right
of industrial intellectual ownership), research and innovation
works. If you are interested and have ideas and projects, or
simply wish to express your opinion, please write to Aram
Hayrapetyan Perhaps with mutual efforts we shall work out
solutions enabling the quickest use of the method and the
production of the Chromabarograph and its modifications in
analytical instrument-making. Would you agree to such a plan?

P. S. “The best mental effort in the game of “business”, is
concerntrated on the major problem of securing the consumer’s
dollar before the other fellow getsit”. Chase

A Letter about Trust

The narcissistic condition emanates from a seismic breach of trust, a tectonic shift of what should have been a healthy relationship between the narcissist and his Primary Objects (parents or caregivers). Some of these bad feelings are the result of deeply entrenched misunderstandings regarding the nature of trust and the continuous act of trusting.

For millions of years nature embedded in us the notion that the past can teach us a lot about the future. This is very useful for survival. And it is also mostly true with inanimate objects. With humans the story is less straightforward: it is reasonable to project someone’s future behaviour from his past conduct (even though this proves erroneous some of the time).

But it is mistaken to project someone’s behaviour onto other people’s. Actually, psychotherapy amounts to an attempt to disentangle past from present, to teach the patient that the past is no more and has no reign over him, unless the patient lets it.

Our natural tendency is to trust, because we trust our parents. It feels good to really trust. It is also an essential component of love and an important test thereof. Love without trust is dependence masquerading as love.

We must trust, it is almost biological. Most of the time, we do trust. We trust the universe to behave according to the laws of physics, soldiers not to go mad and shoot at us, our nearest and dearest not to betray us. When trust is broken, we feel as though a part of us dies, is hollowed out.

Not to trust is abnormal and is the outcome of bitter or even traumatic life experiences. Mistrust or distrust are induced not by our own thoughts, nor by some device or machination of ours - but by life’s sad circumstances. To continue not to trust is to reward the people who wronged us and made us distrustful in the first place. Those people have long abandoned us and yet they still have a great, malignant, influence on our lives. This is the irony of the lack of trust.

So, some of us prefer not to experience this sinking feeling of trust violated. They choose not to trust and not to be disappointed. This is both a fallacy and a folly. Trusting releases enormous amounts of mental energy, which is better invested elsewhere. But trust - like knives - can be dangerous to your health if used improperly.

You have to know WHO to trust, you have to learn HOW to trust and you have to know HOW to CONFIRM the existence of mutual, functional trust.

People often disappoint and are not worthy of trust. Some people act arbitrarily, treacherously and viciously, or, worse, offhandedly. You have to select the targets of your trust carefully. He who has the most common interests with you, who is invested in you for the long haul, who is incapable of breaching trust (”a good person”), who doesn’t have much to gain from betraying you - is not likely to mislead you. These people you can trust.

You should not trust indiscriminately. No one is completely trustworthy in all fields. Most often our disappointments stem from our inability to separate one area of life from another. A person could be sexually loyal - but utterly dangerous when it comes to money (for instance, a gambler). Or a good, reliable father - but a womaniser.

You can trust someone to carry out some types of activities - but not others, because they are more complicated, more boring, or do not conform to his values. We should not trust with reservations - this is the kind of “trust” that is common in business and among criminals and its source is rational. Game Theory in mathematics deals with questions of calculated trust. We should trust wholeheartedly but know who to entrust with what. Then we will be rarely disappointed.

As opposed to popular opinion, trust must be put to the test, lest it goes stale and staid. We are all somewhat paranoid. The world around us is so complex, so inexplicable, so overwhelming - that we find refuge in the invention of superior forces. Some forces are benign (God) - some arbitrarily conspiratorial in nature. There must be an explanation, we feel, to all these amazing coincidences, to our existence, to events around us.

This tendency to introduce external powers and ulterior motives into our reality permeates human relations, as well. We gradually grow suspicious, inadvertently hunt for clues of infidelity or worse, masochistically relieved, even happy when we find some.

The more often we successfully test the trust we had established, the stronger our pattern-prone brain embraces it. Constantly in a precarious balance, our brain needs and devours reinforcements. Such testing should not be explicit but circumstantial.

Your husband could easily have had a mistress or your partner could easily have stolen your money - and, behold, they haven’t. They passed the test. They resisted the temptation offered to them by circumtance.

Trust is based on the ability to predict the future. It is not so much the act of betrayal that we react to - as it is the feeling that the very foundations of our world are crumbling, that it is no longer safe because it is no longer predictable. We are in the throes of death of one theory - and the birth of another, as yet untested.

Here is another important lesson: whatever the act of betrayal (with the exception of grave criminal corporeal acts) - it is frequently limited, confined, and negligible. Naturally, we tend to exaggerate the importance of the event. This serves a double purpose: indirectly it aggrandises us. If we are “worthy” of such an unprecedented, unheard of, major betrayal - we must be worthwhile and unique. The magnitude of the betrayal reflects on us and re-establishes the fragile balance of powers between us and the universe.

The second purpose of exaggerating the act of perfidy is simply to gain sympathy and empathy - mainly from ourselves, but also from others. Catastrophes are a dozen a dime and in today’s world it is difficult to provoke anyone to regard your personal disaster as anything exceptional.

Amplifying the event has, therefore, some very utilitarian purposes. But, finally, the emotional lie poisons the mental circulation of the liar. Putting the event in perspective goes a long way towards the commencement of a healing process. No betrayal stamps the world irreversibly or eliminates other possibilities, opportunities, chances and people. Time goes by, people meet and part, lovers quarrel and make love, dear ones live and die. It is the very essence of time that it reduces us all to the finest dust. Our only weapon - however crude and naive - against this unstoppable process is to trust each other.

About the Author

Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central Europe Review, United Press International (UPI) and eBookWeb and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com.

Visit Sam’s Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com

Buying A Laptop Soon? Things Are Changing

The most expensive type of laptops come in two varieties. On one end you have the large, powerful gaming laptops and on the other you have the anorexic ultra portables which are insanely priced. Both command high price tags. Gaming laptops are more practical for day to day use if you’re replacing a desktop whilst the umpc’s are the best option if you are syncing with your desktop. However the market for ultrea portables is rather small and the most popular laptop screen size is 15.4 inch. A new phenominen seems to be the budget umpc’s laptops that are 12 inch or smaller, low powered and only suitable for a few common tasks. Where the choice comes to one the gaming laptop will always win as most people who require mobility can still be portable with the average 15.4 inch size.

Intel has been controlling the laptop computer industry as long as I can remember. The centrino label has always meant the customer gets a certain standard of mobile experience but there has been some confusion regarding what centrino laptops are. Common misconceptions include thinking that just because the laptop has an intel processor that makes it a centrino laptop. A Few consumers still don’t understand that centrino is a marketing platform that implies the laptop has an intel mainboard, intel cpu and intel wireless card.

When purchasing gaming laptops the cpu, ram and graphics chip are the most important components you should consider. The cpu should be a dual core cpu like the intel core duo with a speed of over 2GHz as the minimum. Minimum requirements for RAM are 2GB if running Windows Vista but 3GB is recommended for the best performance. For a gaming laptop you need to have a dedicated video card. 256MB is the standard dedicated video memory to look for. I think an Nvidia 8600M card should be good for playing all the new games well. For hardcore gaming players get only the top of the range video cards.

Retail or the web? Where is the best place to find your gaming laptop or any laptop? Brands would prefer you go through retail but honestly there is so much choice on the web and its all much lower priced than retail. Fact is you will find it very difficult to find the same variety of high spec laptops offline and even if you do you will end up paying too much.

A Brief History On Cells Phones

The concept of the cell phone was created in the late 1940’s.
Scientists concluded that with small cells with frequency reuse
they could create such a thing as a mobile phone. The technology
that existed at this time however meant that this was
impossible. The Bell corporation is responsible for the concept
of the mobile
phone, but only for use in cars. The first inventor of a
portable cell phone is considered to be Dr. Martin Cooper who
made his first cell phone call in 1973. He made his call to his
rivals at Bell who were closely competing with him to win the
cellular technology race.

In 1977 the model cell phone was created and given to over
2000 trial costumers. Tests continued on cell phones throughout
the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. In 1982 cell phones were
finally approved for public use in the United States. The cell
phone became in great demand among consumers and by 1987 the
airways were filled with cell phone frequencies. Since the FCC
refused to allow the cell phone industry have any more
bandwidth, cell phone companies
began expanding and improving their technology. Today, cell
phones are found in virtually every household and many people
could not imagine life without them. We now have phones that
include gimmicks such as camera phones, phones that download
music, video camera phones and text messaging. The cell phone
services have come along way since the idea was thought of in
1947, and we have Dr. Martin Cooper and Joel Engel to thank.

The Advantages of Wooden Wine Racks

Wood wine racks provide the best storage system for a large collection, cheaply and efficiently. They are easy to assemble, study, stackable, attractive and cost between $30 and $130. You can easily purchase more cubes as your collection expands. Ask for a discount if you buy more than one cube.

Wooden wine racks can also double as table tops to hold all your wine accessories. Pine wine racks are the cheapest. Tabletop wine racks tend to hold 24, 36, or 48 bottles and cost between $50 and $100.


Many high-quality wooden wine racks can be used as furniture. Mahogany, redwood, and oak wine bars elegantly store your wines while giving you space to serve them in style. Most bars cost around $500 and can hold 50 to 100 bottles. If you buy online, shipping will cost around $100, so keep an eye out for free shipping deals. Wooden wine towers let you keep your wine organized and store glasses on shelves. They are ideal for tight spaces and may cost over $300, depending on quality.


If your wine collection is an investment, consider buying a wooden wine rack in a freestanding refrigerator. These keep your wines in a climate-controlled container, so you can display your wines in any environment. Expect to pay around $2,000.


How you store wine, however, is not as important as where you store wine. Any wine rack — whether it is wood or metal, large or small — should be kept in a cool, dark, slightly humid area. Keep a consistent temperature between 50 and 59 degrees Fahrenheit. Never put the wine rack in the sun or heat, which will cook and spoil the wine. Basements and closets make excellent storage spaces. Also keep a record of your wines so you know when to open a perfectly aged bottle.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Easy Way to Troubleshoot Pump Problems

In any problem analysis, we have to specify the problem, check
whether there is any deviation from the normal condition,
identify the possible causes, evaluate the possible causes and
then confirm the true cause.

Pumps or other machinery will give tell tale signs when they are
not working properly. An observant pump user will be able to
avoid major breakdowns or damage if the problem is corrected
early.

In order to solve any pump problem, we need to notice the
symptoms carefully so as to determine the most likely causes.
Instruments like pressure gauges are very helpful and should be
installed in the pumping system.

Very often we do have to rely on our 5 senses to pinpoint the
exact symptom. Normally, pump problems can be classified into
Suction Related, System Related, or Mechanical Related. It can
also be a combination of these.

Most of the system related problems occur because of design
flaw. For example, the designer may have chosen the wrong pump
whose characteristic does not match the system requirement.
Suction related problems are usually caused by air lock that are
due to a variety of reasons…

The effects of mechanical related problems could manifest
themselves as suction related problems - air leaks in the
system, worn out impellers, and mouth rings - but the most
common symptom is the presence of vibration and abnormal noise
in the equipment.

DiagnoPump, pump troubleshooter has been created for pump users
and sellers to help them find the solution quickly. Arranged so
that the easiest (and often overlooked) causes are examined
first, it could be a very useful tool.

If you are a beginner, you can start the troubleshooting from
the very first steps. More experienced users may want to start
from the later stages in the symptom list. The symptoms have
been identified to make it easy to zero in on the correct ones.
The symptoms have been arranged as:

1. No Flow, No Pressure - No water delivered at all 2. Low Flow
and Low Pressure - Pump does not deliver sufficient water or
Pump does not deliver water after some time or Insufficient
pressure developed 3. Short Lifespan of Shaft Seal or Packing -
Shaft seal or Gland Packing does not last long 4. Short Lifespan
of Bearings, Noisy Operation - Bearings do not last long or
Vibration and noisy operation or Overheating of parts or Seizure
of bearings 5. Pump Trips - Pump stops by itself or Excessive
power consumption

With this easy pump troubleshooter, anyone could easily pinpoint
the causes in a very short time. The pump troubleshooter can be
downloaded for FREE at http://www.free-marine.com/diagnoppad.htm

The usefulness does not end there - any pump distributor or
seller can also make use of it to sell their own product! They
are able to insert their own names and Companies into the FREE
software and distribute it to anyone they wish as goodwill.

Attention Pump Professionals! Free Pump Troubleshooter available
for download. Very easy to use. Just answer the logical
questions by selecting either Yes or No, and you will be able to
pinpoint your pump faults quickly. No experience necessary.
Ideal for beginners and seasoned professionals alike. Saves
valuable time. Pump
Troubleshooter

The evolution of temperature monitoring systems

Monitoring temperature is a critical element in many different
segments of industry and business today. There are several means
of measuring temperature, each of which has its own pluses and
minuses. In the past you had to use a manual method, where an
employee used a thermometer to determine temperature and a piece
of paper and a pencil to record. This was time consuming,
expensive and of questionable accuracy.

When chart recorders were invented it was used for monitoring
temperature twenty-four hours a day. However it still required
an employee to change the chart every day or week and because it
was mechanical it often broke down requiring even more
maintenance.

Data loggers appeared in the late 80s. They were not mechanical,
which eliminated the ongoing maintenance and made monitoring
temperature easier and less expensive. They recorded temperature
in RAM memory and could do their work unattended. They were also
rugged so they would be put in places that were inhospitable to
humans.

Many businesses adopted data loggers for monitoring temperature.
This worked fairly well as long as the temperature they were
monitoring didn’t change frequently or require a response to
certain events. The big drawback to data loggers is that the
temperature can’t be seen until it is downloaded into a
computer. Data loggers haven’t until recently come with a
display.

There is now a new type of data logger available which does have
a display. This class of instrument, called data viewers
collects and stores temperature history, just like a data
logger, but it also displays the temperature on an LCD display.
This improves the utility of the device immensely. The most
useful and low cost data viewer is the ThermaViewer,
manufactured by Two Dimensional Instruments, LLC.

This very useful instrument has been made so that it can be
installed in minutes and used by every employee. It doesn’t
require an IT professional to set it up or interpret the
measured temperature. Once in place it draws a chart on the
large LCD display that is very easy to read. It is being used in
laboratories and hospitals for monitoring temperature of
refrigerators and freezers where drugs and vaccines are stored.

Cisco CCNA Certification: Should You Take The One-Exam or T

One question I’m often asked by CCNA candidates is whether to take the “one big exam”, or take the two separate exams required by Cisco to achieve the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) exam.

The question comes up because there are now two separate paths to the CCNA certification. Candidates may take a single exam, 640-811, or two exams, 640-821 and 640-811.

What’s the difference? The two-exam approach involves exams with different topics and therefore different preparation techniques. 640-821 is the Introduction To Cisco Networking Technologies exam. This course does introduce the candidate to Frame Relay, PPP, and other WAN technologies, but goes into little detail. Emphasis in the Intro course is placed on knowing how Ethernet behaves, how different types of cable are used for different purposes, and knowing what cable to use in a certain situation. The candidate should expect some questions involving binary math as well, but they will involve fairly simple conversions.

The 640-811 exam, Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices, goes into much more detail on WAN technologies. Routing and switching behavior are covered, and the candidate is expected to answer difficult questions involving binary math and subnetting as well. The candidate may also have to demonstrate ability to configure a router or switch via a simulator. Since the ICND exam goes into more detail, it’s generally considered the more difficult exam.

The approach I recommend to a CCNA candidate depends on their background. If the candidate is a relative newcomer to networking, or hasn’t taken a certification exam before, I recommend they take the two-exam approach. This allows the candidate to focus only on the Intro topics, and gives them a strong sense of confidence after passing the Intro exam. That confidence flows over into the ICND exam.

For those who have networking experience, and are very familiar with Ethernet behavior and cable types, I recommend the one-exam approach. This allows the candidate to focus on the more advanced topics they’ll be seeing in the single exam, while spending just a little time reviewing their Intro-level knowledge.

Regardless of the approach you choose, the path to true CCNA success remains the same. Get some real hands-on experience, either by renting rack time online or by putting together your own home lab. Understand what’s going on “beneath the command”; don’t use router commands when you don’t understand what they’re doing. Add to that a true mastery on binary math, and you’re on your way to having the magic letters “CCNA” behind your name!

Chris Bryant

CCIE #12933

www.thebryantadvantage.com

Chris Bryant, CCIE (TM) #12933, has been active in the Cisco certification community for years. He worked his way up from the CCNA to the CCIE, and knows what CCNA and CCNP candidates need to know to be effective on the job and in the exam room.

He is the owner of http://www.thebryantadvantage.com, where he sells his popular CCNA and CCNP study aids, including his unique Flash Card Books. He also teaches CCNA and CCNP courses to small groups of exam candidates, ensuring they each receive the individual attention they deserve. Classes are offered over the Internet and in person in select cities. Chris has custom-written the Study Guide and Lab Workbook used in each course - no third-party training materials or simulators are used. You’re invited to visit our site and check out our CCNA and CCNP Courses, Flash Card Books, and to sign up for our weekly newsletter written personally by Chris. Chris is always glad to hear from Cisco certification candidates at chris@thebryantadvantage.com.