2004-04-07 00:18
by Vasil KolevDay of the fist test on Network Security-2.
It began with the funny fact, that we didn’t have enough questions, and the perl people hadn’t sent theirs. In the end, chervarium thought of some more, Zhoro had sent some through the night, and I took some from the old test that were relevant to the current lectures – we ended with 31, which wasn’t good. I managed to put them in the right format, and to send them to Nakov for the final generation at 10:54… After some problems with his internet connection, around 12:30 I downloaded them, and started printing – this time the printer endured it heroically. Ok, they were only 120 tests, 3 pages each (not 230, 4 pages each like the previous semester :) ). The pile of sheets was noticeably smaller than the previous ones:)
The test itself went painlessly, and pretty quick – most people did in in the first 45 minutes, and looking at the results, the average will be around 25 (from 30 possible). Not because the test was easy (there were some pretty nasty moments), but because the people left are mostly the ones that did good at Network Security-1, and who know what’s this all about, and are willing to learn :) I want to thank them, for enduring us :)
I’ll probably input the results tonight, and when Zhoro gets sober tomorrow morning, he’ll put them in the db.
There are some special swear words from me to the perl people, EXo and Murry, who could’ve said that they won’t be able to make the questions, so we can come with something.. They had enough time to make them up, too – they surely knew that Cisco expo is coming… Because of that, Niki has decided for everyone to write some questions with the plan of every lecture, so we don’t get in such situation again. It’s not a bad idea…
(Murry, please, send the presentations, so we can put them on the site :) )
I’m killing body weight – I’ve started eating mostly apples (and was an interesting sight at the tets :) ), and let’s see what will happen, I’m doing easily my exercises, without swearing (but it still hurts at some places :) )
Tomorrow I’ll probably get the last stuff from chervarium, so Friday we’ll be able to turn over the project, it’ll be probably around 50 pages… And when I think that the previous variant was 5, they’ll probably be a bit scared :)