the corner office

Advanced Networking. Not a bad paper, but looong. It was an open-book exam, which as always, was a blessing and a curse. It was nice not having to memorise the minutae of various network protocols, but the flipside was that the paper was just that much tougher and longer to compensate.

I have to say that our textbook, Douglas E. Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol I was an excellent textbook. Concise and clear, but meaty enough to not feel like yet another kiddie's introduction to the subject. Unfortunately, after one of 2004's most famous Bushisms, Comer's continuous reference to the heretofore perfectly-valid term 'internets' is perhaps going to suffer rather severely from Gresham's Law in the years to come.