I’m half way there. All that hard work, sweat, long nights, and dirty looks finally brought me to the medial point in this grand adventure towards the ultimate first step in technological advancement.

Oops sorry. I’m ALMOST certified.

Last Friday, the great Company I Work For, arranged an appointment with Pearson VUE for me to go take the Essentials 220-601 A+ exam, which is the first part to the A+ Certification offered by CompTIA.

Needless to say, I passed with flying colors; 82% B to be exact.

Is it just me? Or has it become incredibly easy to brute force into a NOC?

Every single time I bust into Cox’s nearest NOC it takes me like 20 minutes and then I have mainframe privileges.

Am I really that good, or does Cox’s IT suck really badly?

So I try to hateway through to Cricket’s and Embarq’s NOC: 45 minutes using brute force and I get an Administrator privilege account. 20 minutes of crawling after that and I get mainframe account privileges.

I must pwn.