Legends of the Sun Pig

That’s 70-229 down, only 70-316 to go on the road to MCSD.NET: Friday’s the day.

70-229 was a toughie–the hardest one I’ve had so far. I scored well, but there were very few “gimme” questions. Most of the questions were quite long, too–just reading through the lead-ins, the exhibit code and diagrams, and the possible answers took a lot of time. I finished the last question with only eight minutes to spare, which left me precious little time for dithering and worrying about the answers I was unsure of. Anyway, I passed. Yay me.

I knew there was a lot of stuff in the MSDN subscription, but I hadn’t expected the box of disks to be the size of a small fridge. Sheesh.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is now available for download to MSDN subscribers; the public download will probably arrive in the next few days. The Service Pack itself weighs in at a chunky 275MB download, but that climbs to 475 if you grab the ISO image of the installation CD. They’re not kidding when they suggest you order might want to order the CD instead.

I’ve been looking forward to SP2 mostly because there are now so many patches and updates to SP1 that doing a fresh install of XP takes bloody hours. Time to slipstream this puppy and ease that pain.