CCNA Mind Map

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I made a CCNA Mind Map today, thought I would share it
It's based on the contents of the Sybex CCNA Study guide 5th edition, so anyone using that may benefit directly, however there were some minor alterations

not sure if any of you are familiar with mind maps, or whether or not you find them useful, but figured id let you all grab a copy anyway




It's likely i'll make some alterations and add more relationships, as well as providing a 'further' reading section in each main topic to help you out if you find it beneficial, drop me feedback here

 

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Well Phoenix I am not about to do the CCNA but that is an impressive mind map.

What software did you use to create it?

 

err what exactly does a mind map do?

 

I don't know what Phoenix used but there is some open source software called FreeMind that does what he did here. It's available through the Debian depositories for those of use who use Debian-related distro's and for rpm's for SuSe 9.x and some other rpm style distro's.

Oh, and as it's written in Java it's cross-platform software so there is a Window's version available too.

 

Take a look at the link I gave in my post to Bluerinse. There's a pretty good explanation of what all is possible with mind mapping software.

 

We had a look at Freemind for work, its a great product but we needed a more rounded product so got Mind Manager Pro from MindJet, has nice integration with project 2003 which is vital to us

Freemind will save you 200 quid though

 

Mind Mapping really is one of the best ways to make notes and revise from them.

It makes it so much easier than reading throught reams of text.

 

Impressive resource Ryan - thanks again

 

how exactly does it work... btw read the site provided but still dont make means of this?

 

Thanks Freddy, I am sure I will use it sooner or later

 

It's quite simple really, try doing it by hand.

You list your core subject in the centre of the page, in this case the CCNA.

Then coming off from the centre you list the core topics involved in the CCNA, subnetting, VLANS, IOS Commands, etc.

Then you branch off from those subjects, so for example under IOS commands you have a link to ISDN, and then a branch to a specific ISDN command, and go from there.

I've attached a Powerpoint, help you better understand them, I had to do a presentation on them for Uni.

Although Phoenix's doesnt use images you can do so if you want.

 

Nice PP presentation Simon, you get a silver star for that

 

This might be an answer to getting me organized. I used to do this sort of things, but with large reams of butcher paper and a marker. I think I'll have to play around with this for awhile to get it to work for me. Thanks, all.

 

*sigh* Naturally I have another problem with apt pinning. I followed the instructions on this page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=355162

I modify my /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences files accordingly then issue the common to install freemind. Here's what I get:

Code:

tripwire:~# apt-get install freemind/experimental freemind-plugins-help freemind-plugins-svg freemind-plugins-time
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 0.8.0+01-4 (deb@zorglub:experimental) for freemind
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  freemind: Depends: j2re1.4 but it is not installable or
                     j2re1.5 but it is not installable or
                     java2-runtime but it is not installable
  freemind-plugins-help: Depends: j2re1.4 but it is not installable or
                                  j2re1.5 but it is not installable or
                                  java2-runtime but it is not installable
  freemind-plugins-svg: Depends: j2re1.4 but it is not installable or
                                 j2re1.5 but it is not installable or
                                 java2-runtime but it is not installable
                        Depends: libbatik-java (>= 1.6) but it is not installable
  freemind-plugins-time: Depends: j2re1.4 but it is not installable or
                                  j2re1.5 but it is not installable or
                                  java2-runtime but it is not installable
                         Depends: libjcalendar-java but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
tripwire:~#

Yes, I ran apt-get update after changing the sources.list and preferences file.

 

Personaly I hate the Java run-time mess. This is supposed to be a 'portable language' but I've always had trouble. My group within my company has Java as its 'official' language. They have nightmares as well.

For some weird reason I don't have to follow my group policy - so I use no Java at all!

Harry.

 

Trip,

You can install freemind from the Debian archives using apt and it will figure out all your dependency problems. You'll probably have to add "contrib" and "non-free" to your sources.list file first though so you can install Java.

I've had Java installed for so long I don't remember how all of it works off the top of my head. However, I did it the hard way. I installed it before it was in the apt repositories so your way of installing it will be different than mine was, and most likely a whole lot easier.

 

Oh, and btw, why are you trying to install from experimental??? Install from sarge, etch, or sid and you'll have much better luck. You're bound to have broken stuff from experimental....

 

I tried from sarge but it couldn't find the package. I assumed that it wasn't available.

 

That's because you don't have Contrib in your sources.list file. Add it and non-free.

Like this:

Code:

deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free

 

Added

Code:

deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free

to /etc/apt/sources.list. Did apt-get update just for giggles and then attempted to install freemind. Here's the result.

Code:

debian:~# apt-get install freemind
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package freemind
debian:~# apt-cache show freemind
W: Unable to locate package freemind
E: No packages found
debian:~# apt-cache showpkg freemind
W: Unable to locate package freemind
debian:~#

And the adventure continues.