Waiting

Waiting is something that I don’t really like so much. I can still be able to handle it if I know how long I have to wait. This time, I was told to wait, but he could not tell me the time frame. So I have to wait, wait and wait like Victor Navorsky on “the terminal”.

Arrrgh, should I wait a little longer? Or just forget it?

GMail IMAP

I have been looking for a way to scan my folder on GMail, parse it, and process information on the folder. I’ve wrote several lines of code in perl, but still have some issues on retrieving several mails.

I have dig the  /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Mail/IMAPClient.pm :

• found that message_string called fetch
• tried to download using fetch, also timed out
• follow up: need to see why fetch timed out

Found a website of IMAP protocol. It may be useful later. Here is the site:

• http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Protocols/imap.php

Time to go, will continue tomorrow.

 

IMAP::SSL on perl

I have an idea to create a script to automate some job on my GMail IMAP folder. However, I was stuck for several days on installing SSLeay modul on my ubuntu. I tried to install either using cpan or compiling it from source. Unfortunately none of them successful.

Finally I found an easy way by just using apt-get to install it. Now I have the module installed, and I can start to write my script

What is the best exam test preparation?

Like wrote previously, I’m now intensively doing a research to find out which exam test preparation is the best to help me on the CCIE journey. Doing some search on google, but still unable to draw a conclusion.

Some folks on several forum said that boson is a good one. Unfortunately, I’ve never found any testimonial that somebody passed the CCIE by helping of boson. It’s really weird, it is really good why nobody admit that they are using boson to help their CCIE journey? Some guys just tell don’t use testking, don’t use bla bla bla, but they don’t tell which one is good. It leaves me with no clue, and makes me thinking that they are just showing their power but not sharing anything to the forum.

Finally, I’m still sitting here without any decision yet. May be I’ll try NetMasterClass just to see how good it is.

Palm Utility

I found this utility for Palm. Got this sites when I had a problem of replying SMS that caused my handheld to reboot. Haven’t tried the tool yet, but I need to record this just for reminder:

The Tool

The Article

Time to start CCIE journey

It’s the time to start my CCIE journey. So far, I’m still not sure where to start yet. I have done several browsing and still not found a light yet. I need to find a good book (if there is any), and exam preparation test to measure my understanding. None of them assured me yet.

However, to make me feel not too disappointed, I think that the two blogs below taught me several lessons. I’ll put both of them here so I can find it easily in the future:

http://brokenpipes.blogspot.com/

http://www.ethanbanks.net

I’m still digging if the books offered by the ccbootcamp and  preparation test offered by netmasterclass.net is useful. Anyone has experience with both of the materials ?

Now I need to take s rest…..

Passed ONT

Ups, forgot to record that I passed ONT on 2 Oct 2007. It was the last CCNP exam that I took and passed. What next ? Unfortunately I have to redo my CCNA, it is expired already.

Advanced Packaging Tools

Advanced Packaging Tool, or APT, is a front-end for the package management system used by Debian GNU/Linux and its derivatives (quoted from wikipedia). This tool should be very familiar for ubuntu/debian users as we need it to install application by using the command below:

$ sudo apt-get install package

When we run the command, debian will look for the package from the repositories. And the sources of the repositories can be found on  /etc/apt/sources.list. We can edit this file to the closest server from our workstation or any server that we prefer.

My Ubuntu doesn’t compile

I’m quite new with Ubuntu and used to work with RedHat before. Using this new distro, made experiencing a lot of new thins such as what I got today. I was unable to compile several application from source code. The C compiler is installed, but not the essential headers. Therefore, I got the error message below whenever I compiled an application:

C compiler cannot create executables

To allow me compiling the source, here what I need to do:

#sudo apt-get install build-essential

Voila, I’m now able to compile the sources

Network troubleshooting on ubuntu

# ifconfig <– to see the network interface

# ethtool ethX <– to see if the NIC is disconnected or not

# ethtool -S ethX <– any error on NIC ?

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