Passed ISCW

Today I passed ISCW exam with score 988. It is not a perfect score. I was expecting 1000. Hopefully I will get a better result for the next exam. One more test to be CCNP.

Passed BCSI

Today I passed the BCSI exam with score 925. There are still 2 more exams to be CCNP.

Ubuntu on Live CD

I finally tried UBuntu using Live CD on my machine. I was trying to download the alternate CD since I didn’t know that I could actually install UBuntu using the live CD. How stupid I was.

The live CD looks OK to me. I will try to install it later on. It’s time to bed now.

Eclipse

Finally, I managed to download Eclipse after spending several hours on it.  I don’t have enough time to try it yet. It is almost midnight here in the middle of nowhere.  Looks like that I will have some fun.

What to do when boring ?

I found that I’m sitting in the middle of nowhere without nothing to do right now.  It’s probably good since I can use this opportunity to learn whatever I want to learn or do whatever I want to do without any push push from anybody else. However, this situation just happen to make me realize that I need to find out some other interesting to do because now I’m boring and my brain just don’t want to work !

I’m probably a little bit tired due to stay up several nights to finish these jobs. But should learning makes me tired too ? I used to be very excited on learning. Do have any idea of what to do when you are boring ?

Language is about the way of thinking

I was thinking that I would improve my English by writing this blog in English.  Unfortunately, I didn’t update this blog very often due to my difficulty to express my thought in words here. The strange thing is that my other writing in my native language were released without any problem. Why could that be ? It’s due to the different way of thinking. When I wrote in English, I have to switch my brain to think in English. Otherwise, it will result on something in my native language but translated into English. Everyone will have a difficulty to understand something written on this way.

Today I’m writing in English. But I’m actually not so sure if I’m now thinking in English or thinking in my native language. If you don’t understand what I’m writing, then I’m probably just translating my native thoughts into English. However, I believe that practice makes better. That’s why I’m writing today.

C Puzzle

Good website, http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.html

OSPF Neighbor states

There are 8 states of OSPF neighbor, i.e:

1. down
2. attempt
3. init
4. 2-way
5. exstart
6. exchange
7. loading
8. full

For troubleshooting, use the commands below:

• show ip ospf neighbor
• show ip ospf interface

enum

In C and C++, enum types can be used to set up collections of named integer constants. (The keyword enum is short for “enumerated”.) The traditional C way of doing this was something like this:

#define SPRING   0
#define SUMMER   1
#define FALL     2
#define WINTER   3

An alternate approach using enum would be

enum { SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER };

Source: click here

Is there such a secret priority for a MS application ?

I used to open two application when I started up my PC to begin my daily activity , i.e: Microsoft Outlook and Firefox.

The start up process sometimes took several minutes to complete. But I normally not patient enough to wait for the startup to complete  so I double-click both of the application mentioned above while waiting for the process. What surprised me is that Ms Outlook will always be opened first regardless of what I clicked. This morning I tried to click Firefox first and wait for several seconds before clicking the Ms Outlook.  And again, Ms Outlook was launched first before Firefox.

Is there such a secret priority for a Ms Application ?