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Before and after the test. Ray showing his Cisco AP. Alex explaning VLAN.

  
Test on going… my station 8)

  
My answer paper… there are 16 questions.

Today, September 6, 2007, we did some new stuff. We tried on Radius authentication which did not work very well since the equipment did not support MD5 encryption. Then testing some tools to capture packets.

There is another class going on… Linux class I guess. And one of the student is our former Practical/Industrial Student about a year ago. We do accept Practical Student in our office, but we don’t pay… gov policy. But if any student interested, duties we will give them are hardware/network/system maintenance/fixing/assembling and software development in ASP & SQL. He asked if he can do his practical at our office again… I said no problem… need some student to do some dirty job like carying boxes, server etc… LOL

And tomorrow, we’re going to have a real simple test… o come on!!!… I hate test!!!… according to the lecturer, it was the instruction from our mangement…. booo…. writing test is not the best way to measures someone performance… practical is!!!

   
Class going on very well… I never get bored… normally I get bored easily 😛

  
emm…. not in heavy thinking yea… just surfin 8)

 Third day, September 5, 2007, is great… we tried bridging the APs. I’m glad that we did this experiment becoz one of the site office (Railway Department) we are handling is using the same principle and equipment… when the duties was handed over to us to manage the site office almost 2 years ago, the AP bridges were already in place… luckily, so far it has been working well. But if it giving problem later, it should not be a problem 8)

 
Class in progres…

At the ground floor of the training centre, there is a travel agency… nice wall they have on their shop.

 
We had another simple test… grrrrrr…

Second day, September 4, 2007, was getting insteresting. We were given the Access Point to play with. 

 
In the morning, we have our breakfast and at the evening, we have a tea-break.

 
Darius and Edi… 3 of us from the same office.

 
After the tea-break, we had a simple test… I hate test, I can’t write properly and I don’t like memorizing… gimme practical test and I do it without complain 8)

The first day (September 3, 2007) of the Certified Wireless Network Administrator Course (CWNA) has a good start. Except for the bomb hoax during the lunch time at Maybank.

  
The class room… luckily internet is available, making it easy to google for wireless info.

  
Our lecturer, Mr. Alex, knowledgeable and not stingy to share his knowledge… 2 important values to be a good lecturer.

  
The USB WiFi adapter provided to us.

The Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) course today was quite easy… perhaps too easy 8) gain some about the wireless standards etc.

The evening session was not bad since we are given an AP and each with USB WiFi adapter… I took the opportunity to configure the AP… configuring is very easy… done it many times with my office AP and my home ADSL WiFi router. We were requested to hard reset the AP. After doing so, I proceeded configuring the AP through the WiFi… damm… I did a silly mistake by setting up the admin IP (the only IP allowed to access the AP after that) which is not the same subnet as the AP’s IP itself and rebooted the AP… no harm… I just hard reset it for the second time… After halfway done, just before the tea break, the lecturer asks how was it, I said I configured it through the WiFi… he looks a bit baffled… he ask if he given me the UTP cable… I said, nope… then he gave me a cable after the tea break… but for me, with or without the cable, it’s not a problem to configure the AP 😛 not sure what he was thinking… My group is Group 3, so we are supposed to name our SSID Group3… Guess what?… I named our AP SSID NegaraKuKu instead 8) ha ha ha ha… cool yea…

Anyway, I went out for lunch with a colleague at the Double Six Monuments at Grace Point Sembulan… when we came back… ok, forgot to tell, the course is in Sadong Jaya Karamunsing by the wat… roads are blocked in that area… many policeman… after parking, I went to get closer to the crowd… I ask one of the Telekom security guard… he said there is a BOMB!!!… cool… I have my camera with me… too bad, it’s not my super duper Canon S5… it’s my Casio Exilim EX S500 with x3 zoom 🙁 so can’t get cool photos… we see lah what the newspaper report tomorrow…

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Today, there was a workers union meeting… well it’s not exactly workers union like the one you see on TV or movie… it just that every category of staff are represented and the representative will present issues regarding their working condition, environment, etc in this meeting.

Since our representative is on leave, I wanted to ‘volunteer’ myself… because there was no news who will replace our representative. I wanted to bring one important issue about our position… this morning, I received SMS from the chairman… well I called him last night about my intention and he not sure too if there will be a representative for us. He informed that there is a representative… OK then, I doesn’t have to attend the meeting. So, I just email the issue I wanted to bring to our representative… and I’m hoping it will be looked into… so that we can get ‘promoted’ and get extra salary 😛

Today, I had a headache… it started around 9am. So, I look for friend and went for a break. But my headache did not go away until now… normally, if I take little breakfast, I will get headache… but this time after eating a lot, it did not go away 🙁

Tomorrow, I need to wake-up early because I need to attend a seminar at 7.30am. I wanted to sleep by 11pm… but now, it’s almost 12am… I need to wake up by 6am tomorrow…

In the office today, I was visited by a System Integrator… he wanted to introduce Lotus Domino… and he knows I’m pro Microsoft… LOL so he said, he might not have a chance… but I said, it’s OK, I’m open for anything for now… 😉 Maybe we talked too long, my headache did not go away…

Then when I check my blog after diner… cool I got a Direct PPP offer… 😛

OK… I better go to sleep now…

On August 6 & 7, me and another 16 of my colleagues went to Mimpian Jadi Golf & Beach Resort, Tuaran. We went there to formulate a standard feasibility study methodology to comply with our department ISO9001 certification. This is my 3rd visit to this place… the 1st was for our BTN Training about 4 years ago and the 2nd was for golf about 2 years ago.

I would say it was a successful outing but definitely with the short one and a half day workshop, it was not enough to get a complete methodology… there are more issues need to be refined.

Unfortunately, my cough get a little bit worse… my cough started 2 weeks ago but it was not so bad… it was since I came back from Kundasang. It was not the cough makes me uncomfortable, but the sore throat.

After office today, I went to my regular clinic. My last visit was more than a year ago and it was not about sickness but to get some cream for my skin rash. My last visit for cough or my last two visit was more than 2 years ago… not bad… I don’t really need to see doctor that often… 2++ year… 🙂 Well it was attributed with taking enough vitamin C daily. I’m taking about 1000mg day… plus Fish Oil and CoQ10 😉

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At last, got some time to post today… life is so busy…

I was outstation to Kundasang last week, 19th – 20th July 2007. Me and my 2 colleagues went there to present 3 systems for our office management meeting… we brought along quite a number of gadgets… unfortunately there was no internet service out there… well, we are almost at the foot of Mount Kinabalu. We stayed at Zen Garden Cabin & Restaurant. Since there were 3 of us, we took a big room with 3 beds.

Unfortunately, when we entered our room, there were only 2 beds. Worse, no in-house phone service and we don’t know what their phone number is… it was pre-arrange by the secretariat. So, my colleague has to walk downhill to the reception. Then later we found out two of the ceiling light are not working, no shower curtain and no floor mat to dry our feet… later the bath room get wet all over… but we cant be bother with that anymore… we were so tired… what the heck… but I’m not saying the place is bad… it’s actually very nice.

We started our journey from KK around 10am+… I drove my car… and claim for transportation service since I used it to ferry my 2 colleagues and the gadgets. We actually over-shoot the hotel junction which is just next to the Kundasang market ground… we only realize that when we were getting closer to Ranau. At last we made a U turn at almost 9KM to Ranau… wasted about 30KM!!! KK to Kundasang is like almost 100KM… we reach the hotel around 1pm+… just on time for lunch… we walk-in quietly and join the rest for the lunch. The rest arrived yesterday since they have a conference on the first day. Our presentation is on the second day around 2pm… that’s why we only come today. . . . Continue Reading »