These post are not informative at all. This is more of a reflection of my college life, how I used to think and things that mattered most to me then. So, here are few post worth saving from my other blog...enjoy!
Aggregate
I am going to start doing some house cleaning...well in this case it is more of getting rid of all the other blogs & posts here & there...I am going to aggregate those sites into one, this one.
These post are not informative at all. This is more of a reflection of my college life, how I used to think and things that mattered most to me then. So, here are few post worth saving from my other blog...enjoy!
These post are not informative at all. This is more of a reflection of my college life, how I used to think and things that mattered most to me then. So, here are few post worth saving from my other blog...enjoy!
First Reddit, then FB and on...
Lately, I get a rush of ideas that I wanna blog about. I put all my thoughts together, sometimes even scribble them on a napkin, rest is history. Since starting a family it has been difficult to continue blogging, but then there are things I am able to do now than before.
In order to eliminate all distraction, two years ago I said goodbye to Reddit.com and never looked back. Have thought about giving it a try from time to time, but I am my own demon. I did the same thing about two weeks ago. I hated checking FB 4/5 times a day during work and more once at home. So, finally without any thought/goodbye, I deactivated my account. It was a little weird at first, but now I am simply happy that I did. Instead of wasting time on Facebook, I'd rather focus on three things at the moment:
1. Quality time with my family
2. Certs
3. Running & Guitar
With that said, after some discussion we (me & my wife) realized, there's three stages in a child's life that parent need to help out/ be part of. If we break things down such a way it will only make our own life easy.
1. Feeding (& listening to you):
This happens from the beginning till they are in primary school. Among few other things, focus on what you serve gets eaten. Fruits, vegetable and other foods, the plate must be emptied. Absolutely no other activity while eating which must be on the table. Past weekend, we tried Mexican dinner while watching TV. Both of us, paused the TV and finished our food first.
Imagine telling your kid to focus on study, finish their plate, do their homework...and on and on and...you will end up sounding like a nagging parent. So, focus on one at a time. By the time the kid is in school, he/she knows they must finish everything on their plate.
2. Study (& listening to you):
This is a phase that starts from primary and should last only until they are in middle school. Though our daughter will be 3 soon, my thought is just like food, you need to make sure they must finish their school/home work before anything else. I am a big believer of pushing your kid and let them discover, cherish the exhilaration, beauty of doing something beyond what they are capable of. I use the word "Good Job" very few times, instead I say thank you, sometimes nothing at all. If you use a word too many times, it looses value after a while.
So my daughter takes off her shoe, puts it where it suppose to be in her room, thank you or keep silent. Why keep silent? Because that signals her she is suppose to do this anyway.
3. Character & Other things:
By now hopefully your kid knows few ground rules at home, and listens to you. Now it is time to become not only a mom/dad but also a friend. Spend time with her, listen to her, let her know you guys are always there to give her a shoulder.
Again I am not going to write too much about this stage since I am not there yet as a parent. I do however, always think of these topics focusing on my life, my wife, and other people close to us (which is very few, trust me).
I will end this one with something my father used to tell me when I was in high school: "Son, there's three things that's important in life and in this order:
1. Your health: if you are healthy, you will feel great, happy and you can focus on the other two.
2. Your character: this is what people will judge you by. Your character makes you who you are.
3. Your education: is what will empower your character more.
In order to eliminate all distraction, two years ago I said goodbye to Reddit.com and never looked back. Have thought about giving it a try from time to time, but I am my own demon. I did the same thing about two weeks ago. I hated checking FB 4/5 times a day during work and more once at home. So, finally without any thought/goodbye, I deactivated my account. It was a little weird at first, but now I am simply happy that I did. Instead of wasting time on Facebook, I'd rather focus on three things at the moment:
1. Quality time with my family
2. Certs
3. Running & Guitar
With that said, after some discussion we (me & my wife) realized, there's three stages in a child's life that parent need to help out/ be part of. If we break things down such a way it will only make our own life easy.
1. Feeding (& listening to you):
This happens from the beginning till they are in primary school. Among few other things, focus on what you serve gets eaten. Fruits, vegetable and other foods, the plate must be emptied. Absolutely no other activity while eating which must be on the table. Past weekend, we tried Mexican dinner while watching TV. Both of us, paused the TV and finished our food first.
Imagine telling your kid to focus on study, finish their plate, do their homework...and on and on and...you will end up sounding like a nagging parent. So, focus on one at a time. By the time the kid is in school, he/she knows they must finish everything on their plate.
2. Study (& listening to you):
This is a phase that starts from primary and should last only until they are in middle school. Though our daughter will be 3 soon, my thought is just like food, you need to make sure they must finish their school/home work before anything else. I am a big believer of pushing your kid and let them discover, cherish the exhilaration, beauty of doing something beyond what they are capable of. I use the word "Good Job" very few times, instead I say thank you, sometimes nothing at all. If you use a word too many times, it looses value after a while.
So my daughter takes off her shoe, puts it where it suppose to be in her room, thank you or keep silent. Why keep silent? Because that signals her she is suppose to do this anyway.
3. Character & Other things:
By now hopefully your kid knows few ground rules at home, and listens to you. Now it is time to become not only a mom/dad but also a friend. Spend time with her, listen to her, let her know you guys are always there to give her a shoulder.
Again I am not going to write too much about this stage since I am not there yet as a parent. I do however, always think of these topics focusing on my life, my wife, and other people close to us (which is very few, trust me).
I will end this one with something my father used to tell me when I was in high school: "Son, there's three things that's important in life and in this order:
1. Your health: if you are healthy, you will feel great, happy and you can focus on the other two.
2. Your character: this is what people will judge you by. Your character makes you who you are.
3. Your education: is what will empower your character more.
How can Yahoo Survive??!!
It isn't hard to see the near end of Yahoo (YHOO) . Anyone with doubts, remember Ask.com, excite.com??!!
By re-introduce, a new name, new logo, a new site. Most company/corporation gets really excited to introduce the new feature, new site; I'd suggest Yahoo to build anticipation. And then roll the new site out slowly, part of Yahoo. But soon to be separated.
So what can Yahoo do?! Follow the footstep of Bing, formerly msn search. In the US and in other regions (except for China) Google, Bing and Yahoo still dominates. While there's still time, Yahoo needs to make the move before it's too late.
1. Re-introduce:
By re-introduce, a new name, new logo, a new site. Most company/corporation gets really excited to introduce the new feature, new site; I'd suggest Yahoo to build anticipation. And then roll the new site out slowly, part of Yahoo. But soon to be separated.
2. Simplify:
Here's Google search:
Here's Bing search:
And here's Yahoo search:
So which one is pleasant to look at? Which one are you most likely to use on a daily basis?
3. Integrate:
Integrate the new search engine with now and upcoming toys, gadget. Make it look cool to be part of the new brand. Hell, make it by invite only to begin with (borrowed from Google), which will build a fan base and anticipation. Be super green & totally anti gov, anti corp.
4. Team-up:
Google is the official search engine for Chrome (not only Chromebooks). Yahoo should team-up with Ubuntu to enable searching both online & offline content.
Least of all, trim down Yahoo Mail. It is annoying to see big, flashy ads on the right side of the screen while (if ever) on Yahoo Mail.
Basic Scripting...another day @ work
Basic Scripting: I recently setup a test machine (a thin client to be more specific) for someone keeping user input minimal.
The goal is: the tester will click on a batch file that will start both IE & Wireshark (Custom Profile). Once the tester is done browsing IE, as he/she exits both programs, Wireshark will generate a report for us engineers to analyze. So, lets get started...
Configure Wireshark with a custom Profile:
I wanted to setup few custom ports to analyze while omitting the existing ports on Wireshark. The best way to go about:
Edit -> Configuration Profiles -> New -> Apply. From here, I can setup my custom port & delete any existing port I don't want.
RunWireshark batch file:
cd \
cd Program Files/Wireshark
wireshark -k -p -c 10000 -w C:\Report.pcap
Basically, here first I move to the wireshark directory where the wireshark.exe file is. From there I call on the executable file to start.
-k start capturing
-p turn promiscuous mode off
-c number of packets to capture, thus 10000
-w output the result. Since this is a thin client, I am having to save the .pcap file on the local drive. On a regular machine you'll have to save it somewhere else, especially if the machine is on a domain. Play around.
StartIE batch file:
start iexplore http://www.slickdeals.net
Start Here batch file (The only batch file the tested should execute):
start cmd.exe /c StartIE.bat
start cmd.exe /c RunWireshark.bat
And that's all.
In a Nutshell
I've been busy this last few weeks. Crazy busy. Beside a lot of coding at work, here's some of the things I've been up to.
1. Switched to T-Mobile after being with AT&T for 8+ years. Was I sad to leave?Nope, rather happy. So, got a Samsung Gravity. Awesome phone. Though I had a Droid from my last job, but this Android phone does a pretty awesome too.
2. Bought two HP Touchpad yesterday. One for wify & one for myself (gotta be able to hack one to run Android). So far it's great, but I do want Google Voice (not Skype), Camera functionality to record video, Netflix, Hulu & few other. Need some time to play with it.
3. Have to work over the weekend to push a project through. Unfortunately, won't be able to attend one of my best friends' wedding in Kansas. That really sucks. I'm not amused.
4. Got quite a bit of travel coming upl. First week of September Kansas, the week after Cedar Falls, after that NY??!! Not sure about the NY trip yet. Ticket & Hotel too god damn expensive.
5. Been thinking, as people get older they become more religious? Saw a FB post few days ago, "Which of the favors of your Lords will ye deny?" Ummm...how about hating the Jew, Homosexuals, or beating your wife. To name a few...
HP t5740e & Win 7e
Right now I am in the process of downloading the Win 7e from HP ftp site to evaluate. Once I get that going, I will talk about my opinions & any tweaks I come across.
Here, I simply want to point out the ftp link on HP's site for Win 7e is broken for t5740e. I tried from command prompt, FileZilla and no luck. Until, I tried this little tweak and it seems to work.
Here's the t5740e driver & software download page.
And here's the Win 7e (broken) download link.
From you browser, if you change the ftp to http, the download pops us asking you to either save or run it. So, again this is what the link would look like:
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp53501-54000/sp53736.exe
Until then, happy computing.
I am not your fucking teacher
I know a lot of you take Paul Graham seriously and he had said, for a startup every customer is valuable. No, I am not going to spend the next forty give minutes trying to find that advice. You can either take my word or fuck off.
Thirty minutes into John's house and I've got two thoughts in:
Jump off the second floor window, or
Look the old man in the eye and simply tell him to give me some fucking space.
It's been a little over six months since I went freelance and it has been a great fucking ride. I can talk about the woman who called 1am in the morning asking me to play tennis with her next day, the guy who called me 15 times cuz I refused to work on his computer, or the guy who's been inviting me to his house for dinner in exchange of my service. In these last six months or so, I've ditched four regular customers. That meant regular streams of cash for one phone call. I did make one exception to that, and I will come to that at the end.
For the sake of time, let us simply get on with John here. Ten minutes into his residence/business and he's telling me about the old tech, Shawn.
'Shawn was too BRILLIANT for them and he would just fix things & leave'.
I examine Shawn's work, and so far the guy has done a pretty good job. But John here, wants me to not only fix things, he wants to be in control while I show, tell & explain to him how things work.
Well, I am sorry mister. But I am a tech/geek/nerd, whatever pleases your appetite. You see, I don't work that way. In fact, I ask very detail questions even before taking on any assignment. Not because I am scared, but that way I know what to expect. I tell my clients to make a list. I go through the list, demonstrate my work at the end and ask for any changes. What's that? You didn't get it??!! Here it is in three simple steps:
Give me a list of the things that needs to be done,
At the end, I will demonstrate the solutions to each problems on the list,
If you want any change, for your convenient ass, I will make that change and demonstrate again.
I guess not good enough for John. He is INFURIATED ( in his own word) after I setup his photo printer on the network without showing him or better fucking yet, having him do it himself. I am really sorry, but if you are trying to learn how things work so that way you don't have to call on me next time. You can either google crap yourself or just take a freaking class at your local university. In this instance, it would be a class on networking,Windows 20000 would come in handy too. You get the picture here, I hope. If not, shit.
But instead of jumping off the window, I got out of there. I was suppose to be there for at least six hour, but after three hour, I just couldn't handle it anymore. Of course, I made sure to put things in order, organized, self-explanatory; not for John but for the next unfortunate tech. They kept insisting on me coming back, I simply don't fucking think so. I didn't even pay attention to if they got my name right on the check. I simply wanted out of that place.
Now let's talk about the exception I have made. The only exception I made is an art advisor. Why?
Because she will let me do my things while watching over my shoulder. She won't ask any question while I am fixing an issue on hand. She just wants me to show her what she needs to do to make things work properly and she will take extensive notes. Let me demonstrate with an example:
The art advisor, we will call her Sue, wants all her data backed up to her external drive. I can set up the program Sue bought to perform incremental backup every night automatically. Sue, on the other hand would rather backup data manually, herself. This is where Sue, will give me the time to setup the program while watching over my shoulder and not ask any questions or bother. Let me murmur/talk to myself. At the end, Sue just wants me to show how she can do the manual backup. In this instance, I take great pleasure in explaining how things work and walk her through each step giving her the time to take notes.
So, what is my philosophy here?! Well, life is too short my friend and not every customer/client is fucking worth it.
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