It’s week 8 now at Uni, out of 13 weeks in all. The pressure will come in around two weeks, I think. CCNA case study, CCNA practicals, Computer Forenics Project report (80% of my mark), 20% for Computer Forensic presentation, around 30-40% for surviving group attacks from Advanced Network Management (aka GNU Linux server management). All in all, a laid-back semester.
Heading out to Cairns on Saturday. Stoked! Going scuba diving.
I can feel Brizzy getting colder now, as April begins to close. May will be stressful, with assignments and group work. Overall, this semester has been among my easiest. Reminds me of my final year as undergrad in Canada. I took French, Spanish, and Philosophy – what a breeze! Cairns coming up. Promise I’ll post up underwater pics 
I got hired at my old job. I’m very happy for that. They’re happy I came back! Saves them money and time on training, and the off-chance of hiring a ‘lemon’ that quits after 4 weeks. I’ve entered into a Digital Forensics project. I need to develop a tool that will automate some of the labourious tasks involved in digital forensic evidence acquisition. I’ll probably need to brush up on GNU Bash scripting, and PHP.
It’s been very warm here, but not too hot, which I like. Yesterday was a bitch, though, felt like 30°C. Fortunately, today was overcast, and so helped to alleviate some of the scorching.
Previously we have an example on regular expression, but It doesn’t shows the power of square brackets ( [ ] )
Let say you want to search for string fprintf, vprintf and sprintf using grep, usually what you do is
egrep "fprintf|vprintf|sprintf" *.c
You may be ask why don’t just uses the word “printf”? If uses the word printf, it will return all of them but also include printf itself. But in this case i don’t want to grep other printf besides f,v,s printf. Thats the square brackets comes in to lessen your trouble.
egrep "[sfv]printf" *.c
It simply return the result with any character specified in [ ] with word printf concatenated.
The square brackets can be used with other RE symbols, here is another example, let say I want to gets all lists with words start with a character “a to f”, I can do this
egrep "^[a-f]" com-book.txt
It is case sensitive, I want all a to f including the upper case A to F.
egrep "^[a-fA-F]" com-book.txt
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Today, Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service. Many ISPs and 3rd party provider such as OpenDNS snoops around or send traffic to ad servers. However, Google promises not to play with end users and send the exact response his or her computer expects without performing any blocking, filtering, or redirection that may hamper a user’s browsing experience. In other words Google will not hijacking your traffic on non-existent domain name and it will follow strict RFC standard. Thank you NixCraft
Here’s looking at you TELSTRA!
I must say I found openSUSE 11.2 to be a major disappointment. I’ve come to expect better, much better, from Novell. If it weren’t for the stability issues with KDE and relatively poor netbook support this distribution would have been a keeper for me. There really is a lot to like. Perhaps the results will be different for people with different hardware. For me, though, openSUSE 11.2 just doesn’t compare favorably to the other major distributions and I can’t recommend it at this time.
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These are from Barack’s Facebook page. Hope his administration doesn’t mind.
I’m getting totally knocked down by all the shit I have going on over the next 11 days. Nov 7th, I have two exams, one for Network Administration (GNU), and one Cicso CCNA exam. On Nov 5th, I have two Cisco CCNA exams. Nov 3rd, I have a Security exam worth 50% of my grade. On Nov 2nd I have an Advanced Cryptology exam also worth 50%. On October 30th, my Cisco CCNA case study report is due. On October 26th I have a Advanced Cryptology presentation on Enigma. I work Oct 23th, 24th, 25th. Today is Oct 22nd.
Can you do the math?
Strategy:
My strategy is to read one lecture for Crypto and Security every day, for 12 days. This way I have a hope of getting a decent mark on those exams, as they are the ones coming up. A colleague of mine from my UNIX/GNU class wants to start going over some of the sample questions posted on BlackBoard. I had to politely decline as I have no more room on my plate atm. I’ll have some time on Nov4th, and Nov6th to lay out some time for GNU and CCNA.
Opinion:
It isn’t fair. The university should have a “no lectures, presentations, or assignments seven days before first exam” policy. Maybe they do, I’ll have to investigate.
Just bought some of this:
In case any noticed, I haven’t updated in a while. Quick hash of what’s been going on:
- bought tickets to fly back home
- crunch time at Uni, lots of assignments, and little time to do it in
- lots of work, working 9-5 today, and 9-5 again Friday, half day Saturday, and also Sunday
- Too much windows 7 has my brain in knots. Try to Alt + F2 to no avail. No konsole, no
dig, no quick ssh tunneling, no built-in public key encryption support, no symmetric key encryption support, no zypper or yum, no composite window managers, no freedom to copy, modify, and redistribute
- Sister got engaged! Having wedding in foreign country. Will cut costs of wedding my more than 50%.
- Realised the Security is right for me. Takes hard work, dedication, constant learning, and a very delicate fusion of business goals, financial planning, project management, and technological solution to complex problems including data management, security, information availability, information integrity, and data confidentiality
Have a nice day =)
