If there is only one thing I can learn from Richard Branson.

It would be “Always cover the bottom line”.
It is a pre-planned exit being put in place,
or at least being thought of earlier,
should the ideal plan goes south for whatever reason.

In his example, should his first flight booking is not able to secure enough passenger to fit the first aircraft he is about to rent.
The deal is OFF, and would NOT need be paying anything at all.

So,no matter how ambitious you’re..
If you’re not able to cover the bottom line you’re pretty much screwed up. If anything, there is always risk, what matters is how do we plan to mitigate them.

The bottom line is what I need to be able to at least fulfil its requirement regardless of how bad the situation turn out to be.

The example is pretty much as simple as being able to pay for the monthly expense for the family while you’re chasing your own dream.

Having said that, I was somehow ended up in a situation where I was stuck between getting enough of traction for business growth and withdrawing enough money from it to support my own monthly expense.

Then at some point, being me, plan and sequencing things maybe not my best trait after all.
I’ve met with multiple occasions of chicken and eggs problem.

For example:

1. in order to get the government sponsored education fund:”MyBrain” to pay for my master degree course.
   At first I needed to get in and enrolled the course first.
   However, to get enrolled into the course successfully,
   I need to pay the entrance fee for certain minimum amount.

So, being stuck in that situation, I call for a help from my friend and get it solved pretty much quickly.
It can be put as just one call away.
Simple? yes. would I like to do it again? no.
Why on earth did I get myself into such situation in the first place?
still pondering upon this. haha

1. To get the business network up and running.
   First you have to gain some reputation before it can provide return with some meaningful output.
   In order to do that, you’ll have to burn some resource to get into the position where it command the right amount of “influence” to buy whatever you’re selling.
   And that require some resource be ready to be spent at first.

However, the tricky part is getting to that level without first being burn-out too quickly. Or avoid being getting too depth of debt while doing it.

again.. “always cover the bottom line” also useful when you’re trying to venture into the new opportunities. Where it might not claim as easy as it seem. You also need to know when to stop and when it is time to keep on going.

As long as the bottom line is covered, you’re will have ONE less thing to worry about. And I think that alone will be able keep you from a LOT of sleepless night away.

p/s : try re-reading this again in next few years to understand why am writing this.

Let’s say you have some server running around the world.
I bet most of it doesn’t really need an GUI to be running all the time.

The least you may need is only a terminal access to it.
Which is sufficient if it is running at runlevel 3.

Here is how you can specify the default runlevel on the CentOS server.
It may save some resource during runtime.

In CentOS default runlevel can be set by editing /etc/inittab
The list of runlevel is as below:

 
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:

Just ensure not to set it to runlevel 6 or 0. Otherwise it would be in rebooting or just halt endlessly.

Once done editing.

kill -HUP 1

that’s it.

Selamat menyambut Awal Muharram 1439H.
Mulakan lembaran baru dibuku baru.

Insya-Allah , ianya kearah yang lebih baik dari tahun lalu.

semoga anda juga terus istiqamah menghadapi apa jua ujian yang melanda.

Salam Maal Hijrah 1439H.

When there is 99 things goes wrong, we tend to think we’re doomed. Haha. That’s what happened most of the time.

#AnakAnakMalaysia

However, my recent event regarding the above make me think otherwise. Eventhough things seem to be upside down, there are all with different priorities. As long as it’s not the most crucial or possibly fatal if fail. it’s gonna be alright anyway. Why?

Let me tell you an example.

let’s say here is the list of things that goes wrong for the day :

1. house messed up
2. laundry not done
3. dishwasher not working
4. washing machine cable got eatean by mice.
5. train having technical problem
6. late to arrive to the office.
7. kids throwing tantrums
8. car cannot even start
9. servers are having error codes that yet to be solved

..

and compared to one thing got right:

1. baby sitter called said baby is doing OK.

so, perspective wise , our perception of things goes wrong may have been thrown out of balance if the above is reversed.

That’s being said, I guess there are way too many reasons to be grateful instead of being the opposite.

thanks for everything.

Fedora 26 has been released.

Head to https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ to get your ISO.

Here is some screenshot from the Live Workstation ISO.

Good news, the SSHD daemon is disabled by default.
Need to manually turn it on to access via SSH. 🙂

The new MRT line from Sungai Buloh to Kajang line started 17 July 2017.

This sign shows which station are reachable from Muzium Negara station.

To get there is a bit tricky look above your head for the signage, it is linked to KLSENTRAL station but need to walk from one to another escalator.

Surprise, the first day, FREE ride only up

to Muzium Negara. it just end at Muzium Negara.

Let’s say we want to reach somewhere at point Z.
And our current location is at A.

Somehow we first must get ourself to point B, then C,D,E,F
and eventually final step, getting from point Y to Z.

If we know we have about 5 years to reach point Z,
would it be reasonable to stuck at being getting from A to B for more than 3.5years. ?

The point is, whatever you plan as your main destination.
Just focus on getting to the next point at one time.

The whole route may be different from one and another.
It may also seem unreachable at one point.
But,what we can do is to focus all our energy on the very next first step.
Eventually we will get moving and stay motivated.
Thus bring us closer to our destination.

I was reminded by someone of the following:
“Mostly of what most people know is not worth knowing.”

Focus on what we values most and filter out the rest.
Just don’t waste our life, our energy, our resources fighting and arguing on trivial matter.

Most of the stuff that matters, are being ignored by most of people.
Be different.

Let’s see you want to download a series of file from somewhere.
Which is having sequential filename.

This can be easily done with a shell script.
such as below:

for i in {1..113} do echo $i done

for i in {1..113} do echo $i done

while am at it, why not make a PDF file out of the images file.
this may require ImageMagick to be installed first.

yum install ImageMagick -y

So, the final script would be something like..

Continue reading this post…

Early in the morning as I walking to the office, I was wondering it would nice for the day if I got latte drink.

Later that day, I went out to have lunch with others.
As the time come, they got latte the in the menu..
Straight-away ordered it without any second thought.

Little that I know, the conversation during that lunch meeting lead to ..
“How many hour do you sleep a day ?”.
The CEO answer was “..about 4 hours a day”

I guess that maybe a new normal for anyone at this position. 🙂
With all the thing on his plate, I don’t think a decent mind would tolerate anything less.
“We got to constantly improving ourself or eventually we became dinasour.”
Coincidentally, those similar wording also come out from our beloved
Prime Minister too.

That’s didn’t stop there.
Eventually after dinner that day, my wife opened up the fridge and give me this.
“…A latte!”

Snapped a photo out of excitement..

posted to fb, later got comment in ‘family WA group’.

.. totally unexpected one:

“whose hand got wrinkles all over ?”

I rest my case for the day.. haha!

While digging into Amazon AWS documentation for HTTPS or SSL setup, I bumped onto the following services from Qualys SSL Labs . Because I wanted to test how secure is the SSL being implemented on my webserver.

It does exactly what it says. Verify and grading the implementation of SSL on webserver.
Here is the output.

Not bad. Thanks to CloudFlare.
References:

1. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/SSL-on-an-instance.html

2. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html