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..

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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 

Amazon have been offering FREE Tier service for a year.
You can now grab using your own account without the need to setup an organization first.

You can see the detail of offering at https://aws.amazon.com/free

These are few recipes that I can gather for this purpose.

1. Register your own domain. Point it to a manageable DNS server.
I personally use namecheap. But there are also Free service provider such as Hurricane at https://dns.he.net that offer the similar capability.

2. Once the domain registered and propagated properly.
You should at least able to receive email on this domain by now.

3. Register AWS free tier with your new domain’s email.

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?Everyday is a Blast!
Focus on the process, not the outcome.

Plan for the outcome so that you have the right direction.

Then focus on the process.
At the end of the day..

Upon seeing yourself in the mirror..

Ask yourself : “Did I put my best in today’s effort?”
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Alhamdulillah, finally I got myself to graduate from Master of Science in Computer Science at Uitm shah Alam.

I am glad to be blessed with partner, friends and families around me that being supportive during the difficult time. They bear the ups and downs during the whole period of my study.

Funny thing is, when I was just about to seek for a closure.
The answer from the pro-chancellor speech today just made my day.
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Selamat menyambut tahun baharu Hijrah 1438H.

Semoga tahun baru ini membawa lebih banyak kebaikan dan rahmat kepada anda.

After updating the OSX to the latest one.

My webserver didn’t recognize my previously customized VHOST.
Turn out,the update saved those config as ~previous.
So, I just need to restore it back and it is online again.

Thanks.

nb-namran:/etc/apache2$ diff httpd.conf httpd.conf~previous 
160c160
< #LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_vhost_alias.so
---
> LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_vhost_alias.so
166c166
< #LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
---
> LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
168,169c168,169
< #LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
< #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
---
> LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
> LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
183a184,185
> #User admin
> #Group staff
258c260,261
<     AllowOverride None
---
>     #AllowOverride None
>     AllowOverride All
263a267,269
>     	#Order deny,allow
> 	#Deny from all
> 	#Allow from all
493c499
< #Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
---
> Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
499c505
< #Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
---
> Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
528a535,545
> #
> # uncomment out the below to deal with user agents that deliberately
> # violate open standards by misusing DNT (DNT *must* be a specific
> # end-user choice)
> #
> #<IfModule setenvif_module>
> #BrowserMatch "MSIE 10.0;" bad_DNT
> #</IfModule>
> #<IfModule headers_module>
> #RequestHeader unset DNT env=bad_DNT
> #</IfModule>

after restore the config,you may need to restart the apache2 server with the following command.

apachectl restart

It has been a while since I ever used virtual box for everything.
While it is time consuming to boot it up, and continue where I left since the previous session.
So, I decided to get a dedicated machine just for that purpose.
Enough of the need to “virtualization” for each instance of development, I thought.

So, I bought a mac book at the end of the process.
Surprisingly, I tend to “remote access to old” desktop for some period of time.
So the screen look like as below :

After that’s starting period, started to look around for guides and tips.
This is the OS version.

It need some packages to be installed first before the real work can be performed. 🙂
The first is xcode.

installing..

Once that’s done. then continue with “homebrew”, which is something like “yum” in centos I think.

yeah, my lovely “terminal” is back into action.