Ayoi’s

Yeap, August is the month. It seems that my car falls apart in this month. Coincidently that we bought this car also in August last 4 years. I think that my car get this idea to make the month of August every year as the month of pampering. And of cause the “pampering” requires a bucket load of money.

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Yeap, lil bit busy this week. Hmm let me tell you what really consume most of my time either during working hours and at home. Maybe at the end it turns out that I am not that busy at all. But I do feel like I have a lot of things to do..

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Yeap. i’m wearing a new pair of boots for my office shoes. This pair is to replace the one that has been stolen by some idiots at my house. To be honest, I am not that brand conscious kind of guy as I will wear anything that I deem comfy for me. So wifey bought for me a pair of Kenneth Cole’s boot from Reaction Series (whatever that mean). And this boot was flown all the way from New York / Texas to KL (and of cause from wifey’s “so called business connection).

Anyway thanks to wifey, I think this is the best present for this year

not this Brute Force

This is the big question when we try to categorized this type of attacks. Whether this SSH Brute Force attack falls under reconnaissance/scanning/information gathering or already at the exploitation phase which can be categorized as Attempted Unauthorized Access. Some said it should be categorized under Reconnaissance, while others preferred it to be categorized as Attempted Unauthorized Attempt.

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I seldom post any politics related topics in this blog as I am more bipartisan type of guy plus I dun want this blog to be a political blog. But as yesterday, for the first time in Malaysian Political history, a debate session between an opposition political leader and a representative of the government on the issue of fuel hike was held. To be honest, the theme of the debate is about the promise by the opposition coalition that once they assume the federal power then the price of the fuel will be reduced on the next day.

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So guys, I’ll be off to Singapore in couple of days and only be back on the 5th of July 2008. I just dun have any idea whether I might be able to update my blog during my time there. If yes then it would be fine but if not, maybe I can post something once I get back home. Perhaps I might be able to upload some pictures during the SANS training as well.

See you later and wish me luck eh

What else could happen? One of my astro decoder is broken. Last friday there was a sudden blackout in my housing area for few hours. When the situation finally recovered, my old astro decoder decided enuff is enuff and refused to switched on. As a result, I have to replace the broken one (which emplaced at the living room) with the one that I use in the bedroom. Initially I planned to replace it later at the end of the month but as my daughters can’t watch their favourite channel (Disney Playhouse channel that is), they started to quarrel, fighting each other and worse, start to treat their twin brothers as one of the babydolls. In order to prevent any bad things to happen, i’ve decided to sacrifice my Euro 2008 matches (Ok instead of I’m watching 22 men chasing one ball and try to outscore each other for full 90 minutes or more, I barely made the 15th minutes. Hence wifey said I’m not sacrificing anything..)

Btw, how much does it cost to replace that decoder. Mine is the old Nokia one. Yeah the old black one.

And this morning, I just found out that my trusted old boot that I bought before I went to Jeddah last year was stolen (including my Bata working shoe as well). I do pity to that person who stole that pair of boots. I dun think it will worth anything and I dun think it is sell worthy either. I only wear that shoe because of sentimental value (and I am too lazy to get a new one and also waiting for the rite moment - sale)

To be honest, that really spoilt my day today.

Ok, I think I did post something about qemu and the qemu manager at this post, but somehow thanks to my colleague Akram who introduced another virtual machine application that I believe could rival VMWare anytime. This application called SUN xVM Virtual Box.

For a start, this application is free and you can download it from here (not exactly here but the download link will take you to SUN website). The installation is straight forward and to be honest the interface is kind neat and more user friendly compared to vmware.

The only downside is on the networking setup. Not as frustrated as Qemu but not as easy as VMware. But still manageable and I guess you HAVE to read the help file in order to properly setup your virtual machine network. Anyway just like VMware, you can install any type of OS as the guest Operating System.

One thing that makes me hooked with this virtual machine application is compared to VMWare, my guest operating systems (I have FreeBSD 7.0 and Windows 2003 Server) performed pretty well. No sluggishness detected (unlike VMWare) even when I have both of the guest OSes running simultaneously. At least this virtual box managed to assist me on producing my 1st technical write up.

So for time being, I put my VMware on hold and definitely this virtual box will be my main simulation platform.

OK for the fbsd, I have enlightenment installed for fun.

And this is Windows 2003 Server with SP 2

And yes, you can view those guest operating systems in full screen mode.

And no sluggishness detected when I have both of the virtual machines running at the same time