Ari's life journey

Dear life,
Leased line down? Hehehe... our "all brand new" leased line finally got its bad mark. Well, the bad thing is that it's not the only one that got the bad image, but, me also. My big boss jokingly said to me, "Our leased line always goes up and down all the time?" Hehehe.... I could only give an explanation that this would be very rare from happening again in the future.

Hmmm... who said, "Stress is good" ? I must meet the person and start a long debate about it. Hehehe....

Well, I bought another PC tonight. Pentium Celeron 400Mhz, 64 MB SDRAM, 10 GB Seagate, Intel 810 Motherboard (most economical - hehehe - Vga and sound card on board), 14" GTC Monitor, Network adapter + hub 8 ports 10/100. I need it to practice networking. I decided to put my self seriously into IT and I understand that it needs some amount of investment. I hope I've made the right decision. Besides, I think my parents, especially my father would like to learn computer and internet. Actually, I could use my office's computers to practice networking, I just have to buy some HDDs, but, in order to do this I have to open the casing over and over again, I'm afraid this would cause the computers, especially the memory to be in danger of electrical static charge. Better be safe, right?

Anyway, I will have my 70-210 (Windows 2000 Pro) Examination on Feb 14, 2001. Hehehe... an interesting day to take an exam. I have a secret plan.....

posted by Fajar @ 5:57 AM 0 Comments

Dear life,
I have another invaluable experience today. The story began when I found out that I couldn't send emails using my Outlook, neither could other PCs. Also, when I opened Event Viewer on my server, there were many errors regarding DNS. However, when I told my big boss that our Outlook was having trouble, it turned out that his Outlook was fine, he could send emails. So, I began calling my friends for help. Peter, a friend of mine at Microsoft agreed to give me a hand. Looking into the Event Viewer that I sent him, he concluded that I had several mistakes in setting up my server. Yes, I realized that. But, our network was just fine two days ago. I suspected that our router was causing this, maybe, I needed to adjust some settings or restart my server. So, I restarted my server with a big hope, but, it didn't work out. Our Outlook still couldn't sent internet email. After some time looking into the TCP/IP setting, I wondered, could it be the DNS server's IP? So, I changed the the DNS IP into one of the IPs we have from the ISP, and...... it worked!!! I ran to the server room, there they were, all the emails that I tried to send were coming into my hotmail account. Thank God! Yes!

What a day!

posted by Fajar @ 6:19 AM 0 Comments

Dear life,
Today is another stressful day for me. First, I've just sent a monitor to be repaired with my own money (it's a long story), but then, when it's finished, the windows hang all the time. I think I'll have to format the harddisk tomorrow. And finally, this afternoon, my friend in confirmation division came to me and told me that she couldn't get the process done. I tried to stay calm, I told her to restart her computer and do the process once more. But it's still failed. I begun to become nervous, because if we couldn't get it done, it means we wouldn't be able to send our report to JSX and we would be suspended. A friend of mine from accounting department suggested to repair and compact the database first. We did, but, the error message still the same. However, the process - strangely - successful (with the error message!). Hmm..., we have to contact our program vendor first thing tomorrow morning.

Well, tonight I have an interesting topic to think of that is "Materialistic". I was quite shocked when a friend (she) of mine at the office said to me that it is normal for a woman to be materialistic. Is this what woman nowadays? Well, well. I have to re-think my perception towards man-woman relationship from now on. Hehehe....

Sometimes, I just feel that the stress I have is too much for me to bear. I know God always guides me all the way, but, sometimes I just don't understand why. There were times, where I almost gave up. But, every time, He hand out His hands to help me. Thank you Lord.

posted by Fajar @ 6:27 AM 0 Comments