Configuring Network Setting from Linux Terminal

First set ip address and netmask:
ifconfig eth0 10.62.31.141 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Set gateway:
route add default gw 10.62.31.21

Edit dns:
vi /etc/resolv.conf

Testing dns lookup:
nslookup google.com

Ping to make sure everything is working:
ping google.com

Done.

Another Interview Day

Morning world. Today I will arrange an interview in one of software company in Jakarta, actualy Tangerang. Hmmm... sometime we need to seek another new job. I remember it was around one and a half years ago, when I get my first job offer in Mitrais at Bali. Yeah but Allah Swt decide something different for me. For those One and half years I spent my time working in Jakarta instead. I almost extra boring at several last month. But I stand still. Today I will go to Sigma, one of largest banking IT solution. Most of us have dream to work at large company with hundreds employee. But most of us have a dream to build or lead such large company instead. Have a good day all. I always believe under the sun everything is posible, nothing imposible.

Resignation

Start from the day after tomorrow, I am officialy unemployed. Unemployed by my preferation. About 18 months nice experience. Everything sometime run so fast. It just like just yesterday when I got my first job. Job that is really appropriate with my background and liking. Of course, sometime there are some uncomfortable, preasure, boring that attack while I work. More than that, some of those feeling that made me decide to resign from company. Yeah I need break, and new fresh air, probably at new place.

At the other moment, sometime I contemplate. Is IT really place for me to get money? Actually I am electronic engineer. Partially, because I am supposed to be teachir at SMK. I am bachelor of education. There always a time that I imagine myself to work at telco company as telecommunication engineer. But I have to realize, I was lazy at college. I don't have enough knowledge to be such engineer. So after graduation day, eventhough not too out of the way, I choose IT as my job. I am java developer now, specificaly. Generaly I can say myself as software engineer. I have to admit, maybe java would not life forever. But IT is always demanded everywhere. I code everyday. Read a lot of IT books. Download many new software SDK. Although there are always time I asked myself, Is IT really your own choose? Absolutely I answer, yes. There are always great posibility for every humankind to get success for every field he take. Maybe there successful telco engineer. Great lawyer. Honest policeman, lucky businessman. I have same chance too to be as success as them. Of course the price is to do the best as I can in every single step of work I do. Success is not as narrow of money or wealth. But I believe, I can get them if I want. I just want to stop compalaining everyday and start work and learn unstopable. Thanx Allah, for everything I got.

Oracle sqlplus typing history and typing completion on Linux

Something that annoy me so much when using oracle sqlplus in Linux is unavailability of typing completion and history. When we make some typing mistake, we must retype whole command. We cannot use up or down arrow to call typing history. We also cannot use tab for some completion help. Yeah I know most of people don't type directly on sqlplus. They write the script use some text editor, vi, emacs or notepad. Later they just use sqlplus to call the script. But if there are some people that has made life easier by provide that lack feature we don't have reason to refuse.

Introducing gqlplus a utility which provide typing completion and history to sqlplus. You can download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gqlplus/. Extract the file then do configure and make. The library that I have to provide is ncurses as prerequirement. I just call sudo apt-get install libncurses5. Later I copy the gqlplus folder to my oracle user home directory. I edit .bash_profile file in oracle user home directory and add gqlplus directory to PATH environment variable. After all I just call gqlplus from terminal and I have sqlplus with history and completion support now.

Dynamic Richfaces Menu, MenuItem and Action

I wrote a post about make working dynamic menu use richfaces.

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Facebook Client Messenger on Ubuntu

Since several last weeks, I wonder if there is some facebook messenger for my Ubuntu laptop. Sometime it is feel annoying if I must open browser just to chat with online facebook friend.

First reason why I search such tool is, facebook homepage is little bit heavy. It will waste many bandwidth to open the site, moreover if use limited mobile internet quota that is little bit expensive. Second reason, sometime I don't realize, if some of my friend try chat to me via facebook messenger. For example I focus to other firefox tab. I know too that there will be a kind of sound notifaction if some chat is received. But by using client messenger, the window will pop up. So we will immediate realize, when someone intend to chat with us.

For Windows there are some messenger client that provide facebook protocol. That is not the case with my ubuntu. But I just found pidgin plugin that will provide facebook protocol to Pidgin Internet Messenger. The pludgin can be downloaded here http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/downloads/list. Just double click the .deb file, and we are on the go. Open Accounts --> Manage Accounts and press add button. Next step, I believe is easy to follow. Just try it out.

Pertamina 2009 Recruitment

About last week, I participated in Pertamina 2009 recruitment. Likely, since this year, Pertamina start to leverage IT in their recruitment program. In order to screnning participant, after submission application via website, we have to fill online test. The test consists of verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning test. From the online test result, later, participant who pass, will attend physical test at some venue.

My online test do not passed. From about 15 test at those 3 categories, I have big difficulty answering them. No wonder if finally I can not passed. From there I realize that I really need to learn more. How come if I can only answer 3 question from 15 in numerical test. The other categories is not better.