Walking in Light With Christ - hip0's personal blog on System Administration, Free Software, Computer Security and Religion

Praise the Lord and his Holy name for he hears my prayers and grants me peaceful days! The week went fast and without much problems, servers are working smoothly. Of course everything could not be perfect (at least in this life), School Projects are not going well and I don't know anymore what will happen again it's up to God's will. I pretty much feel like Moses being into Egypt with the Israelians and now and then I'm tempted to scream to God just like them: "Why did you bring us here in this desert to let us die", of course the place I'm is hundred thousand million times than a desert but still at a moments the goal and reason of being here fades away and I feel lst and directionless. Then I pray to our Heavenly Father in the name of our Saviour and his Son (Jesus Christ) and wait for God's grace (The Holy Spirit) to confort me and enpower me with his Sourt, to touch me with his caring hand to fill me with his love, to make the ways infront of me straight and of course to Lead me! Today we had a meeting at 10:00 at room (S201) which is a Study room with our company CEO (Joop Vinke). The meeting didn't really help us to understand what we should do on the "Change Management" plan thus we have to experiment and see what will happen, anyhow it seems like the project is not going well form what we've heard from Joop. Later at 14:15 we had Business Ethic classes. I don't know if I mentioned but we have 3! lecturers (teachers) in that classes. Often their behaviour is quite schizophrenic they act like mad mands who went totally out of their minds, at least this is my and some other students impression, it might be they're doing that on purpose, anyways I still don't get the point. We were pleasently surpised by the fact we should have red the 6 textbooks on Business Ethics and be prepared for the test which is in 2 weeks time (it's scheduled for week 7). Ugh ... Today the dinner started at the late 23 o'clock. As we do for a week or so I, Ina, Mimi,Bianka and Kolio gathered and ate the delicious dinner which was prepared by Ina and Bianka. The dinner included stewed Vegatables Meatball Potatoes and a salad of tomatoes with (Bulgarian) Cheese and salad leafs. Oh I forgot to mentionthat when I came back from school I manually laundered my dirty clothes (socks, under-vests, underwear, t-shirts and my pullover). The last few hours I'm reading things online and trying to improve my english. This is one of the reasons I blog such annoying thigngs here

I was able to configure SecureW2's Wireless Internet within ABS (Arnhem Business School) on Linux. By taking some time to experiment. Here is how I did it.
1. You'll need the package wpasupplicant
2. Use wpa_supplicant.conf configuration like this one:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
#fast_reauth=1


network={
         ssid="han"
         scan_ssid=1
         key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
         eap=TTLS
         phase2="auth=PAP"
         identity="your_username"
         password="yoursecretpass"
         priority=100
}

Put the above configuration in let's say /etc/ under the name wpa_supplicant.conf
Create a script han-internet.sh, put the following within the script

#!/bin/sh
# Written by hip0 23.09.2008
# Under GPL v2
# Read it here http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl2.txt

# kill any existing instances of wpa_supplicant or dhclient 
if [[ $(ps ax |grep -i dhclient|grep -v grep) ]]; then
killall -9 dhclient >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

if [[ $(ps ax |grep -i wpa_supplicant|grep -v grep) ]]; then
killall -9 wpa_supplicant >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

# initialize connection to the HAN wireless AP
wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
sleep 5;
dhclient -nw wlan0 >/dev/null 2>&1

If you're a debian user you could configure your machine to connect to your wireless network during boot:
To do this you have to:
Edit /etc/network/interfaces
Add something similar in it:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
pre-down killall -9 wpa_supplicant
pre-down killall -9 dhclient

Don't forget to change your interface name mine is wlan, yours could be different
3. Enjoy your Wireless Internet within the HAN building!
P.S. I configured that on my Debian 4.0 system, but I think t would work with any other Linux/BSD system out there

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I was googling around and stucked upon this interesting website which explains everything you ever wondered about farting I'm reading it right now and have a lot of fun. Apart from this let me tell you few words about how my school is going. Well I'm totally uninterested about the matters we study and at the same time it's a bit difficult for me to catch up everything in the classes. My mind rejects to work properly now and then and when I try to say something I block (fail to remember) certain words. I should be and thankful to God that at least I don't have serious issues with the servers, everything is running smoothly. I should say I miss mothercountry Bulgaria. Today we had Dutch Language and Culture classes and after that Counseling. In this counselling lesson I didn't really liked it like the last time we had 2 weeks ago. I had some problems with HAN Internet Connection in the Hogelschool (the Dutch word for college). Dutch is really hard language to learn .. I even see some fundamental holes in my English which I'm trying to fill in this days. At Thursday we had to gather with my group and we have to work on The Change Management Project, yes I think I still haven't mentioned that here but we're having that module (subject), Change Management. The other disciplines we study are European Integration and Business Ethics. I should say that this business ethic classes are really pissing me off. If I put my business ethics experience in one word the word would be "chaos". What really irritates me is that the teachers here doesn't really teach anything they just share their ideas and point of view and if you didn't comply with their opinion then you're wrong and they're right. Another nasty thing is they want us to accept their personal phylosophies and ideas but if we try to present them ours they're fighting us and not really listening (ignoring us). I got that impression here that there is not really a good systematic approach in going through the subjects, classes are more like (phylisophical discussions) rather than studying theoretical models. Another thing I cannot really accet is that they're stressing too much on the HBDI model. They think that because this model for brain analysis is proofed it might always be used successfully to analyze your mind work (a way of thinking). If wondering what is HBDI read more about it here , also you might be interested to check out this website . An interesting fact is that Microsoft is heavily using that model in their recruitment and selection of personnel. The basic 4 colours used in the model are much used within Microsoft Products and the Google search engine, e.g. take a close look at the Google's s logo it contains that 4 colours (green, yellow, red, blue). To end up this post I have to say I really am homesics, I miss my friends and parents a lot and I'm unpatient to go home. Today it was a hard day for me, I regreted deeply that I didn't choose to stay (transfer in the Hotel Management programme) in the International University College in Dobrich. Now I have to study for 2 more years and I really have problems with my thinking, information I know really mixes and the result is not pretty. I was not productive (efficient) this whole day, I'm really angry at times I cannot do anything right and most of the time here it looks like I'm loosing my time, hope I'm wrong and I'm not loosing my time. At least I have a good possibility to get more proficient in speaking English .. To conclude that post I have to thank God for still taking care for me and giving me so much day by day.

On 16th of September two Bulgarian Girls. Bianka and Diana had a birthday on the same date. Me Ina and a couple of other Bulgarians were invited into Bianka's place. I could say it was a nice birthday party. Typically in a Bulgarian way the most important thing on the party was the food and there was a lot of it. Most of the ppl on the party quite logically were Bulgarians, the two exceptions was two foreigners Maxim (From France) and another girl from Germany. I should say there company was really pleasent. We drinked French white wine (a really sweet one). At the end of the party we singed the so typical and somewhat banal song "Happy Birthday" after which we had a dish full of cake. An interesting thing about this birthday was that there was 3 pieces of cake for everybody :). Today it was a really quite and peaceful day for me for which of course I have to Thank God! Thank you Lord! There is not much to say everything I am and have I owe to God (The Holy Trinity). He is so merceful to me the sinner! Blessed be Oh Holy of Israel! Amen!

Today I laundered my clothes by hand. Pff it's a hard thing to launder by hand. At night we had a dinner and a sort of Bulgarian night. Terrible thing it is I'm more and more convinced that most of the Bulgarians are mindless creatures. Most of them had a real big fun on typically profane Chalga songs like "Doko, Doko", "Guci, Guci" etc. I got really angry at a point and started telling them they're real villagers. Anyways, I'm thinking of changing the stream from HRQM to IBMS. I'm really in a big dilemma what to do again. Pff. I just took a shower and I'm going to bed. Night.

Days go by, day by day. Today we had to hand in two assignments. One for the International Labour Law, our task was to make a valid Expatriate Contract Agreement and the other one was our draft for the Human Resource Environment (HRE) subject + A Management Contract and a filled decision form (the decision firm is required the 1st quarter of the Management Game), that we just started playing. At 10:30 we had our International Labour Law class and we handed in the contract. The teacher told us that we had to exchange our contracts and try to analyze the contract created by the opposite group (I forgot to mention we were doing the projects in groups). We had to analyze a contract made by two other Bulgarian colleagues and Bart (A Dutch guy), we had a lot of fun with that contract since it was really written without any legal terminology and there was lack of meaning in a lot of the sentences. After the classes we spend a lot of time in the canteen first I had to do few other things because they called from the office, right after that I, Christine (an Indonesian) and Matthijas (A Dutch Guy) worked on our Group assignments for the the HRE. We had completed it just about 5:30. And then we came back home to Honigkamp after we went to Alberheijm to get bread. Here at the dormitory I have serious problems with Wireless internet it's quite often I don't have internet at all just like now. Right now I'm in Ina's room and blogging that from her laptop. 30 Minutes ago we had a dinner today we ate a sort of omelette. Probably soon I'll go downstairs on the 1st floor where I live and will read my Change Management textbook. Well that's mostly how my days are passing. From time to time I'm issuing questions to myself asking am I on the right place. Is that the place I have to be, it's only God who knows this answers. The day before yesterday I had really terrible problem with one of the servers I'm responsible I had to issue a reboot request and it was down for like 3.5 hours until it was rebooted I was really scared would the server boot it would be quite a mess if it didn't so I prayed fervently to God to make the machine somehow online. Ater few fervent prayers God did granted the prayer and the server came back online!. Hooray! Hallelujah to The Lord in Heaven! Also I should thank God for giving me food and everything required for my normal living here and especially for giving me joy and Peace. Glory to (The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit)! now and forever and ever Amen!

Today we had nothing in our schedule. So I investigated a bit what is expatriate because we have assignment for the next week. We had to create an blank application form for a real expatriate agreement. The day was pretty normal thanks God. At the morning I felt really bad like sick did my usual 'warming' exercises. Around 11 we had a breakfast with Ina as usual in the kitchen on the 5th floor. upstairs in the cooridor and in the kitchen it was a total mess, there was a birthday party happening there so it looked like a bomb has fallen. Two hours or so I was feeling much much better. At around 3 we went to the university because we had to give a picture which is required for our future student cards at HAN. The studentcards are supposed to be ready in a week or a little less. We spend around 2 hours in the canteen, Ina and her group of three people were discussing how to make their project. For the next week we had to hand in two assignments. In 6 o'clock we went to the so called Theater Sports. In case you wonder what is Theater Sports it is a sort of games which are supposed to develop your artistic and communicating skills. Well this games are really stupid and at the same time fun and educational, we didn't waited for the games to over and during the little break we had. We took our way home, first we went to the food store Alberheim and we got some chicken meat, mushrooms and milk. We got back home and Ina cooked it in a really good way with carrots. At night just after our dinner I spoke over skype with my Mom and Dad, pretty boring eh? Well I hope today it wasn't the next lost day. Although for a moment I really thought so.

There is no much too say except I feel really directionless right now. I don't thing that my HR studies are of any interest to me. I'm so unsuitable for higher educatio, pfff

I woke up, washed my teeth, did my regular morning excersises then Ina came my room and we went out shopping. In Sunday all shops are closed in the netherlands thus the near food store we usually shop from Alberheim is closed too. That's why we moved to the center. We first ate in a place called "Subway", the vegetarenian sort of hamburger costed 2 EU, then we walked through the shops in the center and researched where is what and how the prices vary in the different stores. Ina bought sunglasses, a blouse and ear-rings. We were also happy to find 24 hours opened shop right in the center. It seems that usually in Sunday the only place where the shops are opened is the center. We took some beer and went and stood along a little lake enjoying the swan and the ducks and crows which moved and flewer aroud. Then we catched the way for home looking around for unlocked bikes which we may take (it's common here in the Netherlands to just take unlocked bikes and make them yours even I heard a lot of people leave the old unusused bikes on the street unlocked so you can just take it and use it. On our way home Ina saw left old Zanussi fridge next to a trash bin with a note on it saying something in Dutch containing the Dutch word "wekrt" which literally translated means works. So we hoped the fridge is a working one. We called Koko and Sali to come end help us with the fridge. Then Koko and Sali came and helped us move the fridge to the Honigkamp 2 which is the building of the dormitory I live in. Later I collected the dry laundry and went to take a shower, then I moved to the 5th floor's kitchen (My room is in the 1st floor). Where we gather with Ina for breakfasts, lunch or dinner. It's a common thing the last few days that all the Bulgarians that we live in Honigkamp just gather together with the laptops and listen to a different kinds of music and talking about stuff. Although is's so nice in the Netherlands I'm homesick a little. I also feel like going in no concrete direction. It's a common thing temptations come that tempt me to smoke again. Also a really terrible temptation I face is a one I faced a dozen of times. You know there are some girls that really are my type of girls unfortunately every time I look at that girls I start falling in love. This is just fine the bad thing is that I'm usually too "different", unconventional etc. to fit nice with the girls I like. Day by day I search for truths and I'm not sure I'm able to reach them .. the poor man I'm ehh...