A CCIE Widow’s Request

CCIE # 5804 was one of the very few CCIEs in Alaska. I met him at Networkers in 2008 the month before his death. I did not find out about his passing until March of 2009 when a friend and co-worker sent me a message about him after seeing his picture on my blog. I had exchanged emails with him prior to Cisco Live 2008 so when we met I was pleased to make the acquaintance of one of only 4 CCIEs in Alaska that I knew of. After Cisco shut down the NASCAR Grille CCIE party, I hosted a bunch of CCIEs at the Hard Rock Café near there at Universal Studios Orlando. The band Modest Mouse was just finishing their last set for the night and we had a few beers together along with seven or eight other CCIEs. The other guys were from Holland, Texas and a few other places. But Dave and I talked a lot that evening and I am happy now, looking back that I had that chance.

At the end of August 2009 I received this email from Lee Gahm, Dave’s wife;

Dear Eman,
My name is Lee, I am Dave’s wife.  Tonight I spoke with his parents and they told me about what you had written and I looked it up.  I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to share your kind words about Dave.  The proudest day in his life was when he passed his CCIE test.  Actually we were all very proud.  Dave LOVED his job and by what I could tell he was very good at it.  I miss the middle of the night calls from his work..I never understood a single word he said but I was always impressed.  His trips to those conventions were always important to him.  He was proud to be a "techno geek". He was looking forward to the next CCIE gathering as he was going to speak.
I am not ready yet but I will be putting together a memory book for Abby.  I would be grateful if you and some of the others would share some of your memories or stories about Dave with me.  If you have any other pictures too, I would love to have them.  I know his parents would like to see them also.
He truly was doing something that he loved.  I was so fortunate to speak to him the night before and could hear the happiness in his voice.
Sincerely,
Lee

So I am posting this so that anyone who knew CCIE # 5804, Dave Gahm will share in photos or in writing their experiences with Dave. CCIEs have a way of influencing others across borders so I am happy to help Mrs. Gahm and Dave’s parents in gathering what I can through this medium Dave loved so much.

If you have anything you would like to share about Dave Gahm please respond to eman@ccieflyer.com

Thanks

Currently working on a non-technical article that involves CCIE and iPhone … let’s hope I finish it very soon to be submitted.
Study-wise, I am left again with almost stars in my eyes when reading on redistribution and multicast. Probably QoS too but the others are fine ;-). Let’s see what happens in the next few days.
I will be attending Narbik Kocharian’s CCIE R&S bootcamp from June 1 to June 5 2009. This bootcamp will be hosted by TrainPro Academy situated in Mid Valley Malaysia (their webpage is at http://www.trainpro.com.my/). I will be of course writing a review on the bootcamp after finished attending it as I believe a majority of my time which is from 0900hrs to 2100hrs will be listening to his lecture and catching some sleep in-between and not forgetting lunch or dinner to that matter! I will be staying in a hotel (rather strange to live currently in Malaysia and yet rent a hotel) since I figure that it would be a waste of time for me to actually spend time travelling back and forth to my house instead of spending time on labs ;-).
For those who doesn’t know Narbik, he is a router God. His method of teaching from what I have read and heard involves only the whiteboard or should I say blackboard with chalks. He has a built-in IOS in him and he spits out commands with their options before you can finish typing them! How cool is that??? I am waiting for Navett’s review on his bootcamp since he is taking it in April 2009. You can also find excellent reviews on Narbik’s bootcamp at CCIE Candidate’s webpage and also at EDFNetwork’s webpage (of course there are a few other really cool reviews as well but I seem to forgot since I am typing this by memory). For those who wants to go straight to Narbik’s bootcamp page, please visit http://www.micronicstraining.com/ccie-routing-switching-lab.html and you’ll get more information there. It even comes with hotel accomodation information ;-).

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Error Reporting in Windows XP Annoying?

To disable the feature in Windows XP which tries to send a report to Microsoft every time a program crashes you will have to do this:

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Open Control Panel
Click on Performance and Maintenance.
Click on System.
Then click on the Advanced tab
Click on the error reporting button on the bottom of the windows.
Select Disable error reporting.
Click OK
Click OK

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"Is there any other better way to establish a remote connection using a WAN link without memorizing the public IP?".

Before i answer to this question, let me clarify something first as there are 2 types of ip address which it’s fix ip and dynamic ip packages that provide by our ISP. For the fix ip, the ip address will be permanently assigned to us and it will never change but due to the high pricing, it is not affordable for home users therefore they need to select dynamic ip package which ip address will be randomly assign every time there’s a connection established. But it’s always a problem as we need to know what’s the next ip address whenever there’s a disconnect/reconnect connection happen. Moreover, we will not be able to know what is the ip address when we are far distance away from ours computer.

So, back to the question…. My answer would be "Yes, there’s a solution!" and it would be the dynamic DNS service (www.dyndns.org) which maps a name to an ip address. Just sign up a new account and create a dynamic DNS name that you prefer.

Here are the steps:

Step 1

Step 2

After finish creating the hostname, it’s time to apply the hostname that we created previously into our router DNS setting. Any router will do and you might need to update the router firmware just in case if there’s no setting available. But what if you don’t own a router? No problem… you can actually download the installer from the site which you can then install into your computer and configure the hostname setting into it and here’s the where you can download the tool.

Once you finished download, install the program and configure the settings:

After finished the installation, run the program and follow the steps below: 

And that’s all the steps that you need and the way, it’s totally free of charge service!

Cheers

Edwin