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In this article I explain how I am preparing for the Wireshark WCNA exam. Study resources 1- Laura Chappell’s WCNA Official Study Guide ( here ) This is one of the best certification study guides I’ve ever read in IT. I loved Laura’s writing style. She sounds friendly and relaxed. No dry text. It sounds as if she is blogging not writing a technical book, which is nice. 2- Stevens’ TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol.1, 2nd Edition (here ) Preparing for the Wireshark WCNA exam requires solid TCP/IP knowledge. Unfortunately, this is one of missing points in the official study guide. So I searched the internet for a reliable source for TCP/IP knowledge. Richard Stevens is to me the best TCP/IP teacher that ever lived on Earth. He explains the TCP/IP stack to a T, using Unix. Even though I have a basic Linux experience (yet), I had no big difficulties following along with his examples. I was excited and ashamed at the same time. Ashamed because I graduated as a network engineer...

In Germany there are many opportunities to invest money. But for a Moslem like me, finding a Halal option is not an easy task. After intense Internet searches and countless hours, I stumbled across two companies that seem to offer halal products: INAIA GmbH Halalcheck4u.de The first one specializes in creating gold saving plans. The second one is a sort of personal finance focused company that analyses contracts and guides the customer to Halal alternatives. Here is my experience with both of them. INAIA Gmbh experience After booking a meeting I received a confirmation E-Mail with a link to a Zoom web conference. All details were there. The day of the meeting I found no issue dialing into the call. The voice quality was bad. The financial advisor did not wait a second and asked me to call on my mobile phone. The conversation went on both channels simultaneously: voice went on the phone, and the video presentation on Zoom. Since I have done my research, I was familiar with 75% of the pr...

On my way home I saw a man jogging in a shirt and shorts. It is 3°C outside. He was running the inclined trail going by the pedestrians, whose attention was caught for seconds. I also was a bit surprised to see such a thing in this weather. But soon I regrouped my thoughts. It did not make a sense to me. I do not want to judge this guy of being a pretender or a show-man. But I am not that impressed after all. I only saw him once and I take the same road home everyday and pretty much at the same time. To me, if he were to look really disciplined, then I should have seen him at least two times. It reminded me of my years in Tunisia, when I was jogging each weekend. I used to see a lot of new faces each weekend of spring time. Some of them were young guys “training” their muscles near the bar. I won’t forget that one guy who did pushups with a cigarette in his mouth! But very few faces were familiar from a weekend to another. I only remember one old man, jogging constantl...

If you ever listened to David Goggins in his audio-book, you would have heard about the 40% rule. Basically what it stipulates, is that we operate at our perceived maximum potential which is really no more than 40%. Since I was taking the Goggins model to heart, I started constantly pushing my limit physically. And yesterday, I reached my 40%. I did my shopping, did my Insanity Max 30 workout, took a shower, ate my dinner and started doing research on money investment. I read charts, studies, general financial tips, etc. This continued until around 10:45pm where I got a strong headache and I could not fixate my eyes on anything! I got very dizzy. I could neither stand still, nor sleep. Whenever I tried to lay my head on the pill, I got stronger headaches and a strong sense to vomit. I started breathing deeper. Many images are flipping in a circle around my head. They did not want to stop. I did not want to wake up my spouse. I literally crawled on the floor towards some medicines in ...

That is a translation of “Allahu Akbar”. As a Moslem I do my prayers everyday and I cite this sentence a dozen times in my prayers. But I forget often times what it truly means. I get distracted by life shit. Allah is greater than all the people that hate/hated/will hate me Allah is greater than all the misfortunes that occurred/occur/will occur to me Allah is greater than all the difficulties I have in life I forget sometimes that there is one God above me that designed the whole universe. And I only blame myself for it. I only blame my weakness, my anxiety and frustration at times. How can I forget that? How could I have occupied my mind with fucking stupid shit instead of concentrating on my prayers to Allah? Is it the devil dancing and messing with my thoughts? or is it a lack of confidence? Yes, a lack of confidence, both self confidence and confidence in Allah. Self confidence for me is not projecting a fake image anymore. It is not deepening your voice or moving slowl...

In this month it seems I am starting to invest in myself more than to eat. Also, the Bathroom project time shrank a bit towards the end of the list. Time Tracker October 2020