Dearly departed

I was just having a leisurely bath after returning from the Land and Survey Sarikei office, when I heard that my phone was ringing, three times to be precise and not to forget the two text messages. The first being "Urgent! Joneh Tenat!" and the later, "Ngah Joneh passed away". INALILLAH WA INALILLAHIRAJIUN, my aunt whom I loved dearly had departed from us at aproximately 6PM. My late aunt of whom I remember fondly for making milk coffee, biscuits, raya rendangs and curries, curry puffs, nasi lemak and aplenty of other things, will always remain in memory till the arrival of that particular day.

Expectations...

Ever since I've been coming to work on the January 28th, well things been proceeding rather slowly. A big small step back for humankind (well this particular hu-man). As much I dislike to admit it, I'm actually avoiding the general crowd of acquaintances here in Kuching. Things are proceeding slowly as I've mentioned earlier, but it still has a rather good vibe to it. Even though it does felt as if I never left, but how do you explain that 16 months gap. It does have that surreal tinge to it still though.

Ever since I've been back, I have been able to come upon the following:

1. How bad the flood was in Kuching.
2. How the prices of vegetable had increased 3-fold or more?
3. There's going to be another Starbucks outlet at Jalan Song.
4. How kids can grow up so fast (for those I have not seen in the 16-months period)
5. They've finalled closed off the old SAINS office at 3rd mile (so no more McDonalds after my official visit to that office)
6. Tunku Putra International school is now the Lim Kok Wing institute.
7. Des' blog was featured on CNN.
   
8. There are so many eateries nearby my office, and there's one just next door it's so close I can have teh tarik (kurang manis, thank you very much) sent to my office (it's not that I've done that already)
9. The difference between a want and the need to, and taking the plunge.
   

Voila, think that's that for now.

Installing OpenSSH on Solaris 8

I know, I know, what's Solaris 8 and why not Solaris 10. I've been tasked to familiarize myself with the internal workings of Sun's Solaris operating system.

OpenSSH is an open source version of the SSH or the Secured SHell System. Since I'm going to take the easiest way to install OpenSSH on the Ultra 10 which I have just acquired. I would have to resort to using the binary packages made available on sunfreeware.

The following are the list of steps which I have taken to install OpenSSH (openssh-5.1p1) made available on sunfreeware., before I even began preparing for the installation, it has been mentioned that OpenSSH has the following dependencies:

• zlib-1.2.3
• libgcc-3.4.6 or gcc-3.4.6
• libiconv-1.11
• libintl-3.4.0
• openssl-0.9.8j