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I’m not shortlisted for Backup Administrator interview at GSK? WTF?

To my suprise, I’m not shortlisted for the above position, really shocked to death since I do fulfill all their requirements.

It has past 2 weeks since I go for the first interview with them, which is a language interview and technical interview, I passed all the question flawlessly, it’s my daily job what, of course I know what I am doing. The first section will be language test, some grammar and vocab test, second section will be technical test, which roaming around Netbackup and storage question. I answered all the question with ease, bare in mind I’m not over confident, I know what I was doing because that is my daily routine. Come to third section will be face to face interview with the Technical Manager. A young Chinese guy, probably between 28-30, approached me and we headed to meeting room. I was informed that there will be no video conference with Hiring Manager from UK since that fella got infected by flue, so have to quarantined.

Interview with GlaxoSmithKline – a better quality of life

There have been mass news about GSK hiring new candidates for their IT center, recently launch in Merana Lien Hoe, Tropicana.

For those who dont know what GSK is, you can refer to it here : GlaxoSmithKline

Quoted from GSK website:

“GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is one of the world’s leaders in pharmaceutical research and development with a combination of skills and resources that provide a platform for delivering strong growth in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment

GSK’s mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.

My new ride – Mitsubishi Lancer 2.0 GT

Phew, quite busy with all the projects lately, don’t even have time to post about my new ride.

Well, just 1 week before this year Hari Raya, i managed to get a new ride, not even think twice. My original target was Evo 7, fits with my budget, but due to consideration on age and wear + tear, i decided to back off after several failed attempt on searching the right one.

Sybase Central from Sybase – accessing the world of Veritas DB

Last week, I stumbled upon creating custom report with VBR on one of my customer. I explored inside VBR for custom report wizard, but that does not help me much. The said “custom report wizard” is not so custom, only up to certain parameters where you can create, but not up to your satisfaction level. One downside detected, ok lets move to the next big thing.

Stupid PHP error when you enable automatic update via cPanel

Hello all my friends out there!!

It has been a month since I last wrote here, due to heavy task came in and research that has need to be done, I left this blog for a while, while enabling cPanel to automatically update it’s system software.

Just about 2 weeks ago, when I tried to login to this blog again, then the shit happens, whenever I key in the username and password and click Login, the page will just refresh and nothing happened. I traced into all logs but couldnt find anything, weird. I can still login to my emails and cPanel GUI but not to all my sites, I was wondering what is actually going on.

Vacancy for Helpdesk Analyst Level II

Anyone looking for an IT support job? This evening while I was at clinic getting my medication, I received an SMS from my former boss from VADS (TMNET Contact Center), he is one of my favourite boss since I started working, no racist issue here eventhough he’s Indian, well Mathi, thanks for all that you have done, you have made me a better person

The job is with MNC company, one of the well-known IT support company in Malaysia, for job requirements and detail, you can download the document here;

Moving old Netbackup master server to new master server

Recently, we have a customer who wants to move their master server from old master server to new master server, and also upgrading from 5.0 to 6.5, but for this post, I will only blog about moving servers, not upgrade yet since upgrade is not yet done, we still waiting for the downtime from customer.

The process looks simple, but before that, since there is 2 task involve in here, moving and upgrading, there are prerequisites that needs to be follow to make sure everything is clear on the way;

Officially promoted to Senior Systems Engineer

Hi,

I’ve been busy since 2-3 weeks ago with lots of things – installation, preventive maintenance, research, simulation and user acceptance test – some of my friends even said that I have the “pressured” look, well it’s true, but it’s worth the pain in the ass.

Finally, yesterday afternoon, while I was at Ambank troubleshooting DB2 backup problem, I got an SMS from my colleague saying that new promotion email just came in, but I dont bother at that time, thinking it was for other staff, but then I saw an email from my technical coordinator congratulates me, then I know the email was meant for me.

Veritas Cluster Server Cluster File System – the ironic.

Last Monday, I was at one customer site to perform Veritas Cluster Server – Cluster File System installation. It is a very rare applications used in Malaysia due to functionality and of course, the license price. As far as I know from presales department, the license is quoted based on how many CPU’s inside the server, more you have, the more you have to pay for the license. Most of the time, customers only opt to install High Availability version, not Cluster File System version.

URGENT: Scheduled Downtime Notice

I have just received an email from my host;

“Wednesday, May 27, 2009
10:00 AM to 11:30 PDT (UTC/GMT-7)

Final Scheduled Downtime for Power Upgrades
This is the last outage of our current upgrade schedule. After this upgrade of power, we have no further outages scheduled or anticipated.

What is happening?
Power systems are returning to full UPS battery room power after the incident in March.