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Now, I have a meeting at 10.00 a.m in KL, probably take an hour or more, and then a presentation in Cyberjaya at 2:30 p.m. My office is way down in PJ, and driving back and fourth from PJ to KL to PJ to Cyberjaya isn't an option that I want. So, what should I do/go during that time?

UPDATE: Time is quite easy to kill actually. After having lunch with some friends, I took the liberty to get myself stuck in the jam - there was an accident somewhere along the Sungai Besi highway, and like any kebochi Malaysians, I t o o k m y t i m e t o s l o w d o w n a n d g e t t h e c a r p l a t e s n u m b e r s.

Listening to: Death in Vegas - Hands Around My Throat

Well, the time has come for me to part with all of my favorite books... You can view the list here. They're going cheap. Email me if you are interested. First come first serve.

Listening to: Weezer - Perfect Situation

Lagi more books...

Book now! First come first serve. Email only: mel@ghackinthebox.org

Non-Fiction

1. The Leadership Engine - Noel M. Tichy - HarperBusiness Essentials - RM 15.00
2. The Hacker Crackdown - Bruce Sterling - Bantam Books - RM 10.00
3. Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert T Kiyosaki - Warner Business Books - RM 10.00
4. The Nudist on the Late Shift - Po Bronson - Vintage Books - RM 12.00
5. Looking Backward 2000 - 1887 - Edward Bellamy - Bedford/St Martin's - RM 15.00
6. The Hunt for Bin Laden - Robin Moore - Ballantine Books - RM 10.00
7. Downsize This! - Michael Moore - HarperPerenniel - RM 15.00 SOLD
8. Stupid White Men - Michael Moore - HarperTorch/ReagenBooks - RM 15.00
9. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist - Alexander Berkman - RM 25.00
10. Michael Lewis - The New New Thing - RM 10.00
11. Muhammad Rais Abdul Karim, Nazariah Mohd. Khalid - E-Government in Malaysia - RM 10.00
12. Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil - RM 5.00 SOLD
13. The Official Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Installation Guid - RM 5.00
Fiction

Douglas Coupland - Miss Wyoming - RM 15.00
Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma - RM 5.00
Douglas Coupland - Life After God - RM 15.00 SOLD
Douglas Coupland - Shampoo Planet - RM 10.00 SOLD
Douglas Coupland - Polaroids from the Dead - RM 10.00
Speaking with the Angel - ed. Nick Hornby - RM 12.00
Nick Hornby - How to be Good - RM 10.00
Nick Hornby - About a Boy - RM 10.00
Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch - RM 15.00
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment - RM 7.00
John Updike - Problems - RM 10.00
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things - RM 7.00 SOLD
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - RM 5.00 SOLD
Cathy Coote - Innocents - RM 7.00
Silverfish New Writing 1 - RM 10.00
Silverfish New Writing 2 - RM 10.00
Irvine Welsh - 4 Play - RM 10.00
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting - RM 15.00
Robert Clark Young - One of the Guys - RM 7.00
Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night - RM 5.00
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake - RM 5.00
Shakehisrear - Hamlet Prince of Denmark - RM 10.00
John Yau - Forbidden Entries - RM 20.00
Nora Okja Keller - Comfort Women - RM 7.00

No, I'm not moving out of the country - just relocating. I have a few technical books that I'm selling off. The book's original prices are stated in parentheses.

Books from my Java-software-architect-wannabe days:

1. Struts in Action - Ted Husted et al, Manning Press (RM 136.73)
2. Oracle and Java Development - Bulusu Lakshman, Sams Publishing (RM 106.50)
3. Java Programming with Oracle SQLJ - Jason Price, O'Reilly (RM 140.25)
4. Developing Enterprise Java Applications with J2EE and UML - Ahmed, Umrysh, Addison Wesley (RM 150.00)
5. Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2002 and UML - Terry Quatrani, Addison Wesley (RM 106.50)
6. The Unified Modelling Language User Guide - the 3 UML gurus, Addison Wesley (RM 180.00 - hard cover)

Books from my uni-days (RM 10.00 each)

1. expert C++ - Herbert Schild. Osborne
2. C++ Primer, 3rd ed. - Lippman, Lajoie, Addison Wesley
3. Security in Computing, 2nd. ed - Pflegger, Prentice Hall
4. Operating System Concepts, 5th ed - Silberschatz, Galvin, Addison Wesley

Back when I was a sysadmin-wannabee...

1. Unix Backup & Recovery - Preston, Oreilly (RM 115.90)

Security Books

1. Snort 2.0 - Jay Beale et al, Syngress (RM 151.94)
2. Know Your Enemy - The Honeynet Project, Addison Wesley (RM 105.00)
3. Stealing the Network: How to 0wn the Box - Blackhat, Syngress (RM 151.94)

Condition of Sale:

1. I will sell to those with the best offer, except for the four books from my uni-days.
2. Contact me off-list if you are interested in buying.
3. I will consider book trades.
4. I may decide not to sell some of the books.

Book conditions:

1. Slightly dusty
2. Some technical books are scrawled with notes
3. Most books are 2 - 3 years old (I stopped buying tech. books ever since I decided to become a professional bum)
4. All of the Java and UML related books are in good conditions

Listening to: Nine Inch Nails - All the Love in the World

Here's a quick update on the upcoming HITBSecConf2005, to be held on 26-29th September, at The Westin. Mark the dates all ye hax0r3rz and skrip kiddi0tz. Prepare ye Windows notebook or ye Ubuntu notebookz. Update ye metasploit and ye Nessus. Stock up on ye Dunhills and Marlboros and Salems and Cokes. Refine that 0days and that sploit. Leave your mom, dad, boyfriend, girlfriend, goldfish, cats, dogs, Satrias, Wajas, Kancils and BMX bikez behind. Get a new Orinoco range extender antenna. Work out those fingers! Work it out! Cos, on we is gonna parteeeey this September. Yo! More infoz ---> here

Keynote Speakers:

1. Mikko Hypponen Director of Anti Virus Research, F-Secure Corp.

2. Mark Curphey, Senior Director Consulting, Foundstone, a division of Mcafee

Conference Speakers:

1. Adam Gowdiak

2. Anthony Zboralski (Gaius), Founder, Hackers Emergency Response Team (HERT)

3. Brad Spengler, Founder, GRsecurity

4. Dave Mckay, Independent Security Consultant

5. Emmanuel Gadaix, Founder, Telecom Security Task Force (TSTF)

6. Fabio Ghioni

7. Fabrice Marie, Manager, FMA-RMS

8. Fyodor Yarochkin, Co-Author, X-Probe

9. Jim Geovedi, Information Security Consultant, PT Bellua Asia Pacific

10. Joanna Rutkowska Founder, Invisiblethings.org

11. Jose Nazario, Senior Software Engineer, Arbor Networks

12. Niels Provos, Google

13. Nish Bhalla, VP Consulting Solutions, Security Compass

14. Nitesh Dhanjani, Manager, Ernst & Young

15. Meder Kydyraliev, Co-Author, X-Probe

16. Roberto Preatoni, Founder, Zone-H Defacement Mirror

17. Rohyt Bellani, Director, Redcliff Consulting

18. Rudolph Araujo, Senior Software Security Consultant, Foundstone

19. San, Member, X-Focus China

20. Shreeraj Shah, Director, Net-Square Solutions

21. Swaraj,Suresec UK

22. The grugq, Independent Anti-forensics Researcher

23. Toby Kohlenberg, Senior Information Security Technologist Intel Corp.

24. Zubair Khan, Freelance Network Security Consultant

Listening to: Weezer - Beverly Hills