Quora: What is the best piece of advice given by your PhD supervisor?

An ambicious project takes as much time as a unambicious project. Is that true?

  Read Quote of Dima Ter-Ovanesyan's answer to Graduate School: What is the best piece of advice given by your PhD supervisor? on Quora

RPKI Hands On [1] -- Fetch RPKI database

Fairly easy. Use RSYNC to synchronize all data from 5 RIR databases to the local storage.

The easy BASH script is provided here:
https://gist.github.com/digizeph/5536389#file-fetchrpki-sh

How to be a good PhD student [01]

I "Interviewed" with the senior PhD student in my group. He is graduating soon, and he provides many good insights of what a good researcher should look like and how can your decide if you are really belongs to this research topic. Here is a draft of summary of what he has told me. I can't write down everything but I do try my best to collect strings from his talk and summarize the best. It is just a draft, and I'd like to see it to be a more mature guide for us new PhD students.