Very important: If you're running outside (or running at all)... get good shoes for your instep, watch how your legs (knees/feet/shins) feel and pay attention to your body. Running can be incredibly hard on the joints and if you haven't been exercising the last things you want are stress fractures, tendon overuse injuries or shin splints. They are uncomfortable.
Personally (since I have some old sports injuries to nurse) a treadmill and TV set up in the house was the best investment I've ever made. Walking at a moderate speed uphill (3.5 mph at a 7 degree incline) is easy to do for the duration of a movie and still rips off over 600 calories / hr.
Also (and its already been said in this thread) you diet is very important. Space out meals and eat 5-6 times a day. Remember that every pound of fat contains 3500 food calories. If you want to drop a pound a week you MUST run a calorie deficit of 500 calories a day. You can do this through exercise, diet, or more effectively a combination of both. I'd reccomend using a simple program or website to track your intake so you know where your calories come from, and hopefully you can find where you're "cheating". Sparkpeople.com and fitday.com are both reasonable choices for free online utilities to do just that.
Weight control is a simple matter of calories in vs. calories out. Though simply adjusting your caloric intake will start a weight loss your BMR will adjust for the new levels of macronutrients and your diet must continually adjust as well. Aerobic exercise will burn the most calories per hour, and resistance exercises will build / tone muscle mass to increase your BMR. Though ANY 1 of these will help control weight, you cannot maintain muscle mass without proper resistance exercise and protien intake. Do all three. If you have the space a "Smith machine" is worth the investment. You can get many more exercises in, with much less risk of injury. I went cheap for my first one http://www.trainersecrets.com/smith_machine/weider_smith_machine.htm + a set of olymipic plates and a set of adjustable dumbells is just about everything you really need. Add in a good treadmill and your total cost is 1 bedroom + $2K
Lastly: As has been said in this thread, motivation is difficult on your own. Thankfully I have my wife to work out with...it is a great way to start and end the day. If you don't have a support system, or someone to keep you going - consider signing up for a gym membership until you've got the habit started and you're happy with your routine.
My 2 cents...YMMV.
Yeah... now if I only knew how to invest in such a company. Anyone know if they are actively traded on any markets? I haven't been able to find out through google.
I was thinking the exact same thing. As a saltwater reef aquarist I've been testing phosphates every few days for years to keep algae (esp. that annoying bubble algae) in check. I don't ever recall reading anything that considered nitrogen (other than nitrogenous waste... which is another issue) to be part of the algeal bloom cycle. As mentioned earlier up in the thread, amateurs aquarists have a ton of products for phosphate removal/sequestering... are these not practical on a large scale?
If I had any mod points left, I'd mod this up....very cool. First I've seen of it. Any idea what the bulb operating temp is? I've used metal-halide systems in my aquariums for years and they get HOT.
The accelerated cooling of galactic systems from reduced interaction with other interspacial energy sources could explain that.
I like this as a thought experiment, among other 'out there' theories it makes interesing conversation on how our observations fit. I can't remember where it came from, but another one of these theories was that our entire observable universe was approaching (or just within) the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. A number of our observations (including an accelerating universe) fit within that model.
You have to add the issuer yourself to the trusted root list....that's what we were talking about I thought? (All of the random ones that other vendors stick in there)
I was under the impression we were discussing the CA and root chains... not the cert itself.
In this case, I have the CA trusted (and was what I meant when I said they started with DoD... the DOD CLASS 3 CAs), which means this cert is doing its job. It is expired, but for me, comes from one of my very few trusted sources. Since I'm intamately familiar with the certificate chain, and request methods --- I'm pretty sure that in this case I can trust the source of the cert.
All of my certificates on this workstation start with DoD... and I had to put them there myself.
Now on my laptop, it's whatever came pre-installed from HP. I may have to have a look at that later...
Any chance of some more details of what you ran into here? I'm getting ready to set up a site (on hosted server space) for a voulenteer organization (this is pro-bono work as I'll be doing the work, paying for the domain and the cost of hosting). I would like to have each chapter have their own subdomain of the main site.
Is it possible for a single JOOMLA installation to run multiple subdomains, or will each need their own install?
Also: does anyone have some good reccomended reading on how to set up a CMS to run in this type of enviornment?
Thanks.
Sorry to reply to a post I already replied to (I'm a bad forum poster), but speaking of GMail, I would love to see the Google apps available offline much like their search appliance / Google Earth server. If I could plug a GMail appliance, GE Server, Search Server & Google Office appliance onto my network, attatch to a SAN and call it a day (minus upgrades, maintenance, etc.) --- that would be very sweet. All the usability of the Google suite, without having to trust Google.
They have improved drastically, and I personally have a mail store of almost 300GB. I'm not your average user, and it was meant as a thought experiment. E-mail is a business commodity just like network bandwidth. As such, can the business justify the NEED for all employees to run P2P networks? Or the NEED for everyone to have 1TB of e-mail? It's a thought experiment, to think about need. We geeks try to do many things just because technology allows it, rather than stopping to think about the cost/benefit, and to answer the question "Why?".
I agree with the argument about shifting the bill. I maintain an entirely different storage solution for my file servers than I do for mail servers, with different degrees of acessibility. The centrilization issue is easily managed by NFS/DFS. My expensive fibre-channel devices don't hold more than active mail stores, which (from our corporate perspective) have no real reason to grow beyond 1GB... the belief here is that e-mail is not the proper distribution (or storage) method for large volumes of data.
PSTs...yeah not great - but across a DFS, not necessarily evil. The cost is shifted to my lower speed, lower availibility devices where archive data belongs. (Again, this is my opinion, based on our network needs) The tradeoff is relatively minimal for functionality/capacity since network usage is for business needs - that's it. We have very well defined regulations on methods, means, and purpose of storage and network use in general. Again, this type of setting breeds itself to the lock-in and interoperability provided with Exchange/Outlook.
Though I can't concurrently access a PST, maintaining them on the DFS (unless they hide e-mail, which isn't really preventable) keeps them logically centrallized.
> 1M users in a well distributed PKI mail enviornment...superb tie in to the other major products use, and unparalled ease of access --- I'm not playing fanboy; but this is the type of enviornment the Exchange/Outlook team were designed to excel in, and this was the primary thought behind my very short previous post. Domino/Notes may scale, but the functionality vs. capability debate is something that has to be determined in individual business cases. Not all cases require that someone is a defensive shill for using a Microsoft product.
Max. message sizes are usually between 5 and 20MB, with mail stores ranging from 20MB-1TB (depending on your position and need). Yeah a bit small - but if you want to move larger files, put them on sharepoint, or in the AD, or one of the myriad of other storage locations rather than tie up the e-mail system (that's the idea anyhow). It saves on someone hitting "reply to all" when there are 500 reciepients of a 10MB attachment.
Well...that's about the best I can do. I'm really a horrible forum poster (suck at lack of linear feedback and hours between posts) - so take it as an example business case where tie-in == good & nothing more.
Just a thought...how many of those people need multi-gigabye online mail stores? An outlook PST on the standard file server can be vitually unlimited in size, as well as keeping the storage cost for mail system down. The DoD manages a million-user exchange forest just fine...it's definately not that it can't be done - it's just more difficult on the administrators. From the user standpoint, however, nothing comes close [IMHO].
And I'd feel compelled to point out that this is due to only 2 related causes.
1.) Uncertainty Principle 2.) Lack of a complete, accurate unified theory [hey, one may not even exist in the universe]
Given an absolute understanding of all mechanics involved, and the exact starting position, velocity, etc. I believe it would be calculable [if there is a stringent set of underlying systems... ala unified theory].
Ignoring for the this argument, that you cannot know the original state QM doesn't prevent these types of calculations persay...we don't currently have a physical theory that can properly account for a deterministic universe, but it can't be discounted either... we don't have any particularly strong theories to discount it.
....not the nation's internet - the agencies' connections. And yes, the DoD has mechanisms and infocon levels for this. Given the proper threat the connection to the internet is unplugged - I'd imagine they would do something similar for the civilian agencies.
If you read the sidebar: http://www.gcn.com/print/27_8/46113-2.html this isn't an experiment. Consolidation is already happening, and is continuing to do so.
If nothing else, the diesel hybrid is already available (not sure about the US)...which has fantastic milaege and still falls in at the very affordable rate.
Sorry to reply to myself, but speaking of affordable electric vehicles... once it's made available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_EV will find it's way into my driveway. I've considered the ForTwo Hybrid - but full electric is just so hawt.
Perhaps not 1200lbs, but I see variations of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Fortwo (1600ish Lbs) (including a 1700lb roadster) on the autobahn everyday. There are even lighter out there, and are reasonably save at autobahn speeds - even moreso for normal commuter driving.
Hope this isn't a double post --- my proxy server is acting wonky today.
I've posted this before, but it works very well for myself and my users. Print out the card and keep it wherever you'd like. I always use the same key(s) for different sites & change all passwords at the same time (typically every 4 months). I get to remember my 'key' forever ("bank for bank, school for school, office for @ work, etc.) and still keep strong passwords. The script is simple, convenient and as long as nobody socially engineers my key words out of me, they'll have a hellava difficult time cracking a password where my 'key' is between 5 and 8 characters. Enjoy: http://www.levii.com/cipher.php [levii.com]
I've posted this before, but it works very well for myself and my users. Print out the card and keep it wherever you'd like. I always use the same key(s) for different sites & change all passwords at the same time (typically every 4 months). I get to remember my 'key' forever ("bank for bank, school for school, office for @ work, etc.) and still keep strong passwords.
The script is simple, convenient and as long as nobody socially engineers my key words out of me, they'll have a hellava difficult time cracking a password where my 'key' is between 5 and 8 characters.
Enjoy:
http://www.levii.com/cipher.php
I'm just curious as to what bank allowed you to open an account without presenting identification in the US? At a minimum it is federally required for FDIC instutuion for taxation.
Also in the US:
(2&3) Typically for municipality services, identification is required to open an account. Not necessarily so if it's a corporation though (definately the minority) - thout they typically will to prevent unauthorized charges to propery owners. (4) Most apartment complexes will require a credit and potentially a backround check to minimize liability. What you encountered by not having to show identification is not the norm.
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Very important: If you're running outside (or running at all) ... get good shoes for your instep, watch how your legs (knees/feet/shins) feel and pay attention to your body. Running can be incredibly hard on the joints and if you haven't been exercising the last things you want are stress fractures, tendon overuse injuries or shin splints. They are uncomfortable.
Personally (since I have some old sports injuries to nurse) a treadmill and TV set up in the house was the best investment I've ever made. Walking at a moderate speed uphill (3.5 mph at a 7 degree incline) is easy to do for the duration of a movie and still rips off over 600 calories / hr.
Also (and its already been said in this thread) you diet is very important. Space out meals and eat 5-6 times a day. Remember that every pound of fat contains 3500 food calories. If you want to drop a pound a week you MUST run a calorie deficit of 500 calories a day. You can do this through exercise, diet, or more effectively a combination of both. I'd reccomend using a simple program or website to track your intake so you know where your calories come from, and hopefully you can find where you're "cheating". Sparkpeople.com and fitday.com are both reasonable choices for free online utilities to do just that.
Weight control is a simple matter of calories in vs. calories out. Though simply adjusting your caloric intake will start a weight loss your BMR will adjust for the new levels of macronutrients and your diet must continually adjust as well. Aerobic exercise will burn the most calories per hour, and resistance exercises will build / tone muscle mass to increase your BMR. Though ANY 1 of these will help control weight, you cannot maintain muscle mass without proper resistance exercise and protien intake. Do all three. If you have the space a "Smith machine" is worth the investment. You can get many more exercises in, with much less risk of injury. I went cheap for my first one http://www.trainersecrets.com/smith_machine/weider_smith_machine.htm + a set of olymipic plates and a set of adjustable dumbells is just about everything you really need. Add in a good treadmill and your total cost is 1 bedroom + $2K
Lastly: As has been said in this thread, motivation is difficult on your own. Thankfully I have my wife to work out with...it is a great way to start and end the day. If you don't have a support system, or someone to keep you going - consider signing up for a gym membership until you've got the habit started and you're happy with your routine.
My 2 cents...YMMV.
Yeah ... now if I only knew how to invest in such a company. Anyone know if they are actively traded on any markets? I haven't been able to find out through google.
I was thinking the exact same thing. As a saltwater reef aquarist I've been testing phosphates every few days for years to keep algae (esp. that annoying bubble algae) in check. I don't ever recall reading anything that considered nitrogen (other than nitrogenous waste ... which is another issue) to be part of the algeal bloom cycle. As mentioned earlier up in the thread, amateurs aquarists have a ton of products for phosphate removal/sequestering ... are these not practical on a large scale?
I'd assume that to be the color temperature though right? 6000K would be awefully hot for something on earth no?
If I had any mod points left, I'd mod this up....very cool. First I've seen of it. Any idea what the bulb operating temp is? I've used metal-halide systems in my aquariums for years and they get HOT.
The accelerated cooling of galactic systems from reduced interaction with other interspacial energy sources could explain that. I like this as a thought experiment, among other 'out there' theories it makes interesing conversation on how our observations fit. I can't remember where it came from, but another one of these theories was that our entire observable universe was approaching (or just within) the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. A number of our observations (including an accelerating universe) fit within that model.
You have to add the issuer yourself to the trusted root list....that's what we were talking about I thought? (All of the random ones that other vendors stick in there)
I was under the impression we were discussing the CA and root chains ... not the cert itself.
In this case, I have the CA trusted (and was what I meant when I said they started with DoD ... the DOD CLASS 3 CAs), which means this cert is doing its job. It is expired, but for me, comes from one of my very few trusted sources. Since I'm intamately familiar with the certificate chain, and request methods --- I'm pretty sure that in this case I can trust the source of the cert.
All of my certificates on this workstation start with DoD ... and I had to put them there myself.
Now on my laptop, it's whatever came pre-installed from HP. I may have to have a look at that later...
Any chance of some more details of what you ran into here? I'm getting ready to set up a site (on hosted server space) for a voulenteer organization (this is pro-bono work as I'll be doing the work, paying for the domain and the cost of hosting). I would like to have each chapter have their own subdomain of the main site. Is it possible for a single JOOMLA installation to run multiple subdomains, or will each need their own install? Also: does anyone have some good reccomended reading on how to set up a CMS to run in this type of enviornment? Thanks.
Sorry to reply to a post I already replied to (I'm a bad forum poster), but speaking of GMail, I would love to see the Google apps available offline much like their search appliance / Google Earth server. If I could plug a GMail appliance, GE Server, Search Server & Google Office appliance onto my network, attatch to a SAN and call it a day (minus upgrades, maintenance, etc.) --- that would be very sweet. All the usability of the Google suite, without having to trust Google.
They have improved drastically, and I personally have a mail store of almost 300GB. I'm not your average user, and it was meant as a thought experiment. E-mail is a business commodity just like network bandwidth. As such, can the business justify the NEED for all employees to run P2P networks? Or the NEED for everyone to have 1TB of e-mail? It's a thought experiment, to think about need.
We geeks try to do many things just because technology allows it, rather than stopping to think about the cost/benefit, and to answer the question "Why?".
I agree with the argument about shifting the bill. I maintain an entirely different storage solution for my file servers than I do for mail servers, with different degrees of acessibility. The centrilization issue is easily managed by NFS/DFS. My expensive fibre-channel devices don't hold more than active mail stores, which (from our corporate perspective) have no real reason to grow beyond 1GB ... the belief here is that e-mail is not the proper distribution (or storage) method for large volumes of data.
PSTs...yeah not great - but across a DFS, not necessarily evil. The cost is shifted to my lower speed, lower availibility devices where archive data belongs. (Again, this is my opinion, based on our network needs) The tradeoff is relatively minimal for functionality/capacity since network usage is for business needs - that's it. We have very well defined regulations on methods, means, and purpose of storage and network use in general. Again, this type of setting breeds itself to the lock-in and interoperability provided with Exchange/Outlook.
Though I can't concurrently access a PST, maintaining them on the DFS (unless they hide e-mail, which isn't really preventable) keeps them logically centrallized.
> 1M users in a well distributed PKI mail enviornment...superb tie in to the other major products use, and unparalled ease of access --- I'm not playing fanboy; but this is the type of enviornment the Exchange/Outlook team were designed to excel in, and this was the primary thought behind my very short previous post. Domino/Notes may scale, but the functionality vs. capability debate is something that has to be determined in individual business cases. Not all cases require that someone is a defensive shill for using a Microsoft product.
Max. message sizes are usually between 5 and 20MB, with mail stores ranging from 20MB-1TB (depending on your position and need). Yeah a bit small - but if you want to move larger files, put them on sharepoint, or in the AD, or one of the myriad of other storage locations rather than tie up the e-mail system (that's the idea anyhow). It saves on someone hitting "reply to all" when there are 500 reciepients of a 10MB attachment.
Well...that's about the best I can do. I'm really a horrible forum poster (suck at lack of linear feedback and hours between posts) - so take it as an example business case where tie-in == good & nothing more.
Just a thought...how many of those people need multi-gigabye online mail stores? An outlook PST on the standard file server can be vitually unlimited in size, as well as keeping the storage cost for mail system down. The DoD manages a million-user exchange forest just fine...it's definately not that it can't be done - it's just more difficult on the administrators. From the user standpoint, however, nothing comes close [IMHO].
And I'd feel compelled to point out that this is due to only 2 related causes. ... ala unified theory].
... we don't have any particularly strong theories to discount it.
1.) Uncertainty Principle 2.) Lack of a complete, accurate unified theory [hey, one may not even exist in the universe]
Given an absolute understanding of all mechanics involved, and the exact starting position, velocity, etc. I believe it would be calculable [if there is a stringent set of underlying systems
Ignoring for the this argument, that you cannot know the original state QM doesn't prevent these types of calculations persay...we don't currently have a physical theory that can properly account for a deterministic universe, but it can't be discounted either
....not the nation's internet - the agencies' connections. And yes, the DoD has mechanisms and infocon levels for this. Given the proper threat the connection to the internet is unplugged - I'd imagine they would do something similar for the civilian agencies. If you read the sidebar: http://www.gcn.com/print/27_8/46113-2.html this isn't an experiment. Consolidation is already happening, and is continuing to do so.
If nothing else, the diesel hybrid is already available (not sure about the US)...which has fantastic milaege and still falls in at the very affordable rate.
How'd you figure? 2036 isn't exactly that far off into the future. [Mind you I didn't RTFA so I don't know if 2036 was the right date]
Not quite 100 mile range, but cheap - very cheap. http://www.smart.com/-snm-0164329964-1153205850-0000017610-0000003413-1154020467-enm-is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/mpc-uk-content-Site/en_UK/-/GBP/SVCPresentationPipeline-Start?Page=issite%3A%2F%2Fmpc-uk-Site%2Fmpc-uk.com%2FRootFolder%2Fsmart%2Fsmart_news%2Fsmart_news_2006%2FsmartEV_news.page
Sorry to reply to myself, but speaking of affordable electric vehicles ... once it's made available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_EV will find it's way into my driveway. I've considered the ForTwo Hybrid - but full electric is just so hawt.
Perhaps not 1200lbs, but I see variations of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Fortwo (1600ish Lbs) (including a 1700lb roadster) on the autobahn everyday. There are even lighter out there, and are reasonably save at autobahn speeds - even moreso for normal commuter driving.
Hope this isn't a double post --- my proxy server is acting wonky today. I've posted this before, but it works very well for myself and my users. Print out the card and keep it wherever you'd like. I always use the same key(s) for different sites & change all passwords at the same time (typically every 4 months). I get to remember my 'key' forever ("bank for bank, school for school, office for @ work, etc.) and still keep strong passwords. The script is simple, convenient and as long as nobody socially engineers my key words out of me, they'll have a hellava difficult time cracking a password where my 'key' is between 5 and 8 characters. Enjoy: http://www.levii.com/cipher.php [levii.com]
I've posted this before, but it works very well for myself and my users. Print out the card and keep it wherever you'd like. I always use the same key(s) for different sites & change all passwords at the same time (typically every 4 months). I get to remember my 'key' forever ("bank for bank, school for school, office for @ work, etc.) and still keep strong passwords. The script is simple, convenient and as long as nobody socially engineers my key words out of me, they'll have a hellava difficult time cracking a password where my 'key' is between 5 and 8 characters. Enjoy: http://www.levii.com/cipher.php
I'm just curious as to what bank allowed you to open an account without presenting identification in the US? At a minimum it is federally required for FDIC instutuion for taxation.
Also in the US:
(2&3) Typically for municipality services, identification is required to open an account. Not necessarily so if it's a corporation though (definately the minority) - thout they typically will to prevent unauthorized charges to propery owners.
(4) Most apartment complexes will require a credit and potentially a backround check to minimize liability. What you encountered by not having to show identification is not the norm.
progman.exe and winfile.exe no longer execute in XP (though they were still there in win2K)