Wiki in plain english

This video is from “Common Craft“

Interesting

Interesting - This can also be used to beat the present food crisis… think about it. At the rate things are going micro farms would be the way out. So if you are living in a suburban area and have a small piece of land there is your chance for survival and sufficiency. Who would then care about oil prices, Dow Jones, TSE and NASDAQ.

Fedora 9 Static IP for Wireless

Fedora 9: How I set up Static IP for my wireless card.

I had been trying to set up a static IP for the wireless card and was not successful until now.
Thought it would be an interesting post for at least some.
This the current configuration.
System > Administration > Services
Network Manager - Service is enabled, Service is running
Network - This service is enabled, This service is running
System > Administration > Network
The following services are selected under general
Activate device when computer starts
Allow all users to enable and disable the device
Statically set IP address
Address 10.0.0.25 ( this is the IP  address you wish to give your wireless card)
Subnet mask 255.0.0.0 ( you have to choose your subnet mask this is just a generic value)
Default gateway address 10.0.0.204 ( This is your router IP address or default gateway address do not use this number it should be the value of your router)
Not selected Set MTU to 1500
Under hardware device
Bind to Mac address is selected and the mac address is indicated
Under wirelEss settings
Mode is Auto
Network name SSID specified and name is indicated(Choose the name of your SSID)
Channel (Select your channel here)
Transmit rate Auto
Key (Enter your Encryption pass code here)

Now right click the network connections and select edit connections
Network Connections will pop up
Select Wireless
Click Add
In the following screen make the following changes
Connection name - I gave it the same name as SSID
Selected Connect automatically
Under Wireless
SSID: Enter the name of your ssid
Mode: Infrastructure
BSSID: Left it blank
MAC address filled in the mac address of my wireless card
MTU enter automatic
Under Wireless Security
Security (I chose WPA and WPA2 Personal - Choose what ever security you have chosen in your wireless router WEP or WPA)
Pass word for your network enter it here
Under IPV4 settings
Method: Select Manual
Address
In address I added the IP address example 10.0.0.25
Netmask 255.0.0.0
Gateway 10.0.0.204 ( my gateway add this is not the real one select the right value which is your router ip address)
DNS servers: Enter the primary and secondary DNS server values one after the other separated by comma and space.
Hit OK and you are all set to go.

Now shut down your computer and restart it.
This is the problem I encountered and I have to do the following every time I want to get connected to the wireless network with a static IP.
The Wireless Network Device is found to be inactive - I have to activate it first by going to
System > Administration > Network and hit activate the wireless ethernet card mine is eth1
Now left click the network manager icon on the top right corner and select your wireless network connection and viola your wireless net work is connected and you are all set to surf with a static IP on your wireless card.

This took a couple of hours and many trials start up and shut downs before I was successful.
At least it works for me now.

The Food Conspiracy

In this age in time “Food Shortage”
I’m appalled by this fiasco.
Which leads me to think of the ramifications.
Some of the interesting facts that can be observed here are.
1. Alcohol is being added to gasoline
2. Alcohol is produced from staple foods
3. Alcohol is becoming relatively cheaper to produce than gasoline at $ 200 a barrel at pre crisis rates
4. Alcohol can also be produced by GM staple foods

This leads to a number of questions.
a. Alcohol is being added to gasoline, is it to make a cleaner fuel or cheaper alternative? The question is, is either true?
b. With hunger not being eradicated from this world even in the 21st century is it a wise choice to use staple foods to run the gas guzzlers?
c. Now that the niche has been created for alcohol use in the automobile industry and it being politically correct we can comfortably rationalize our actions and it becomes OK to create more hungry people in the world. Is this what we want? Or is this what was being strategically planned?
d. So now that you dont have a choice the easiest alternative is to mass produce GM foods and I am sure we will deal with the consequences when we come to it, because now we have a bigger problem at hand and this is a reasonable alteranitive. Is this what we are working towards?
e. Not to mention all the precious rain forests that can now be easily converted into GM farms. We need staple food not only to live but also to drive. Is this what we want to do?

This begs the question isint it time to bring out the alternative technologies for transport….. or time to spent your resources in that direction rather than solving the food crisis that has been engineered and leave the earth barren for the future generations. So golbal warming will now be a lesser threat than we thought of.

Mac Book Air - Parody of Ad

The link has been removed

Earth Day

Earth Day top 10 Actions:
1. Park it - Leave your car at home
2. Shut down - Turn off the lights, computer and TV when they are not in use
3. Where’s the Beef? - Try eating meat free at least one day a week
4. Eat it - Choose foods produced organically, locally and in season
5. Let it Rot - Put a composter in your back yard or use your green bin to reduce household waste
6. Don’t Be Idle - Turn off your car’s engine if stopped for more than 10 seconds
7. Keep Your Eye On The Temp. - Set your thermostat above room temperature in the summer and below room temperature in the winter
8.Bright Ideas - Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs)
9. Don’t Dump It - Blue Box It! - The simple act of recycling has more impact on the environment than the average Canadian thinks.
10. Tell Someone - This is a great opportunity to brag

Link

Fox’s Anger Chart

One of the articles that intrigued me while surfing was the article on anger management for students on education world. It is quite true that the little things that happen in school and the interactions you have with your friends and your teachers leaves you stressed out for the day and sure you are waiting to blow up on some one…. probably this does not happen everyday but what interested me most was the solution. Make a 9 point anger chart.

• Things that make me angry - Column 1
• Why this makes me angry - Column 2
• How can I use anger in positive ways to make me feel better - Column 3

Definitely nailing the facts that trigger anger in itself gives you a sense of accomplishment and control..

The article was by

Ellen R. Delisio

Education World®

Copyright © 2001 Education World

You can read the original article here

Bell sympatico email client set up

Recently I was trying to set up my evolution mail to retrieve my pop mail and smtp for sending my mails. This is what I finally ended up doing to get it up and running.

I had to set up a primary email account with bell sympatico.

This is my user name(email address complete) and the password of the email account is needed for accessing account.

The pop server is pophm.sympatico.ca

Security is SSL encryption which means the port is 995

The smpt server is smtphm.sympatico.ca

Security to use is TLS encryption and the port to use is 25

User name is the primary email address complete “example@sympatico.ca”

And everything worked like a charm.

With evolution make sure you install “spamassasin” to filter your junk mail.

Here is the link to outlook - 6 set up

Safe Surfing….

Safer surfing….
Recently I came across MVP Hosts.
I am sure all of you have been annoyed with those unexpected redirects of your web pages when you least expect. What about those blinking ads on your web mail.
I came across this program which replaces your hosts file and prevents all your redirection. I am sure it is worth the while to try this out.
By replacing your hosts file you can rid your computer of all its redirects to those unwanted sites.
In Windows your hosts file is located in
C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
This can be easily updated / installed by a bat. file you have downloded

In Linux it is located in /etc/hosts.
You can sudo gedit /etc/hosts then copy and paste the file you downloaded.

This is a simple way to rid your computers of spy ware and malicious software.

The MVP Hosts webpage
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Download link
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

Intresting …….

This is a youtube link that I found interesting… on Digital Ethnography