醉仙 - 浪际天崖

iPhone Backup Directories

2010-10-05T05:04:00.001-07:00

LIST OF RECOMMENDED FILE TO BE BACKUP UNDER ANY CONDITION :

Here is the list of folders containing files that can be advantageous to save. If you does not save others then this will do enough.

SMS : Revenue SSH ( Guide ) in the folder / private / var / mobile / Library / SMS and save all the files inside.
Call History : Revenue SSH folder / private / var / mobile / Library / CallHistory call_history.db and save the file.
Password Safari (cookie) : Cookies.plist Save the file in / private / var / mobile / Library / Cookies.
Contact : Revenue SSH folder / private / var / mobile / Library / AddressBook and save files AddressBook.sqlitedb (which will be used for contacts) and AddressBookImages.sqlitedb (which will be used to store the images assigned to contacts). Once restored, simply overwrite the existing files with these.
Private Folder / var / mobile / Library / you can save the contents of everything that interests you maintain, as Mail, Calendar, etc.. Just save all the contents of folders, and then replace it once restored. The system settings are in the folder / private / var / mobile / Library / Preferences.
If you want to save your pictures on your iPhone camera roll (you can do it from My Computer or iPhoto), you can make a backup of the folder / private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE /.
/ Private / var / mobile / Library / YouTube - File relative to the YouTube video player
/ Private / var / mobile / Library / Calendar - calendar data
/ Private / var / mobile / Library / Notes - Notes
/ Private / var / mobile / Library / Mail - the Mail application on file
/ Private / var / mobile / Library / Installer / TrustedSources.plist and PackageSources.plist - Sources installer personal
/ Private / var / mobile / Library / CallHistory - List of calls made / received / missed
/ Private / var / mobile / Library / SummerBoard / Themes - SummerBoard Themes
/ Private / var / mobile / Library / MxTube - Files relating to MxTube
/ Private / var / mobile / Media / MxTube - Videos downloaded from MxTube
/ Private / var / mobile / Media / Dcim - Pictures taken on iPhone
There are obviously many other folders to copy, for different applications on our iPhone at which point everyone is obliged to create a backup of what it deems necessary. In any case, almost all files are in / private / var / mobile / Library or alternatively in / private / var / mobile / Media.
Once you copy these folders on the iPhone soon restored, simply change the file permissions to "777", so that the terminal recognizes them as originals: to change the permissions simply select the folder, right click and go to Properties .
Finally, if you have firmware 1.1.2 or 1.1.1 the list of folders will be in / private / var / root / Library /

Rsync

2010-04-06T08:42:00.001-07:00

rsync -avz /home/petechua/testrsync/ root@192.168.1.7:/private/var/local/pete/testrsync

一念天堂，一念地獄

2010-03-22T20:23:00.001-07:00

一念光明就是佛，一念黑暗就是鬼。

这个心，一念的善，就造天堂的因；一念的恶，会结地狱的果。

升天堂，还是入地狱，这是个值得思考的问题。

宣化上人说："一念光明就是佛，一念黑暗就是鬼。你念念光明就时时都是佛，你念念黑暗就时时都是鬼。所以佛与鬼的分别，就在这一念之间，一念佛，一念鬼；一念天堂，一念地狱，所以这一念之中最要紧。"天堂与地狱只在一念之间，若念天堂，有爱便是天堂；若念地狱，人间处处即炼狱!

一天，信重武士向白隐禅师请教："真有地狱和天堂吗"

"你是做什么的"白隐禅师问。

"我是一名武士。"信重武士答。

"你是一名武士"白隐禅师大声说，"哪个愚蠢主人会要你做他的保镖看你的那张脸简直像一个讨饭的乞丐!"

"你说什么"信重武士热血上涌，伸手要抽腰间的宝剑，他哪受得了这样的讥嘲!

白隐禅师火上浇油："哦，你也有一把宝剑吗你的宝剑太钝了，砍不下我的脑袋。"

信重武士勃然大怒，"哐"地一声抽出了寒光闪闪的利剑，对准了白隐禅师的胸膛。

白隐禅师安然自若地注视着信重武士说："地狱之门由此打开!"

一瞬间信重武士恢复了理智，觉察到自己的冒失无礼，连忙收起宝剑，向白隐鞠躬道歉。

白隐禅师面带微笑地对信重武士说："天堂之门由此敞开!"

大乘佛法常说："是心作佛，是心是佛。"又说："是心是菩萨，是心作菩萨。"你想升天堂入地狱是由你自心一念所造的，你心想升天堂，别人没法拖你下地狱；你要下地狱，别人也无法硬拉你上天堂。

Source - http://fjbbs.fjnet.com/gshi/200907/t20090703_127048.html

Mounting SMB Directory

2009-10-11T19:56:00.000-07:00

sudo apt-get install smbfs smbclient

sudo smbmount //192.168.1.2/Music /home/dbott/music -o username=dbott,password=mysecretpassword,uid=1000,mask=000

Mounting local HDD

2009-08-29T19:22:00.000-07:00

petechua@petechua-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 15G 6.7G 7.4G 48% /
tmpfs 1008M 0 1008M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1008M 264K 1007M 1% /var/run
varlock 1008M 0 1008M 0% /var/lock
udev 1008M 2.9M 1005M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1008M 232K 1007M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1008M 2.0M 1006M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
/dev/sda3 91G 85G 5.7G 94% /media/Data
/dev/sdc1 73G 65G 8.6G 89% /media/USB_70
/dev/sdd1 699G 695G 4.2G 100% /media/FreeAgent Drive
/dev/sdc2 36G 35G 803M 98% /media/New Volume
/dev/sda2 40G 34G 5.3G 87% /media/OS_Install

petechua@petechua-laptop:~$ more /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=925f8684-37f6-4856-9feb-6d448238a1ab / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=fc25ad13-b03a-419e-a784-28e87a07d742 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=2A84E93B84E909E1 /media/Data ntfs-3g auto,users,rw,relatime 0 0
petechua@petechua-laptop:~$

Notable quotes from Epictetus

2009-07-06T19:32:00.000-07:00

Epictetus (Greek: Ἐπίκτητος; ca. 55–ca. 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he lived most of his life and died. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses. Philosophy, he taught, is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline.

- All external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately.
- Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
- Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
- Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.
- If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone.
- Permit nothing to cleave to you that is not your own; nothing to grow to you that may give you agony when it is torn away.

Wireless on MSI Wind(Ubuntu 8.10)

2009-03-16T21:59:00.000-07:00

Luckily, the fix to that problem is pretty easy.

1. As Ubuntu doesn’t have a package of this driver yet, you’re gonna have to fetch it from Debian’s unstable repository. The package is right here, just click any mirror to download.
2. Debian isn’t providing a binary because of the driver’s license, that’s why you got the source code. Install the package by double-clicking on it and then press the install button or whatever you’re supposed to be pressing. Then pop up a terminal and type in sudo aptitude install debhelper module-assistant.
3. Let’s build a binary package of the driver. In the terminal you write sudo m-a a-i rt2860, and module-assistant will do the rest for you.
4. To get online without a reboot, do sudo modprobe rt2860sta next, and you should be able to connect to a network with Network Manager.
5. Let’s make sure the driver module will be loaded again when you’re eventually rebooting, or the next boot after having shut down the netbook. Open your terminal and do sudo gedit /etc/modules, and on the bottom you append a new line with rt2860sta. Then save, and the driver will be forced to load every time during startup.

http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/r/rt2860-source/rt2860-source_1.8.0.0-3_all.deb

Source: http://k.dieplz.net/evolution/2008/11/22/wlan-in-ubuntu-8-10-on-new-msi-wind-u100/

Datsusara (脱サラ)

2009-02-23T04:36:00.000-08:00

Found this term. Fits my life description now!

Datsusara (脱サラ) refers to the act of quitting work as a salaryman and finding a new occupation. The term only refers to those who quit their office job to find a more fulfilling line of work, and not those who were forced to search for a new job after being fired, or quit simply out of boredom. Becoming a stay-at-home dad also does not qualify for this category. Examples of this include becoming a SoHo worker, web designer, farmer, fisherman, traditional artisan, writer, restaurant/store owner, franchiser, and many other occupations.

Datsusara is not an easy option for the salaryman. The new job is often a childhood dream or a momentary inspiration of some sort, and takes a huge amount of time and work to come to fruition. The main danger lies in taking up a profession without the proper knowledge and training; a salaryman seeking to become an organic farmer can unwittingly devastate his first crop because all of his knowledge is based on reading and studying rather than actual hands-on training.

Despite the numerous risks involved, the number of salarymen who quit their jobs has been on the rise since the 1990s. Many of these people only became salarymen because they were told to do so by their childhood environment, and quit after becoming discouraged by the nature of their work. Datsusara can also be seen as a rebound against the stress of schoolwork and university entrance exams, or against corporate hierarchy. Another factor is that improvements in living standards have made it so that one does not necessarily need a set income in order to survive.

Squid

2008-12-17T20:23:00.000-08:00

Squid Basic config

http_port 8080 transparent
acl localnet src 2XX.1XX.1XX.1XX/26 # Wifi

SSH tunnelling

2008-12-17T07:59:00.001-08:00

http://www.ssh.com/support/documentation/online/ssh/winhelp/32/Local_And_Remote_Forwarding.html

无间地狱

2008-11-14T18:22:00.000-08:00

佛曰：「受身无间永远不死，寿长乃无间地狱中之大劫。」

无间道(无间地狱)是《法华经》、《俱舍论》、《玄应音义》等佛经里“avicinar aka“的新译，旧译为“阿鼻地狱“，是佛经故事中八大地狱中最苦的一个，也是民间所谓十八层地狱中最抄底的那一层。凡被打入无间地狱（无间道）的，永无解脱希望，要经受五种无间。第一“时无间“，无时无刻不受罪。第二“空无间“，从头到脚都受罪。第三“罪器无间“，各式各样刑具无所不用。第四“平等无间“，用刑不论男女均无照顾。第五“生死无间“，重复死去无数回还得继续用刑。

Source
http://baike.baidu.com/view/9223.htm

天空

2008-11-02T09:19:00.000-08:00

默默地望着天空发愣,小男孩在想什麽?
小女孩问：“你相信世上有天使吗？”
男孩没说什么，只是默默地望着天空发愣。
小女孩又问:“你为什么总是望着天空发愣呢？”
“有一种怀念的感觉,不知不觉想起天空的云朵...”

真的好想你

2008-11-02T09:08:00.000-08:00

今晚，我真的好想你，你知道吗？
我想告诉你，我早就想告诉你了，想你，已成了我的习惯.
遥远的你啊，是否亦如我想你一般想我，是否亦如我念你一般念我……
我想你了，今晚，我真的好想你！

只有你才能让我留下来。。。

Exim on Debian

2008-10-14T09:19:00.000-07:00

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

竹林七賢

2008-09-02T07:00:00.001-07:00

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (Chinese: 竹林七賢) were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians who came together in the bloody 3rd century CE. Later it has been determined that the group is mostly fictitious; although the individual members all probably have existed, their interconnection is highly suspect, as is their alleged previous court official career. Careers notwithstanding, key members were linked with the "Taoist" Cao Wei; they found their lives to be in danger when the avowedly "Confucian" Jin Dynasty came to power. They wrote taoist poems, poems criticizing the court and the administration and manuals on taoist mysticism and alchemy. It would be a mistake to assume that all members had similar views regarding immortality or politics, however, and while some members tried to negotiate their difficult political positions by self-consciously adopting the roles of ale-fueled jokesters and eccentrics, others eventually capitulated and joined the Jin dynasty (most notably Wang Rong). Although it is unknown how much they personally engaged in Qingtan, they became the subjects of it themselves in the Shishuo Xinyu (Chinese: 世說新語 "New Tales of the World").

As is traditionally depicted, the group wished to escape the intrigues, corruption and stifling atmosphere of court life during the politically fraught Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. They gathered in a bamboo grove near the house of Xi Kang (aka Ji Kang) in Shanyang (now in Henan province) where they enjoyed, and praised in their works, the simple, rustic life. This was contrasted with the politics of court. The Seven Sages stressed the enjoyment of ale, personal freedom, spontaneity and a celebration of nature.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sages_of_the_Bamboo_Grove
http://www.wulin.hk/gls_special/7_hero.htm

遗忘

2008-08-18T20:41:00.000-07:00

想遗忘
又忍不住回想
像流亡
一路跌跌撞撞

Perl Read

2008-07-24T09:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.unix.com.ua/orelly/perl/cookbook/
http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=3&topic=Switch
http://kobesearch.cpan.org/htdocs/perl/Switch.html
http://www.perlmeme.org/howtos/syntax/switch_statements.html
http://www.switch.ch/misc/leinen/snmp/perl/

cisco dhcp

2008-07-17T20:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t39216-cisco-dhcp-amp-nat.html

USB Serial on Ubuntu

2008-07-16T20:41:00.000-07:00

dmesg to check newly plug usb cable
sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0×067b product=0×2303
minicom to turn on

Sourece: http://blog.mypapit.net/2008/05/how-to-use-usb-serial-port-converter-in-ubuntu.html

Cacti stumbling stones

2008-07-16T06:54:00.000-07:00

1) crontab trap
Check other instances of crontab running
- /etc/crontab or
- /etc/cron.d/cacti or
- crontab of user root or
- crontab of user "cactiuser"

2) Actual crontab entry for root
*/5 * * * * php /var/www/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

3) Directory rights
drwxr-xr-x 12 cactiuser apache 4096 Jul 14 23:17 cacti

vi editor notes

2008-06-30T19:09:00.000-07:00

- To jump to the end (last line) of a document:G
- To move to the first line of a document:0G
- This is a special case of the more general command to move to any specific line. To jump to the 3872nd line:3872G

NetScaler Reads

2008-06-24T19:13:00.000-07:00

http://support.citrix.com/product/nsad/v8.0/topic/loadbal/
http://community.citrix.com/display/ae/Configuring+NetScaler+Policies+Training

Ubuntu 8 - Terminal server client: no vnc

2008-06-22T19:09:00.000-07:00

tsclient not having a VNC componet.
Use Synaptic, searched and installed xtightvncviewer.

XP Software

2008-06-21T19:11:00.000-07:00

CompuPic Pro
DAEMON Tools Lite
Nero StartSmart
Spb Mobile DVD
iTunes
XNVIEW

Winlink Manager
screen hunter
Packet Tracer
Fiddler2
MIB Browser
Wireshark
Paros 3.2.13

SecuredCRT
WinSCP
putty
Core FTP

VMware Server
VNC

Ubuntu Softwares

2008-06-21T18:34:00.000-07:00

Transmission
Amarok
SMPlayer
CHM Viewer
Comix
gThumb Image Viewer
Wireshark
Thunderbird

Temp Urls

2008-06-21T18:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.x1949x.com/
http://baggiolee.multiply.com/video/item/35
http://www.bobx.com/dark/
http://www.finjan.com/Content.aspx?id=150
http://www.hankyung.com/autoplus/racingmodel_profile_view.php?no=83&flag=&cmt_page=1&page=157
http://photofreakalvinz.multiply.com/photos/album/103
http://www.new-3lunch.net/index.php
http://icons.apricot.net/
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_10-1/101_dns-infrastructure.html

Cache Objects

2008-06-17T07:28:00.000-07:00

Cacheable objects
• HTTP
– Must have a Last-Modified: tag
– If origin server required HTTP authentication for request, must
have Cache-Control: public tag
– Ideally also has an Expires or Cache-Control: max-age tag
– Content provider decides what header tags to include
• Web servers can auto-generate some tags, such as Last-Modified and Content-
Length, under certain conditions

Non-cacheable objects
• HTTPS, WAIS
• HTTP
– No Last-Modified: tag
– Authenticated objects
– Cache-Control: private, no-cache, and no-store
tags
– URLs with cgi-bin or ? in them
– POST method (form submission)

Thoughts and Peace

2008-06-17T07:05:00.000-07:00

Thoughts
Let’s look at the thoughts for a moment. They arise, and by their own accord they fall away. That is, unless we cling to them. If we allow thoughts to continue their normal span, they will naturally fall away. All thoughts are subject to the universal law of impermanence, anicca.

Peace
Peace has nothing to do with the “I.” It is not “my” peace. As long as you think you own peace — as long as you think, “I like my peace” — then you will not experience peace.

Peace is something that can be felt but not owned. Peace can be experienced when we eliminate our ideas of likes and dislikes about peace.

Map S.E.A

2008-06-09T08:27:00.001-07:00

Map of S.E.A, brings me hope and drive for the future. Where is our starting and ending point? I got a good feeling that this journey will bring new thoughts and discovery to my life.

Need to start planning now. Where to start first?

追思

2008-06-07T20:36:00.001-07:00

追思
古调随风淡做吟
纤眉蹙蹙慢拨琴
摇起江中一浩月
为忆旧时相伴人

Mounting smb drive in Ubuntu with chinese char

2008-05-31T22:48:00.000-07:00

sudo mount //192.168.1.2/torrent$ /home/pete/emule -o username=pete****,password=********,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode

IP Routing and MAC address

2008-05-15T08:54:00.000-07:00

http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.dcom.sys.cisco/msg/1b8aac0039384ff5
================================================================================
:In basic TCP/IP, if a packet is NOT destined for a host on the local
:subnet, it will then send the packet to the default gateway. Here is my
:question, when the host's deems the packet to need routing, what exactly
:does it do to with the packet when it is sent to the router ?

:Does it encapsulate it in a 'routing' packet (for lack of a better term),
:then send it to the router ?

No.

:When the router receives it, does it strip
:the 'routing' packet info, examine it, and then transmit it out onto the
:LAN ?

Not applicable because no such encapsulation is occuring.

:If the router has to send it to another gateway, does it then re-
:encapsulate it in another 'routing' packet ?

No.

When a device (host or router) determines that a packet is not destined
locally, it looks through it's routing tables to find the IP of the
next hop device. The next-hop IP that it finds from this lookup should
be one that the first device does NOT have to be route to (e.g., the
next hop IP is in an IP address range served by one of the interfaces
of the first device.)

The sending device then looks in its ARP tables for that next-hop IP to
see if it knows the MAC address of the next-hop IP: there might be
a static entry for it in the table, or it might recently have looked
it up and still remember what the MAC was. If the sending device does
not know the next-hop IP's MAC address, then the sending device sends
out a broadcast ARP packet with the destination IP filled in; all
devices that receive that ARP packet look into the packet to see if their
IP is there, and the one whose IP it is sends back an ARP reply
containing the MAC address. If the sending device did indeed have to
ARP the IP to locate the MAC address, then the sending device could
buffer the original packet until it gets a reply, or the sending device
could instead drop the original packet: if the protocol was one
that offers reliable transportation (such as TCP) then the original
sender will retransmit the packet, and if the protocol protocol was
not one that offers reliable transportation (such as UDP), then the
router is just exercising the unreliability part of the transport ;-)

So now we're in the state where the sending device knows the next-hop
IP and the MAC address of that next hop. It then takes the packet that
it was working with, and rewrites the destination MAC to be the MAC
of the next hop, and rewrites the source MAC to be it's own MAC address.
It fixes up the checksums on the packet, and dispatches the packet out
the appropriate interface. It does NOT re-write the destination IP!

Now, when you are working with TCP/IP all the time, it's easy to get
into the habit of thinking that devices pay attention to packets that
have their IP address as the destination, but that's really not how
ethernet works. Instead, devices pay attention only to packets which
contain their MAC address as the destination MAC, or else contain
one of the special broadcast or multicast MAC addresses. Thus, the
next-hop device will receive the packet not based upon the IP address
(which might be somewhere on the other side of the world), but based
upon the fact that the sender found the specific MAC address to send
to on the local segment at the level -below- IP addresses. Therefore
when the next-hop device receives the packet, the destination IP
in the packet will still be the ultimate destination IP, not the IP
of the router.

The next-hop device then goes through the whole routing table lookup
sequence, finding the next hop IP to send the packet to, finding the
MAC address of that next hop IP, rewriting the source and destination
MACs, fixing the checksum, and sending on to the next hop.

It all works through a chain of routing devices, each one of which
might not know how to directly reach the destination, but knows
which device that it can talk to directly that it can send the packet
to in order to get the packet further towards it's IP destination.

The reason the source MAC is re-written as well as the destination
MAC is so that the next-hop device knows how to directly send back
replies [such as ICMP Unreachable] without having to go through
the routing table to figure out how to reply.

Further to this: anytime a device needs to reply to a packet for any
reason (e.g., it might be part of a TCP stream that is carrying FTP
traffic and it needs to respond with an ACK), then the device creating
the reply can in theory just blindly copy out the source IP and source
MAC from the packet it is replying to, put those in the destination IP
and destination MAC fields, copy out the destination IP and destination
MAC from the packet it is replying to, put those in the source IP and
source MAC fields, add the data it wants, and then just dispatch the
reply packet *without going through the routing procedure* (as long as
it knows which interface to use.)

Taking this one step further: if you have communication over a local
loop with no routing involved, then the -only- time any IP needs to
be paid attention to is for the very first routing decision that
located the MAC of the destination machine. After that, in theory
the entire rest of the connection could work entirely at the MAC
layer with nonsense IPs (or stealth data transfer ;-0) in the packet
headers. MACs are important for getting traffic where it is really
supposed to go, and the IP is only used to find out what the next
MAC along the line should be. [In practice, unix-type machines
often -do- go through routing for each packet, as the unix networking
control structures usually do not keep track of the interface,
and because routing can change dynamically in the middle of a connection,
and because you don't necessarily want the reply packets to go out
the same interface that the original packets came in.]
--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

Detox the mind

2008-05-08T08:40:00.000-07:00

Excerpt from the book Boundless Healing: Meditation Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body
by Tulku Thondup

http://healing.about.com/od/meditation/a/tthondup.htm

TO FIND TRUE WELL-BEING, the best place to look is close to home. We could travel around the globe a hundred times, turning over every stone on earth in the quest for happiness. Yet this would not necessarily give us what we seek. Money does not necessarily grant well-being either, nor does a youthful or healthy body. Health and money can help us, of course. But the real source of peace and joy is our minds.

The mind wants to be peaceful; this is really its natural state.
But there are so many distractions and cravings that can obscure our peaceful nature. A characteristic of our time is the speed of our daily lives, especially in the West. Everything is a rush. Meditation can slow us down so that we touch our true nature. Any meditation can help us. The object of our contemplation could be a flower, a religious image, or a positive feeling. Or it could be our own bodies.

One especially rich way to develop a peaceful mind is to meditate upon the body. By doing this, we promote the welfare of our whole being.

Through meditation, we can learn how to encourage our minds to create a feeling of peace in the body. This can be as simple as relaxing and saying to ourselves, "Let my body be calm and peaceful now," and really feeling that this is happening. It is the beginning of meditation -- and of wisdom, too.

This approach is a kind of homecoming. We are reintroducing ourselves to our bodies and establishing a positive connection between mind and body. Quite often, we have a rather strained and distant relationship to our own bodies. We think of the body as unattractive or ugly, or maybe our health is poor. Or else we like the body, cherish it, and foster cravings around it. But even if we cherish the body, we worry that it could be better than it is or that it will get sick or grow old. So we are conflicted and ambivalent. The body is an object of anxiety.

The meditations in this book will help us approach the body with a realistic attitude, accepting it as it is. Then we will practice how to see the body as very peaceful, a body filled with light and warmth. So many mental and physical afflictions are associated with the body, and meditation can help to heat them.

Mind and body are intimately connected, and the relationship of mind to body in meditation is very interesting. When we see the body as peaceful and beautiful, who or what is creating these feelings? The mind is. By creating peaceful feelings in the body, the mind is absorbed in those feelings. So although the body is the object to be healed, it also becomes the means of healing the mind -- which is the ultimate goal of meditation.

When our minds are peaceful in meditation, there is no other mind. Even if the peaceful feeling goes away, we are developing the habit of a peaceful mind. Our minds are becoming accustomed to their true nature. Really, it all comes back to the mind. This is where our true happiness is. The Buddha said:

Mind is the main factor and forerunner of all actions:
Whoever acts or speaks
With a pure thought
Will enjoy happiness as the result.

Like a physician treating a patient, Buddhism deals with mental, emotional, and physical afflictions by diagnosing the cause and treating it.

In this world of ceaseless change, the mind tends to develop a grasping quality and gets attached to all kinds of illusory wants and desires. This is at the root of our suffering. We heal ourselves to the extent that we can release that grasping.

As it was first practiced in the ninth century, Tibetan medicine viewed the body as composed of four elements -- namely, earth, water, fire, and air -- and as having hot and cold temperatures. Western medicine has given us a wonderfully detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the body and how it works, and we can take advantage of this. Yet even today, the ancient Tibetan picture of the body is very useful, both as an aid to meditation and as a way to understand the various qualities of the mind.

According to this view, when the four elements are in balance, we are in our natural healthy state, but when there is disharmony, emotional or physical disease can take root and flourish. The third Dodrupchen writes:

"The ancient masters said that if you do not foster dislike and unhappy thoughts, your mind will not be in turmoil. If your mind is not in turmoil, the air [or energy of your body] will not be disturbed. If the air is not disturbed, other physical elements of your body will not experience disharmony. Harmonious elements [in turn] will help the mind stay free from turmoil. Then the wheel of joy will keep revolving."

The mind is the source of true well-being. So before we get to the guided meditations upon the body later on, we would do well to consider the qualities of the mind and how we can improve our lives.

Alone in battle

2008-01-29T09:02:00.000-08:00

单人做战，回望无友做镇。。。

MYSQL

2007-11-14T22:47:00.000-08:00

Check for mysql packages install
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rpm -qa | grep -i mysql

Remove previous mysql packages
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rpm --nodeps --allmatches -e mysql-3.23.58-16.RHEL3.1

Download & install new packages
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wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-server-community-5.0.45-0.rhel3.i386.rpm/from/http://mysql.oss.eznetsols.org/
wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-client-community-5.0.45-0.rhel3.i386.rpm/from/http://mysql.oss.eznetsols.org/
wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/MySQL-shared-compat-5.0.45-0.rhel3.i386.rpm/from/http://mysql.oss.eznetsols.org/

rpm -ivh MySQL-client-community-5.0.45-0.rhel3.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh MySQL-shared-compat-5.0.45-0.rhel3.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh MySQL-server-community-5.0.45-0.rhel3.i386.rpm

Installing NSCC
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./NSCC_Setup_3.0_35_3.bin -console
chkconfig --add NSCCService

NSCC

2007-11-12T19:09:00.000-08:00

Installing the library
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rpm -iU compat-db-3.3.11-2.i386.rpm --nodeps
cd /lib
ln -s libdb-4.1.so libdb-3.2.so

Host is resolving to correct ip
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[root@cc lib]# vi /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.0.0.180 cc.sn.com.sg cc
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

[root@cc lib]# hostname -i
10.0.0.180

NSCC Setup
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chmod 777 nscc

yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server
./nscc.sh

Things learn today

2007-11-12T02:24:00.001-08:00

Mount new hdd into centos
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /opt

Cacti
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Services
mysqld
httpd

/etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf -> permit ip address range

Oasis found

2007-07-01T02:05:00.000-07:00

Having lived in the concrete jungle for 27 years, I only came to find this Oasis recently. A 10 minutes slow walk, brings me to this sanctuary called AMK park. Located right besides the AMK MRT, it truly amazing to have an asylum of tress and birds singing in the heart of the concrete jungle that we lived in. Spend 3 hours reading my books, writing some stuff, gathering my thoughts for the future, will do this next week again.

One too many beer?

2007-06-24T03:44:00.000-07:00

The drinking session ended last night with 25 bottles of Tiger and 1 bottle of Baron emptied. On a side note, found another nice jap beer - Sapporo.

Remembrances of the past

2007-06-22T11:26:00.000-07:00

We are not only worlds apart, time and space also divides us....
How times flies without ones' knowledge...
Holding onto memories of the past or is it illusions?