Ella Wheeler Wilcox…
Jan 29th
Found online another amongst many, wonderful poem by Ella Wilcox – heres a link to the site, and a link to her wikipedia reference.
Search my tags under life for another excellent poem <or click here> by Ella Wheeler Wilcox l find particularly amazing.
CIRCUMSTANCE
Talk not to me of souls that do conceive Sublime ideals, but,
deterred by Fate And bound by circumstances, sit desolate, And long for heights they never can achieve.
It is not so. That which we most desire, With understanding, we at last obtain, In part or whole.
I hold there is no rain, No deluge, that can quench a heavenly fire.
Show me thy labour, I straightway will name The nature of thy thoughts.
Who bends the bow, And lets the arrow from the strained string go, Strikes somewhere near the object of his aim.
We build our ships from timbers of the brain; With products of the soul we load the hold;
Where lies the blame if they bring back no gold, Or if they spring a leak upon the main?
There is no Fate, no Providence, no Chance, The will is all. So be it thou art pure,
And strong of purpose, thy success is sure; But fools and sluggards prate of circumstance. Yesterdays.
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
London: Gay & Hancock, 1916.
Preventing DNS hijacking by your ISP…
Jan 24th
Here is a link and interesting discuss on doing this if you use comcast. Here is a direct link to their solution webpage. Here is the link to OpenDNS. I’ve always found it annoying when you get redirected to a comcast search control+ad page, or a bing.com page when you mistype a url. This might be great for basic users, but power users would not l suspect like – you type hotmail.com in IE8 and your browser re-directs you to bing.com with hotmail.com as the first search result.! Now you need 2 clicks to simply get to hotmail.com
Movies to see…
Jan 20th
Nexus One – Android 2 – Eclipse
Jan 15th
Decided to revisit Android development due to the release of Google’s Nexus One Phone
Here are my steps so far:
- Download and install Eclipse Development environment from here [eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-win32.zip ]
- Simply extract this to say, c:\eclipse
- Run eclipse
- Install Google’s ADT Plugin for Eclipse from here
- Download and install the SDK from here – in this case – up to Android 2.1, API 7, revision 1
- Extract above and run SDK Setup.exe – l had to to to the settings on the left hand side and check “force http…”, then choose accept all.
Transferring logins and passwords between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008
Jan 15th
This link is very useful and details how to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, on different servers. – Microsoft Knowledge Base: #246133
Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15401
Jan 15th
Got this error a lot when trying to add NT user accounts on a SQL Server 2008 installation that was connected to a Windows 2008R2 server running Active Directory 2008 at Windows 2000 functional level. Same error message appeared when troubleshooting this from a SQL Server 2005 instance in the same server environment.
You’ll keep getting “Windows NT User or group ‘MyDomain\MyUser’ not found. Check the name again. Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15401″
Removing previous Fedora kernels…
Jan 10th
i currently run Fedora 12 with the latest stable kernel update.
Heres the command steps l took to erase the 2 kernels l dont need.
Its always a good idea to have a fall back previous kernel available if needed.
[steve@pegasus Documents]$ su -
Password:
[root@pegasus ~]# uname
Linux
[root@pegasus ~]# uname -a
Linux pegasus 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 21 05:33:33 UTC 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@pegasus ~]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Cleaning up Everything
0 delta-package files removed, by presto
[root@pegasus ~]# uname -r
2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# clear
[root@pegasus ~]# uname -r
2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# yum remove kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.31.5-127.fc12 set to be erased
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Removing:
kernel x86_64 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 installed 98 M
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 1 Package(s)
Reinstall 0 Package(s)
Downgrade 0 Package(s)
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Erasing : kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 1/1
Removed:
kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.31.5-127.fc12
Complete!
[root@pegasus ~]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]# yum remove kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.31.9-174.fc12 set to be erased
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Removing:
kernel x86_64 2.6.31.9-174.fc12 installed 98 M
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 1 Package(s)
Reinstall 0 Package(s)
Downgrade 0 Package(s)
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Erasing : kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 1/1
Removed:
kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.31.9-174.fc12
Complete!
[root@pegasus ~]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
[root@pegasus ~]#
Nexus One…
Jan 5th
Check out the recently announced cool new Google phone – Nexus one. This might be the iPhone killer phone, especially with its apps, 800×480 wvga amoled touch display, gsm support, android os and Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz processor.
Unlocked or with a contract, your best bet for getting it is from t-Mobile, since this phone does not woork on at&t, verizon or sprint frequency band but it supports most common world-wide gsm bands.
Click here for the Nexus One homepage, and here for the technical specifications.
2010
Jan 1st
Wishing you all peace and prosperity this new year!
Check out this New year celebrations video.
Here are a couple of quotes to start the year…
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”
“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”
And finally as Mark Twain said:
“New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”