Eden Earth revisited
1) Intro
We are assisting catastrophic climatic changes.
Myannar under the water. Hundred thousand people died. People cannot receive relief.
Floods, Landslides, tornadoes, drought struck South East Asia (Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Philippines ...).
Other parts of the world are not without in danger.
Starvation is faced by the third World.
Main culprits: Globalization without controls, disastrous industrializations.
Earth needs a moratoire, time to heal herself.
2) Eden rebirth:
I suppose that we should aim our efforts to build outer space cities.
Cities circling the Earth, so the later is not too far.
This way, the most basic nutrients are within the reach.
As far as I know, Earth must be preserved. Without her, humanity is lost.
Why not take the efforts to diminish the green house effects,
let the lands , tamed and wildlife take back its breadth ?
Earth should be the new Eden, unsmeared, the gardens of our very survival.
Easy to say, I know. But what I am sure, Man will be able to achieve this feat,
if he wants it.
3) Idle thinking:
- Construct orbital cities, around the Earth.
- The Sun will furnish most of our needed energy. Nuclear propelled spacecrafts
to Earth: to grow cattles, cereals, vegetables, fisheries...
Back to the stations: Harvests and animal nutrients.
- Special stations aimed at industrial manufacturing.
- Humanity is too numerous ?
Well, make it fifty fifty.
Use the lottery to designate those who will dwell in the spacial cities.
- Who will control ?
Only an international organization could achieve such a project.
Survival for the People and controlled by the People.
Requiem for my Aunt Madeleine Montagnac , née Vo cong tri - March 2008
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem sempiternam.
Dear Aunt, my dearest foster
Rest in Peace with The Lord,
Andrew, brothers and sister,
Grand-Ma', beloved sword,
fending off paths to the light,
fierce, dignity, away from tears.
Your arms cuddled me sweetly,
when I was young, weak by fears,
Tendered, soothed me sweetly.
Beyond space and time,
Your goodness is in my heart.
You, Grand Ma' soothed my hurt.
You, Grand Ma' made me untame'd.
God fearing, consciouseness,
guide my way into wilderness,
when alone, sad, despairing.
Inner strength crash the ring.
Infernal might it be then,
got out the snares, filthy
rot, baseness most of them
your courage shows the way.
When I was by your side, late,
despite sufferance, you smile.
For me, was beautiful mile,
a golden stone to grate.
Prime numbers and geniuses relationship ?
Just a pondering.
As we try to put a name to everything we know of. we do try to quantify its value.
We have sorted off exceptional individuals, by giving superlative, i.e: genius, IQ and more.
I don't know, not yet, if those exceptional individuals, aka geniuses, could be "quantified" as prime numbers.
In some perspective, I can do it quite safely, as long as I define precisely the properties.
Geniuses are humans with particular properties. They came from the common human stock, but have extra properties.
So do prime numbers.
Prime numbers are numbers which can only be divided by 1 (unity) and by itself.
"Ordinary" numbers, other than primes, can be mapped to "ordinary" or "simple" individuals. No pejorative words, here.
Without or missing "ordinary" numbers, no prime number would exist.
By ordinary, I mean that I can be expandable, i.e, by dividing my representative number by some other number, I can be factorized. Well, I am happy with it: Me = OtherMe x OtherMeMe. !
So my questions are manifold:
With such simple definitions, could I make relationships between particular individuals (geniuses) with prime numbers ? And how ?
Intuitively, I would assume that I can map a number (cipher) to each individual ever existed on Earth.
I assume that I would use all the Maths arsenal (in every possible discipline), to debunk and try to predict where and when the next genius would come.
I assume that I would need other Science disciplines, more and more, as I progress in my search.
Would I have time, in addition to my insufficient scientific background, to achieve any thing the like ?
After updates (November 2007) : Repair Gentoo 2006.1 apache2+mysql+php4
Contents:
1) Intro
2) System
3) Repair
a) Update to dev-db/mysql-5.0.44,
b) Update apache2 (2.2.6)
c) Update php4, dev-lang/php-4.4.8_pre20070816
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1) Intro
I first installed the Gentoo 2006.1 at the end of 2006.
After some works done with this release, there was some major changes in release 2007.0.
Cautiously, I did some updating (emerge --upvd world),package by package, where I am "sure" that it won't break anything.
It did break a couple of times.I manage to fix them, with the help of the forii, of course.
The big problems I encountered are when updating apache+mysql+php4 (by the way, I install php5 as well ...).
Of course, some third party packages weren't running anymore.
Well, as I stay for awhile with php4, during these days, my effort was concentrated on ways to debunk the problems.
Confusing stuff at first, now it seems I am able to get things running as before.
This post is a cookbook for myself.
Errors often encountered: the files in the directory, xml_parser_create(), extended module xml
After some updates and reboot: libexpat.so.0 missing;
use ln -s libexpat.so.1 libexpat.so.0;
2) System as it now:
# ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Dec 19 2006 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1
#gcc -v
gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)
"Canonical Hostname localhost.localdomain"
"Listening IP 127.0.0.1"
"Kernel Version 2.6.18-gentoo-r5"
"Distro Name Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9"
"Uptime 3 hours 47 minutes"
and of course, latest emerge --sync .
3) Repair:
Thanks to many forii, I visited.
in /etc/make.conf, add following items:
USE="expat apache2 mysql php xmlrpc,..."
Demask php4 (/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask), because by 2008 it will be debunked.
Add in /etc/portage/package.use
"=dev-lang/php-4* cgi force-cgi-redirect"
"=dev-lang/php-5* apache2"
a) Update to dev-db/mysql-5.0.44,
Run emerge mysql;
Check with mysql client, phpmyadmin didn't work anymore at this moment (missing module xml ...)
b) Update apache2 (2.2.6)
Run emerge apache ;
Run "php-select apache2 php4";
Check: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so ;
Add or modify '-D PHP4' to APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2 ;
Check /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php.conf;
Run /etc/init.d/apache2 (re)start;
Check http://localhost;
Try http://localhost/phpinfo.php, (phpinfo());
if it doesn't display or display in plain test then do c) step;
Warning: At some time, I made "emerge --unmerge apache" and again "emerge apache", if after "/etc/init.d/apache2 (re)start", apache2 is complaining about "error in configuration" and couildn't start, then reduce the APACHE2_OPTS to APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D
PHP4".
If I am doing this (apache2) after step (c), then I should emerging PHP4 again. Minaly because of mod_php
c) Update php4
run:
emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*'
During the compilation, I should see words such as mysql, xml, expat, xml rpc ...
Emerge also php5, to be prepared:
emerge '=dev-lang/php-5*'
Run /etc/init.d/apache2 (re)start
to reload modules ...
Howto Install Fedora core 7 (Fc7) on an external hard disk (Lacie Mobile Hard Drive 160GB 5400rpm USB 2.0)
Content:
1) Intro
2) Install
3) Test
4) Todo
5) Some details
6) Conclusions
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1) Intro
I just decide to buy an external hard drive, because I want to use it as:
- an additional storage; my PC box (Acer Aspire (AMD)) has already two sata hard drives. Those have stabilized OS (Windoze XP, Gentoo, Fedora core 6, Centos 5, Debian).
- to install Linux distros and play with them (aka with bleeding edge packages, hence "unstable" ...).
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- a backup medium
Hopefully, the prices of external hard drives are dwindling down ...
I've got a Lacie Mobile Hard Drive 160GB 5400rpms, usb 2, at a half price.
2) Install:
My sata drives:
/dev/sda -> windows xp.
/dev/sdb -> Linuxes, grub on Centos 5.
My Lacie external hard drive is /dev/sdc , which has FAT preformatted.
- Plug in the Lacie Mobile Hard Drive.
- With a FC7 livecdrom, boot up the PC.
- Press DEL key to enter in the bios:
Put the external hard disk at the first position.
- Choose from FC7 boot menu: "Run from image".
- One or two minutes later, there I am with splash screen, enter the username name fedora.
- Open Gparted utility. Choose the third drive /dev/sdc (Lacie). The whole disk is fat. Unmount the disk (right click on the partition). Resize the fat partition to 40GB. Click Save, several times. Do not heed to the message warnings (disk locked). Click Quit.
- Click on "Install to the hard drive" icon, displayed on the screen.
In the installation screen:
- Choose keyboard layout and al ...
- Choose custom for partitioning.
- Choose the /dev/sdc drive :
Click on the free zone of /dev/sdc (/dev/sdc1 is fat). Click on Edit the mount point "/", type ext3, give the size value (40GB). Primary partition. Click ok.
Click on the free space. Click Edit mount point as swap. Size 4GB.
Click next, fill as asked.
Click off install grub at /dev/sda !!!
Click next till the installation takes place (copying image to ...).
Finish message displayed. That's all.
WARNING: Take note of the LABEL. If necessary, click again on "Install to the hard disk" icon, inside the installation menu, go to custom partitioning, find the /dev/sdc hard drive, click on it and click on "Edit" pull down menu, which will have an item /123 or something similar (beside the /, /home, /usr, etc... !!!
The LABEL name for me is /123.
- Restart the PC. Take off the LiveCD.
- Put back the external hard disk at its last position (BIOS).
- Boot back to the partition where the grub loader is installed (mine is with Centos 5).
- Add the followings lines in grub.conf :
title Fedora Core 7 (/dev/sdc2 - Lacie usb)
root (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/123 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
3) Test:
Reboot the PC.
Choose the FC7.
If I check, the thing is showing that it has /dev/sda as the hard drive mount.
4) Todo:
Grubbing to my external hard disk.
During installation, it stubbornly asks to put the grub on /dev/sda drive. As I am not sure of it, since I am booting precisely from the drive /dev/sda and the drive I am installing FC7 is /dev/sdc. In short, the installation program is correct, cf. the /etc/fstab, it shows that it is installing on drive /dev/sda !. I don't take it for granted, because it does not show any other OS's in addition to FC7, in the usual way...
5) Some details
/etc/fstab:
"LABEL=/123 / ext3 defaults 1 1"
"tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0"
"devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0"
"sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0"
"proc /proc proc defaults 0 0"
"/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0"
"/dev/sda12 swap swap defaults 0 0"
"LABEL=SWAP-sdc3 swap swap defaults 0 0"
6) Conclusions:
The installation from livecd is dirty quick ! around 5 minutes ...
It installs the strict minimum:
Gnome 2.16, Firefox, some usual utilities ...
It is largely enough to sign on to the internet and finish the installation with the new software update program.
With the Lacie external drive, the speed performance of FC7 is quite good, even when executing large programs such as openoffice.
Conspiracy theory - Switzerland is ripe for the ...
The Right extremist party has won the federal elections (October 21st, 2007).
We have to accept this fact.
We are in a democratical and in a free country.
Why and how the Swiss People have come to such a solution ?
I don't know.
But, but. If I am looking back in the recent history, I would say that's logical.
1) We can see that the overall prosperity is coming back, but most of the People do not see an improvement for their own pockets.
2) Who to blame ? Well: preferably the foreigners. It is easier to blame them than to tackle with their own countrymen (aka international or liberal businessmen).
Why ? Because they don't want to do hara-kiri. !
Hell, it's the family !
Follow the logic: If I blame my successful countrymen (my germaine cousins, family's alliances ...), the guys who are very smart in business, who hire foreigners instead of me; If I shout too much at them and even tax on them, they might go abroad. If so, what would happen to me ?
Somewhere, I am jealous and I am ready to take back the job, at the same salary (ie, much lower than I am expecting).
With less foreign workers, undoubtedly, I will have better chance to be hired. Get a decent housing, because, I see many "foreign" families fare better than me...
Simple, isn't it ?
One way to improve my revenue, is to lower my taxes.
How ? well, reduce retirement revenue, reduce public administration expenditures, reduce ... everything.
But do not touch my cousins, my family members, at least those entrepreneurial ones. I need them.
The next steps that I would like to see happen:
- Reduce or just clean up foreign presence.
- Expand my vital space. Why not declare war on France, Germany or even Italia ?
Not Austria, because they share the same view, well at least some some time ago.
- Continue to accept very rich foreigers only. A little exception. Because, our bank system and luxury industry need them, hence my job as well.
Hum... It's "funny" that that kind of reasoning is not new!!
Only take time to analyse who will benefit at the end of the story ...
As it already happened in the past, I won't shout nor underline the possible outcome.
Chut: prepare to shutup or risk retaliation (As in: " We have the means to make you shout HEIL or hell" ?!)
easymoblog - How to add a module with dojo toolkit - Browser Firefox 2
Intro:
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I like easymoblog, albeit it isn't maintained anymore (since 2004).
It is easy to use, and understandably can be modified.
I have taken time to try add a module on the "sidebar".
The result is not what I want, but it is showing something.
See the top of this page, it displays a set of three slideshows (with firefox).
As I have used dojo toolkit to make a slide show on some of my pages, I try to include it in easymoblog.
A word though, it's really a dirty and lazy work done here, sorry.
As I want to see the result quickly ...
I will clean up the module later on ...
Install:
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The directory setup is as follows:
/dojo
/easymoblog
---modules
-----mod_calendar
-----mod_img
a) Download and install dojo toolkit
I suppose that easymoblog has been installed already.
b) Create a easymoblog module:
Take the mod_calendar as a template
Name it as mod_img
Replace the word "calendar" to "img" in every subfile.
Replace the mod_test.php as follows:
The mod_img.php file is the main entry, so its content contains:
Template initialization and a set of print lines in order to
invoke the dojo and the dojo/javascript lines
The modified files can be download here:
Modify the tpl and css to suit.
mod_img-xml.zip
mod_img.css.zip
mod_img.zip
mod_img.tpl.zip
c) Modify the DB table "easymoblog_modules" (Mysql):
Insert a record that contains:
mod_id: 3
mod_name: mod_img
mod_description: SomeText
mod_pos: 3
mod_allowed_pos: sidebar
mod_display_order: 3
Here, I have had only two displayable modules on the sidebar.
d) call http://www.yoursite.com/easymoblog/admin
Go into modules section, there the mod_img should be shown.
Activate the mod_img.
e) To see the result: seems to work only with firefox, so I have to add a few more lines to suit both browsers (IE anf Firefox), in the mod_img.php
http://www.yoursite.com/easymoblog.
Links:
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dojo toolkit
easymoblog
I am up again - With a new look
Hello,
As I have to make some maintenance on my site, I have cleaned up a few things.
I have put a new menu navigation bar. Thanks to:
http://www.alsacreations.fr/
A nice jason shoutbox was setup as well, thanks to:
jquery shoutbox
Among other things, there are quite a lot of examples and tutorials to help one, who really wants to learn and improve her/his skills. Thank you to all of you.
Well, ISP what are you doing ?
Every day, I get surprises !
Followup - After the defacing of my site on 28th July 2007 -Open source
Hi,
Headaches for me.
I believe that you guys are still laughing.
The ISP engineers have found the problem. It's the "dotSomething" program that has been fattacked again.
It's weird, that the same package has been targeted at the anniversary date of the previous problem. The ISP has locked up the site, for safety reason.
Cf. http://www.vocongtri.com/easymoblog-0.5.1/index.php?/20060728
Of course, I did double checked the module with its signature. I don't believe that the nice guys of DotSomething module have done on purpose the mishaving of their work.
My point is: The guilty guys are really jackasses and stupid.
As I am not alone to use the "DotSomething" module, undoubtedly, it's me who was targeted. I have some ideas who could be ...
As I am not working at my ISP, I can't do nothing useful to track you down.
With all the tools at our disposal, it should be easy to know at least the location(s). This to have precise hints.
I am not deterred.
