SPIRITUALITY

Wheresoever one may turn, one finds extreme tension,
anxiety and suspense prevailing everywhere. The root cause
of this universal chaos is restlessness in individual minds.
Man has made tremendous progress in various spheres of life,
but unfortunately has not cared to know anything about
the spirit within and is altogether ignorant about it.
He has unraveled the mysteries of the starry welkin,
sounded the depths of the seas, delved deep into the bowels of the
earth , braved the blinding blizzards of snowy Mount Everest,
and is now out exploring space so as to establish interplanetary
relations, but sad to say, has not found out the mystery of the
human soul within him. He has always ignored the question of
questions and has studiously avoided the vital issues of life
regarding self-knowledge, or the knowledge of the soul, as of no
consequence.

A person may possess all the riches of the world, but if he does
not know anything about his own soul, it all in vain. The ultimate
purpose of all knowledge is that one should know oneself.
A Muslim divine, in this context, pronounces:

"The be-all and end-all of knowledge is but one,
That one may know the real worth of one's soul,
Thou knowest the value of everything else,
But what a folly that thou knowest not thine own value."


---Excerpts from "SPIRITUALITY: What it is?" by Kirpal Singh

A Date

I received this forwarded email from a friend. Very nice...
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After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take

another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said I

love you but I know this other woman loves you and

would love to spend some time with you.

The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my

MOTHER, who has been a widow for 19 years, but the

demands of my work and my three children had made it

possible to visit her only occasionally.

That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner

and a movie.

"What's wrong, are you well," she asked? My mother is

the type of woman who suspects that a late night call

or a surprise invitation is a sign of bad news.

"I thought that it would be pleasant to be with you," I

responded. "Just the two of us."

She thought about it for a moment, and then said, "I

would like that very much."

That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up

I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her house, I

noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our

date. She waited in the door with her coat on. She had

curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had

worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary.

She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an

angel's.

"I told my friends that I was going to go out with my

son, and they were impressed, "she said, as she got

into the car. "They can't wait to hear about our

meeting". We went to a restaurant that, although not

elegant, was very nice and cozy. My mother took my

arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat down,

I had to read the menu. Large print. Half way through

the entries, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting

there staring at me. A nostalgic smile was on her lips.

"It was I who used to have to read the menu when you

were small," she said.

"Then it's time that you relax and let me return the

favor," I responded.

During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation -

nothing extraordinary, but catching up on recent

events of each other's life. We talked so much that we

missed the movie.

As we arrived at her house later, she said, "I'll go

out with you again, but only if you let me invite

you." I agreed.

"How was your dinner date?" asked my wife when I got

home. "Very nice. Much more so than I could have

imagined," I answered.

A few days later, my mother died of a massive heart

attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn't have time to do

anything for her.

Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy

of a restaurant receipt from the same place mother and

I had dined.

An attached note said: "I paid this bill in advance. I

wasn't sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I

paid for two plates - one for you and the other for

your wife. You will never know what that night meant

for me. I love you, son."

At that moment, I understood the importance of saying

in time: "I LOVE YOU!" and to give our loved ones the

time that they deserve. Nothing in life is more

important than God and your family. Give them the

time they deserve, because these things cannot be put

off till "some other time."

Pass this along to everyone with an aging parent, to a

child, to an adult, to anyone with a parent.

Here's hoping today is better than yesterday.

Ubuntu 6.06:
Implementing quota on /home

1] sudo aptitude install quota
2] edit /etc/fstab placing the usrquota,grpquota on the filesystem you want quota implemented.
3] sudo touch /home/quota.user /home/quota.group

4] sudo chmod 600 /home/quota.*

5] sudo mount -o remount /home

6] sudo quotacheck -avugm

7] sudo quotaon -avug

8]Edit quota for a user

sudo edquota <username>

e.g sudo edquota user1

9] report the quota usage

sudo repquota <device name>

e.g. repquota /dev/sda10

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Ubuntu 6.10
Implementing quota on the /

1] sudo aptitude install quotatool
2] edit /etc/fstab placing the usrquota,grpquota on the filesystem you want quota implemented.
3] sudo touch /quota.user /quota.group

4] sudo chmod 600 /quota.*

5] sudo mount -o remount /

6] sudo quotacheck -avugm

7] sudo quotaon -avug

Reference:

http://www.debianadmin.com/implement-and-manage-disk-quotas-in-linux.html

Kuala Lumpur, PETRONAS

Tallest twin tower? Taken last July 17, 2007. You can read more about it at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas_Twin_Towers
I first saw this from the movie Entrapment by Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Truth hurts

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Letter to OFW dad:
"Luv, tnx sa padala mo, hapi c nene kasi tobleron ang
baon sa skul. ung nike suot na ni jr. next tym wag ka
na padala NIVEA MILK. di nila type pait daw, ako tloy
ang umubos."
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MISTER: ano ang pagkain natin?
MISIS: nasa mesa, bahala ka na pumili!
MISTER: isang pirasong tuyo?ano pagpipilian ko?
MISIS: pumili ka kung kakain ka o hindi!
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IDD call from US:
HUSBAND: hon musta ang tindahan?
WIFE: dept store na!
H: ang tuba-an?
W: KTV bar na!
H: and mga trickad?
W: taxi na!
H: ang dalawa kong anak?
W: LIMA na!
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Ssweethearts watchin' da sky...
GUY: ano ang horoscope mo?
GIRL: anong huruskup?
GUY: yung bang kapalaran mo, katulad ko, CANCER.
GIRL: ah, sa akin ALMURANAS!
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TITSER: who can make a sentence then translate it in tagalog?
PUPIL: my titser is beautiful, isn't she?
TITSER: very good, translate it in tagalog.
PUPIL: ang guro ko ay maganda, maganda nga ba?
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DONYA: bilang bagong katulong, tandaan mo na ang almusal dito ay alasais empuntu!
MAID: walang problema donya. kung tulog pa ako sa oras na yun, mauna na kayong mag almusal!
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NANAY: Bobo ka talaga! 1 to 10 lang di mo kayang
bilangin?
ANAK: Mas bobo si tatay nay,kasi narinig ko minsan
sabi, "tama na inday, hanggang tatlo lang kaya ko."
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SAYINGS TO LIVE BY:
1. birds of the same feathers, are the same birds
2. do not do unto others what you can't do
3. an apple a day is not an apple at night
4. when the cat is away the mouse is alone
5. if others can do it, don't help
6. tell me who ur friends are and i'll tell u mine
7. early to bed and early to rise makes you sleepy in the afternoon
8. ang ilog na tahimik ay malalim, ang ilog na maingay may naglalaba

squid-cgi on ubuntu

*Make sure universe is included in the /etc/apt/sources.list

1] Install the CGI for squid
sudo aptitude install squid-cgi

2] Edit /etc/apache-perl/srm.conf to contain

ScriptAlias /Squid/cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ 
3] Edit /etc/apache-perl/access.conf to contain

<Location /Squid/cgi-bin/cachemgr.cgi>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 192.168.6.0/255.255.255.0
</Location>

4] Edit /etc/squid/squid.conf to contain

cachemgr_passwd passwordher all

5] Restart squid and apache

sudo squid -k reconfigure && sudo /etc/init.d/apache-perl restart


Reference: http://www.gymradbn.sk/doc/squid-cgi/cachemgrfaq.html

Recommendation Letter

If you were one of my students before or co-worker and you were asking me to do a recommendation letter then this link

http://www.boxfreeconcepts.com/reco/masgen.html

will be my template.

maradns on ubuntu

1] Install maradns

sudo aptitude install maradns


2] Check if its running

pgrep maradns

3] Edit mararc to be recursive

sudo vi /etc/maradns/mararc

4] Have this settings:

bind_address = "192.168.2.231"
recursive_acl = "192.168.2.0/24"
random_seed_file = "/dev/urandom"
root_servers["."] = "osrc"
root_servers = {}

5] link /etc/mararc to your /etc/maradns/mararc

ln -s /etc/maradns/mararc /etc/mararc

6] Restart maradns

sudo /etc/init.d/maradns restart


To troubleshoot the error you can execute:
a] touch /var/log/maradns
b] nohup maradns >> /var/log/maradns &