It is the first week after Orthodox Christian Easter. This year 2012, the Orthodox Christians Easter date was on fifteen of April. We've not just had a feast of an Eastern, but we actually celebrated the greatest day in all human history that happened 2012 years ago – The Glories Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the Death in the Third day!
Some Roman Catholic Christians, might be wondering, why the Orthodox Church is celebrating one week after Jewish Pascha, so in short I will explain in the reason.We orthodox christians do not celebrate with Roman Catholics Easter because Roman Catholics use the gregorian calendar to calculate and decided the day in which the Eastern celebrations should occur, where we the Orthodox Christians use still the old moon calendar (which the jews used too), when Jesus was crucified. The gregorian calendar is very precise from a scientific point of view, however from a Church stand point it is completely wrong because, plainly taking the gregorian calendar math model doesn't take in consideration, that the jews are still celebrating their pascha following the old moon calendar.
The consequence is this year Roman Catholics, celebrated with Jewish. This from our Orthodox Christian point of view is incorrect, because Christ's Cross suffering is the pascha for us christians. We Christians consider that the old God ordained jewish pascha was a prophecy feast, simply to remind jewish people before Christ's coming that Messiah (Christ) will come to say his people. As Jewish rejected their true Messiah and Crucified him on the Cross, they have rejected to accept Christ as being the true pascha lamb slained for our sins.
Hence the Orthodox Christian Church teaches even to this day, that it is not righteous to celebrate Christ's Glorious Resurrection with Jewish Pascha. Prohibition to celebrate Easter and Jewish Pascha on the same day is an Orthodox Church rule, since the early church days. The Holy Fathers in their Church councils Council of Nicaea etc. has established as unchangable Church rule that, Jesus's Resurrection day feath, should never-ever coincide with the Jewish Pascha Celebrations.
The reasons the Church fathers ordered the Church Easter day to be always 1 week after Jewish Pascha is our saviour Jesus Christ ate pascha with his desciples as we can read in the 4 gospels in Holy Bible. After Jesus ate pascha, he was caught mocked, tortured and crucified (killed on a cross shaped trees).
Jesus is Risen! Truly He is Risen!
The Slavonic Paschal Greeting, translated words, we use across the Slavonic dome: ( Bulgaria / Russia / Ukraine, Serbia) is:
Христос Воскресе ! Воистину Воскресе!
According to our Church Tradition, Christians should great each other with the Paschal greeting Hristos Voskrese during the whole "bright week" instead of the usual Hi / Hello phrase.
The current Bulgarian version of Христос Възкресе ! Воистину Воскресе! is
Христос Възкръсна! Наистина Възкръсна!
One great miracle that testifies about the Christ's resurrection each and every year happens on each Orthodox Christian Eastern in Jerusalem in the Temple of Holy Sepulchre (where the saviour's grave cave, before the resurrection used to be). Last year, I've written to great all Christians for the Resurrection with the joyful Paschal Greeting Jesus is Risen and the Miracle of the Holy Fire Pitily, the number of Roman Catholics who heard or know about this amazing miracle are mostly within the clergy. Its very rare a layman Christian in Roman Catholic realm heard of the miracle. Once again as a closure I want to great everyone with the joyful paschal greeting in the manners of Russians which say it three times during the paschal period.
Христос Воскресе! Воистину Воскресе ! Христос Воскресе! Воистину Воскресе ! Христос Воскресе! Воистину Воскресе !
After a recent new Debian Squeeze Apache+PHP server install and moving a website from another server host running on CentOS 5.7 Linux server, some of the PHP scripts running via crontab started displaying the following annoying PHP Warnings :
debian:~# php /home/website/www/cron/update.php
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/suhosin.so' – /usr/lib/php5/20090626/suhosin.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
Obviously the error revealed that PHP cli is not happy that, I've previously removes the suhosin php5-suhosin module from the system. I wouldn't have removed php5-suhosin if sometimes it doesn't produced some odd experiences with the Apache webserver. To fix the PHP Warning, I used first grep to see, where exactly the suhosin module gets included in debian's php.ini config files.
debian:~# cd /etc/php5
debian:/etc/php5# grep -rli suhosin *
apache2/conf.d/suhosin.ini
cgi/conf.d/suhosin.ini
cli/conf.d/suhosin.ini
conf.d/suhosin.ini
Yeah that's right Debian has three php.ini php config files. One for the php cli – /usr/bin/php, another for the Apache webserver loaded php library – /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so and one for Apache's cgi module – /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_fcgid.so .
I was too lazy to edit all the above found declarations trying to include the suhosin module in PHP, hence I remembered that probably all this obsolete suhosin module declaration are still present because probably the php5-suhosin package is still not purged from the system.
A quick check with dpkg , further strenthened my assumption as the php5-suhosin module was still hanging around as an (rc – remove candidate);
A Hunting Accident is another one of those many Classic Soviet Movies. It is produced in 1978. As most Russian movies you have to be russian to understand it 🙂 The movie doesn't have a too special plot but has unique scenes very much reminding me of Gothism. Its really worthy to see the movie just for the sake of getting to know better Soviet Culture. White Horses beautiful ladies, elegant gentleman in white carrets this is the accident of the movie. The main actress is stunningly beautiful just like most Russian ladies 🙂 Movie is a great one for people who value Art movies.
A Hunting Accident (Russian: Мой ласковый и нежный зверь, translit. Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver, My Affectionate and Tender Beast) is a 1978 Soviet drama film directed by Emil Loteanu. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It is adapted from Anton Chekhov's "The Shooting Party."
For those understanding Russian here is some more information in Russian. Сюжет[править] Дочь лесничего – Скворцова Ольга (Галина Беляева) — красивая девушка 19 лет. По первому впечатлению, естественна и легка, как «ангел во плоти», однако позже выясняется, что она по-житейски расчётлива и тщеславна. В Ольгу влюбляются трое мужчин: Урбенин (Леонид Марков), граф Карнеев (Кирилл Лавров) и судебный следователь Камышев (Олег Янковский). Ольга, желая избавиться от нищеты, без любви выходит замуж за управляющего имением — дворянина, 50-летнего вдовца Урбенина. В день своей свадьбы она признаётся в любви Камышеву, однако отказывается уехать с ним. Камышев — высокий, широкоплечий красивый мужчина около 40 лет, изысканно одевается. Ольга думает, что он богат, но скоро узнаёт, в каких непрезентабельных условиях он живёт. После этого она становится сожительницей графа Карнеева. Во время охоты её убивают. Подозревают и ссылают на каторгу её мужа Урбенина, где он через четыре года умирает. Однако истинным убийцей является Камышев.
I'm not a big fan of Steve Jobs, neither I like the cult that is nowdays to his personality. After his recent death the cult to Jobs and his works has bloomed once again. From philosophical point of view I don't like Jobs ideas that there is no good and bad but only success matters. However I should admit as a SEO and as a business enterpreneur his achievements are significant. Hence I decided to share with you a video of SEO Summit ex-employee Guy Kawasaki, who "worked for jobs twice and survived". Jobs is famous for not being loved too much by his employees. Also it is not a secret historically he screw up, Steve Wozniak and a number of other people who were either employeed or worked in any way with him.
The points his ex-employee KAWASAKI shares on this SEO Summit presentation are quite interesting and are things, beginning business enterpreneurs like me could learn tremendously from. One key point that is hardly underlined in the presentation is the importance of simplicity.
* Simplicity in everything is essential for the success. It was quite curious to me Steve Jobs presentations were consisting often with a slides of just one word. Obviously this means Jobs was a simplicity freak.
Some of other concepts of Jobs was:
Either it works or it doesn't work.
You see again his trend to be simplifying things. In business we all know the SMART (Keep it Simple And Stupid). It seems Jobs SMART was only SAS (Simple and Stupid) 🙂 ….
Some other things Kawasaki learned from Jobs was:
Never believe Experts
– If someone tells you he is an expert in something he is definitely not ….
Another belief (understanding) of Jobs and probably many other succesful enterpreneurs is that DESIGN COUNTS. Design is one of the most crucial points in any product, so one has to be extra-careful here. A fail in design is a fail in product line ….
There is plenty of other interesting stuff in the video but the key point is SIMPLICITY. Enjoy Kawasaki Speech …
I'm studying Project Management, right now. In that spirit of thoughts I and a couple of other guys are building a Project Plan. As it Project Plan it's necessary to put a GANTT Chart in it to show visually the project timeline (the phases), the duration and the inter-relation between the different tasks which leads the project to an actual completion.
After a bit of thorough research online on available software to deal with project management and particularly, ones that are capable to build a GANTT charts on Linux / BSD.
I've come with the following list of software capable to be a substitute for the Microsoft Project software. Redmine GANTT Chart
3. Task Juggler Project Manager with GANTT Capability for (KDE) Task Juggler
4. JxProject – This software is not free, though it can be considered almost free Take a look also at: 5. Trac , though it doesn't really support GANTT charts it's a lovely software to be used for PM.
Another option you have is to try out: 6. PHProjekt
Update 20.09.2016 – PHPProject Old download link is no longer active
It is this link http://www.phprojekt.com/, but the page doesn’t seem to be active any more. I thought you might want to update.
If you are looking for an alternative please check out http://wiht.link/PHProjekt-PM, it may make a suitable replacement.
Kind Regards, Tom Wilcox
That piece of softwre really looks promising, especially if we consider that it's web based and how much essential is today to have an anline tools for doing the ordinary desktop jobs.
As I've tested the software the software is easy to be used, however it still is missing some essential parts that Microsoft Project includes so it's not 100% substitute. Also it's not able to open Microsoft Project (MPP) files, neither able to save the charts in the .mpp format.
Moving ahead I've came across DotProject DottProject Gantt Chart
I haven't took the time to test it myself but however, as I go through the software website the project looked quite good. Lastly you can take a look at: 7. PStricks as a mean of project management, however I think it doesn't support GANTT chart building. >
These days it is not common to install Windows XP however for some old unsupproted applications that still work on XP in many countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and even America. Custom patched Windows XP is still heaveily used for some corporate businesses in accounting and on airports and other government institutions even to these day, I'm aware of Windows still heavily used especially in Russia, Belarus,Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Bulgaria etc.
Hence still there is plenty of softwares designed to work XP the good old Win XP and thus often XP needs to be emulated on VMs though officially not supported any longer by Microsoft (its Support lifecycle End was for a last time on April 14, 2009).
Now I guess these days I guess nobody doesn't install and use Windows XP on a normal hardware PC Desktop / laptop but XP is continually installed on Virtual machine servers VMWare / VirtualBox.
Hence if you happen to have already migrated or installed some old Windows XP operating systems under VMWare for a corporate clients single core machine (no matter virtual or physical) and the client requires an update of hardware of the Virtual Machine you will be surprised that even though you add a second / third etc. core (new CPUs) the virtual machine hardware and restart the Windows XP installation.
It seems XP is designed to remember the install time CPU model hardware so once the VM and doesn't have a way to update its HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) definitions if you install it in Virtualbox thus to make XP recognize the extra added CPU cores it is necessery to do a small hack with a devcon.exe utility downloadable from Microsoft site to do the trick
Note that it will work only if you use the correct version depending whether XP is (x86/x64) bit install so check it out from My Computer -> Properties.
devcon.exe will let the automatic hardware detection find out the extra CPU (multicores) added. Wait 'till you get prompted for a reboot. Be brave Reboot! 🙂
There is pretty much more fun useful things you can do with devcon.exe such as disabling USBs from command line,
listing your PCI devices and so on:
You should now see all cores, hooray cores will appear in Task Manager / System Information.
Just wanted to say that I'm quite satisfied with Godaddy's SSL certificate generation.
SSL certs generation with Godaddy is dramatically more easy and intuitive than with certs bought from Enom.com.
To generate a new certificate with Godaddy, login to your godaddy account, press My Account -> SSL Certificates
Godaddy does grant you new credits whenever you have purchased a new ssl certificate for them, 1 credit is equal to one certificate.
You later use this credit to get your SSL certificate which will appear in the list of ssl certificates.
To manage the new certificate I had to press over Manage Certificate Next over 3 steps it's necessery to place a newly generated CSR file to generate the CSR file I issued:
/usr/bin/openssl genrsa -des3 -out www.domain.com.key 2048
Enter pass phrase for www.domain.com.key:
There is a field which requires you to paste in the newly generates csr file with the above command in Godaddy's SSL generation step 2.
Step 3 does not require anything special.
After this steps if the domain for which an SSL cert is generated doesn't contain some specific banned words which prohibits automatic approval of a certificate an email is received in the email set for the godaddy account.
After Godaddy approves the generation of the respective ssl cert it starts appearing in the menu: Manage Certificates -> Certificates tick over to choose the common name of your certificate and a button a bit above with a green down arrow will turn green. Press over it and you will be offered a menu whether you can choose the version of the webserver for which you will need the newly generated SSL certificate to install on.
In my case it was Apache so I choose Apache, gt the certificate put it and install it to apache and restart Apache and you're done.
Something very useful that most Apache LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) admins should know ishow to check Apache Webserver uptime and MySQL server running (uptime). Checking Apache / MySQL uptime is primary useful for scripting purposes – creating auto Apache / MySQL service restart scripts, or just as a quick console way to check what is the status and uptime of Webserver / SQL.
My experience as a sysadmin shows that lack of Periodic Apache and MySQL restart every week or every month often creates sys-admin a lot of a headaches cause (Apache / NGINX / SQL server) starts eating too much memory or under some circumstances leads to service or system crashes. Periodic system main services restart is especially helpful in case if Website's backend programming code is writetn in a bad and buggy uneffient way by unprofessional (novice) programmers. While I was still working as Senior SysAdmin in Design.BG, I've encountered many such Crappy Web applications developed by dozen of different programmers (because company's programmers changed too frequently and many of the hired Web Developers ,were still learning to program, I guess same is true also for other Start-UP Web / IT Company where crappy programming code is developed you will certainly need to keep an eye on Apache / MYSQL uptime. If that's the case below 2 quick one liners with PS command will help you keep an eye on Apache / MYSQL uptime
Though example is for mysql and Apache you can easily use ps cmd in same way to check any other Linux service uptime such as Java / Qmail / PostgreSQL / Postfix etc.
As part of my passion for ASCII art, I've found another interesting tool useful to ASCII art maniacs like me, the tool is called ditta and is able to convert manually drawn ASCII art diagrams to graphics, below is tool description from my debian apt-cache as well as a screenshot:
apt-cache show ditaa|grep -i ditaa -A 4
Package: ditaa Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 164 Maintainer: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org> — Filename: pool/main/d/ditaa/ditaa_0.9+ds1-2_all.deb Size: 107270 MD5sum: 05ec52d9274b954b053f1835ca5d7a7f SHA1: 792d91d05fff2a2a19c0ebce317351d138436c18 SHA256: c4319d32e7918aab782e2f38cdad745bc9023f9f09a999033d983095ee4f70d5 — DiTAA is a small command-line utility that can convert diagrams drawn using ASCII art ("drawings" that contain characters that resemble lines, like | / and -), into proper bitmap graphics. . DiTAA also uses special markup syntax to increase the possibilities of shapes and symbols that can be rendered. Homepage: http://ditaa.org
To install ditaa on Debian and Ubuntu Linux:
debian:~# apt-get install --yes ditaa
...
Ditaa text diagram to Graphics converter is also available in Fedora Linux and in Source RPMs to be used on Redhat Based RPM distributions. To install in most of RPM based Linuxes:
[root@fedora:~]# yum install -y ditaa …
For most people probably Ditta will not be of any value except as a PoC and of a Hack value just like Ditaa's home page suggests. Nomatter that Ditta is cool but has just 2 drawback it doesn't understand non-latin characters i.e. Cyrillic and requires Java Virtual Machine .. but if you're a real geek you will do the sacrifice to install a whole bunch of the heavy java for the sake of some oldschool fun 🙂 Being written in Java makes Ditta multi-platform, but you will need a Java VM version of at least 1.6 (it doesn't work with Java 1.5).
I want to do test MySQL Cluster following MySQL Cluster Install Guide for that purpose, I've installed 2 version of CentOS 6.5 inside Virtualbox and I wanted to make the 2 Linux hosts reachable inside a local LAN network, I consulted some colleagues who adviced me to configure two Linux hosts to use Bridget Adapter Virtualbox networking (Network configuration in Virtualbox is done on a Virtual Machine basis from):
Devices -> Network Settings
(Attached to: Bridged Adapter)
Note!: that by default Cable Connected (tick) is not selected so when imposing changes on Network – tick should be set) After Specifying Attached to be Bridged Adapter to make CentOS linux refresh network settings run in gnome-terminal:
To test whether there is connection between the 2 VM hosts tried ping-ing 192.168.10.2 (from 192.168.10.1) and tested with telnet if I can access remotely SSH (protocol), from CentOS VM2 1 to CentOS VM2 and vice versa, i.e.:
[root@centos ~]# telnet 192.168.10.2 22
Trying 192.168.10.2… telnet: connect to address 192.168.10.2: No route to host
to choose in Attached todrop down menu. According to Internal Networking Virtualbox instructions toput two Virtual Machine hosts inside an Internal network they should be both set in Internal network with identical name. P. S. It is explicitly stated that using Internal Network will enable access between Guest Virtual Machines OS, but hosts will not have access to the Internet (which in my case doesn't really mattered as I needed the two Linux VMs just as a testbed)
I tried this option but it doesn't work for me for some reason, after some time of research online on how to create local LAN network between 2 Virtual Machines luckily I decided to test all available Virtualbox Networking choices and noticed Host-only adapter.
Selecting Host-only Adapter and using terminal to re-fetch IP address over dhcp:
On CentOS VM1
dhclient eht0
On CentOS VM2
dhclient eth1
assigned me two adjoining IPs – (192.168.56.101 and 192.168.56.102).
Connection between the 2 IPs 192.168.56.101 and 192.168.56.102 on TCP and UDP and ICMP protocol works, now all left is to install MySQL cluster on both nodes.
GANTTProject Chart 
Planner GANTT Chone Chart 
Task Juggler 
