Recently, I noticed that from time to time this site kept going down for no reason. However, on inspection of the VM box the site was working fine. I concluded that it must be something with the network. When looking under edit->virtual network settings->nat I tried to restart the nat and it would not start.
After going into the task manager and killing the vmnat process I was able to restart it properly and the site was fully functional again. Since then I’ve had to do this from time to time. It seems that it may be a resource issue with the computer. Some people have suggested to use internal nat of the operating system however I haven’t tried this.
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December 20, 2007 – 8:56 pm
Samba a wonderful tool for accessing linux directories via windows. I’ve had samba running on my linux box since day one to transfer files over. However, I always shared the /tmp directory. For some reason the directories ie: /var or /var/www etc didn’t work.
Finally, I decided I needed to figure this out and after a fair amount of googling and clearly seeing that others were just as confused as I was. I came to a post that hinted at my problems.
There are security settings that can be set. With the Fedora KDE go to
System->administration->Security Settings and Firewall
after typing in your root password it has firewall settings. However if you click on the SELinux tab you can edit advanced security settings including ones for Samba. From here you can enable /home directories and /var directories.
samba /var /home cant access directory
ever have lemon grass chicken at that pho restaurant down the street? ever wanted the entire chicken not just the thigh? ever wanted to stick a cherry coke up the chickens anal cavity? well if the answer is yes, this post is for you.
the rub: light soya sauce, dark soya sauce, finely chopped garlic (and plenty of it), pepper, sake, whiskey, lemon grass (lots of it to get that nice flavor profile), chicken powder, lemon, a little brown sugar (no more than a tea spoon otherwise your chicken will burn, it’s only there to bring the flavors out), a diced shallot
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lemon grass chicken cherry coke vietnamese food marinade
February 9, 2007 – 5:35 pm
I’ve recently started taking the skytrain again. To my surprise things have changed! Long gone are the days when the sky train would zip around empty. Now, I’ve lived in Tokyo Japan for over a year and well frankly we are at the same level of crowdedness. Mind you our trains are narrower, shorter and don’t have as many cars.
I must admit I’m happy that our city is adopting public transit to this degree, it will pave the path for less of us having to drive our cars.
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September 17, 2006 – 6:01 pm
Some people eat chinese herbs because they think it will make them more fertile others think it will lower their blood pressure, others think it will raise their blood pressure and others think it will help them grow their hair back. And I’m sure there are others that even think it’ll take out the garbage for them.
I’m not a firm believer in any of these high flying goals. They are herbs and as such they will have medicinal effects, but then so does parsley, carrots and celery. Some herbs are probably as common as these to chinese stocks and soups. ie dried dates. I like chinese herbs because some of them make the soup taste yummy.
This certainly is not for everyone, I grew up on these flavors and they could potentially be quite strange for someones who’s food upbringing is Italian food.
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September 12, 2006 – 10:35 pm
definition p/e: This is the price of the stock divided by the earnings. The higher this value is the higher the stock is priced.
Generally, when a stock is priced high there is alot of expectation that the stock will do well. To outperform this expectation can be very difficult. Stocks that are currently HOT can suffer from this problem. When we had the height of the tech boom in early 2000 stocks had a huge p/e. People had high expectations. A high p/e is dangerous for investors because it will be hard for that company to meet and exceed expectations. The stock price will not rise unless it exceeds expectations in one form or another.
This in my mind has been pretty clear cut. So when shopping for stocks I make sure I have a nice low p/e ratio. This tells me that earning are close to the price of the stock. And what bad could come of that?
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September 10, 2006 – 5:05 pm
Black tusk is one of the best known peaks in the garibaldi provincial park. It is easily seen from many other peaks and can be recognized by a large black spike which rises from the top of the mountain.
On september 3rd me and a couple of friends decided to hike the black tusk. I have heard that black tusk is a difficult hike which is about the same elevation of panaroma ridge which is a hike that I had been on. Read More »
September 7, 2006 – 10:01 pm
If you’ve never made Bee Bee Que ribs or just a beginner like me you probably don’t know that boiling your ribs is a bit time Taboo thing to do. This Friday I was in charge of making my ribs. I went out to get my seasonings:
(I am always vague about amounts because I believe you should do these things based on your taste)
- Garlic powder
- Ground cumin
- Onion powder
- Paprika powder
- Cayenne pepper
- Salt
- White pepper
- Thyme
Honey (added later)
I mixed up my dry rub and slapped it on these four nice juicy ribs that were bought by Sandy at Cosco. I don’t think I made enough dry rub but it covered 3 of the ribs nicely I left the fourth alone for comparison. Read More »
September 7, 2006 – 9:59 pm
Last weekend I enjoyed a nice sunny afternoon out on the high seas of the Indian arm just outside of beautiful deep cove. Okay, maybe the seas were not so high, rather calm actually, which meant that it was perfect conditions for wakeboarding!I was lucky number one and nervous cause my arms where feeling in tip top shape that morning. But how hard could wake boarding be? They say most people get up on the first try, right? I put on my board got some last minute instructions and hopped in. I remember thinking woah it’s a bit cold in here. Kay no probs. Couple of shouts from the captain reminding me I had to get my butt to touch my ankles, and not to try and get up to soon or pull myself in.READY?YUP!The boat roared to life. I felt the tension on the line, my butt flew out of the water as I tried to stand up flying through mid air and landing face first in the water. Read More »
September 7, 2006 – 9:57 pm
When I see a company like Intel/AMD investing in new equipment, new factories to increase production and bring down costs. I’m usually thinking. Hey they get it, they know they got to outrun the competition to keep on the ball. That’s a company that knows what they are doing. Time to invest!
Unfortunately, this is NOT true. Companies that are high in Capex generally spend on equipment/processes/procedures/upgrades that their competitors can invest in as well. That means that they will follow suite to stay competitive which means that the ultimate beneficiary of the Capex is the consumer.
Looking back at companies that have had varying amounts of Capex in the S&P 500. It is clear that in years that Capex is low investor returns are higher and the reverse in years of high Capex.
Intel recently has valiantly fought AMD to catch up in price/speed of processors after laying on their laurels for the last couple of years. After rave reviews of their new processor they got a bump in share price however AMD has countered back with price cuts. This will be interesting to watch and perhaps give us better insight into the affects of Capex on share price.