I love the world of open source where would i be without them. Am always thinking on how to cut down the use of paper so i got the idea to go digital and just make paper copies only when they are needed. I tried a couple of apps starting with adobe acrobat Pro, but it didn’t make sense to me why I have to install a 200Mb program just to help me create pdf’s, I tried a couple of freeware pdf printers ad most of them had one limitation or another, or they would be branding your digital documents with there ads. Finally I got a solution from the Linux world I installed cups-pdf by adding the epel repo to my machine and instantly I had a network pdf printer all the machines in the network can print to this pdf printer and it’s free no ads on my digital docs, i can configure it to my needs and it’s barely a few Mb’s. Bottom line there is no equal to it in the windows world at the cost and performance.
It’s easy to fall off the bandwagon and harder to get back on
I have been exercising for the last 10 years pretty consistently, but in the last three months ‘OK maybe four’ I have become kind of lazy, and even when I try to go exercise I do it for like a day or two then do nothing for a whole week or two “sometimes”.
Somehow am not feeling the spirit that always used to be at my heels pushing me to put on my running shoes and go jog or go to the gym, for the first time in as long as I can remember am having to force myself to get out of the house and get my body moving. Being a vegetarian I believe very strongly in taking care of my body but I am starting to get a different perspective of why people just let themselves go sometimes you dont mean to it just happens and you keep telling yourself you gonna start doing something from next week or the week after that and pretty soon you are two sizex bigger or more.
The news that all my ex training partners have all stopp
ed training and put on the pounds is no excuse for me so as of tomorrow no today I will make sure i do some sought of exercise evryday i get home from work. I hope to revisit this topic in three months with better news
Hard work pays off
After having to go through the server logs and see daily attempts on ssh i decided to make some further changes as described here. I had already done the usual, blocked use of passwords and the rest but still valuable cpu time was being wasted checking entries and denying them as they were not on the allowed list. After the latest round of changes I was wonderfully suprised to find now such entries are just refused out right with no further time wasted trying to verify them.
The next thing now is to enable encryption on a couple remaining services to try and plug up any holes that might be there.