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La Crosse Area Fall Colors Geocaching Tour

12 October, 2008 08:45

This is an annual event cache. The event will include permanent and temporary caches. Permanent Caches will be placed throughout the Greater La Crosse, WI area."Temporary Caches will generally be located on easier terrain and walking conditions. Permanent Caches will vary based on location.

This is an annual event cache. The event will include permanent and temporary caches. Permanent Caches will be placed throughout the Greater La Crosse, WI area. Temporary Caches will be within a short driving distance or walking distance from Riverside Park, in beautiful downtown La Crosse WI. The event will begin at 10:00 am on Saturday, October 11. There will be a “how to” seminar free to the public. Included with the seminar will be a raffle drawing for awesome prizes and fun swag.." - geocaching.com: GC1FMNC

"The caches were absolutely spectacular - the scenery, wildlife, and a couple memories of a visit to High Cliff Park, scared like a metal post crossing that wavy bridge.

In Between "FA" and "B": I have lived in La Crosse all but 3 years of my 29 year life, and I have never hiked in that area. I will be back many many times, hike a little farther this time, and look forward to discovering new areas of this beautiful place.

This cache was a 4/5 difficulty, my first. With a little help from my guide, I was able to find it and gain a new level of thought for my next 4, or even 5!

I wish I would have looked at the registration sheet a little closer - we wanted to take off in a hurry, but I would have loved to find some fellow hide owners with caches I have found, and those I have communicated with that may have still have been in the park. I hope to join the La Crosse community, and I am sure after a little more experience I will meet many of you soon!

Thanks for everything, and to the guides, volunteers and especially STAMP 'n HAND!" -- geocaching.com: myside (me)

La Crosse Area Fall Colors Geocaching Tour (pictures with the GPX prefix have EXIF GPS coordinate data, the others where taken with a camera phone)

And, my new blog page for my geocaching statistics (It's Not About the Numbers).

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Wormwood - organic, from Germany (alpine)

10 October, 2008 00:21

In relation too: "Sage essential oil as an alternative to Wormwood, clinical properties of Thuja, Absinthe and y-aminobutyric acid receptors"

"I often use Wormwood essential oil, which I was once afraid of, to ease stomach pains, muscle tension, and anxiety.  If it is not an Absinthe drink, their are a lot of safe uses that responsible, medically uneducated, yet aware people can take advantage of."

My one year old 15ml bottle of Wormwood - organic, from Germany (alpine) is close to depletion.  The distributor no longer lists it as an item in their product page.  However, I spoke with one of the owners and found that when quantities are low and demand for marketable profit from 3rd party distributors are needed, they would sometimes do this.

I have only been able to find one source for this distillation with high concentrates of Thujone.  I will be soon be getting GC/MS data on the distillation, and I will dig a little more into the availability from this small farm.  When I do, and the oil will be in abundance, I will give the sellers source, if I don't get greedy - buy the rest myself.

To comment on my quote, I had a medical doctor go ahead whom has knowledge of this plant and whom also checked for any health interactions and precautions...

-

also see:

sage essential oil as an alternative to wormwood

Random Thought : It will be a fun weekend of Geocaching!

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HOWTO: run spamass-milter (Postfix) non-root & custom group e-mail spam configuration locations, - using milter, spamc and spamd on FreeBSD

09 October, 2008 09:01

I will assume you have a postfix installation that can receive incoming mail.

First, install milter spamassassin:

cd  /usr/ports/mail/spamass-milter; make install; make clean

The rc script is located: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/spamass-milter  Choose a socket location for Postfix.  For example: /var/run/spamass-milter.sock

Edit  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/spamass-milter and change the socket location to a secure location:

${spamass_milter_socket} could be changed at the bottom of this script too:  : ${spamass_milter_socket="/var/run/spamass-milter.sock"}

We will create a user called "spam" for the socket USER and GROUP ownerships.  Edit the following appropriately:

: ${spamass_milter_socket_owner="spam"}
: ${spamass_milter_socket_group="spam"}
: ${spamass_milter_socket_mode="664"}

The users root, spam, and postfix need access to this socket.  in /etc/group add the user postfix to the group spam.  Permissions for this socket type should be 664 rw rw r - rw for the user "spam" and rw for the group "spam" in which the user "postfix" is a member of.  The socket is not world writable, so only those with these credentials can take advantage of the majority of this service and secure communication.

For future user allowances of personal mail spam training, you should use spamc and spamd.  spamd will be run as root.  The rc.d file is located here: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd  Let's take a look at this and edit a few command line options.

The first spamd flag we want is -x which will disallow user configuration files.  This can be suppressed, if you wish per user training, and call spamc from postfix with the user of the incoming e-mail address.  For this demonstration, it will be used for a group of e-mail users.

The -u flag should be set to spam: -u spam, this sets the user name to spam.  The -g parameter for the group is unneeded because of the UID GID hard coded association with the user "spam".

By default when adding "spam" as a user, the home directory should be /home/spam  Now lets make sure spamd will use this directory for configuration even though spamd with spawned as root and will by default use /root  The -H parameter specifies this: -H /home/spam

At this time we are training one spamassassin rule set with multiple e-mail addresses, so we will utilize "--virtual-config-dir".  For example:--virtual-config-dir=/home/spam

So the command_args variable in the rc script should look something like this:

command_args="-x -d -u spam -H /home/spam --virtual-config-dir=/home/spam -r ${pidfile}"

Now make sure your postfix main.cf configuration file uses the smtpd milter:

smtpd_milters = unix:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock

This is an example of a basic idea for group users, and a start to multiple per recipient address configuration parameters and location manipulations.

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What? What? Net Neutrality? kill -9? TCP RESET Packets?

07 October, 2008 05:02

In relation to "Net Neutrality - supporters at a Madison, WI gathering..." and with joyful companionship with "A lyrical rap song about the Unix command 'kill -9' and the systems mechanics surrounding it." I thought what the hell - you may be interested in:

"Ballad of the TCP Reset Packet"
By Nate Anderson

I'm not an ordinary packet flowing through the tubes I need to scrub them out to keep the neighborhood's connection lubed I'm here to make you see a cable company morality Obfuscation is alright but not uploads that take all night

I'm not an ordinary packet but you wouldn't know it from my face With my false mustache in place, I'm here to interrupt the pace Of Kill Bill volumes one and two, don't download them, they're bad for you Your fair share is not defined but I'll enforce it if you don't mind

Chorus:
Cuz I'm a TCP reset packet (it's true)
Flying down the wire to you
Sent from Comcast above to its users with love
I'm a TCP reset packet

Don't thank me now you will someday when you are eating cabbages And see just how I kept you safe from statutory damages I'm legal and a good idea, you don't have a thing to fear Like Superman, you can't stop me, unless you call the FCC

At the hearing, Harvard's hallowed halls became a comfy bed Our employees work so hard, without the rest they'd soon be dead All this talk is sure terrific, but it's also soporific Set me free to innovate, I see no need to regulate!

Chorus:
Cuz I'm a TCP reset packet (it's true)
Flying down the wire to you
Sent from Comcast above to its users with love
I'm a TCP reset packet

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my flip-phone Java midlets

07 October, 2008 00:25

Right off the bat, I will whack the first two out of discussion: Trimble Outdoors (my Geocaching & GPS App), and Opera Mini (my Web Browser).

I made the decision to refrain communication, IM communication that is, to one protocol.  I decided on Yahoo!, for various reasons.

It took me very little time to find the right choice for my cell phone chat application - that being Yamee.

Here is the feature set that tempted the installation and has won its space on my flash:

- add and remove contactYamee - Free Yahoo Messenger for your handphone and connect directly to Yahoo's server. You can make conference, add or delete contact, set or view the status and send message to group or several selected contact -- This Messenger is also skinnable, you can change the UI skins from the setting menu. View others status from the text banner on the top and set your own status or set the custom status.
- conference
- contacts grouping
- send message to group or several selected contacts (press # to show the mark)
- send and receive BUZZ
- receive offline message
- incoming mail notifications
- typing notification
- offline/online notifications
- show/hide offline contacts (shortcut: press 0)
- set or view status (status shown on the top screen)
- skinnable (4 type skins)

shortcut:
-to show chat view, press *
-to show/hide offline contacts, press 0
-to show/hide the mark press #

New Features (ver 1.1)
- 60 emoticons
- message alerts : vibrate, sound, flash backlight

New Features (ver 1.2)
- Chat History (message archive)
- Send to Others (send message to buddy outside contact list)
- Add 4 emoticons (total 64 emoticons) and with bigger images
- Add set custom busy status
- Add new settings (enable/disable automatic open ChatView when receive message)
- New theme (gray skin changed into green skin)


*update : 14-09-2008
-better smiley/emoticons
-some minor bug fixing


*update : 25-09-2008
- some minor bug fixing
- support MIDP 1.0 and CLDC 1.0

Depending on the use I get from this well organized application, I believe a small donation will be in order sometime in the comeing months.

A year ago I was writing:

Postfix: deliver mail to a DynDNS dynamic host from a valid and static hosted postfix external server

this is what happens to the network administrator when the network goes down

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Improved Squirrel Launcher-Catapult

12 September, 2008 09:57

Remember my post: Squirrel Catapult - Serves them all right?  Well, here is a video of a new and improved version (a day late, though couldn't wait for next week for this one):

[RSS Viewers - click on the post link for the video]

A year ago I was writing:

Sandalwood (2004, Tamil) with Deep Sedative Properties

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HOWTO: remove and allow USER and system environment variables from or into your Linux processes

11 September, 2008 07:01

A user executing a process usually passes their account environment information in which an application could use, or rather others could take advantage of this additional and sensitive information such as: path info, user name, group name, PWD, SHELL, etc..

First let's look at a bash script to remove and allow USER and system environment variables from or into your Linux processes:

#!/bin/sh

 ALLOWED_ENV="PATH"

This defines environment data that you would like your process to have access too.

Let's try this while executing a process using variables that are needed by the process in conjunction with the only extra PATH env data you have defined to be passed to it - a couple extra for the command execution itself.

RUNTIME=10

TIMEOUT=3

SWITCHES="-d 100 --db 50"

At this time you would want to export these variables until your current environment that are passed indirectly to your process.

export RUNTIME

export TIMEOUT

Now lets combine RUNTIME, TIMEOUT, and PATH.

ALLOWED_ENV="$ALLOWED_ENV RUNTIME TIMEOUT"

Now lets define a variable with the application & command line parameter.

RUNME="/usr/local/bin/server-app $SWITCHES"

Now we want to create a NULL variable to recreate the environment variables which were not defined as above.

NICETOMEETYOU=

Now let's compare and contrast them, and have NICETOMEETYOU fully introduced to your new environment.  You may reference the Bash man page.

for i in $ALLOWED_ENV; do

NICETOMEETYOU="$NICETOMEETYOU $i=${!i}"

done

Hey, we are getting there.  NICETOMEETYOU now contains your new environment.  Now we want to switch your current environment with your new user or system environment variables and execute your process:

env - $NICETOMEETYOU $RUNME

To finish up the Bash script, enter any appropriate exit code when customizing something similar to this.

Your application now has its very own system, user, and group environment.

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Chamomile Essential Oil & Internal Cleansing

09 September, 2008 06:36

Chamomile Essential Oil:

"..anti allergenic, help cure acne by removing toxins and cleaning Sebaceous and Eccrine glands through sweating, clean up the urinary system and the kidneys through increased urination (being diuretic), detoxify blood and increase strength as they are also fortifying in nature. They can help cure viral infections like mumps, measles etc. Can be used in mouth wash too, to keep away bad breath and eliminate oral infections. German Camomile oil is a vasoconstrictor."

"Carminative: Expel gas from the intestines and stomach and also check gas formation. This also helps relax the body and lower blood pressure. It also ends the chances of other risks from gas, such as trapping of gas in the wind pipe etc."

"Stomachic, Digestive and Hepatic & Cholagogue: Being stomachic, they tone up stomach and set it to proper function. They promote secretion of digestive juices into stomach and facilitate digestion. They also promote digestion. Being Hepatic (meaning good for liver), they ensure good health of liver and proper flow of bile from it. They are also Cholagogue, meaning they increase secretion of Hydrochloric Acid, bile and enzymes in stomach, thereby promoting digestion."

"Anti Septic, Anti Biotic, Disinfectant, Bactericidal & Vermifuge: They have very good anti septic and anti biotic properties and do not let biotic infections (infections due to biotic factors such as bacteria, fungi etc.) develop. They also wipe off infections already present. These are good vermifuge too and kill all sorts of intestinal worms. If applied on hair, it kills lice and mites, keeping hair and scalp free from infections and damage."

-- Health Benifits of Chamomile Essential Oil

The link above with this information was provided by wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthemis_nobilis (Anthemis nobilis)

A year ago I was writing:

GoDaddy FC4 Virtual Dedicated Server's new yum repository list of packages...

GoDaddy FC4 Dedicated Servers updated with a RHEL4 kernel, and other intrusion into MYside of their domain...

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