This is week two of being on the road to being healthier-- Good news and not-so-good news-- Good: The weighing/BMI scale is awesome, and I was able to squeeze in two 1-hr sessions last week for cycling on the trainer. Not-so-good: There's enough Holiday leftovers to feed the People's Republic of China :-/ We may need to rethink the food stockpile strategy for being World-War III ready.
Hello BMI Peak. Let's start the descent to a lower value, any time now ;)
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tomorrow begins the start of a healthier diet and exercise reigmen. Ugh.
It's been awhile since I was able to consistently exercise and eat right-- Vacation, Overloaded work schedules, and have knocked me off course from my path to healthy living. The result? A weight of ~230 and BMI of 33. Ouch. Reality Hurts. And it is also motivating. Enough to start the same thing I did the beginning of 2010, just a couple weeks earlier :)
This year was the year of Travel and food: Philippines, Europe, China, Hong Kong, Macau. Next year will be the year of savings and internal refinement starting right now. Let's do this how I know best, Geek-style.
A weight management scale that can track daily weight readings and BMI is on its way to the house. I'm already armed with the gadgets needed to view my progress on an excel spreadsheet or through pie charts and bar graphs. Channel that with the motivation to do the unthinkable-- Get back healthy again. I did it once and I can do it again :)
This year was the year of Travel and food: Philippines, Europe, China, Hong Kong, Macau. Next year will be the year of savings and internal refinement starting right now. Let's do this how I know best, Geek-style.
A weight management scale that can track daily weight readings and BMI is on its way to the house. I'm already armed with the gadgets needed to view my progress on an excel spreadsheet or through pie charts and bar graphs. Channel that with the motivation to do the unthinkable-- Get back healthy again. I did it once and I can do it again :)
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
How to flash .img file on Mac OSX
Command Line Interface
==============
1. Download the desired .img file
2. Open a Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/)
3. Run diskutil list to get the current list of devices
4. Insert your flash media
5. Run diskutil list again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. /dev/disk2)
6. Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2)
7. Execute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m (replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located; for example, ./ubuntu.img, /dev/rdiskN is faster than /dev/diskN). If you see the error dd: Invalid number `1m', you are using GNU dd. Use the same command but replace bs=1m with bs=1M.
8. Run diskutil eject /dev/diskN and remove your flash media when the command completes
9. External USB disc drives
==============
1. Download the desired .img file
2. Open a Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/)
3. Run diskutil list to get the current list of devices
4. Insert your flash media
5. Run diskutil list again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. /dev/disk2)
6. Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2)
7. Execute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m (replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located; for example, ./ubuntu.img, /dev/rdiskN is faster than /dev/diskN). If you see the error dd: Invalid number `1m', you are using GNU dd. Use the same command but replace bs=1m with bs=1M.
8. Run diskutil eject /dev/diskN and remove your flash media when the command completes
9. External USB disc drives
Monday, October 18, 2010
Installing a public key on a linux box
1) Prep the linux system for remote access:
mkdir $HOME/.ssh
chmod -R og= $HOME/.ssh
Note: file must be mode -rw-------
2) Run puttygen.exe on the client to generate a public/private key-pair.
3) Save the private key locally on the client
4) Copy the key directly from the output window of puttygen
5) Paste into the file $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys as a single line.
6) Under putty, locate the SSH -> Auth -> ensure to select the proper private key file for authentication
mkdir $HOME/.ssh
chmod -R og= $HOME/.ssh
Note: file must be mode -rw-------
2) Run puttygen.exe on the client to generate a public/private key-pair.
3) Save the private key locally on the client
4) Copy the key directly from the output window of puttygen
5) Paste into the file $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys as a single line.
6) Under putty, locate the SSH -> Auth -> ensure to select the proper private key file for authentication
Saturday, September 25, 2010
How to get Juniper Networks' VPN client (Network Connect) to work in Snow leopard
After a couple weeks' worth of searching, finally found out the commands to setup Network connect to work with my Mac at home, instead of lugging around all the stuff from work:
- install the Network Connect client.
- run it once. It *will* barf. Just clean up with a paper towel
- Drop into bash, and run the following:
bash-3.2# chmod 755 /usr/local/juniper/nc/6.*/
bash-3.2# mkdir /Applications/Network\ Connect.app/Contents/Frameworks
bash-3.2#
And that's IT!
- install the Network Connect client.
- run it once. It *will* barf. Just clean up with a paper towel
- Drop into bash, and run the following:
bash-3.2# chmod 755 /usr/local/juniper/nc/6.*/
bash-3.2# mkdir /Applications/Network\ Connect.app/Contents/Frameworks
bash-3.2#
And that's IT!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Europe Log day 1 of many :)
Places we went to:
In Switzerland:
Baden - walking around the city and window shopping
Schenznach - Schenznach Bad Hot Springs
Ehrendingen - Light Hike
Tomorrow:
Off to Southern Switzerland and Italy
In Switzerland:
Baden - walking around the city and window shopping
Schenznach - Schenznach Bad Hot Springs
Ehrendingen - Light Hike
Tomorrow:
Off to Southern Switzerland and Italy
Friday, June 4, 2010
Links to Synergy Network-KVM software and their how-tos
For those who have multiple systems and only want to use a single keyboard and mouse:
Synergy links:
http://tinyurl.com/38ux79v
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynergyHowto
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ho
This stuff is as bad-ass as wheat toast with butter *and* jam :)
Synergy links:
http://tinyurl.com/38ux79v
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynergyHowto
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ho
This stuff is as bad-ass as wheat toast with butter *and* jam :)
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Carnaval SF 2010 Pictures posted on Flickr!
Hi folks! Feel free to checkout this link for photos taken today during the Carnaval Parade in San Francisco!
Link to Slideshow here
Enjoy!
Link to Slideshow here
Enjoy!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Cmds to fix Sony Reader Software on Mac OSX
Sourced from here: http://superuser.com/questions/58305/sony-ebook-library-for-mac-no-longer-displays-its-window
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/Sony\ Corporation/Reader/
rm ~/Library/Preferences/fsk/1/com.kinoma.fskin.ktStart-kBook.xml
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/Sony\ Corporation/Reader/
rm ~/Library/Preferences/fsk/1/com.kinoma.fskin.ktStart-kBook.xml
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Late-night weekday banter....
Good evening folks,
Looks like I'm still waiting for the remaining laundry so I can finish packing for tomorrow morning's trip, and a good time to update the blog.
Health and Exercise Updates:
Since spring is here and summer is fast approaching, charity and weekend exercise events are here! Since the last post of the tour de cure, I was able to complete the I Care Classic 65-mi ride through the hills of Morgan hill, the Bay-to-Breakers in San Francisco, and of course the walk down the street to the local safeway to get groceries. On the positive side, I'm now able to last up to ~ 13 miles jogging at a mild pace, cycling up to 80 miles, which are both personal bests. When the mindset back in 2007 was to quit smoking and get into shape, I didn't think I could achieve this. Wow. It's a great feeling and quite inspiring :)
As far as my health, I've been doing quite well. I eat breakfast on a daily weekday basis, that includes fresh fruit, cottage cheese, oatmeal, and an occasional hard boiled egg-- Lunch has also been kept to a mostly veggie-type of meal, with the occasional burger and outing here and there :)
Technical mumbo-jumbo:
I hate Acer with a passion. I picked up an Acer Aspire NAS awhile back, and didn't find out until after purchase that it did not support true raid-5-- it has a WHS version of "load balancing" which includes a proprietary method of balancing data distribution on the drives in a method called "folder duplication". Ummm yeah sure, that sounds reassuring. Just one question-- How in the heck would I be able to find files if one of the drives blew? Can we say, needle in a haystack? Anyway, so I was migrating data off the NAS when WHS decided to reboot because of an important windows update that needed to restart the system. I mean cmon.... right when I'm performing file copies?? two thumbs down for Windows Home Server (WHS). This sucker is going on craigslist as soon as I'm done.
Work / LIfe:
Vacations rock. Plain and simple. In the time I was working at my company almost 3 years ago, I have not taken vacation longer than 2-3 days. I also realized that I was throwing away days each year after not using them as we max out at a certain limit-- This year, for my health, sanity, and recreation, I have actually scheduled and taken vacation. I always told myself that one day I would love to travel, and this year I'm doing so -- North Carolina, Philippines, Switzerland, and hopefully Australia / New Zealand. Pictures speak a thousand words, and that is what I look to do when on vacation-- Enjoy the sights and sounds of foreign places and capture them in a photo :)
Also, when was the last time you were able to wake up early, watch the sunrise while jogging on a white-sand beach? :)
Tomorrow I'm off to vegas-- Talk to you later!
Looks like I'm still waiting for the remaining laundry so I can finish packing for tomorrow morning's trip, and a good time to update the blog.
Health and Exercise Updates:
Since spring is here and summer is fast approaching, charity and weekend exercise events are here! Since the last post of the tour de cure, I was able to complete the I Care Classic 65-mi ride through the hills of Morgan hill, the Bay-to-Breakers in San Francisco, and of course the walk down the street to the local safeway to get groceries. On the positive side, I'm now able to last up to ~ 13 miles jogging at a mild pace, cycling up to 80 miles, which are both personal bests. When the mindset back in 2007 was to quit smoking and get into shape, I didn't think I could achieve this. Wow. It's a great feeling and quite inspiring :)
As far as my health, I've been doing quite well. I eat breakfast on a daily weekday basis, that includes fresh fruit, cottage cheese, oatmeal, and an occasional hard boiled egg-- Lunch has also been kept to a mostly veggie-type of meal, with the occasional burger and outing here and there :)
Technical mumbo-jumbo:
I hate Acer with a passion. I picked up an Acer Aspire NAS awhile back, and didn't find out until after purchase that it did not support true raid-5-- it has a WHS version of "load balancing" which includes a proprietary method of balancing data distribution on the drives in a method called "folder duplication". Ummm yeah sure, that sounds reassuring. Just one question-- How in the heck would I be able to find files if one of the drives blew? Can we say, needle in a haystack? Anyway, so I was migrating data off the NAS when WHS decided to reboot because of an important windows update that needed to restart the system. I mean cmon.... right when I'm performing file copies?? two thumbs down for Windows Home Server (WHS). This sucker is going on craigslist as soon as I'm done.
Work / LIfe:
Vacations rock. Plain and simple. In the time I was working at my company almost 3 years ago, I have not taken vacation longer than 2-3 days. I also realized that I was throwing away days each year after not using them as we max out at a certain limit-- This year, for my health, sanity, and recreation, I have actually scheduled and taken vacation. I always told myself that one day I would love to travel, and this year I'm doing so -- North Carolina, Philippines, Switzerland, and hopefully Australia / New Zealand. Pictures speak a thousand words, and that is what I look to do when on vacation-- Enjoy the sights and sounds of foreign places and capture them in a photo :)
Also, when was the last time you were able to wake up early, watch the sunrise while jogging on a white-sand beach? :)
Tomorrow I'm off to vegas-- Talk to you later!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Tour de Cure 80-mile ride tomorrow! Woo hoo :)
Here we go! The ride for 80-miles tomorrow in beautiful Napa Valley!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Worldly Wanda Tour de Fremont, 60+ mile ride completed! Details here!
For my second year in support of a good cause, I signed up for the Worldly Wanda Tour de Fremont. Both supporting a non-profit group based locally in Fremont that helps promote gender equality, and allowing to ride a challenging path, Saturday was quite an event :) Sometimes it can be tough for some folks to be able to wake up early on a Saturday morning, cycle to Lake Elizabeth and being a beautiful journey Touring the Tri-City area and San Jose, however this brave soul did ;)
I met a lot of friendly folks along this journey, each one of us sharing a common goal-- To finish in one piece. All shapes, sizes and genders were participating in this event, and they even had events for the less crazy-- i.e. 4 mile, 10, 20, and 40 for those who are building up their endurance. One thing to note was their path this year was modified from last, which included less populated roads = good thing (last year I felt myself competing with the 4-wheeled, all-metal bumper cars)
All in all, it was a great tour, a wonderful test of my endurance, and a breathtaking view of the Bay Area during springtime-- What more can one ask for? It was an opportunity for one to find peace within themself, with the surroundings near them, and with the energy all around us-- It felt mutually satiating :)
After all that hard work and climbing up hills (which is another topic I would like to write about sometime in the future), the treat of fresh made, piping hot chili with cheese and onions was awaiting at the finish line, back at the start line.
This is something so wonderful to be a part of, physically rewarding, and beneficial for the local charity-- a win-win situation. Count me in for next year's 60-mile and beyond!!
PS: Here's the link for all the Garmin details (including my health stats and GPS map of the trail) located here:
Garmin Connect -Activity Details for Untitled
Thursday, March 25, 2010
more geeky info....
Specifics about the linux filesystem and filesystem refresher (IBM):
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-filesystem/Sunday, March 7, 2010
Post-Sierra thoughts
We hit up Sierra-at-Tahoe this morning with a group of good friends. For the old-schoolers, Sierra-at-Tahoe used to be called Sierra Ski Ranch back in the day ;)
Sierra has a special place in my memory, as the first place I learned to hate skiing and snowboarding :P Especially since the "easiest" run was the almighty Sugar-and-Spice, which they should aptly rename it to "Leg torture and hatred for all beginners" or something of that effect-- Anyway, I'll save the Sierra war-stories for another time. Some memories of how terrified I was as a beginner at Sierra some 15+ years ago, and how the perspective has changed since then.
Today-- I was accompanied by some good friends who were practicing their 'leafing' (going down the mtn in a side to side motion keeping on one side of the board) as well as carving; They were able to keep up their own with going down the Blue squares :)
The weather was great, not too hot (like last time), not too cold, and the snow was just right-- Not too much powder, and no ice = happy campers. All-in-all, it wasn't a record-breaking number of times we took runs, however what we lacked in quantity we comped for quality-- These were a great group of folks to board with, especially when goofing off!
Maybe the next time I head up I'll try a black diamond once or twice, remember how it was like to once fear it, now have some capability of being able to conquer it one run at a time :)
Back into the swing of things tomorrow, start of a new week, and a Monday. Hopefully I can make it up the stairs at work :P
Good night folks -- Ant
Monday, March 1, 2010
Post-Kirkwood thoughts
Good morning folks,
Just thought I'd share my experience from skiboarding yesterday at Kirkwood. If you're like me, skiing, snowboarding, skiboarding all take a toll on the legs. Most of the backside runs yesterday tied out my calves, hamstrings, and quads to the point past LT (lactate threshold) and basically had jelly legs.
In preparation of the remaining part of this season and into next year, I'm looking forward to build more leg endurance. Came across this site and thought I'd share:
It doesn't look easy; Then again nothing that is good for us ever is ;-)
For now, cardio, cycling, lunges, squats, and now one-legged pistols are chalked on the list of exercises to do.
We'll see how things progress...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Random thoughts....
It has been awhile since I posted anything significant on my blog-- Well go figure; I'm probably not the most exciting person to read about . Well I'm just an average joe who what some would call a 'late bloomer'. Yeah it took me forever and a day to figure things out, however, I know which direction I'm heading now, and its definitely no longer on the path of self-destruction. For those who may have known me for some time, I have battled some issues that I have finally ironed out and come to peace with :) For those who don't know me so well, I 'm on my path to keeping a basic lifestyle of health and happiness, and that first comes from within :)
f you ever come across me, just say hello, and we can start from there ;)
Friday, February 5, 2010
Migrate a Time Machine backup
Migrate a Time Machine backup
Move to a larger disk without losing your existing backups
Friday, January 29, 2010
Update regarding xming
custom.conf file edit:
[root@kona gdm]# cat custom.conf
# GDM configuration storage
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
MaxPending=4
MaxPendingIndirect=4
# the default of MaxSessions seems to be 1 !?!
MaxSessions=16
MaxWait=15
MaxWaitIndirect=15
DisplaysPerHost=2
[chooser]
[security]
[debug]
[root@kona gdm]# pwd
/etc/gdm
[root@kona gdm]#
[root@kona gdm]# cat custom.conf
# GDM configuration storage
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
MaxPending=4
MaxPendingIndirect=4
# the default of MaxSessions seems to be 1 !?!
MaxSessions=16
MaxWait=15
MaxWaitIndirect=15
DisplaysPerHost=2
[chooser]
[security]
[debug]
[root@kona gdm]# pwd
/etc/gdm
[root@kona gdm]#
Monday, January 25, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Greetings folks! Its been a busy end of 2009 and beginning of 2010!! Here's a quick update and rundown for what my 2010 plans are so far! I'm heading out on a Mini-Vacation to CES in Vegas!!
CES is short for the consumer electronics show, which is geeky by nature and is a closed-show event (although will probably be jam-packed with *hella* people)
I'm looking forward to having a great time with my co-workers and friends. There's some folks we'll be meeting down there and will also be looking forward to hearing from them. Have a great week everyone see you guys when Iget back!
CES is short for the consumer electronics show, which is geeky by nature and is a closed-show event (although will probably be jam-packed with *hella* people)
I'm looking forward to having a great time with my co-workers and friends. There's some folks we'll be meeting down there and will also be looking forward to hearing from them. Have a great week everyone see you guys when Iget back!