Hi all there are a few good questions that one should ask himself...

Defining Goals
1. If you were to FULLY live your life, what is the first change you would start to make?
2. What areas of your life could be upgraded/ tweaked?
3. What could we work on now that would make the biggest difference to your life?
4. How would you feel about doubling that goal?
5. What are you tolerating/putting up with?
6. What do you want MORE of in your life? (Make a list)
7. What do you want LESS of in your life? (Make a list)
8. What are three things you are doing regularly that don’t serve or support you?
9. How could you make this goal more specific or measurable?
10. What would be the biggest impact from achieving your goal(s)?
11. What would you try now if you knew you could not fail?
12. How can we make this something you're aiming towards, rather than something you're trying to
move away from?
13. What do you love?
14. What do you hate?
15. What's one thing you would love to do before you die?
16. Is now the right time for you to make a commitment to achieving these goals?
17. What could we work on right now that would really put a smile on your face?
18. For your life to be perfect, what would have to change?
19. What do you really, really want?
20.What's one change you could make to your lifestyle that would give you more peace?

Action Stations
21. What's the first/next step?
22. What research could you do to help you find the first (or next) step?
23. Who could you talk to who would illuminate this issue?
24. Who should you be hanging out with – so that achieving this goal becomes natural? (i.e. who’s
already doing it?)
25. How can you get the knowledge/ information you need?
26. What are three actions you could take that would make sense this week?
27. On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited to you feel about taking these actions?
28. What would increase that score? (e.g. handle fear, clearer steps, more support, more fun)
29. What would Tony Robbins do in this situation? What would 'massive action' look like?
30. What will happen (what is the cost) of you NOT doing anything about this?
Gaining New Perspectives
31. What can you learn from this?
32. In what way is the current situation absolutely perfect?
33. How could you turn this around immediately, and enjoy the process?
34. What in this situation can you find to be grateful for?
35. What are you doing well? What can you do better?
36. What's one way you could have more fun in your life?
37. If you were your own coach, what coaching would you give yourself right now?
38. What is the value of your current attitude?
39. What's your favourite way of sabotaging yourself, and your goals?
40. What should I say to you if I spot you doing this?
General Diagnostic Questions
41. What are three of your greatest strengths?
42. What are you most excited about now? What are you looking forward to?
43. What's one way to get more energy into your life?
44. If your relationship was IDEAL, what's one thing that would be different?
45. What would be your 'ideal career ' if you could do anything?
46. What's one thing that you could do to give yourself more peace financially?
47. What is your life really about? What is your purpose?
48. If you had to guess your life purpose (from looking at your life to date), what would it be?
49. What would you like most to be acknowledged for so far in your life?
50. Who in your life should be acknowledged more? Would you like to acknowledge them for something
today?



Aniruddha



-Taken from www.solutionbox.com

Hi All,

One more fool got added in the last article's "fools list"...
why?
He replied to the mail which I had sent to a lot of friends notifying about the updated article.

But only one mistake... (As usual a stupid one):

He clicked on reply to all and sent a "Private and personal message"



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From: nishu.jameendar@consistent.co.in
To: aniruddha<at>somewhereontheplanet.com , plus a few more mail ids ...
Subject: RE: A foolproof story
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:15:26 +0530

Tujha site chya clicks vaadhnya saathi bara FUNDA shodhun kadhlais re …….







Thanks & Regards

Replied to:
From: aniruddha<at>somewhereontheplanet.com
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 3:12 PM
To: nishu.jameendar@consistent.co.in, plus a few more mail ids ...
Subject: A foolproof story



Hey guys,


Read this fools story to become a "Fool Proof" person...
This is about two different fools, who did same stupid thing...

Most of you know one of them ;)
(Don't ask, about their whereabouts, I just wont tell you... but you can guess it..)
Follow this link to read the story...


Aniruddha



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Moral of the story is you have to be very careful while on the:
WILD WILD WEB!

Aniruddha

Hey Guys,

I got two mail from two different persons who are claiming that they are fools!

Interested?

Read the mails:
(Actual mail ids and names are removed / changed)

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First Fool
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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:18:37 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mechanical.Makrand<at>somewhereontheplanet.com
Subject: I am a fool
To: aniruddha<at>onsomeotherendofplanet.com
Message:
I am a fool I have kept logged in myself on a computer and got away....




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Second Fool
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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:53:14 -0800
From: rahul.aaglave<at>yadnya.com
To: aniruddha<at>onsomeotherendofplanet.com
Subject: I am a fool
Message:
Hi,

I am a fool that I kept logged in and left the terminal...


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I hope, everybody understands the seriousness of their IDENTITY!


Aniruddha

Here you can see an amazing photograph:

Can you find out whats odd?


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OK, OK!
In a closer look you can find it out that the black camels are not camels at all, they are just SHADOWS! And the photograph is taken from sky to ground view! Thats just great!



Aniruddha

Just 2-3 days ago I (Aniruddha) , Nitin Kshirsagar, Nityanand Parab & Bhushan Kamble had went to a short trip to Mahabaleshwar.
A few photographs (taken by Bhushan) can be seen here:-

Flying High:
Three para gliders flying in the sky:
(Although only one can be spotted in this photograph)

A comment from the crowd:
If you fell in water, you can try to swim... But what about the skies?
Another comment from the crowd:
Hope, they don't play "Kata Kati" in air!!
(Kata Kati is a game played using Kites, where everybody tries to cut the strings of other's Kites.)

A lot of other images are there and we really missed the high resolution cameras in Thoseghar (A place near Sajjangarh, Satara) waterfall.


Aniruddha

Hi,

Here is a simple guide to harden redhat / centos linux

Although its not based on hard and fast rules, you will get some
good hints how its done.

I hope it helps someone.


Thanks,

Aniruddha

Motivational

Mary Tyler Moore
"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."


Samuel Johnson
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."

David Lloyd George
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

Narenda Rocherolle
"Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bob Dylan (1941 - )
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Susan J. Bissonette
An optimist is the human personification of spring.

Donald Trump (1946 - ), "Trump: Art of the Deal"
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.


Aniruddha

Hurray,

Thats just great! I had never thought that www.aniruddhas.com will go above a few hundred hits. But it just crossed the silver jubilee mark of twenty five thousand (25,000) hits.

I (Aniruddha) will grab this opportunity to thank all those visitors of www.aniruddhas.com that have visited www.aniruddhas.com and are continuing to visit. I would also like to ensure all the visitors of www.aniruddhas.com, that I will keep on adding some interesting content to the site.

This content will include tutorials, some random thoughts, some poems , jokes and essays.

Only one thing I would complain about is, a lot of visitors send mails through contact me section of the site. It would be better if comments are added to the respective sections. That would help everybody else in getting that information.

I hope that Aniruddha's blog at aniruddhas.com will be of some help to the visitors in some ways.

Thanks again,

Aniruddha

This is in ref. with "A MIMEDefang filter to block spam, mail forging, adding boilerplates, smtp dictionary attacks"


Few Things that I had not mentioned clearly in the above post:
The filter DOES accept the first spam mail from any ip address, adds boilerplate ("the ip has got banned please contact admin in case of any issues...") and then sends it to the recipient.
Then it adds the ip into the database and the next time when spammer tries to connect to the server, it simply rejects the spammer.

This is the default behavior so that false alert should not ban the genuine user forever. This way the filter will become more and more mature as and when new ip addresses are banned.

But yes, If you want this action to be changed to:

"Discarding the first spam message from certain ip address too"
then I would suggest following change in the code:

------------------------Original code snippet---------

my($hits, $req, $names, $report) = spam_assassin_check();
action_change_header("X-Spam-Score","$hits :: $names ");
if (($hits > 10 ) && (!&ISMYIP($RelayAddr))) {
my $dbh = DB_CONNECT();
my $ath = $dbh->prepare(qq{insert into `blockedip` values('$RelayAddr')});
$ath->execute();
$ath->finish();

$dbh->disconnect();
$BOILit = "This is a Spammer $RelayAddr so it has got banned. Contact admin if any issues " ;

}
append_text_boilerplate($entity, "$BOILit ", 0);

}
# DO NOT delete the next line, or Perl will complain.
1;


------------------------Suggested code snippet---------

my($hits, $req, $names, $report) = spam_assassin_check();
action_change_header("X-Spam-Score","$hits :: $names ");
if (($hits > 10 ) && (!&ISMYIP($RelayAddr))) {
my $dbh = DB_CONNECT();
my $ath = $dbh->prepare(qq{insert into `blockedip` values('$RelayAddr')});
$ath->execute();
$ath->finish();

$dbh->disconnect();
$BOILit = "SpAmMeR";
}
if ($BOILit ne "SpAmMeR") {
append_text_boilerplate($entity, "$BOILit ", 0);
} else {
action_discard();
}
}
# DO NOT delete the next line, or Perl will complain.
1;


############################
#CODE ENDED HERE
############################

Few more things that users keep on asking me:

1) About Boiler Plate Data:
These boiler plates are to be added manually and they are not added automatically.
Each mail account can have his /her own boiler plate.
Don't use this as a signature because this costs cpu power and other resources.
This is to be added as per the "Organizational role played by the mail account holder". Thats defined by the organizational policies in most cases.

2) Currently there are no tools to add or remove mail ids, blocked ips, boiler plates or for any data manipulation in the database.

3) About further developments of this basic simple filter:
Hmmm..
I am seriously thinking of creating A GPL based complete spam protection suit. Which would use:
i) SpamAssassin
ii) MIMEDefang
iii) Apache for web based administration
iv) MySQL
v) PHP as a development language for web based control panel.
vi) A MIMEDefang filter to bring i, ii, iv and sendmail together.
AND
vii) Most Important SENDMAIL!

I would appreciate if some one can suggest me features that should be included.

Hey, but I have not promised that I will be doing all of the above though I would be very much happy if I can.




- Aniruddha Thombre
<a href="http://www.aniruddhas.com/" target="_blank">- Aniruddha Thombre</a>

MySQL Replication made simple

Edit /etc/my.cnf on Primary / Master MySQL server from which you want to replicate the data
to add following lines:
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#Name of Binary log File Which has to be provided to slave server too.
log-bin=mysql-bin.log

#Name of the database which you want to replicate or the one which you dont want to be replicated.
binlog-do-db=replicatethisdb
binlog-ignore-db=dontreplicatedb

#Unique server id (Unique among all replication master / slaves)
server-id=1
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Sample MySQL Configuration file On the Master:
/etc/my.cnf
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[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
log-bin=mysql-bin.log
binlog-do-db=replicatethisdb
binlog-ignore-db=mysql

server-id=1

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
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restart mysql on server

Connect to the mysql server:-

mysql -u root -p

Execute following:-

GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE ON *.* TO 'slave'@'remote.hostname' IDENTIFIED BY '<some_password>';
FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;

#You need to say *.* not replicatethisdb.* as REPLICATION is an administrative right.


SHOW MASTER STATUS;

 +------------------+----------+----------------+------------------+
| File             | Position | Binlog_Do_DB    | Binlog_Ignore_DB |
+------------------+----------+-----------------+------------------+
| mysql-bin.000001 |       98 | replicatethisdb |  mysql           |
+------------------+----------+-----------------+------------------+

#Record filename and Position in above table.


on slave edit in /etc/my.cnf to add :

server-id=2
master-host = my.masterhostip.or.name
master-user = slave
master-password = some_password
replicate-do-db = replicatethisdb
log-warnings


restart mysqld on slave



On slave connect to mysql:

mysql -u root -p
#Stop slave if it is working with:
STOP SLAVE;

#Execute following:
CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='my.masterhostip.or.name', MASTER_USER='slave', MASTER_PASSWORD='some_password', MASTER_LOG_FILE='recorded_log_file_name', MASTER_LOG_POS=recorded_log_position;

# that becomes following in our case:
CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='my.masterhostip.or.name', MASTER_USER='slave', MASTER_PASSWORD='some_password', MASTER_LOG_FILE='mysql-bin.000001', MASTER_LOG_POS=98;


#Restart both mysql servers to check if it is working.
#To check that fire up following queries:
#This is to be executed on the master server
SHOW MASTER STATUS;

#This is to be executed on the slave server
SHOW SLAVE STATUS;

#Record log file names and positions and check if both are matching. It should, if it is working.

Thats it! We have got MySQL Replication working!
Isn't that "MySQL Replication made simple" ?




- Aniruddha Thombre
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