Essential Fatty Acids Reduce Mood and Personality Disorder Symptoms

Essential fatty acids can help to relieve symptoms of depression and borderline personality disorder, including suicidal impulses.

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/1/167

We Aspire to Infinity...

We aspire to infinity, to God, and yet we are living in a finite time and space with the many constraints that brings. Our hearts are actually made for union with everybody, and to relate to everything, yet we cannot, on earth, experience more than a taste of what awaits us in the fullness of time. It is not surprising, therefore, that we experience an insatiable appetite for love, that we experience loneliness, that in our restlessness we may turn to alcohol or drugs. Our longing and yearning for a universal love is infinite and with the grace of God our capacity is infinite. -- from an unknown Catholic source

I don't think any Buddhist sutra could sum it so well, this yearning for spirituality that causes the foolish to turn to drugs and alcohol instead.

Yet it takes a bit of humbling to come to this realization, which most people try to avoid at all costs, only to die miserably and alone.

That a person should at the first opportunity awaken to their spiritual purpose is an obligation only a few people dare to make.

Thus it is that many people are called by a Higher Power, but few of us dare to heed that Call.

Update on my Reading as of 2008

Last Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 I just got up, and still feel tired. Five hours of sleep does not cut it for me. More than likely though, I'll be either having a coffee, black with lots of sweetener, later on or just buy a Red Bull and wake up.

Although I had taken out from the Burnaby Public Library three books on computers, my lack of enthusiasm is annoying. I thought for sure that I'd be more serious about learning Python, but the Essential Reference book by Beazley does not inspire me.

As well, I thought that my rediscovery of Gancarz's The UNIX Philosophy would inspire me to write my own UNIX manifesto. Even Graff & van Wyk's Secure Coding gets the programmer's creative juices flowing.

I suppose then that I am just another script kiddie, which sucks majorly. :"(

Later on that weekend I started reading from Gancarz's book and Graff & van Wyk's with no problems, but because Beazley's book is example only rather than a cookbook, it's slow-going.

Though I did find a few websites on my two favorite programming languages, Ruby and Python.

Here is Gancarz's UNIX Philosophy in a nutshell:

"In 1994 Mike Gancarz (a member of the team that designed the X Window System), drew on his own experience with Unix, as well as discussions with fellow programmers and people in other fields who depended on Unix, to produce The UNIX Philosophy which sums it up in 9 paramount precepts:

Small is beautiful.
Make each program do one thing well.
Build a prototype as soon as possible.
Choose portability over efficiency.
Store data in flat text files.
Use software leverage to your advantage.
Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability.
Avoid captive user interfaces.
Make every program a filter."

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Mike Gancarz: The Unix Philosophy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Mike_Gancarz:_The_UNIX_Philosophy

How to get root legitimately

how to root legitimately:

you must have the following:

a minimum of 2 computers that will install linux -- with at least 64 MB ram and 500 MB drive space on one that will be used as the server

internet connection (for linux updates)

router connected to your broadband modem, and the usual cables

experience with linux

directions:

1. install server version of linux on the minimal computer and workstation on the best computer. you should know which is which.
2. update the client with dist-upgrade. if you know how to do that, then fine. if not, then rtfm.
3. you could use chkrootkit on the server and see where it fails. or use nessus, tho it means your client will need apache running for that. or you could just upgrade python and ruby and install metaploit framework according to instructions. use google to find these suckers and rtfm before proceeding.
4. once you root your server, using your exploit tool, patch the server to prevent that root exploit from working again. do this with all the exploits that work.

The objective of this exercise is to learn how to prevent someone from rooting a server. This involves preventing buffer overflows. Google "buffer overflows" for details.


Short FAQ:

Will this howto help me get root on xyz.tld's server? No, but it will teach you how to get root on your own server. Furthermore it will teach you that you may need physical access to get some privileges. However, rooting your employer's server could result in getting blackballed in the IT field, especially if you use it to get warezs and pr0n, plus use it to serve that illegal content to your warez buddies. If you must be illicit, then google "rackspace" and learn.

Can you help me setting up my computers and network? No, i am not gonna tell you how to set up a server under Linux or how to patch it. You may learn how to build kernels, etc. on your own, though. Nor am I going to give out urls to the stuff revealed in this howto. This howto covers the basics, and you should know where to get real howto's to help you.

Why did you write this stupid lame-azzed howto and write this stupid FAQ? I forget; probably cos I can't KISS.