After today's zypper up on openSuSE 11.2, I saw like so many times before the final upgrade report:

There are some running programs that use files deleted by recent upgrade. You may wish to restart some of them. Run 'zypper ps' to list these programs.

zypper ps

The following running processes use deleted files:

PID  | PPID | UID | Login | Command             | Files
-----+------+-----+-------+---------------------+-
1628 | 1    | 0   | root  | python2.6 (deleted) | /usr/bin/python2.6 (deleted)

The recommended "zypper ps" brought no enlightenment to my server users brain. Hence I was quickly looking into other options to find the actual software or daemon using the deleted files. It is obvious that simply killing /usr/bin/python2.6 or process 1628 may be no clean solution.

Thus I did below and yes - the output showed the actual daemon using the deleted program.

In openSuSE the restart of fail2ban is done by:

rcfail2ban restart
Shutting down fail2ban

A new zypper ps showed: No processes using deleted files found.

On another of my servers I had:

zypper ps
The following running processes use deleted files:

PID  | PPID | UID | Login | Command      | Service | Files
-----+------+-----+-------+--------------+---------+------------------------
2291 | 2290 | 0   | root  | dovecot-auth |         | /usr/lib64/libpq.so.5.2

Here is is apparent = dovecot-auth has to do with dovecot mail system and thus a rcdovecot restart does this job to have dovecot running on live system rather than on zombies.

ps auxf shows you all processes started and the actual software or children related. The grep filters to show only those processes relevant to the zypper ps output. On a production server a full reboot is obsolete and certainly never desirable unless you really have to reboot - like for example after a zypper dup or after a kernel upgrade. This above methods is the clean default method to keep your system running on live software.

Love and Bliss

hans

The good news first: The setup of a secondary MX mail exchange server is as easy as your primary MX mail server. All you need of course is a second server! To have two servers running on one IP/one machine would no sense at all. The below brief description is based on my openSUSE 11.2 server - but mail is managed by postfix/dovecot and thus on all Linux distributions more or less identical with the exception of paths.

My setup as basis of this brief article:

• openSuSE 11.2 LAMP
• postfix
• dovecot
• 1 domain = kriyayoga.com running currently on 4 servers. Hence 2 of my own servers act as mail server
• NO MySQL for postfix - since my mail server if for me alone - all files are flat files

Many years I run my website / servers with a single MX server and that never was a good feeling. Specially when your one server is down and you need help from any support @ your hosting company or from friends.

First a few clarifications on wrong information circulating out in the www world

• There are rumors out there that the setup a secondary MX server is difficult = fact is is nothing different from your first MX server!
• Other rumors say that a secondary MX server attracts SPAM = we have powerful postfix filter and reject options in our configuration that allows to accept good sender-mails and reject bad-sender mail
• There are some wrongful instructions to make the secondary MX mail exchange server less strict for SPAM abuse = there is NO reason at all to do so.

The purpose of a secondary MX mail exchange server

The ideal setup of a second MX server is to make your entire email receiving and sending system failsafe in situations where one server is down, or a server is shut down for upgrades, maintenance or when moving servers or domain. To automatically step in as primary mail server, the secondary MX server needs to be fully configured identical to your primary mail server and runing all the time. The only difference is your DNS entry. The lower the priority number of a MX record in your NS - the higher that mail servers priority. Hence the one server with the lowest number is the one MX server to normally attract and receive all your mail as well as being used as smtp server for sending if you configured your eMail client so.

If you shut down your primary MX server then automatically and instantly all new arriving mail goes to your remaining secondary mail server. There is NO need for any interaction at all from your side. Sending mail servers first check your DNS MX records to find your smtp server, if one is down, the other is chosen by default. If you are out of office and have your laptop pulling your mail every few minutes, then inn the worst case those few mail arriving in the few minutes since last POP would be lost provided that your mail server permanently is damaged and all data lost.

In normal cases a server is down for whatever reason, the problem solved ASAP and the server restarted again. Thus any mail left in your server-mailboxes would still be there. All the mail flowing while the server is down would be handled by your second mail server. Tat of course would require that you permanently POP your mail from BOTH mail servers to be sure no mail is left on any of the two servers.

How to configure your secondary MX server?

Exactly as your primary mail server! All spam filters, all authentication, all secure communication TLS/SSL keys and certificates will be created as for your primary server. As secure and tight as possible. Hence POP3S for receiving mails and TLS for outgoing mails.

What makes a particular mail server primary or secondary server is ONLY the priority number in your NS record!! Hence you first make sure you have a clean and secure mail server running for in and outgoing mail. Then you may copy your entire postfix configuration = main.cf and master.cf or better the entire folder /etc/postfix to your new server and change the very few words or lines that are relevant to your secondary mail server hostname and domain name.

Now in the background you rsync your working mail configuration to your planned secondary server. Adjust the very few things that are host or domain name relevant in your postfix and dovecot files. The you test proper functioning. First test are done while logged into your server via SSH. make the usual telnet connection.

For your POP3 and SMTP server - use telnet commands as below. Have your telnet commands available and ready to type or copy/paste for easier testing:

telnet localhost 110
telnet localhost 25

If you can successfully login from your localhost for both SMTP and POP3, then you may try the same from a remote location, your laptop. Here you have to enter the mail server name = impossible because you may NOT yet have the proper NS record published. Solution: You use your secondary MX IP instead of mail server record. Again test both SMTP and POP3.

If your telnet session is successful, then it is time for a real test. Take a backup mail client = Thunderbird, Kmail, evolution, etc. I use evolution as may primary email client. Hence for testing my secondary mail server, I configured Kmail. With IP as my mail server address for POP3 and SMTP and all security options such as SSL for POP3S and TLS for SMTP. Send from your home laptop mails to your new mail server and check if the mail are on the server using your new POP3S setup in Kmail ( or any other back up mail client. If all properly done, you can send from home mail to you via your new (secondary MX server). Next test will be to do mail server relay testing.

I mention backup email client because you may mess up your server certificates if you use your primary mail client for testing with new mail servers and may have to clean up your local machine to be free for the final mail server configuration with a proper mail server name as published in your MX records.

If successful so far, then it is time to setup your NS records for your new MX server!! Test your MX records by using dig.

dig mx yourdomain.com

That should give you a result showing your 2 MX server entries in your global NS records. Similar to below:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
kriyayoga.com.  3600 IN  MX  20 mail.kriyayoga.com.
kriyayoga.com.  3600 IN  MX  10 smtp.kriyayoga.com.

All successful by now - it is time for one last real test. For this final test you need a friend out there in the world, as far as possible but at least away from your servers. That friend should send you a test email just seconds after you shut down your primary mail server! All world now knows your secondary mail exchange server. POP your mail from your primary mail server and STOP your primary MX server. IN openSUSE this is:

rcpostfix stop

Nothing to fear about loosing any incoming mail. Remember: Even if your server is shut down, Sender servers having mail for you get a temporary error reply or no reply from your server. The result is that the same sender server is keeping the mail for you and attempts to resend every few hours. Usually up to 3-4 days.

Hence best is you have a direct communication by ICQ or another IM. You shut down your mail server and tell him seconds later to send his test-email to your regular email address. Seconds later you check your new MX server and you should have your friend's test mail in your Inbox. If you did all your telnet sessions plus your backup-.email client sessions successful before, then your real world test also should succeed without any problem at all.

All being successful now, you can leave your primary mail server stopped for a longer testing period. Or you may keep that server shut down for maintenance or upgrade, etc. Then you may have BOTH running and pull your mail from BOTH mail severs.

One last tip for you:

For all the setup and testing phases of your mail servers - your best friend will be the mail log files. Hence during the configuration and setup phase you may want to setup your log more verbose to receive human readable details of possible problems if ever.

in postfix/main.cf
smtp_tls_loglevel = 2
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 2

in your dovecot.conf
auth_debug_passwords=yes
mail_debug=yes

That assures you get sufficient feedback from your mail log:

Enjoy clean server setup and protect yourself from mail server abuse by taking the time to learn what you need to know before you actually do it.

Love and Bliss

hans

In our ongoing global crisis with several countries in increasing financial and economic troubles and growing debts. Billions of individuals, families and corporations are in debts at the verge of defaulting and complete failure. We have acquired or maintained in many countries a culture of debt and borrowing oriented tradition of first spending then may be earning later ...

It is time to understand the deepest sense of money in our all lives and cultures. We all as spiritual beings some day are destined to return home to God. At home in God we have NO money. We have love and we have true absolute values. Values are deeds created out of love for the joy and happiness of others. Values are the result of ourselves growing strong in our hearts and having acquired skills, expertise and the power to perform and supply when ever our loving help or service is needed. Our true and eternal value is our innermost and completely evolved nature of being a source of love, bliss and joy for others.

Money in our world substitutes value while we all have to learn again to truly love each other again. At home in God we have NO debts, NO credits, NO mortgages, etc. God's spiritual world is our home made of love. We earn based on our love given, based on our values created and given to all creation.

To understand our relationship to money here and now we need to have a look at what we mostly do with money we earn. While some of the very richest ones may do a few other activities with money, such as buying positions, buying supporters, buying lobbyists, bribing persons in mighty or important positions, purchasing security forces, buying armies of soldiers and policemen to "defend" or support or enforce their own cause or opinion against all opposition of our selfish goals ...

The vast majority of may be some 90% or more percent of the global population uses money mainly to:

• buy daily basic food and drinking water
• buy daily needs such as soap, shampoo, household cleaning and other hygiene products
• pay for basic housing needs and basic furniture such as beds, etc
• pay for daily bills for amenities such as electricity, water, sewage and garbage
• pay basic schooling needs for children
• pay basic medical care and health care
• may be enjoy some recreation and social activities or an annual vacation

To really understand the widespread misconcept of debts, mortgages and purchasing on credit cards, we do a little mental exercise:

If we replace the word money or the name of our currency like EURO, US dollars, etc with the real values we buy with our money, then we will easily understand why we never can borrow real value.

Money in our world is only a virtual value, in many cases a piece of paper of absolutely NO real value at all. We imagine a value attributed to that piece of paper according to what numbers are printed and what country has issued that "piece of paper" ...

Now we replace 1$ with 1kg potatoes, 1kg noodles, 1kg rice, 1 liter drinking water, 1 day housing, .... etc.

Instead of having ONE $ we may have ONE kilogram of rice or potato or 1 liter of clean natural drinking water.

While we may borrow 1 $ from a bank - the bank has borrowed that same 1 $ from another bank or investor, ... or the bank may have borrowed from its national bank which just prints a bunch of papers with 1$ value printed. We see that money can be created by printing or even more modern by simply adding virtual money into computer accounts by changing bits and bytes without adding real value at all.

If you use the "real stuff" we actually use our money for - rice or potatoes or drinking water or any other basic daily need, then we see:

Can you drink a liter of water without having actually created or obtained REAL water? NO! Can you eat one kg if rice before that rice has actually been planted, harvested and processed? NO! Can you apply a life saving medicine before that medicine actually has been invented and created? NO!

We see that virtual values can be artificially multiplied by many means such as printing more paper money or issuing more digital values by changing bits and bytes in your bank account. Virtual money value in credit cards ca be multiplied by simply raising your credit limits or increasing your borrowing limits or mortgage limits, or by refinancing - i.e. by replacing one mortgage form bank A by a may be cheaper or more expensive OTHER mortgage from bank B.

Such virtual value worlds have been created as a result of our own stinginess, greed and laziness. We look for solutions to enjoy more values than we created ourselves true absolute values in our past. In real world and later at home in God, we have:

• NO credits at all, no credit limits, no mortgages, no credit cards or similar borrowing systems
• NO storage system to save values for later, no bank or saving accounts - we let all our values flow
• NO employees to do our work or to help to do our own work - we do our work ourselves with our own body, mind and soul
• NO outsourcing to do our dirty, dangerous or boring work - we do all our work ourselves
• NO helpers to do our own duties - we all enjoy life, we all contribute by fulfilling ourselves our "duties"
• NO security guard, no military, no police, no protection of any kind to protect us from our own karma or mistakes

We create real values and thus enjoy real benefits according to our own merit. If our very personal efforts increase - so does our own joy of life. Our own life, our own strength in life as well as our own true freedom in eternal life depends on how much we do all on our own without outsourcing, without using other beings powers and energy. We are all social beings by nature. Hence we all have deep inside a natural desire to do something for others. Hence we really enjoy being expert in the creation of a really useful, really helpful product or service to be offered to others. Hence we have a natural instinct to open our hearts and souls for a mutual exchange of values. Without money, without accounting, without government control or influence - but based on love and true needs only.

In real life we always first need to create a value, then enjoy the results of our efforts. In our earthly life we can start to practice the very same. By limited our spending to be within our earnings. We can reduce our global problems by shrinking ALL our spending, energy consumption and usage of other people's services and values to within our own creative productivity.

To understand the meaning of real values vs virtual values better, a little imagination exercise for you: Imagine you are hungry and go to your father for diner. Your father has no food but gives you a yellow paper certificate for a diner at home. You go home to your mother and give her your yellow diner certificate .... Instead of giving you your diner, she gives you a red printed certificate or 1.1 diner tomorrow. Tomorrow you go even more hungry to your mother and want your 1.1 dinner. Your mother says "today I have no real food at all, but I give you a blue certificate for 10 free diners PLUS 10 fresh fruit juices and 5 of your favorite cakes - all redeemable next year."

Austerity measures applied need to strictly and very substantially reduce public spending because public spending always is done with borrowed money, with your tax money to be paid in future weeks, years or decades. Security and defense spending only is needed as long as we or our governments are messing up this world and thus create enemies to fear. If your entire world, your business, all your activities are based on love only, then no one on earth ever can become your enemy and thus no defense at all is needed. For the government to spend 1 Million dollars to support our failing economy, tax payers may need to pay a multiple of 1 Million dollars. A government uses the majority of tax money for self administration and only a tiny part for the improvement of life among its tax paying people. Hence to pore Billions into a failing global economy costs many times more to all tax payers and finally results in even greater financial and economic problems to occur some times later. Instead we all have to learn to live well within healthy natural limits of global resources shared equally among all and at the same time preserving, maintaining and protecting our biggest global value - our nature as a sacred unique gift of love from God.

If your own life may appear too poor or too simple, then improve your real life qualifications to increase your real world usefulness and helpfulness. Improve and increase the real life values created by you. The more real value you create for the benefit and happiness of others, the better, more enjoyable, more happy your own life will be. Happiness in our lives has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of available money, but with the presence and availability of real values in our lives. There are villages and communities having may be no money or less than a single US$ per day, yet having all their needs and a happy life within a happy community because they all have learned to create real life values to exchange and freely let flow within their own community and toward outside communities as well. In addition we may want to strictly practice to pay honest prices and honest wages for all services or products we receive and enjoy from others to establish equality and social peace among all creation.

Love and bliss

hans

Mfone/Camshin in Cambodia are easy to connect out of the box. Using openSUSE 11.2 - most likely most other Linux distributions work with similar configurations. I use wvdial to connect my laptop via Nokia N900 to the Internet. The preparation and configuration of your laptop amd your N900 for DUN are same as published earlier for the Philippines and most other countries.

If you use any other Nokia smart phone such as N95, N97 or other 3G models, most likely you may succeed using the very same configuration as well. Changes only may be needed if your mobile smartphone modem needs a different initialization string.

The wvdial.conf section for my N900 DUN connection is as below:

[Dialer kh]
Modem = /dev/rfcomm0
Baud = 30720000
Dial Command = ATDT
Init1 = ATE1
Init2 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","Mfone","",0,0
FlowControl = CRTSCTS
Init3 = ATM0
Phone = *99***1#
Username = (empty)
Password = (empty)
Stupid Mode = 1
Check Def Route = 1

Mfone above is the current name of the APN for mobile Internet surfing. We have NO username and NO password. After dialup is correctly done you still need to make sure your other network interfaces are down and to manually set your new default route with the gateway given in your dial up dialog output.

Manually set your gateway IP:

route add default gw 10.6.6.6

A dial up dialog will show you something like or similar to below:

#wvdial ph
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATE1
ATE1
OK
--> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","Internet","",0,0
AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","Internet","",0,0
OK
--> Sending: ATM0
ATM0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99***1#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99***1#
CONNECT
(some weird characters here)
--> Carrier detected.  Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Fri Jun 18 18:44:36 2010
--> Pid of pppd: 22024
--> Using interface ppp0
--> local  IP address 172.19.155.20
--> remote IP address 10.6.6.6
--> primary   DNS address 202.47.96.146
--> secondary DNS address 122.154.101.19
--> Script /etc/ppp/ip-up run successful
--> Default route Ok.
--> Nameserver (DNS) Ok.
--> Connected... Press Ctrl-C to disconnect

To create more accesspoints - see the current Mfone technical information page in PDF format with 3G mobile settings for Mfone. From above DUN modem dialog you also may see newest Mfone DNS if published ones fail to work for you.

Enhance your N900 Desktops with beautiful Nokia N900 tropical nature wallpapers

Enjoy the new Nokia N900 wallpaper collection click above thumbnail to view all images

Enjoy Cambodia's nature and culture

Love and Bliss

hans

Smart Communication - Philippines, prepaid SIM

The good news: DUN works out of the box. The information found online may at times be outdated or confusing. Here a brief howto connect your Nokia N900 to your 3G-Internet connection. The precise example below is for Smart Communication Philippines but may also work with minimal adaptation with many other 3G networks.

It took me a while until I got my laptop online with my new N900. One of the major reasons was my Bluezwitch. A Bluetooth widget I installed very early to switch my Bluetooth ON and OFF - for security reasons as well as to reduce power consumption when BT connections are OFF. Looking at online information, there seem to be various Bluetooth applications with different names offering same functionalities. Such as Bluetooth DUN, Bluetooth networking, Bluezwitch widget and may be others.

When ever I wanted to install any of the Bluetooth DUN or Bluetooth networking applications mentioned in the official maemo documentations or forums, I got the error "application already installed". I have NO DUN application installed - only my Bluezwitch widget - but somehow the Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking also is present but never manually used by me. Until I found out that Bluezwitch is all I needed. Bluezwitch was NO where mentioned as doing the DUN job for my N900.

I use Bluezwitch Bluetooth widget for DUN!

If and how the Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking application is used on my N900 is unknown as I never activated or started anything at all. I just switch Bluetooth ON before using wvdial. That's all to prepare my N900.

Here the key points to consider for an instant out of the box DUN connection laptop to 3G Internet:

On your Nokia N900

• It may be a good idea to reboot your N900!!
• make sure your Nokia N900 is DISCONNECTED from Internet !
• on your Nokia N900 close all other networks interfaces you might have up. Check in your N900 bash with ifconfig. You may have a usb0 network interface from your cable connection up. Use ifconfig usb0 down to close it.
• have your Bluetooth ON

On your laptop (for my openSUSE 11.2 on an Acer Travelmate 7520G)

• make sure your N900 is trusted and paired in your laptop's configuration!
• down your other network interfaces, such as running WIFI or ETH. Check with ifconfig. Then either ifconfig eth0 down or ifconfig wlan0 down or whatever other network interfaces are up and active in your ifconfig output.
• adapt or add a /etc/wvdial.conf configuration section for your new N900 3G connection. See below my complete wvdial.conf section for a working Smart Communication Philippines 3G DUN connection.Since you may travel and use different 3G networks, You may give each wvdial.con configuration section a name for easy re-use and identification. I call my Philippine section with Smart wvdial ph and my Cambodian section using Mfone wvdial kh.
• now activate your DUN connection using command line: wvdial ph - You use your own config section name or if you use only one - then you type only wvdial to initialize your DUN 3G connection.

wvdial.conf section for Smart Communications Philippines - prepaid SIM

[Dialer ph]
Modem = /dev/rfcomm0
Baud = 30720000
Dial Command = ATDT
Init1 = ATE1
Init2 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","Internet","",0,0
FlowControl = CRTSCTS
Init3 = ATM0
Phone = *99***1#
Username = (empty)
Password = (empty)
Stupid Mode = 1

In your terminal you will now see a communication similar or equal to below:

 >  wvdial ph
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATE1
ATE1
OK
--> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","Internet","",0,0
AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","Internet","",0,0
OK
--> Sending: ATM0
ATM0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99***1#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99***1#
CONNECT
(some weird characters here)
--> Carrier detected.  Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Tue Jun 15 21:04:38 2010
--> Pid of pppd: 8089
--> Using interface ppp0
--> local  IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
--> remote IP address 10.6.6.6
--> primary   DNS address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
--> secondary DNS address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
--> Script /etc/ppp/ip-up run successful
--> Default route Ok.
--> Nameserver (DNS) Ok.
--> Connected... Press Ctrl-C to disconnect

The above remote IP address 10.6.6.6 is your gateway IP. You need to manually set a new default route on your laptop. For whatever reason wvdial does recognize the new gateway but NOT set the new route!!! This is done on your laptop in your bash: Use whatever IP you get in your dial up process.

route add default gw 10.6.6.6

Additional help you may find useful if you have different problems or a different Nokia smart phone other than N900:

Command lines to connect your Nokia smart phone via Bluetooth to your laptop. For your N900 NONE of these additional possible problems ever should occur.

Now test your Internet 3G connection from your laptop by either loading a page or faster by using a ping to a known site. If you have NO connection, you most likely skipped one of above steps.

A brief checklist:

1. reboot your N900
2. disconnect your N900 from Internet !!
3. down all network interfaces on N900 and on your laptop
4. on N900 Bluetooth ON using Bluezwitch or any other Bluetooth DUN application for N900
5. configure on your laptop to pair and trust your N900
6. use proper APN in your wvdial.conf for YOUR 3G network provider, you may find the correct APN using Google or your 3G provider's FAQ or support or howto pages. For Smart Communication Philippiens the APN is Internet

Enhance your N900 Desktops with beautiful Nokia N900 wallpapers

Enjoy the new Nokia N900 wallpaper collection click above thumbnail to view all images

Have fun working mobile at places you love

Love and Bliss

hans

In tough times people have the unique opportunity to grow faster or to fail and fall. The choice is yours alone. These past months of global crisis, of environment disaster and political stress among humans made by God presents many opportunities to grow or fail. God is Love - that is the greatest challenge for each and every one among all humans on earth. How to solve all political crisis? How to solve economical crisis? How to solve environment disasters?

The solution is deep inside each and every one of us! Are we doing all possible actions to prevent at any cost to our ego any kind of disaster? Are we actively forgiving and seeking reconciliation among all? Are we willing to very substantially reduce our life style for the sake of nature and all creation? Are we willing to conduct a life fully integrated into nature or are we still attempting to impose ourselves onto nature or even worst onto other people?

I just came back from many weeks of working and living on a beautiful tropical island - Siargao island in southern Philippines. Since long I wanted to work and live again more amidst nature as I did in my first 20 years of life. The only reason to be near cities was the 24/7/365 full control of the Cyberspace Ashram servers to assure you all have free access to all spiritual help needed and all people get answers to email within minutes or a few hours rather than days or weeks. High tech and additional investment and efforts made it possible to stay connected to the world even in most remote natural areas.

Life in nature is beyond anything money ever can buy or recreate after all nature is destroyed! If you leave your home and instantly are amidst God made nature, beautiful green ... breathing fresh air in a brilliant and hot sun shine ... you are inevitably going to rejuvenate, to heal, to recover from industrial stress and city's environment pollution. God's nature is an infinite resource of healing energy and true life force. Just the mere life amidst nature makes you more healthy and feel better. Activities in such a natural God made environment add to your wellbeing and well-feeling.

Suddenly TV and most recreational activities become low or last priorities. Human values, friendship, having family, having time for family, enjoying nature and above all enjoying heart to heart love amidst your loved ones becomes the only true value you love to enjoy as much as possible.

This healing natural environment is something we all can and should enjoy. We have to earn such opportunities by our daily actions, by our daily preparation and striving toward a more loving future and some day you too have created the requirements and prerequisites to live and work in the environment of your dreams.

What is your dream for a happy life? Where would you love to be and live or work for the remainder of your life? Every reasonable dream is possible and can be achieved. Some dreams may be realized instantly, other dreams may require years or decades of daily work and efforts until you live and work at a place you truly love. For some that might be inn Bavarian mountains or Swiss alps, for others a beach in Florida or jungle in Brasil or a Mediterranean island in Greece. There are Millions of places - one matching for each of us!

To achieve our dreams of happy life amidst loved ones requires us:

• to be much more loving toward all including nature, to be truly forgiving and loving in all situations
• to be willing to reconcile with all world
• to be willing to integrate ourselves into nature, into existing human society and culture rather than imposing our own way of life onto others.

A very substantial prerequisite is our need to learn to always stay within our limits. Our limits are giving by our own potential to control, keep clean and green, maintain in peace with our own personal physical means.

1. We exceed our God given limits if we need employees to handle our property or business.
2. We exceed our limits when we need body guards, security or insurance
3. We exceed our limits when we need to outsource work to save money or to have dirty, boring, dangerous jobs done by others.
4. We exceed our limits when we use loudspeakers
5. We even exceed our limits when we need robots or machinery to do what we are unwilling to do by ourselves
6. We exceed our limits when we travel at speeds exceeding what our body can handle in cases of accidents
7. There are many other examples and situations where we exceed since hundreds or thousands of years our all limits. Your own focus on developing love in all situations will show you all limits and will help you to stay wisely and lovingly within your limits.

The more you live within your own limits, the less problems you will have with others, the less social tension you create or maintain and the more peace and love you will experience across all your life and activities.

We can use technology, but only if we have the love and expertise needed to fully control all aspects and all potential results of technology used. When we look at the ongoing oil spill gulf of Mexico, we see that all governments, BP and work related companies by very far exceeded limits of what can be instantly and fully controlled in case of accident. Technology that can cause huge environment damage and disasters is wrong technology far beyond acceptable limits. To stay within limits means to be instantly able to directly stop any hazard to nature and environment. To instantly prevent any accident after first signs of warning before any damage even occurs.

More technology results in more problems and more burden to our planet and also to environment pollution. The solution of love to such global situations is in NO WAY better technology but MUCH less technology, lower consumptions by us all, lower waste of global resources, lower use of global resources. All this easily can be achieved by a more loving life style amidst our beloved family. More true love results in more true happiness and ultimately results in less consumption. Much of our consumption, shopping, recreation activities, sports, etc is but a meager substitute for missing true love.

A missing balanced life and happiness in our own family added to the stress resulting from wrong jobs results in our apparent need for distraction and artificial recreation. In a truly happy life we enjoy each other, spend time with each other - just as we have seen in the many beautiful pictures from happy children.

Chocolate, sweets and most other snacks and junk food are but a cheap but dangerous substitute for missing sweet love between husband and wife. Hence instead of buying substitutes for temporary satisfaction, strive and demand the true original love needed by your body, heart and soul. To demand true love, you have to offer true love. Whatever you want, you have to be willing to also give in abundance.

Love and Bliss

hans

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Love and Bliss

hans

If you need an excellent smart phone, get a N97 or any other Nokia phone. The N900 is NO smart phone, N900 is a POSIX compliant Linux computer with an excellent and brilliant 800x480px screen, The N900 offers all typical features of a Linux computer such as openssh to allow server key authentication and SSH secure connections to your server or web site. Besides all those pocket computer features - the N900 also has a built in smart phone!

N900 has a built in phone that can do all the phone calls you need and all the SMS. But other Nokia phones such as my previous N95 or the current N97 and most other Nokia smart phones have more modern and easier to use phone features and MMS/SMS features than the M900. But all the high end smart phones lack the capability of real secure Internet connectivity for web professionals. I choose the N900 for what it is - as a pocket size computer to connect to my servers for mobile server control and server monitoring.

Nokia N900 uses Maemo5 operating system with excellent online support: Built in application manager to easily install, update or uninstall applications from the huge selection at maemo.org or Nokia's ovi store. By default N900 is equipped with a Xterm using ash shell. All Linux applications are Debian compliant. Hence if you are familiar with install and upgrade of Debian Linux applications and system tools. Just use your apt-get install bash and you have the familiar bash shell as well as any other missing tool you need for true pocket size mobile computing.

While many traveling web publishers or business men have difficulties with port 25 blocked in various 3G networks. N900 users simply bypass blocked port 25 using portforwarding with an N900 the very same simple way you do such port forwarding on your Linux laptop.

The N900 is easily connected to your Linux laptop using the USB cable, then login to your N900 as root and do all the basic system configuration in your N900 from the convenience of your laptop keyboard. Once fully prepared for your mobile work, Leave home, enjoy life and stay connected to your dedicated servers or web site.

The N900 has an amazingly easy to use full QWERTY keyboard that allows you to efficiently type commands. Once you have prepared all necessary aliases in your bash. All further mobile communication should / could be done efficiently using your alias or smart bash history commands to communicate with your server / web site and to execute any server side commands you need for proper server maintenance.

Myself I have been waiting some 8+ years to gain more freedom with my full time day/night job. The N900 fills exactly the expectation I had - More than that. The N900 has a brilliant 800x480px screen that allows real surfing, real mobile learning or reading of howtos when needed.

The N900 comes with 4 desktops - just swipe horizontally to get to another desktop environment. I use all 4 desktops with different N900 wallpapers or ocean scenery and each desktop has a precise set of applications or functions assigned. One desktop is free - for normal offline situations just to make sure no application is accidentally opened when the N900 is out of use.

A tiny downside you need to get used: There is no real manual that comes with the N900. I use to never read the manual anyway :) - but in this case I needed to go online and search some very basic instructions such as how to lock the N900 screen.

Enjoy the new Nokia N900 wallpaper collection click above thumbnail to view all images

Some additional tips to use the N900

• Increase font size in your browser: Tap on your browser field to increase one step or use your volume control to increase/decrease
• to install Linux packages available for Debian Linux: First surf the web to learn the precise Debian package name. The use in xterm as root: apt-get install packagename
• Using xterm you are by default logged in as user and find yourself in /home/user/ folder. To change to user root, there are multiple ways and they seem to end in different results. sudo gainroot OR sudo root OR simply root. The latter version root is my preferred version as this command bringsĝs you into /root folder and gives you access to all bash alias commands, etc you may have configured in your prior preparations.. The bash prompt $ shows that you are logged in as user, the bash prompt # shows that you are root.

Use multiple open applications and hide your open applications in the background. To get the open application into the background, tap the left top corner folder icon, that shrinks your open application, then tap on an empty space of your desktop, that hides your open application in the background. Same applies for multiple open applications. To bring back any of the hidden apps into desktop again: Tap left top corner folder icon, then you see all hidden open apps in smaller window size. Tap the one application you want to use and you have that app full screen on your desktop.

Widgets you may love on your N900

On your desktop, tap on the battery-clock symbol and you see all widgets already installed and select the one you need. Below screenshot shows my own widgets. Some there by default, others added.

Installed widgets on N900 desktop - screenshot

A few widgets you may want to add early: There is no need to have bluetooth switched ON all time. Hence get the bluetooth widget that allows you to switch bluetooth ON or OFF - see screenshot. The Internet connection widget allows you to select, reselect or disconnect from 3G or any other WIFI access point.

WIFI eye widget - screenshot

The WIFI eye widget allows you to see a visual display of all WIFI access points in range.

Another "hidden" set of functionalities are the pop-up options that appear when tapping and holding a link for a while. Depending on the application you are currently using, there will be a small pop-up window showing a few options such as delete, forward, call, copy, etc. Tip: Make sure you keep the pop-up freely visible. It may pop-up left or right of your finger. To control where it pops up, use your right hand right side of the desktop window, then the pop-up always is left and free to read and thus select properly.

In the browser's URL window. left of the URL is a bold +. Tap on it to bookmark that open page.

Many of the available shortcuts for xterm and common applications are actually default Linux shortcuts. Hence if you are familiar with typical application shortcuts, you may soon be very efficient in the use of your new pocket size mobile computer. Use 3G or the nearest WIFI over SSH connections to stay connected to your server or web site and enjoy your life by being more flexible and more mobile in choosing your locations to live and work.

Backup your N900 system!

N900 backups are simple and very fast! Choose your application folder, select backup, give your backup a name, choose to password protect or leave open access, then proceed. A full backup is some 2+ MB and takes less than a single minute.

The N900 still serves as an excellent smart phone

With all above applications actively in use, you still can receive or make phone calls. Hence the N900 is a smart phone, but much more than just a simple phone. The phone part is just a tiny side application on top of all the pocket computer Linux functionalities the N900 offers. Do a regular online update of your N900 and you enjoy mobile computing as I do.

love and bliss

hans

2 methods to lock/unlock your Nokia N900 screen:

1. On top of your N900 you have the small power button - double hit the button and the screen is locked. Hit the button once and it is semi unlocked - you see a clock on the screen and swipe to unlock.
2. On the right side of your N900 you have a small slide switch to lock and unlock your N900

Enjoy your N900 - use some of my newest N900 wallpapers roses, Ocean and beach wallpapers N900 - more N900 mobile wallpapers to come asap.

Love and Bliss

hans

P.S.:

You wonder why I wrote above mini howto lock/unlock your N900 ? Because the only instruction I found from maemo.org was a youtube video demo slowly loading some 1MB to show above information. I see no reason why to publish in videos what can be said in 2 simple phrases clear to all. Creating youtube videos for every little bit of information is a waste of global resources!

The last weeks on Siargao island, I spent some 10'000+ PHP just for being online using my Smart Buddy prepaid Nokia N95 to connect my laptop via bluetooth to the web. Smart Communications sends you all kind of trashy promos, like never working free MP3 downloads, etc, but the real values are almost kept like a secret. Here what I found just days ago surfing Smarts sometimes poorly functioning web site: An unlimited surf plan for your regular Smart prepaid phone SIM that allows you truly unlimited surfing all parts of the web for a daily, weekly or monthly flat rate.

The offers online may sometimes appear confusing, like being limited to certain parts of the web only. But after subscribing to the Unlimited weekly plan for 300 PHP I instantly connected my new N900 to the web and surfed all kinds of web sites. The I checked my balance - just to see that no additional charges have been made. Hence it really is unlimited surfing to all web space beyond Google or social network sites.

To subscribe you need to have a balance on your prepaid account that allows Smart to instantly deduct your subscription charges. Read more directly - go Smart Communication web site for Mobile Internet - Smart Buddy then choose services and read the current offers for Mobile Internet packages. Once subscribed, the plan starts instantly and you enjoy unlimited mobile computing and surfing at a flat rate

Currently offered UNLI SURF plans by Smart Communications are:

Unli Surf Daily 	P50 / day
Unli Surf Weekly 	P300 / Week
Unli Surf Monthly 	P1,200 / month

To register, simply visit http://m.smart.com.ph/surf using your Smart cellphone and select the package you want to avail.

Or simply key in SURF and send to 211 to get information about the service. 

Tips for new arriving travelers

For new arriving travelers a reminder how to get your mobile phone configured with Smart Buddy prepaid. While in the mean time Smart Communications also supports other smart phones, the Philippine islands still remain above all a Nokia country. Means just about all, even brand new Nokia smart phone models find full support - except video calls, While some other brand phones may completely lack any support beyond simple SMS and calls!!

1. Get a Smart SIM - at the airport or any street dealer. A Smart buddy prepaid SIM without load is usually 1-2 US$ only!!
2. Get some prepaid load - example PHP 100 valid 1 months, PHP 300 valid 2 months or PHP 500 valid 3 months - available also PHP 1000 as e-load only valid 4 months! eload is the same as the plastic load cards without the environment pollution of the plastic! eload is available all over the Philippines even in most remote islands - as long as you have a smart signal.
3. Load your SIM by dialing the following service number 1510 PLUS without space the full PIN from your load card, Wait for proper confirmation by voice. You will be told how much you loaded, the total balance and validity of your load.

Now you need to obtain configuration settings for your smart phone. Let's assume you have a Nokia N97:

• Text SET N97 GPRS and send to 211
• Text SET N97 MMS and send to 211

Normally within seconds you should receive 2 configuration messages. Click save on each and your new Smart MMS, Smart Internet and Smart GPRS configurations are saved to your Nokia phone and you are almost ready. Normally you now need to activate these new services by sending a SMS:

• GPRS ON and send to 333 - that activates Internet and GPRS use
• MMS ON and send to 333 - that activates MMS sending/receiving

Such service numbers as above sometimes may change as well as procedures to obtain configurations. If above fails, you may have to surf Google and look for alternatives.

Sometimes you may receive a confirmation message - something like "GPRS services activated" or "MMS services activated" - sometimes NOT. If you purchased an original Philippines Nokia smart phone, then often all these above configurations and activations are already factory done for you!

A tip to reload your SIM

Imagine late night, you run out of load or a best friend / gf runs out of load ... Scratch a load card if you have on stock, read the PIN in dark moonlight ... impossible! Hence I invented a procedure to solve BOTH - reloading in dim light or passing a full load at night.

I use a number of different load card amounts. Scratch the PIN - enter the full number including the 1510 service number by creating a SMS draft !! That gives you a 18 digit number that becomes clickable. If you need to reload your self, go into your SMS draft folder, open the load SMS and CLICK the full number. That will initiate the reload call and you listen to the load confirmation by automated voice just as when manually loading new load.

If you have a friend in NEED for load, you forward this entire SMS draft to his Smart buddy phone and HE/she will click that full number to obtain that load on his mobile phone. Always be prepared for all kinds of emergencies.

That way you are prepared for moonlight, star light, worst light or no light conditions to reload your own mobile phone or help out another person in need. Just make sure the person understands that the service number already is contained in your load PIN. Just click and listen to the load confirmation voice from Smart. Keep the original plastic load cards until successfully loaded - just in case of a mistype of numbers!

Love and Bliss

hans

A simple solution that works on my Nokia N900 with Smart Communications Philippines and other ISP or 3G mobile phone networks blocked port 25. The typical problem here in the Philippines is that Smart Communications as the country's largest mobile network provider blocks port 25 and thus makes the use of your own mail smtp servers impossible for outgoing mail.

On my N900 I did a few preparations and steps:

• install openssh
• create server certificate using
• ssh-keygen on N900
• upgrade full N900 system - including newest maemo5. Yesterday that maemo5 upgrade (some 112MB) solved a major problem.
• install bash - I prefer bash over the default ash
• In your xterm change to root and then activate bash
• xterm > root > bash
• then one commandline to open the tunnel
• ssh -L 44999:127.0.0.1:25 root@my.mailserver.IP.xxx
• make sure you KEEP the termin OPEN (background), else the tunnel is closed !!
• in the N900 email configuration as smtp server:
• 127.0.0.1
• port:
• 44999

A tip for your mobile eMail:

Typically many of us may have the home PC or home laptop switched ON and pulling your mail every 10 or so minutes. That leaves your server mailbox EMPTY. That appears NO ideal solution when out of home / out of office. The purpose of mobile eMailing is to have all important email in your mobile. Hence before leaving office/home - switch OFF your eMail client to assure all incoming eMail remain on the server while you are underway.

Have fun and enjoy mobile working at places you love

Love and Bliss

hans

Often in life people know what they want, but what you want and what you truly NEED to be happy most of the time are 2 different pair of shoes. Many may want success in career or business others happiness in a money oriented life and finally some who strive directly for happiness in life with the main focus on love, happy family and loving husband/wife.

The closer your wishes are to direct love, loving relationship, loving family and to be a really and truly active loving person yourself, the more likely you succeed to achieve happiness in your life. The innermost needs of every being, human and non-human, always is love. We all are spiritual beings created by God and made to love. We all are made of God's love and thus also made to love like God. To be here on earth instead of being at home with God this very moment means that some day in our past we have lost track of your true spiritual values in life and went astray into money or selfish oriented worlds.

Any goal in life such as being successful in business or having lots of money or doing lots of travel or adventures are substitutes to polish up your self-esteem to compensate for missing true and direct love in your life.

The love you receive or experience in your life seldom can be more pure than the love you give to others. You receive what you give. To improve the love you receive in your life and enjoy most, you need simply to improve the quality of your own love toward your partner and all creation.

Hence to enjoy a more happy love life or life in general, you need be make yourself aware of what you want as a result of your intellectual desires and what you really need based on spiritual needs of love. Then you may have to learn to realize your innermost spiritual needs rather than your wishes. To enjoy love you need to create that very special environment needed to receive and fully enjoy love.

As a business or career person you have no time to fully make happy - hence you never ever will enjoy true happy making love yourself. Love requires time, love requires peace. Love requires a healthy, natural and clean environment to enjoy good physical health and to enjoy a happy surrounding for your entire family. True love needs NO high tech, NO computers, NO Wallstreet, NO global economy practiced our current way. True love needs a loving environment in harmony with God.

Love life with a partner needs daily "maintenance", hence daily multiple times quality time for sweet loving hugging, etc. Including repeated time for a happy loving sex life with your partner.

Green nature

Green nature on Siargao island
ideal for happy family and love

If you keep traveling too much in your life, you never find a place to settle down and enjoy all the many peaceful daily hours needed for truly happy family and a deeply satisfying love life with your partner. How could you enjoy having babies while knowing that you have no home to enjoy babies. No home means no garden for kids to play, no flowers, no fruit trees, no playmates for growing up children. Happy children need a clean nature and thus you may need to settle down and provide or create or maintain the natural green environment needed for all your family's happiness.

The spiritual needs and thus what you really need comes from God

All your wishes and desires of material kind comes from our planet earth - far from God. An entire planet drifting more and more astray from god's world of love. Hence most of our global traditions, cultures and ways of life or thinking is becoming more and more wrong and detrimental to our very own spiritual nature!

What you want comes from your educational background, from your social background, from your ethic or cultural background. But what you really NEED comes from deep within yourself. From your spiritual NEEDS. To be happy above all you need LOVE. To have love in your life you need to GIVE love in your life. To have love you need to create yourself an environment suitable for happy love! You converted God's world of love into our current hell on earth with hundreds of millions of people made by God at war against each other, etc. Now you need to invest time, money and all available efforts to change our human made world of hell back into a world of love to prove beyond doubt that we can treasure and maintain our God made world of love at home in God's heaven.

To give love includes such simple things like having a honest work and/or to be useful for your family, your local community or your society in a wider aspect. For example a farmer or fisherman is most useful because he produces very basic needs for his countrymen - FOOD. Without food there is no life on earth. Hence a farmer or fishermen is useful by feeding some of his neighbors or village community or even beyond for exportation to feed other nations' population.

That kind of community love is a basis before you even think or personal love resulting in your personal happiness. Hence first while young in your teenage years already, start to produce useful and helpful services or products for others around you besides your own family.

The in later teenage years when your hormones start dancing you are ready and mature to give to true love and happiness to a potential partner and thus to receive and enjoy true happiness from that partner. God always matches you up wit a partner suitable for your own selfishness or love. The more loving you are, the more loving your partner and vice versa. The purpose of such "matching mismatch" is to make you aware of your own self-improvement needs to really be ready to attract nothing but true sweetest angel-love.

Analyze your own wishes and goals you want to achieve and see in a most critical self evaluation how much these goals and wishes serve your real innermost needs. Then make adjustments where needed to turn your entire life and orientation in life more and more into a world of love attracting nothing but love.

Love and bliss

hans