Professional education and qualifications are needed to help in times of disaster and war. The kind of qualification may vary from disaster to disaster. Hence multiple professional expertise may be needed in addition to foreign languages. True professional helpers are versatile, can adapt to the needs of new situations, acquire new skills and keep on improving skills all life long.

To find precise professional qualifications needed to satisfy the needs of our troubled time on earth. You may research the "market" using Google search to find jobs, to see what job qualifications are required in today's disaster and war zones and eventually to find a job just for you or at least to find a list of additional qualifications to acquire ASAP to become a useful helping member of our global society.

Do a Google search for some of below search keyword combinations and see what kind of job opportunities may be suitable for you or appealing to you. Then look at the kind of job and job qualification requirements. Search through all below and more similar keywords and note the qualification requirements. mark or bookmark all those sites and pages that offer jobs matching your current qualifications or are nearest to your current qualifications. Add missing qualifications by vocational training, continuing education, online tutorials, learning from older experienced helpers, participating in seminars, workshops and do additional practical work until you qualify for one or several job opportunities. If several job opportunities match your current curriculum then chose the one you can apply your highest acquired qualifications or multiple or all of your current qualifications. For example it makes no or little sense at all for a Medial Doctor (recognized in ANY country) to work as a nurse or assistant in Haiti or Pakistan while you also could provide the highest of your services - full life saving pain relief and emergency medical doctor services to injured or dieing children or victims of disaster or war. Look for expert jobs and do helper jobs only if you lack any useful and helpful expert qualifications. Acquire expert qualifications where needed. Life goes on and in future years there will be other new disasters and wars waiting for you to jump in as an emergency rescuer in any humanitarian relief operation.

A Google search keyword list to find volunteer jobs and humanitarian jobs

• humanitarian jobs
• humanitarian jobs abroad
• humanitarian jobs in Africa
• humanitarian jobs south America
• humanitarian jobs pakistan
• united nations volunteers
• united nations volunteer opportunities
• united nations volunteer qualifications
• united nations jobs
• united nations employment
• united nations relief jobs
• united nations relief and works agency
• unicef jobs
• unicef volunteer
• red cross volunteers
• red cross volunteer oil spill
• red cross volunteer Haiti
• volunteer opportunities
• combine other similar keywords to search queries until you find all the information you need

Any humanitarian job is better than none and definitely much better than office jobs and white collar jobs at home. Any volunteer job suitable for your current qualifications may be ideal to spend your vacation in a truly useful humane and useful way. Use any such humanitarian job opportunity as a door into a humanitarian world with more opportunities to grow offered during the course of years while at work helping in disaster zones of this world. The benefit of such jobs is that you become member of a family where people really care for others, where people give their lives for the wellbeing of others. You become member of a human society who practice love beyond going to church or praying or meditating. Real people doing real love-work for people in need. Strong people helping lost ones and weak ones. Hence such jobs are for truly strong people with a loving heart who put the well-being of others above their own fun and joy in life.

Having NO qualifications or widely missing qualifications is absolutely NO excuse for staying home and continuing what you did and currently do. But it is a warning about how useless you actually may be when true people performing real value work are needed. A challenge to spend the next many years or decades in changing your current qualifications, adding new skills, acquiring new qualifications until you meet one or several job requirements of the real world outside the virtual office/money making world.

Love and Bliss

hans

Think about how your neighbors are doing these very days. Your neighbors may be Pakistan, Bangladesh, Haiti, Mexico, Middle East, Africa, Central America, South America or any other country at war or in deep disaster and distress. Instead of planning a vacation in the Maldives, the Caribbean Sea, Bahamas or the Philippine island paradise, may be a few weeks or months of helping in such countries in deep distress is infinitely more rewarding, far more valuable and definitely more loving than to enjoy a holiday with Millions in deepest pain and suffering just around the corner on our very own planet.

How far still may be considered neighbors? As far as you would travel for a vacation definitely should be considered your neighborhood. If people are good enough to comfort you, to spoil you, to provide resorts and recreation for you, then those distant people also should be considered part of your extended family, We all help our family in need before going on vacation.

How could you really enjoy vacation knowing that at the very same moment hundreds of Millions of people somewhere on this very planet are in deepest serious distress and pain. Distress like the approximately 20'000'000 victims of the flooding in Pakistan. Or the Millions of families affected by various destructive wars or victims of the many different earthquakes we recently had - including unfinished pending relief operations in Haiti.

There is help by means of physical work no money can buy! Imagine all people on this planet give 10'000 US$ each for the current victims of disasters and wars. Who then is doing the actual helping work if all prefer to substitute their direct physical help by paper money only ?

• Someone needs to convert the virtual money-value into actual help, into real value
• Someone needs to fix the damaged houses
• Someone needs to provide free medical treatment to dieing children
• Someone needs to fix the flooded farms to become fertile and productive again
• Someone needs to re-establish the damaged drinking water supply
• Someone needs to rebuild the damaged emergency electric systems
• Someone needs to care for all the injuries, infections and water born diseases
• Someone needs to comfort the dieing ones on their last minutes before facing death and may be God
• Someone needs to plant the vegetables, rice, potato and fruits needed to feed the starving ones
• Someone needs to supply and technically maintain the logistics and communication needed to bring purchased/donated relief goods to the ones in need and in distress

Who on earth would do the work if all of us just go on vacation or retreat from this world and all just donate a few thousand US$ instead of providing real work ?!? Who if not you ? There are no excuses for lacking true qualifications to be useful. Your today's lack of truly useful qualifications is an urgent appeal to acquire missing skills and qualifications. The current need for your helping work should be considered a challenge to learn and acquire all skills and expertise needed to really be useful and helpful for our global society. Your suffering and/or starving family may need none of your money but true value created by you. Money is no value at all, money is only virtual value just like bits and bytes. True farm-work is a real value because it provides real edible food for starving ones. True mechanic repair work is a real value needed these days because a qualified mechanic can repair irrigation systems and water supply systems. True carpenter work is a real value needed to create housing, fix damaged housing or create emergency shelter before the next winter starts. True medical help is real value by those falling victim of the many diseases arising in disaster areas such as the flooded ares of Pakistan or earthquake destroyed areas of Haiti, etc.

Such times of global disasters, war and crisis are times to separate true lovers, true spiritual ones, true God seekers from fake ones.

Love and Bliss

hans

Useful means helpful for the general public or for needy ones in times of disaster. Useful means of any real use to ease the life, to heal, to feed, to support the lives of hundreds of Millions affected by disaster, illness and war on this planet. Useful also means that all who could need your services or products also can afford your services or products you or your employer offers.

Useful services and products:

• help to save money
• help reduce waste of resources
• help reduce energy consumption
• help to improve health in a natural God created way without medication
• help to improve self healing efforts
• help to reestablish a natural way of life in harmony with God made nature
• help to live integrated in nature instead of imposed onto nature
• help to protect or reestablish wild God made nature
• help to reestablish healthy, strong, self sufficient small social communities free of need for government and regulations
• protect and establish a natural God made freedom to live in harmony with God - free from additional rules and laws
• support or create spiritual progress by natural means without having to spend money
• create freedom from dependencies of any kind
• reduce the need to become a repeat customer
• help to strengthen people to become free and self sufficient families and communities

Usefulness has nothing to do with your ability to make money, but with ease other people's life and contribute to our global well-being. Useful qualifications and skills enable you to directly create value needed by as many others as possible without any even smallest risk or danger for any part of God's nature!

How crisis proof and disaster proof is your professional education, skills and qualification?

There very days and the past many weeks, months and few years along give you a clear and precise feedback of true usefulness and helpfulness of your entire job, career, business or employer's business. Lets look at just a very few global crisis or disasters we had on our planet during the recent few years:

1. Natural disaster in Burma (Myanmar)
2. Tsunami in India ocean
3. Flooding in Pakistan
4. Earthquake in China
5. Earthquake in Haiti
6. BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
7. War in Iraq
8. War in Afghanistan
9. Middle east conflict - Israel and neighborhood
10. Congo
11. and many other countries and areas of natural disaster, political crisis or war

Look at your current professional skills, qualifications and compare your professional usefulness with the needs of any or all a.m. conflict areas or disaster zones. Did you work in any or several of a.m. countries and areas during the actual need for help? Do you have skills that can directly be applied toward reducing famine, health and hygiene problems in any of above disaster situations? Can you create services or products that help all those children, babies, women, elderly, hungry ones, injured ones and other victims in any or all of above disasters and crisis areas?

Did you provide direct professional help and relief in any of above or any other comparable situation of disaster, war or crisis in past decades of your life? Are you preparing to do so by acquiring needed professional qualifications and skills needed to be truly helpful in times of disaster and crisis?

Typically there are no or very limited white collar jobs of any use and help in any real crisis or disaster. To have only office skills however is no valid and never can be any valid and acceptable justification or excuse for NOT helping in zones of need and disaster!!

There are Hundreds of Millions humans searching for office and paper work or IT qualifications JUST for the single purpose of escaping real life, real duties and real work. For the purpose of earning easy money without getting exhausted, tired or injured in heavy real world work! Real life is outside offices, outside protected communities, outside security boundaries. Real work feeds the world, directly protects the world and gives shelter to the world, heals and cares for the world. Real work in real life may at times be dirty, hard, tough on our ego, tough on our health, dangerous and of course much more demanding than any office job ever will be or can be. In true life, in disaster, war and crisis areas people need to work hands on, carry stuff, walk distances, create real products, provide human to human real services like medicare, emergency help, rescue work, reconstruction of destroyed infrastructure. Hence in real life you may need any or all of below:

• far above average useful skills in a wide scope of areas = multi-talented
• far above strong health to work until job done without time off, without weekends or vacation
• see the need for help of others above own need for leisure activities
• put duties, work, help for others above all personal needs for years, for decades or for an entire lifetime and beyond
• speak multiple languages or be willing and ready to learn whatever needed to do a perfect job in places in need for your expertise
• be willing and motivated to learn whatever knowledge and expertise needed, whatever additional skills or knowledge needed to perform services or create products in any disaster, war or crisis this planet has to endure now or in future

Common sense questions you may ask your self about your professional qualification

To self-evaluate your current professional qualifications, skills and education and thus to establish a plan of needed vocational training, additional needed education in weekend classes, online tutorials or vacation schools, you need to be tough in self evaluating your past few years, past decades and your entire past professional career. Ask yourself questions keeping a.m. war zones and crisis areas or similar disasters in mind:

• How does your job promote peace among all mankind?
• How does your qualification help to feed this world with healthy natural food?
• How can your skills and qualification benefit a wide range of global population?
• How can your professional qualifications help God to bring all people home?
• How does your company / employer help to create and/or maintain financial freedom among all global population?
• How does your skills help people saving money, saving resources, reducing energy consumption, reducing environment pollution?
• How do your professional skills and qualifications help people to reduce overall spending and overall consumption to achieve a more simple life with more time for nature, family and direct social contacts human to human?
• Can every person on all 5 continents potentially use and benefit from existence of your company and products / services created by you or your employer?
• Can every person who could benefit from your products or services afford such without any debts and without having to reduce other comfort in life?
• Does your product or service create any kind of environment pollution: Optical pollution, acoustic pollution, chemical pollution, electromagnetic pollution, radiation pollution, or any other form of pollution?
• Ask yourself the critical question: "What would happen if ALL people on earth = 6+ Billion humans would use or consume your service or products?"
• Can you still create and/or offer your services or products in times of total glob al crisis or in times of another world war or major global disaster?

All those among you who either have already spent years of your life for the mutual benefit of poorest ones, of victims of disasters or war or are already now about to acquire all skills and education needed to qualify for such demanding jobs may have acquired all the strength needed to survive all downsides of eternal life, to survive all ups and downs in eternal life. All those however who have but office and paper qualifications suitable for the richest ones, for business and money making oriented industries may have to realize that some day ( soon ) your entire skills and expertise may prove to be obsolete and worthless. In times of crisis and war or disasters there is no need for any kind of administration or paper work but true need for practical oriented people willing to work while using all common sense and all brain. If people use all common sense and all their healthy brain, then all administration becomes obsolete become all have one guide in common - God.

A substantially high percentage of all current jobs are obsolete. As you may see on your own tough self evaluation using above scenarios and questions, there are far more people who have nothing but paper money to share in times of crisis. Even the paper money may be limited with all the personal and selfish oriented - easy money making activities you still want to persuade despite all the global pain and suffering ongoing these very moments in many countries of your planet involving many hundreds of millions of people - including babies, women and elderly.

The more different skills you master to a highest professional degree of expertise, the more true value you may have for all global society and the more you actually could or should consider spending some quality time, years or decades for humanitarian causes on our planet.

Love and Bliss

hans

In earlier Centuries and thousands of years back in spiritual history of this planet a direct self-publishing was impossible for lack of technology. It also was impossible to physically teach beyond the rich of direct teaching eyes to eyes. With the age of Internet many things have changed for the direct benefit of all true God seekers:

• Teachings now can be published and made available for free to all world, making any purchase of books obsolete and above all making the publishing of true originals directly by God realized authors possible. In earlier times teachings were modified, manipulated and faked to the extend of no longer be of any public value. The purpose of such modifications of original teachings like the sacred teachings of Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali or the Holy Bible have been modified to an extent of no longer be of any use and value by the general public. Often the only way to extract truth from ancient sacred scriptures is by means of meditation and Samyama.
• Original teachings are available directly at your home location, thus making any extended travel obsolete, making all relevant travel expenses and environment pollution obsolete as well. Instead of traveling thousands of kilometers to meed a spiritual teacher or Guru, you now can read all at home and use the savings for helping in disaster zones or countries of this planet. Thus you have up to thousands of US$ free and available to prove your love by means of sharing and active helping where your direct help is needed.

In the age of Internet it is our all duty to share true value with all world and to use true value for our all mutual spiritual benefit. Thus saving time and valuable resources and making our all life far more resources efficient and thus also cost/energy efficient and more time consuming. Spiritual teachings such as the original teachings of love published in the Cyberspace Ashram consist of 2 parts.

1. The physical part = printed or published texts
2. The spiritual part of all teachings available only to truly loving hearts and souls

Reading texts now is easy for all world. Most countries have excellent elementary schooling systems allowing the majority of its population to learn reading and to access to at least a limited point the Internet where needed at affordable costs.

Open question or individual additional guidance always is, always has been and always shall be available directly into a loving persons heart and soul - directly from God as well as directly from any truly God-realized Guru blessed by God! No need for Internet, eMail, SMS nor books or other means of physical teaching or physical communication. Physical teachings in ashrams, churches, temples or pagodas only has been needed by extreme lost ones, by extreme egos. The truly God seeking, sincerely loving ones always had and always has an instant, free and perfect direct connection with God and always receives whatever needed directly from God!

It shall be emphasized that sacred and previously kept "secret" teachings such as the holy science of Kriya Yoga never can be abused or exploited by the competing dark side of God's creation. The reason is simple and yet utmost complex. The only key to God, the only key to activate the God created power of Kriya Yoga is true sincere love toward God and toward all aspects of God's entire creation. Thus no military, no scientists, no government agency, no intelligence service ever can tap into the infinite powers of God powers that become available to true lovers practicing Kriya Yoga or true divine love! God's love is free to all truly loving ones - for love. An abuse of anything sacred is absolutely impossible no matter the technical efforts, money invested or science applied. God's help is open and free to all - all sacred teachings are available to all mankind - for love only.

It is utmost important to understand that God can reach into all hearts and souls without any help at all of Internet, books organizations, churches or preachers, simply by asking for God's love in prayers or simply by having a loving heart visible to God no matter where on this globe you might be caught, hidden or imprisoned! God's power is infinite and absolute and can penetrate all walls, all barriers, all prisons, all cells ever created by mankind on earth.

True love never can be faked nor imitated or manipulated nor scientifically cloned! True love only frees the true power of Kriya Yoga within a loving human. If you lack the desire to truly love, then any visit at an ashram would be a waste of time and resources. If you have true love and can prove true love beyond doubt, then any visit at an ashram becomes obsolete. Typically people unwilling or immature to sincerely live true love all the way in job, business, family and leisure time visit an ashram to compensate for missing own efforts. In such cases a visit at an true ashram may result in a temporary uplift lasting for weeks or months with a steady slow fall back into self created spiritual darkness as a result of lacking sincere and full efforts.

With the modern self-publishing and direct communication across the planet for all those having lost direct conscious contact to God, the majority of all spiritual efforts is to apply in real life all the teachings of love received in the Cyberspace Ashram, to directly pray to God and improve all loving efforts in life by following God's direct guidance available to all. Those having lost direct conscious contact to God still may receive direct guidance without any use of technology. Just listen to all help God offers you by means of your family members, children, neighbors, friends or enemies. Accept all lessons of life and challenges you receive in your daily life, job and private life as well. Among all the hundreds of thousands of phrases you may recognize key phrases very specially applying to your very individual situation. If what you receive in such a indirect way from God touches your heart and soul, then such was intended just for you and no one else but you. The earliest and most important goal in life always should be to regain direct conscious access to God's guidance! Developing divine love will eventually reduce your ego and thus free and open your direct communication with God again. The Cyberspace Ashram has all such lessons for daily life online and free to all - thus making a visit at my location obsolete and leaving your resources free for direct help to the poorest ones on this planet. Your own true love is manifested by what you do for the lost ones, for the unfortunate ones, for needy ones, for victims of war and political prisoners or victims of natural disasters.

Prove your true love by helping in any of the many current ongoing disaster areas and war zones to open your heart for God's love and God's love shall be with you at any moment of life for all eternity, where ever you are, whatever you do - eternally!

To make you free of any dependency, to make you free of any organization, to make you free of need for religion or church and to offer a free access to God to all mankind, to all races, to members of all religions or atheists is the sole purpose of the Cyberspace Ashram for Kriya Yoga, God and Love. Use this gift from God and make loving use of all gifts and blessings from God for you. To bring home all lost children of God is the sole purpose of Jesus on earth and beyond.

Love and Bliss

hans

Just published: The printable free calendars 2011 in PDF format made from the most beautiful roses, tropical flowers, Cambodian Lotus flowers and scenery from the Philippine islands and the Kingdom of Cambodia. Some of pictures used for these calendars come from my large wallpapers and Love eCards collection as well as from the photo gallery of the Philippine islands. Enjoy these free tropical nature calendars and remember that the beauty of landscapes, nature scenery, ocean views, roses of love and tropical flowers are nothing else but the direct reflection of the beauty of God's love for YOU.

Enjoy the improved calendar image quality and use these beautiful nature calendars as a gift for best friends. Print on quality photo paper to benefit from enhanced image quality of the PDF format calendars. With a file size of 80MB-120 MB you need to assure to have a good, stable and fast Internet connection.

Love and Bliss

hans

Since a few weeks it's upgrade time to stay in tune with the global progress. During the past many weeks of intense server admin exercises, one of the last test was a zypper dup - just for fun!

I did the dist upgrade on a clean fresh install of openSuSE 11.2 - remotely. Since that old test server was 4 years in full service for the Cyberspace Ashram, the server was about to retire and nothing to be lost while testing.

Hence I did a short and simple test with following steps:

Zypper dup preparation

• back up all your data !
• write down all your currently existing repositories - zypper repos will give you the repos list!
• test all your future needed repositories - usually in the path name of a repository you find the openSuSE version - like 11.2 - your future repository most likely has the same path but 11.3 instead of 11.2. Hence replace all repository URLs 11.2 with 11.3 and TEST the URL in your firefox browser to see if the NEW URL really is a valid repo.

For a default installation without any special software packages, usually the default openSuSE repositories listed below are sufficient for the zypper dup:

openSUSE 11.3
openSUSE-11.3-Non-Oss
openSUSE-11.3-Oss
Updates for openSUSE 11.3

You may want to copy your current 11.2 repo folder as a backup: Copy /etc/zypp/repos.d to a safe place before proceeding!

I made my zypper dup short and simple - I had no data to loose on my LAMP server. You may opt for a different procedure with more security options. I did all above preparation, had a full tested ( browser view ) list of NEW 11.3 repositories ready to copy/paste.

Now I did - using zypper rr:

• delete one by one all my existing 11.2 repositories shown in zypper repos listing
• make sure no old repos left = zypper repos shows no more repos!
• then added all tested new 11.3 repos = zypper repos shows all new 11.3 repos exist

Now the actual zypper dup process

• zypper refresh = refresh all repositories metadata
• zypper in zypper = installs the latest version of zypper
• zypper dup --download = assures that you first download ALL before the actual dist version upgrade starts. This is to assure you have first ALL new packages on your laptop in case of interrupted www connection. If you omit this safety option you WILL have a totally damaged system if your zypper dup process is aborted for any reason !!!
• this above step took me less than 30 minutes for a complete LAMP - on a high speed connection
• run SuSEconfig to reconfigure your entire system, then reboot your system

If your machine reboots as in my case my remote controlled server, then you do:

1. zypper up - to make a last update
2. zypper ve - to verify all dependencies of your new system

I had exactly zero errors or version conflicts during the entire zypper dup. All dependencies were met by default on LAMP. I had no option for mistakes because the upgraded machine was in Europe and me in Cambodia and all zypper dup just for fun exercise done remotely with no available option for manual re-install from CD or so. Hence also no available options at all for any possible mistakes.

Make sure you have all zypper commands and options on hand, use man zypper or Google for solutions before starting such a major operation as a zypper dup.

Know what you do before you do! Do only if you sure to know what you do!

About half an hour was all I needed for the entire above zypper dup process. My server had a download speed of some 100+ Mbps !! You may have a few MBs and thus your entire zypper dup may take a few hours. Thus the importance to really first download before the actual upgrade starts.

Enjoy your new openSuSE 11.3

Love and Bliss

hans

Yesterday August 3, 2010 all 3 new servers with newest server OS have gone live. The new hardware includes quad core CPUs, more and faster DDR3 RAM on each server and faster/larger hard drives than ever before. The purpose and goal is to offer you a faster and more enjoyable surfing experience of all spiritual teachings of love.

Servers need to be upgraded every 2-3 years to stay ahead of the evolution of Internet technology and to be fully prepared for ever increasing demand as well as increasing offer in spiritual content. The current hardware should last for approximately 2 maximum 3 years to come. The server Operating systems - Open Source Linux always is upgraded and updated on a continuous basis - sometimes daily as needed for best possible secure operation.

The entire preparation for this biggest ever complete system upgrade included total some 8 weeks full time self-study, learning of newest available procedures and technologies for complete web servers including mail servers, name servers and database servers. Some 1000 hrs of total learning and practicing in the background of a fully running Cyberspace Ashram included among others a complete remote installation of 4 servers just to practice and improve skills, knowledge and procedures for remote controlled server maintenance, server control and administration. Then started the actual reality of ordering 3 new high end Quad core servers and installing the final version, test all services and go live. All done remotely from a province in Cambodia on a slow - sometimes stalling - Internet connection.

The final dot of the system upgrade was a full upgrade to a current stable version of the photo gallery software package. That was the only part of upgrade work that required a shutdown of the Cyberspace Ashram photo gallery for some 2-3 minutes. All major system upgrade itself always was done on running system without any interruption of the truly spiritual core sections of the Cyberspace Ashram! All spiritual core content of the Cyberspace Ashram is on rock solid flat files and thus never depending on fragile database software and content management systems.

I hope you enjoy faster and better tech services by the Cyberspace Ashram. If you find any error please be welcome to send feedback to me. Except the server-errors showing up on the long time and (most likely) permanently closed forums.

Very few hours after last nights final upgrade, the reality of human life on earth got me back into productive and creative life. After 2 full months spending almost day and night in my room for above procedure - with the exception of 2 meals a day out of house - I started a small outdoor nature photo session in lotus flower fields near Tonle Sap. While there still is additional stuff to be learned and improved on an ongoing year round basis, the past 2 intense learning and practicing months eventually are expected to result in more time free for my actual spiritual work in the years to come.

Soon is Christmas love time - at least in the Philippines and in the heart of dozen of Millions of Filipinas and Filipinos. That means soon is time to fully work for upcoming Christmas in your heart as well ... unless you already follow my advice of practicing Christmas love all year long. More Christmas wallpapers to come soon, more printable Christmas cards and Christmas greeting cards as well.

The last remaining major upgrade step left to complete during coming days or weeks will be a new much faster custom configured high end laptop - a project just waiting for a supplier to be found or a carrier to hand carry the laptop fro USA or Europe. The the Christmas preparation for more love is complete.

Love and bliss

hans

• how many meals can you buy for one rupee
• how many medical bills can you pay for one rupee
• how many children can you feed one day for one rupee
• how many kilometers can an old woman drive riksha for one rupee
• how many kgs rice can you buy for one rupee
• how many street children can buy ONE shawl for one rupee during winter time
• how many days can you pay your hosting company for ONE rupee
• how many children can buy school outfit for one rupee
• how many phone calls can you make for one rupee
• how many emails can you write in an Internet cafe for one rupee
• ???

When your own mathematics result to each and every above question in a number equal or near 0, then you see that with one rupee nothing at all changes in the life of others! Stinginess never results in happiness of others. Stinginess never results in your own happiness from having made others happy because with one rupee a day you have changed no ones life - but you have created the dependency for more rupees. With one rupee at a time you have created the need for someone to wait and wait until the full amount is given that creates a real solution at once !

Real change requires real efforts by strong people. Real change requires real people with a real heart and real money. May be dozens of US$ or sometimes hundreds or even thousands. May be even in poor countries like Bangladesh, Viet Nam, Cambodia or similar countries even 10 or 20 rupees may be far too little to make a real difference for ONE single day in the life of one person fallen all the way down in his life!

In my countries I work and live = Cambodia and Philippines - I have a simple rule: Never give coins to poor ones just because coins may be a heavy burden to you. People all over the world often give coins because coins are heavy in your pocket. Hence giving coins is relief for you - but never relief for the recipient.

For one rupee coin you get no single boiled or fried potato in most countries I know in this world. For one rupee coin you get no single fried or raw egg or apple to eat in any of the many countries I have been in my life. If you want to be real - if you want to be human - if you want to be considered loving or even spiritual ...

Give real money, real amounts. Pay ONE full problem, pay one complete bill, create one complete solution in the life of others. If necessary work overtime to have real amounts to share.

Examples of real solutions affordable by all true lovers and even more by true spiritual humans:

• Pay school bills for one family for one full year - enrollment, school material, school uniform, etc
• Pay a full ticket home plus cash for food and drinks and taxi at home plus some emergency cash if you meet someone far from home
• Pay one full meal free choice with drinks for someone hungry
• Pay one set of nice new dresses for someone without clean and pretty cloths
• Pay one bag of fresh local fruits for one family
• Pay all debts for one family
• Pay all outstanding rent for one person or one family
• Pay all electricity bill for one month for one family
• Pay a complete baby outfit to a family expecting a baby
• Pay a complete allowance - may be 3 months or even more - including cost of midwife for home delivery and doctor bill for a single mother expecting a baby. To give her peace of mind and heart for delivery and the months to come after delivery. Because her baby also is our all baby - a gift from God to all of us humans on earth to learn to love and to help each other like in a real family of love!

Because as you see above:

With ONE rupee you need long waiting time and many people giving one rupee each until ONE hunger is gone or one school fee is paid or one medical bill paid or one single day of accommodation paid. During this waiting time for many people giving ONE rupee each ... that person never reaches the point to go have dinner and then apply for a job while the stomach still is full and the body strong. A person receiving just one rupee at a time may never ever get out of poverty and become strong enough to work himself free. One rupee a person is too much to die and far too little to live. One rupee a day plain painfully stingy! No matter your salary and no matter your country.

But may be that exactly is what some people want - to keep others waiting, to keep others depending on your one rupee each day, to keep others weak and smiling at you for your stingy one single tiny rupee a day ??

By the time 20 or 50 rupees are accumulated - may be that person DEATH already - starved to death waiting for ONE more rupee and one more rupee ...

Imagine your OWN child lost 1000 kms from home - waiting for ONE rupee at a time ... to pay ticket for bus or train home to you.

Until your child got enough rupees to pay the bus or train HOME to security - home to you .... your child might be old and you might be death and buried under all the thousands of rupees you saved all your life by giving only one rupee per day.

If you have too little to give, too little to share. If you work all day, all months just to pay your own living and enjoyment, then may be it's time to very substantially increase your efforts to be useful and helpful to humanity. Then it's time to increase, double or multiply your working hours until you have something real to share. Until you become strong enough to be a source of real solutions for others in distress.

Love and Bliss

hans

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