A lot of the Jim Rohn video’s on youtube are 1-7minute sound bites but this one over an hour.

Here are some notes I made on the the “The Magic of Part-Time by Jim Rohn”

Correct the errors of the past and pick up new disciplines for the future.
1. Law of averages
   Do something often enough a ratio will appear (Batting average) (talk to ten get 1)
   Once a ratio starts it tends to continue

“You learn more by losing than you do by winning”

“When I learn the ratio (the law of averages). I make up in numbers what I lack in skill”

Law of averages can be increased by getting better.
   Talk to ten get 2
   Talk to ten get 3

You don’t have to bat a thousand. Baseballers bat 300 and still make 4million a year.

So getting 1 out of 10, 2 out of 10, 3 out of 10 still means you can be successful

Law of averages says you will get 1 out of 10 or 3 out of 10. “I’ve got a new business. I would love you to come to the meeting and be one of the 7″

2. Sowing and reaping (Biblical Mark 4:3, Luke 8:5)
   Excellent seed (opportunity, product)
   Birds going to get some of the seed. Invite a person to a meeting Tuesday night comes and they are not at meeting
      Accept that birds with get some of the seed.
      If you chase birds & leave the field. Distract from future
   Keep on sowing
      Seed on rocky ground shallow soil. Sprouted but killed by heat
      Get person started then whither
      Say to yourself “Isn’t that interesting”. Don’t go with why?, why?, why? Simply some don’t stay!!

   ”Discipline your disappointment!”

   Keep on sowing
      Thorny Ground. Growing. Choked by weeds.
      Little distractions, cares, worries.
      
   Keep on sowing
      Good ground. 30%, 60%, 100%. Don’t ask why the different productivity or payoff. It’s just the way it is!
      Let the 30′s do 30. Let the 60′s do 60 and the 100′s do 100.
         If you try to get them to do more. Wear yourself out
      You have to go through all these experiences.

Skills needed Getting a customer, Making a sale

Zig Ziggler secret to wealth / success: Find a way to serve the many!

Produces high self esteem.

John F Kennedy quote “Don’t ask what the people / country / government can do for you. Ask what you can do for your people/country”

Zig “Money isn’t everything but it ranks up there with oxygen”
   ”Only floss the teeth you want to keep”
   ”If you help enough people get what they want you can have everything you want”

Bible: If 2 or 3 agree on a common purpose nothing is impossible. ( I think this is a quote from Gen 11:6 )

Learn to work with the people who deserve it, not need it.
   Some will waste your time. Train them by your behaviour. Reward productivity.

“Friends are those wonderful people who know all about you and still like you!”

Study, practise and teach.

Don’t miss the small things
   If you live well you will earn well!!!!

Inner circle (your friends / family) – Look after them and they will look after you!

Dia the opensource diagramming programming program. Has a lot of shapes. However I always seem to use ones that aren’t in the standard or diashapes repository.

So I’ve created a 2 new shapes for myself using the howto here

This is a good site for more technical information about 19″ racks http://www.server-racks.com/

4cabling.com.au sells racks and fibre patch leads

Note: These are very low quality
Download the Optical_Fibre_Patch_Panel Dia Shape

Another entry to add to my HTML 5 Framework List is Wakanda.

My frustration with jQuery UI is that you have to hand code the pages. Wakanda appears to have an IDE that allows drag and drop of widgets onto a canvas and the configuration of datasources and classes that then can be made to interact with data objects easily.

So going on the principal of “I don’t have a memory I have a searchable blog” I’m leaving this post here until I need it.

On Fedora 16 running Gnome 3 by default if you press ALT+Print Screen or simply Print Screen you get this window:

Sometimes I find this really annoying because it adds a step that I don’t want. I would rather not see the gnome-screenshot window and simply have the image in the clipboard ready to paste straight into GIMP.
Default gnome-screenshot configuration

[me@mybox ~]$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_screenshot
gnome-screenshot
[me@mybox ~]$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_window_screenshot
gnome-screenshot --window

gnome-screenshot configured to send the screenshot straight to the clipboard

[me@mybox ~]$ gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_window_screenshot --type=string "gnome-screenshot --window --clipboard"
[me@mybox ~]$ gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_screenshot --type=string "gnome-screenshot --clipboard"

List Settings after them being changed to clipboard mode

gconftool-2  /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands -a command_2 =
command_window_screenshot = gnome-screenshot --window --clipboard
command_1 =
command_screenshot = gnome-screenshot --clipboard
command_3 =
...

Set them back to their defaults

[me@mybox ~]$ gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_window_screenshot --type=string "gnome-screenshot --window"
[me@mybox ~]$ gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_screenshot --type=string "gnome-screenshot"

This is my instructions (just in case the above doesn’t google up for me again) for moving from Windows XP Pro/Outlook 2003 to Windows 7 Pro/Outlook 2010

1. Copy the Outlook 2003 <profile name>.NK2 file from the users %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook folder in Windows XP Pro to
   \Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook making sure you rename it to be the same as the Outlook profile name on the Windows 7 target machine.
2. on the windows 7 box cd to \Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14 and run outlook.exe /importnk2 and your done

BitTorrent.com’s BitTorrent client installs a browser toolbar in Google Chrome, Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox.

There isn’t an opt-out option to stop the toolbar installation when installing Bittorrent so you need to uninstall the toolbars after installation.

To Uninstall:

Google Chrome:
Goto Wrench ==> Options ==> Extensions
or
enter chrome://settings/extensions in the location bar

click Remove next to the Bittorrent Toolbar

Mozilla Firefox:
Goto Firefox ==> Extensions
or
Press CTRL+SHIFT+A
or
Enter about:addons in location bar

Then click Remove

Internet Explorer:
Go to Control Panel ==> Programs and Features and right click on the “BitTorrent Toolbar” entry (not BitTorrent) and choose uninstall

Versions:
BitTorrent 7.6 (Build 26764)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

In the bottom left hand corner of a Google map you usually see a scale with Metres and Feet displayed.

Here is a list of what I think are the google zoom level to scale legend conversions.

Google Zoom to Metres/Feet, Kilometres/Miles

Bunnings Warehouse an Australian hardware supplier prints purchase receipts that have a tendency to fade to the point of being unreadable. The rate at which they fade seems to depend on how much light they get and how much heat they have to endure. The problem is that they can fade to the point of being unreadable before the warranty period of the item you purchased has expired leaving you with no proof-of-purchase.

So it’s little wonder that the helpful Bunnings staff recommend that you photocopy or scan a copy for safe keeping just in case you need to make a warranty claim. In the case of my Ozito Cordless Drill the warranty period is 3 years so I want to keep an PDF scan which I can find later on no matter how badly I name the file or how unlikely the place I store it.

So I want to associate enough metadata with the PDF scan to be able to find it no matter where on my hard disk or email system I put it.

Using pdftk and a blog post here I have managed to add enough metadata to my scanned image PDF.

View the current metadata of a PDF File

pdftk  2012-03-01\ Ozita\ Cordless\ Drill\ Receipe\ Purchase.pdf dump_data
InfoKey: Creator
InfoValue: pdftk 1.44 - www.pdftk.com
InfoKey: Producer
InfoValue: iText 2.1.7 by 1T3XT
InfoKey: ModDate
InfoValue: D:20120302124912+11'00'
InfoKey: CreationDate
InfoValue: D:20120302124912+11'00'
PdfID0: f69871608a40b62f1b8bbf5b2258c7b0
PdfID1: e39c3b61b8499f98dad9610ba2ef65a
NumberOfPages: 1

Create a text file with the metadata you want to attach to the PDF file (I named it meta_data.txt)

InfoKey: Title
InfoValue: Bunning Warehouse Receipt for Ozito Drill Purchased Thurs Mar 1 2012
InfoKey: Subject
InfoValue: Bunnings Warehouse Receipt
InfoKey: Keywords
InfoValue: Bunnings, Ozito, Cordless Drill, Scan, Tools
InfoKey: Author
InfoValue: James McDonald

Attach the metadata to the PDF File

# command spread over two lines for readability
pdftk 2012-03-01\ Ozita\ Cordless\ Drill\ Receipe\ Purchase.pdf update_info meta_data.txt \
output 2012-03-01\ Ozita\ Cordless\ Drill\ Receipe\ Purchase-with_metadata.pdf

View of all metadata once you have used pdftk update_info

 
pdftk 2012-03-01\ Ozita\ Cordless\ Drill\ Receipe\ Purchase-with_metadata.pdf dump_data
InfoKey: Creator
InfoValue: pdftk 1.44 - www.pdftk.com
InfoKey: Title
InfoValue: Bunning Warehouse Receipt for Ozito Drill Purchased Thurs Mar 1 2012
InfoKey: Author
InfoValue: James McDonald
InfoKey: Producer
InfoValue: iText 2.1.7 by 1T3XT
InfoKey: Keywords
InfoValue: Bunnings, Ozito, Cordless Drill, Scan, Tools
InfoKey: Subject
InfoValue: Bunnings Warehouse Receipt
InfoKey: ModDate
InfoValue: D:20120302125354+11'00'
InfoKey: CreationDate
InfoValue: D:20120302124912+11'00'
PdfID0: 8585c68b455aa94444d321b3fd17e54
PdfID1: ea7ed3e17b3691283f630f2e97ea6ac
NumberOfPages: 1

Note: pdftk (PDF Toolkit) is cross platform so I believe you can do the above on Linux, Windows and Mac.

I have 2 pdf files scan0126.pdf and scan0125r2.pdf and I need to combine them however page scan0126.pdf contains page 1 and 3 of the combined document and scan0125r2.pdf contains page 2.

Re-order selected pages from multiple PDF documents into a new combined PDF

pdftk A=scan0126.pdf B=scan0125r2.pdf cat A1 B1 A2 output combined.pdf
 
# you can also use ranges
pdftk A=scan0126.pdf B=scan0125r2.pdf cat B1 A1-3 A16 output combined.pdf
# this would combine document B page 1 document A pages 1 to 3 and document A page 16 
# into a new combined pdf in the order specified.

Rotate 2 documents 180 degs and combine them

pdftk A=scan0123.pdf B=scan0124.pdf cat A-S B-S output combined.pdf

Rotate whole document 180 deg

 pdftk scan0125.pdf cat  -S output scan0125r2.pdf

PDF Labs Examples
http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/gnu-linux/linux-tools/rotating-a-document-using-pdftk

I have a suspicion that my Remote SSL VPN server has an inactivity timeout on it and so I lose connectivity because of no traffic passing so it disconnects.

Here is a one line bash script that wakes up every 60 seconds and pings a host at the other end of the tunnel so that it doesn’t timeout and shutdown

Here is the code:

while [ 1 ] ; do ping -c 2 10.11.12.13 ; sleep 60 ; done
# while true (always true) 
# ping the remote host with 2 icmp echo requests
# sleep for 60 seconds or however much you want
# your done

Here is the result of it running:

[me@mybox ~]$ while [ 1 ] ; do ping -c 2 10.11.12.13 ; sleep 60 ; done
PING 10.11.12.13 (10.11.12.13) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.11.12.13: icmp_req=1 ttl=128 time=527 ms
64 bytes from 10.11.12.13: icmp_req=2 ttl=128 time=627 ms
 
--- 10.11.12.13 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 527.933/577.719/627.505/49.786 ms
PING 10.11.12.13 (10.11.12.13) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.11.12.13: icmp_req=1 ttl=128 time=1534 ms
64 bytes from 10.11.12.13: icmp_req=2 ttl=128 time=1306 ms
 
--- 10.11.12.13 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1306.834/1420.648/1534.463/113.820 ms, pipe 2
PING 10.11.12.13 (10.11.12.13) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.11.12.13: icmp_req=1 ttl=128 time=221 ms
64 bytes from 10.11.12.13: icmp_req=2 ttl=128 time=119 ms
 
--- 10.11.12.13 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 119.480/170.552/221.625/51.074 ms