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I'm busy. And probably so are you. But you'd like
to have a social life too, right?

Here's how I get things done and keep a socially
active life at the same time:

Get a scheduling system e.g. PDA, Google
Calendar, Day Planner etc.

In your system, place:

- activities you COMMIT to do e.g. Church, school,
work, family gatherings, dinner dates etc.

- activities that you're interested in but are NOT
COMMITTED to do. Parties, movies, social
gatherings etc. Typically, events you don't have
to RSVP or make reservations.

After these have been placed, you can see what's

I got hit by inspiration today so I wrote a short
program (Took me about 2 hours) that does Monte
Carlo Simulations for retirement planning
purposes. I've GPL'ed it so people can extend it.

In this example, I've put the variables as:
The person is 18 yrs old and currently has $5,000
in his/her investments. This person adds $10,000
yearly to the investments. The person plans to
retire at 65 and hopes to have $3,000,000 by then.
The yearly rate of return on his/her investments

a.k.a. Quick and cheap dinner

Go to Jewel/Dominicks or any local area grocery

- Get precooked chicken (Whatever you prefer e.g. nuggets, strips, wings)
- Get salad ingredients (Whatever you prefer e.g. lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, alfalfa, walnuts, eggs, cheese, olive oil, vinegar etc)
- Bring the items home
- Prepare the ingredients as desired e.g. clean, peel, steamed, boiled, raw
- Combine and add dressing (I use Olive Oil and vinegar), seasoning etc.
- Enjoy!!!

NOTE: There are some food items that are cheaper to buy than make yourself:
Olive oil
Cream Cheese
Cereal

D/L and install portable Ubuntu from http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/
Click Applications, Accessories, Terminal [Alternately, you can also use the GUI to install new software. ]
issue the command: (root password is 123456 )
sudo apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg xterm x11-xserver-utils
shutdown Portable Ubuntu

Restart/Start Portable Ubuntu
Click Applications, Accessories, Terminal
at the prompt: (substitute user and domain.com with your system's values)
ssh -C -X user@domain.com
at the prompt:
xeyes&

If the eyes come up on your desktop, then it works...

You won't be able to download ipfilter.dat using a regular wget. Apparently, the server checks referer and what agent is downloading the file.

Solution: Make your wget request look and act like a regular browser.

#!/bin/bash
# NOTE: change "user1" to the user's directory name OR where the ipfilter.dat file resides

NOTE: Basically, your desktop does double duty. Ergo, you'll need additional resources e.g. More memory, slightly more diskspace, Uninterruptible Power Supply. I built my system as a learning tool.

• Make a server
  - I used linux (You may use any distro you want)
  - Make it into a LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP)
  - Install SSH for remote access
  - install the other stuff you might need as a desktop
  - Be mindful of security! Update/Patch your server regularly and do NOT use weak passwords!
• Get a high-speed internet connection