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Sometimes you've got a great organization plan and you're ready to move on it. Other times, you stare at a desk, a closet, or a room, and you feel utterly hopeless. Try helping out someone else with their clutter to get some new perspective and ideas.
Erin Doland of the Unclutterer blog notes that a big part of her advancement as a writer came when she was forced to explain and back up writing rules for students. Helping friends out with their own projects, and forcing yourself to explain the choices you're suggesting, can clarify your beliefs and expand your thinking. But you don't need to have friends in need to get outside your own problems:
If your friends aren't game for such an activity, donate some of your time to a charity to clean out and organize a soup kitchen pantry or a game room at a women's shelter or a clothing closet for a group that provides clothes for job interviews. Mentor your children by bringing them with you to sort materials at a charity's donation site. You don't have to work with people you know to build your skills, and it's often easier to work with items void of your sentimental attachments.
What have you learned by helping friends and relatives with their organization projects—other than how many magazines the average person can do without?
If you are subscribed to any of the Airtel Broadband Internet plans, here's how you can quickly check your Internet usage for the current cycle.
This is only for Airtel broadband subscribers in India.
Your Airtel Internet connection has a monthly data transfer limit and once you exceed it, Airtel will either reduce your download speed (if you are on an “unlimited” plan) or you may have to pay for all the extra data that you download in the current billing cycle (details).
So how do you determine how much data you have consumed in the current month?
There are several software programs available that let you monitor your Internet data usage but there’s a much simpler alternative – just go to airtel.in and the page will automatically display details of your data usage.
You’ll know how much data you have downloaded in the current cycle and how much more data can you download before your Internet speed is downgraded under Fair Usage Policy (FUP). It detects your subscriber ID automatically so you don’t have to log-in manually.
Also, you can check your Internet usage from your mobile or tablet as well as long as they are connected over Wi-Fi. Thank you Yash Gadhiya for the tip.
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I pay with cash wherever I go. Heck, I would pay in cash online if there was a possibility for it. Doing so has a number of reasons, from privacy over reduced direct or indirect fees to avoiding overspending. It also seems to be a lot faster than paying by card, at least in my country where you often either have to type in your security code or sign a receipt before the money exchanges hands. Nothing’s worse than having to stand in line for someone who is buying a pack of bubblegum with a card.
You probably have read that there is a movement in Sweden to make the country the first cashless economy in the world. ZDnet for instance ran the story today, but they have not been the first to do so. It actually dates back at least to 2010, when the New American published Sweden Considers Cashless Society.
Before I take a look at why a cashless society is bad for the majority of people, I’d like to take a look at the other side. Who is advocating a cashless society, and why?
As far as Sweden goes, it seems that a group of government officials, celebrities, and unions are pushing towards a cashless society. The core reason mentioned is a drop in robberies ever since the society turned to electronic transactions. According to information posted by the Huffington Post article, bank robberies in Sweden are down from 110 in 2008 too 16 in 2011, and robberies of security transports are down as well.
While that is an impressive drop, there is no study that is linking the reduction to the shrinkage of the cash economy in the northern European country. The same article mentions that bills and coins represent 3 percent of Sweden’s economy, a stark contrast to the 7% in the U.S and the 9% in Europe.
How do ordinary people benefit from a cashless society? Some like ABBA’s Bjoern Ulvaeus believe that less people will get robbed as a consequence, as robbers can’t take away what’s not there.
A cashless society however has several other consequences:
It is possible to track every transaction that is made electronically. While that in itself is bad enough from a privacy point of view, it can also mean that people change their spending. Some people might not spend money on things that they do not want to be linked to. This can be a donation or a purchase for instance. Some agencies would be tempted to get their hands on those information, for instance for taxes or law enforcement purposes.Overspending is fueled by credit and debit card transactions, as it is more difficulty to keep track of all expenses, and easier to spend more money because it can be done with a card. If you only have cash, you never can spend more than you have on you.Fees for transactions, either indirect by charging the merchant, or direct by charging a fee for every transaction, mean that you will pay more for goods and transactions, and that it is even more of a nuisance to keep track of the spending.Trading could become popular again. While you can’t pay your neighbor for painting your house anymore without the tax bureau taking note, you could trade services or goods instead. It is also not clear how you would pay someone else. Would you have to go through a bank to do that? How would you pay that 14 year or girl for baby sitting your kids?
What’s your take on the development? Do you think that things are progressing in the right direction?
When you load a website in your browser, a lot happens in the background to render and display that website to you. Your computer makes a number of requests, one for each file that is somehow linked on the site. This can be images or multimedia contents for instance. Whenever a file cannot be retrieved because it does not exist, a 404 not found error is created for that file in the log. This may not affect the person loading the website, but it very well may provide the webmaster with information that something is not working correctly.
There is another case where 404 errors happen. When you enter a link into your browser or a program directly that is not existing. This may be an image that you want to load, a feed url or any other form of link that points to a non-existing element on the web server.
The primary reason for analyzing error logs is to resolve all, or at least the most popular causes for errors. If you notice that half of your users want to access a page that does not exist, you may want to redirect them to an existing page instead, and especially so if that page has been moved or is available under a different address.
Once you have created the redirect, users are automatically passed along to the new resource. It is barely visible for them.
Too many broken links and elements can also have a negative impact on a site’s search engine rankings. It is likely that the quality score sinks when a certain threshold of broken links and pages is reached.
For WordPress, I like to use the Redirection plugin. It basically records all 404 not found errors in the interface, with the option to redirect those requests to other pages on the site.
All requests that returned a 404 not found error are listed on one of the log pages of the plugin. Here you see the date the requests took place, the requested page, the referrer if available, and the IP of the user or machine that made the request. A click on the plus icon at the end of the row adds the source url to the redirection form at the bottom of the page.
You then need to enter a target url – that is the url you want the visitors to be redirected to – to complete the process. While it is possible to use regular expressions or customize the matching and action filters, it is nothing that needs to be done to create the redirect.
But there are other reasons why you may want to check the error logs regularly. I’d like to share two examples.
I noticed lots of requests for apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png and apple-touch-icon.png in the logs that tried to load the images from the root directory of the site. I first thought it was a misconfiguration of the mobile theme and plugin, but found out later that Apple devices make those requests if the device owner adds the site to it. This is the equivalent of the favicon. The issue was easily resolved. I took the Ghacks logo, modified it to fit in a 100×100 png file, saved it under both names and uploaded it to the root directory of the server. After that, the errors were gone.
The second example that I’d like to share may have more serious consequences. I noticed that someone tested the site for known vulnerabilities. This was done by trying to load pages on the site that would trigger the vulnerability. The most recent attacker tried to use the Timthumb vulnerability by testing whether themes that made use of the plugin were installed on the server (they were not). Still, I knew someone was looking for vulnerabilities which made me monitor my site closer for the time being. A webmaster who had a theme with TimThumb installed on the other hand, might check out the developer site for an update to protect the site against the vulnerability.
Depending on the number of 404 you received per day, you may have little motivation to resolve the issues. If you get thousands, you may spend most of your day resolving those errors with little time for anything else besides that. But it gets better, at least that’s what I’m telling myself. It also feels a bit like gold digging, redirecting invalid links to valid links. It first makes your visitors happy, as they do not see an error page but a – hopefully – related page, and it also can have a positive effect on the site’s quality score and search rankings.
In a very strange move, some members of hacker group Anonymous have released their own distribution of the Linux operating system, complete with hacker tools for "testing the security of web sites".
The OS is based off Ubuntu and runs the MATE user interface. It comes complete with many built-in hacking tools that crack passwords, search for vulnerabilities in web sites, and simulate denial of service attacks. The about page notes that it was created "for educational purposes" and that you shouldn't use it to attack any web sites, because you could "end up in jail".
Is this an interesting piece of news? Oh yes. Do we recommend you download it? Probably not. Not only could it get you into a host of trouble if used without care, but taking part in Anonymous' activities has been rather dangerous of late—what with some people slipping trojans into Anonymous' own software. Hit the link to read more about Anonymous OS, and if you're really interested in testing security with a similar tool, check out previously mentioned BackTrack.
Candles are great. They smell good, they provide a romantic mood and...they get messy really, really quickly. To keep melted candle wax from sticking to your glass candle holders, just add a bit of water.
Weblog Curbly originally recommended cooking spray, which we thought was clever—until many of you brought up the good point that fire and canola oil don't exactly mix! A commenter over at Curbly though made a suggestion—which the internet confirms—that adding some water to the candle holder before putting the candle in will accomplish the same thing.
Of course, if it goes awry, there are some easy ways to get it out—but this is a nice preventative measure. Check out the video above to see more.
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